Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 26

07/01/02 - Monday | Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 26

[stlnative]

Please keep adding 07/01/02 Elizabeth Smart dated updates to this thread...
Remember to keep checking back to this thread today for today's developing news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping.

Some people may consider today to actually be day 27, but I count 1 day for each
24 hours that have passed since Elizabeth was kidnapped. Elizabeth was taken from her home
at about 1:30am on the morning of June 5th, 2002.

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Links

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 25
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 24
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 23
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 22
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 21
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 20
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 19
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 18
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 17
Salt Lake City Police Department Website
FBI Kidnappings/Critical Missing Persons - Elizabeth Smart
FBI - Salt Lake City Branch
Elizabeth Smart Website
Smart Residence Real Estate Listing
Brigette's Scanned Copy of House Layout from Newsweek Magazine
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Short Timeline

May 30th, 2002 -Thursday
~ Ricci returns to pick up his Jeep at the auto repair shop before the shop has a chance to fully fix it
He tells the repairman that it needed for an emergency.

June 4th, 2002 - Tuesday
~ Ricci is at work from about 9am to 5:30pm
~ Ricci claims he spends the evening with friends

June 5th, 2002 - Wednesday
~ 1:05am - 2 cars are spotted on the SLC Shriner's Hospital Parking Lot by a hospital security guard
~ 1:30am (approx) - Elizabeth is kidnapped from her home
~ 1:30am - Ricci claims to be in bed asleep with his with wife.
~ Ricci is scheduled to be off work all day today.
~ 8:30am - Ricci and his neighbor talk about the kidnapping of Elizabeth, Ricci seems to know too much information about it.
~ Sometime during this day Ricci is visited by police in regards to Elizabeth's kidnapping as reported by Angela Ricci (Richard A. Ricci's Wife which is an ex-convict herself)
~ Ricci is seen by his neighbor digging a hole by his (Ricci's) trailer early in the morning. (heard the neighbor say this on TV)

June 6th, 2002 - Thursday
~ Ricci is scheduled to work from 9am to 5:30pm today, but instead works from 10:30am to 7:00pm
~ Police talk to Ricci this day about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. (The media is reporting this, so it could be wrong)

June 8th, 2002 - Saturday
~ Ricci returns the Jeep to the repair shop to get it fix. The Jeep is muddy and the repair shop owner sees Ricci
remove seat covers from the back of the jeep and place them into a plastic garbage bag that already contains
other stuff in it. Also the repair shop owner said a muddy post hole digger tool was in the back of the Jeep, Ricci removes
this also from the Jeep. Ricci has a man waiting across the street to give him a ride. Ricci takes the plastic bag
and contents along with the post hole digger with him. Also there is 500 to 1000 extra miles on the Jeep since
Ricci picked it up on May 30th, 2002.

June 14th, 2002 - Friday
~ Ricci is taken into custody for a parole violation, this being the 2001 robbery of the Smart Home in which he admitted to.



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(ping... to Day 26)

[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for the heads-up. Bump!

[Henchster]

WOW! Those are well, let's say, some REALLY suspicious details about Ricci's movements before/during/after the abduction. Sounds to me like he's the #1 suspect.

[Timesink]

There's a poll running on Netscape's front news page right now: "What do you think happened to Elizabeth Smart?"

The choices, and current results:

a) She's alive, being held captive - 9%

b) She was murdered by someone she knew - 78%

c) She was murdered by a stranger - 13%.

[stlnative]

Yes... Everything does point to him and they are trying hard to find the physical evidence to link him or to eliminate him.

We should know something by the end of this week, if we don't then they are having a rough time with the possible evidence they have picked up and with the witnesses.

[stlnative]

Thanks Timesink for the link!, I guess I will go vote!

[Henchster]

Fortunately, these cops seem slightly more competent than the D.C. Keystone cops/Donut patrol investigating the Chandra Levy murder.

[stlnative]

I agree... but some of the witnesses may not be some of the best they could have hoped for. What they need is hard physical evidence and they need to find her, the sooner the better!

[cherry]

"found alive"

I am an optimist too...up until they actually found Danielle van dam, I thought they would find her in Mexico

[varina davis]

"found alive" I am an optimist too...up until they actually found Danielle van dam, I thought they would find her in Mexico

Still hoping she is a runaway -- much greater chance she will be found alive if that's what happened. The kidnapping theory is pretty lame, considering the size and layout of the home, and assumptions that an intelligent 14-year would have gone so quietly. Also that her intelligent 9-year-old sister would have kept quiet for so long. Just MHO.

[JudyB1938]

I think that "quietness" bothers all of us, in one way or another.

Also, somebody mentioned she had a ring in her nose. If that's true, it would seem to indicate that she wasn't as "maleable" as some people think. I'm not saying it was wrong, just that she did have a mind of her own.

That said, however, I don't think she ran away. Hoping you're right, though!

[MHT]

I think that Ricci is probably the guy (and, after all, the auto repairman said he took out the car, brought it back dirty and then took out stuff like the seat covers)....but why wouldn't the little sister say, "It was that man who was working at the house" when asked about a description of the abductor? If he had been working at the house for months, she would have noticed who he was and remembered him. She's nine and it wasn't that long ago.

Something isn't quite right here.....

[varina davis]

Something isn't quite right here.....

That's an understatement!

[cherry]

I doubt very much about the ring in her nose...

that girl was a little angel..

about the times...

just because MK said "two" hours doesn't mean it was two hours...two hours to kids could mean 20"...

the neighbor heard the squealing tires at 2:30...and a little later he heard the female scream

MK might have just waited what seemed like two hours but maybe only 20" or so

[goody2shooz]

Wasn't she taken from the home at gunpoint? And the sister was quiet because she didn't want her sister killed?