This was on abcnews.com on Feb3....I didn't know that there was another "handyman" involved...great news.
New Reward
Girls Family Asks for Information to Exhonerate Suspect
The Associated Press
S A L T L A K E C I T Y, Feb. 3 The family of Elizabeth Smart announced a new reward today for anyone with information that can exonerate Richard Ricci, the top potential suspect in their daughter's kidnapping.
"Basically what we are doing is we are asking for anyone out there that truly knows that Richard Ricci was not involved to come forward and give us verifiable evidence that he was not," said Ed Smart, the missing girl's father.
Ricci died last August after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage at the Utah State Prison, where he had been serving time on a parole violation.
He was never charged with the abduction, but Salt Lake Police Chief Rick Dinse called him the top potential suspect in the case.
Another Suspicious Handyman
The family today also discussed and released a sketch of another handyman that had worked around the home. Elizabeth's sister says the man they knew only as "Emanuel" may bear a resemblance to the man who took 14-year-old Elizabeth from their room that June night.
"We had come across him downtown as he was asking for money. He was given $5 and asked if he needed some work. And he came up to our house the following day and worked in the backyard and helped on the roof," Ed Smart said.
Elizabeth's parents Ed and Lois Smart announced a new reward of $10,000 for anyone with information that Ricci was not involved in the kidnapping. The Smarts said the information would be evaluated by a committee of three police detectives and three FBI agents who are familiar with the case.
Elizabeth was seized early on the morning of June 5 in front of her 9-year-old sister, Mary Katherine, by a gunman who may have gotten into the house by cutting a window screen near the back door. As the younger sister pretended to be asleep, the gunman threatened to hurt Elizabeth if she didn't keep quiet.
A $250,000 reward for Elizabeth's safe return remains in place, offered by the Smart family. Anyone with information is asked to call 801-799-INFO.