Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart

408 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,160 and I would like an end to this. 409 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,440 Initially, when they told us about Richard Ricci, 410 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,520 it seemed, okay, there's progress being made here. 411 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,040 That was blown apart July 24th. 412 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,240 Someone tried to break into the home of Liz Smart's aunt and uncle. 413 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,760 In fact, a screen was cut in the bedroom window 414 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320 of Elizabeth's female cousin, an 18-year-old. 415 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,640 <i>Detectives have been working overtime ever since</i> 416 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,400 <i>to figure out who did it and why.</i> 417 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,440 When I went out to the scene, one of the things that I observed 418 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,400 was that there were two chairs by the window, 419 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,600 just like they'd placed a chair up against the wall at Elizabeth's house. 420 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,760 The coincidence was outrageous. 421 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:47,920 How many people try to break into a house and take a person? 422 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,680 What is the connection here? Why our families? 423 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,360 It could have been the same perpetrator doing the same MO, 424 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,880 or it could have been somebody that was aware of the scene 425 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,560 and this chair at Elizabeth's, 426 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,160 and doing it as a prank or a cruel copycat trick. 427 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,320 Well, we didn't look at it that way, 428 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,360 because the chair being propped up against Elizabeth's house 429 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,400 had never been released to the public, 430 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,160 so it couldn't be a trick that someone was trying to play on them. 431 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,960 The fact that Richard Ricci was in jail when this happened, 432 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,160 and then there's Mary Katherine saying it wasn't Richard Ricci… 433 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,240 It did definitely make me feel, 434 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,200 "I don't know that we've got… that we've got the right person." 435 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,000 Richard Ricci was a really baffling individual. 436 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,200 He had lots of opportunities to… to clear himself, but he wouldn't do it. 437 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,640 He would not tell us how he spent those miles. 438 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,440 We didn't have any direct evidence that it was him, 439 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,200 and we were desperate to try and find Elizabeth. 440 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,800 So we brought him and his lawyer in and told him, 441 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,000 if you will tell us where you were and what you did with the Jeep, 442 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,320 if it's anything except homicide or kidnapping, 443 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,920 we'll offer you immunity from prosecution. 444 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,080 Want me to make up some bullshit? 445 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,000 No, I don't want you to make up bullshit. 446 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,360 Well then, fucking believe me, goddamn it. 447 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,040 Well, there's too many things that don't line up. 448 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,880 F… Find out who the fuck did this shit. 449 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,040 So we did the interview to offer the immunity, 450 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,920 and he and his attorney were taking that under advisement 451 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,560 when I get a call and they said, 452 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,360 "Richard just got transported up to UMED." 453 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,360 "He collapsed in his cell, and it is not looking good." 454 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,440 In Utah, police say the leading suspect 455 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,360 in the disappearance of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart has died. 456 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,440 <i>Suffering either a stroke or an aneurysm in his prison cell.</i> 457 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,840 <i>What secrets does he take with him?</i> 458 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,240 I was sick to my stomach. 459 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,840 Our most likely suspect died. 460 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,160 Everything he knew was gone with him. 461 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,120 And that left us at a dead end that was very difficult. 462 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,400 As law enforcement, you do set an emotional wall, 463 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,360 and, uh, that wall started to erode for me, 464 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,960 and I started feeling a lot of emotional investment in Elizabeth's case. 465 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:...