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[wind blowing]
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If Elizabeth is listening right now,
Mary Katherine, what would you say to her?
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That I miss her and I want her to know
that our whole family loves her.
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I wonder why would somebody
want to kidnap Elizabeth?
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[tense music playing]
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[Mary Katherine] I was nine years old
when Elizabeth was taken.
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I missed not having my sister.
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She was my best friend.
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[inhales deeply]
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[music fades]
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[voice breaking] I think you're asking me
have I dealt with it?
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I think it's something I still deal with.
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[unsettling music playing]
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That night, Elizabeth and I
said our prayers together
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and we went to sleep.
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[eerie, unsettling music playing]
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{\an8}The next thing I remember,
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{\an8}there was a man in my bedroom
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{\an8}telling Elizabeth if she screamed,
he would kill her.
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I was paralyzed.
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I just couldn't believe what's happening.
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- [clock chiming]
- [unsettling music continues]
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{\an8}I finally worked up enough courage
to tell my parents Elizabeth was gone,
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that a man had come in and taken her.
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[tense music playing]
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[newsman 1] Every parent's
worst nightmare.
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[newswoman 1] A 14-year-old Utah girl
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taken from her bedroom
while her family was sleeping.
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[newsman 2] How could it happen
right in her own bedroom
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in an affluent community?
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[newsman 3] Where in the world
is Elizabeth Smart?
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[dramatic music playing]
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This case captivated the nation.
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[newswoman 2] Authorities have launched
a nationwide manhunt.
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It just had all the elements
of a Hollywood story.
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[newsman 4] A strange and puzzling
new twist tonight.
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[newswoman 3] Police are continuing
to focus on her family members.
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Law enforcement don't believe
we're telling the truth.
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As a family, we weren't gonna
just leave it to the authorities.
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There is somebody out there
that knows something.
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I had this overwhelming feeling
Elizabeth was still out there.
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I needed to find my daughter.
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[music intensifies]
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When I made my bid for freedom,
I wanted it to be a sure thing.
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I was gonna do whatever it took
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to escape.
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[chilling music playing]
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[music fades]
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[tense music playing]
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[man] As a father,
you are there to protect your child
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and to keep them from harm's way.
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That didn't happen.
I didn't keep her from harm's way.
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That just repeats over in your mind,
over and over and over again.
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[music swells]
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I remember specifically at 3:58,
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Mary Katherine came into the room
saying that somebody had taken Elizabeth.
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I thought, "You know,
you've just had a bad nightmare."
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"Elizabeth is probably
somewhere in the house."
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But as we went room to room,
the anxiety started rising.
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[dramatic music playing]
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In the kitchen, I saw this cut screen.
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And the window was wide open.
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My wife screamed, "Call 911!"
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[music swells]
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[music subsides]
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On June 5th, early in the morning,
my pager was going off.
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We had had a kidnapping of a young woman
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up in Federal Heights.
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The abduction of a child
taken from their bedroom
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is extremely rare.
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So I felt some pretty good urgency
to get down there.
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[unsettling music playing]
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I went up to the scene.
A captain briefed me.
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[camera clicking]
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Elizabeth Smart was
a young 14-year-old girl.
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- [camera clicks]
- Involved in music.
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Involved heavily with her church.
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[camera clicking]
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The family said
she'd been taken from her bedroom
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in the middle of the night.
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[camera clicking]
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The window was open.
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[camera clicks]
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There was a cut screen.
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[camera clicks]
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Then outside, somebody had
put a chair up against the wall.
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My initial impression was this isn't
gonna be a long-term, ongoing thing.
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We'll have answers in 48 hours.
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I was wrong.
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This morning at about two o'clock,
we had what appears to be an abduction
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from a home up here
in the Federal Heights area.
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[newswoman] Terror set in
as the news spread.
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In Salt Lake City,
I'm Nicea DeGering, 7 News at 11.
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I recall my first report on the story.
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"A little girl is missing
in Federal Heights,
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taken from her bedroom
in the middle of the night."
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And I remember being shocked by the words
as they came out of my mouth.
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[tense music playing]
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Federal Heights is one of
the most ritzy areas in Salt Lake City.
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The homes are gorgeous.
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The Mormon church is interwoven
into the community.
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You wouldn't think crime happens here.
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And I remember thinking,
"Is this a real kidnapping?"
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[ominous music playing]
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{\an8}I got a call, and my brother Ed said,
"Please come, I need your help."
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I remember walking into the front door.
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Ed came over and got me.
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And he just looked like
he'd been put through a meat grinder.
