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Machete, Baseball Cap Reportedly Found in Ricci's Car

Aired June 27, 2002 - 17:56   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: This just in to CNN. In the investigation on the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart, the 14-year-old Salt Lake city girl. The father-in-law of Richard Ricci, the potential suspect in this case, the handyman who did work in and around the Smart household in Salt Lake City, has told CNN's Jeanne Meserve that among the items that were taken by authorities from the vehicle in question that Ricci used and received as a gift from Mr. Smart was a machete -- a machete -- and a baseball cap which apparently matches the description given by Elizabeth Smart's 9-year- old sister, who saw something on the night of her disappearance.

Once again, the source of this is Richard Ricci's father-in-law in an interview with CNN's Jeanne Meserve; he telling Jeanne Meserve the police removed a machete and a baseball cap from the vehicle operated by Richard Ricci.

We're following this story very closely, obviously, and we'll have more details for you as soon as they become available.

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