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[sobbing] Elizabeth, if you're out there,
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we're doing everything we possibly can
to help you.
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We love you.
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We want you to come home safely to us.
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[somber music playing]
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[Dave] Elizabeth's mother, Lois,
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was in the front room
surrounded by family and friends.
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And there was just this bloodcurdling
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moan and cry coming from her.
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"Where is my daughter?"
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[phones ringing]
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[Cory] Right from the get-go,
we set up a phone room to take tips.
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The number of leads that came in
from the public numbered about 40,000.
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And so we assembled a team
of hundreds of investigators.
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Oh well, no matter how much lipstick
you put on this pig,
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I'm not gonna look any better.
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We went out to the school
and to contact Elizabeth's friends.
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[applause]
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Our investigation revealed no boyfriends,
no shady associations, no drug use.
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Elizabeth Smart was just a very typical
14-year-old devout Mormon girl
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living a very normal life
in a very nice neighborhood.
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[Dave] Everyone knew who Elizabeth was
up in that area.
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And by 4:30,
the neighborhood had mobilized.
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[woman] Any of you know CPR
or rock climbing?
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[Dave] Our community is very strong,
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and so everybody was willing to just
drop what they were doing and search.
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[man] Why are you doing this?
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I love Ed and Lois,
and they are a wonderful family.
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{\an8}My handsome husband.
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{\an8}[Ed] Our home is nestled up
into the hills.
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Oh, happiness and joy.
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Lois and I and the family
had been there for about eight years.
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[pensive music playing]
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We had six children. Four boys, two girls.
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{\an8}Hi, Mom.
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{\an8}[Lois] Hi, Elizabeth.
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{\an8}Elizabeth, you know,
she was the first daughter.
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[giggling]
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[giggling]
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[Ed] She was fiercely competitive,
especially with her brothers.
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As far as, you know, her inner strength,
she just really had a very strong spirit.
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[determined music playing]
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[newswoman 1] Authorities have launched
a nationwide manhunt today,
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Thursday, June the 6th.
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[newswoman 2] The search goes on
this morning for kidnapped Utah teenager
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Elizabeth Smart.
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An innocent girl has been stolen
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from what should've been
the safest place in the world.
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Today, Salt Lake City police
announced a reward.
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A quarter of a million dollars
for Elizabeth's safe return.
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The media response to this case
was insane.
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[newsman 1] CBS News.
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- [newswoman 3] Fox News.
- [newsman 2] NBC News.
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There was a lot of pressure
on the police department
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to try and resolve the case
very, very quickly.
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There was so little evidence to go on.
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But there was a witness to the kidnapping…
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the nine-year-old sister
of Elizabeth Smart, Mary Katherine.
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- [ethereal vocalizing]
- [birds chirping]
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[Mary Katherine] As a nine-year-old,
I don't think I understood
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what was going on.
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Just that my sister was gone
and I was very frightened.
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We tried to do everything together.
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I wanted to be just like her.
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We did fight, mostly over how messy I was.
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But any opportunity to be able
to spend time with her, I was there.
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[ethereal vocalization continues]
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Mary Katherine was very likely
going to be the key to finding Elizabeth.
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Anybody who has a traumatic memory
will make certain memory imprints.
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And so we wanted her interviewed
in a controlled, safe environment.
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The guy said, "Be quiet."
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"If you scream, I'll shoot you.
But if you don't, I won't harm you."
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Did his voice sound familiar to you?
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Yeah.
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Can you tell me
where you've heard that before?
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No, I can't remember.
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Mary Katherine had indicated
that the voice seemed familiar to her.
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She couldn't say whose voice it was,
but it was a familiar voice.
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[ominous music playing]
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You know, first impression
looking at the Smarts,
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they looked like a happy, normal family.
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But, statistically, more often than not,
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the perpetrator of this type of crime
is a parent or a family member.
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So we started looking very hard at them.
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[tense music playing]
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We brought members of the Smart family in.
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We did in-depth interviews.
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And there were a couple things
that came up that made us go, "Huh."
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I was told that the alarm
had been inadvertently left off.
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[camera clicking]
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- And the window.
- [camera clicks]
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When I looked at it the first morning,
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there were no scuff marks
on the outside wall.
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Even if you step up on a chair,
you're gonna make a scuff mark.
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I did not see any.
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My initial assessment was
maybe this wasn't the point of entry.
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Maybe it was a staged one.
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Someone had cut the screen after the fact,
but didn't come and go through the window.
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So we searched the home.
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We're looking for any indication
that harm befell Elizabeth.
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Is there even a body in the home?
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We have a really good bloodhound
on the department.
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His name is JJ.
We had a lot of confidence in him.
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[JJ panting]
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And he picked up the scent for Elizabeth.
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Went out the back,
and then up into the trees.
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[pensive music playing]
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And he followed a trail,
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got up to the street up there,
which is a dead end,
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and lost the scent.
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I made the assumption
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that she was probably
taken away in an automobile.
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[dramatic music playing]
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There's some indication
that this may have been an inside job.
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Police confirming they have taken
12 computers from the family.
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[Nicea] We were peppering police.
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Is it the family?
Are we looking at the family?
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I want to thank you all for your help.
I can't thank you enough.
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I… I know it's gonna take
everyone's effort to find her.
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It's really hard to think of somebody
coming in there and taking her.
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I… I would do anything
to have her back in my arms.
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[Nicea] Ed and Lois Smart,
I think initially you felt their grief,
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but it definitely shifted.
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People would watch Ed on TV
when he was talking,
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and they would make statements like,
"There are no tears when he's crying."
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[Nicea] There was a sense of,
"Is he telling us everything?"
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[dramatic music continues]
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"Could he be involved?"
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[man 1] Something strange
about that story.
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As a reporter, you… you…
you ask some good questions,
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but there are a lot more questions
to be asked.
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- [man 2] Like?
- It doesn't ring true.
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And it's somebody
that seems to have understood
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the layout of the home
and how to find her in the home.
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[newsman] They have given
the father of Elizabeth a polygraph test.
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[music fades]
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[Cory] Sometimes children are…
are killed by their own parents.
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[tense atmospheric music continues]
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And there were theories
of what had happened.
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One was that Ed had killed her
and disposed of her.
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[Ed] I had a call from Lois, my wife,
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and I got down there,
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and, um,
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I saw this… this tear.
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And she basically said,
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"Law enforcement don't believe
that you're telling the truth,
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that you're hiding something."
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[uneasy atmospheric music playing]
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I was overwhelmed
to the point that I was shaking,
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and I couldn't, um, stop shaking.
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I had absolutely nothing to do with this.
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And my father said,
"If you don't calm down,
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I'm gonna commit you."
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So he took me over to the hospital
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and put me in the psychiatric ward,
and I…
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I cried that whole night.
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- [Elizabeth giggling]
- [somber music playing]
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[Ed] To have your daughter go missing
is horrendous.
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Do you like that, Elizabeth?
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And then to be a possible suspect…
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I was beyond words.
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[newswoman] In Utah, police searching
for 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart
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are continuing to focus
on her family members.
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Scrutinize everybody.
Anything it takes. Do it. Do it.
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[newswoman] Newsweek magazine
was reporting that her father, Ed Smart,
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that he completely cleared
a polygraph test,
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but his brother Tom's polygraph,
that was inconclusive.
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I had… three brothers.
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Tom was kind of
a little bit on the edge of things,
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always getting into some trouble.
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She plays the harp like an angel,
and she rides a horse like a cowboy.
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She's… she's unbelievable.
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Is a failed polygraph test suspicious?
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Yes. Absolutely.
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Maybe one brother
doesn't like another brother.
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[spluttering] Don't get me wrong on that.
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- This family--
- We love each other.
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We love each other
more than any brothers possibly could.
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A couple of the camera people said,
"Dave… is Tom okay?
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"Something's going on with him.
He's just really jittery."
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- We need to run.
- [reporter] Okay.
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Thanks so much.
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[reporter] Thank you both very much.
Good luck.
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[Dave] I took Tom to the side
and just said, "Hey, Tom."
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"A lot of the media are wondering,
are you hiding something?"
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[tense music playing]
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[Tom] I believe that this person
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is not a bad person at all, and just--
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And our family has felt strongly
for a wh-- a while,
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and there's been a comfort here
for a while
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that this is just…
somebody who actually likes Elizabeth.
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We all have issues. If you've--
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Anybody who's taken-- They--
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We've been ripped apart to the core,
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and we understand
that everybody has issues.
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This is a wonderful story in a lot of ways
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because it's about, foremost,
a beautiful little angelic girl.
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Everybody has issues.
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[music fades]
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- [man whistles]
- [horse snorts]
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[Tom] Anybody who watches that interview
will think,
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"Tom Smart is a crazy son of a bitch,
and maybe he did do it."
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We came out of that interview,
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and my wife turned and says,
"You fucked the family."
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One of the family traits that we have
between my mother, father, the rest of us,
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is monomaniacal behavior,
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which is, basically,
totally obsessive behavior.
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You know,
in a situation like the kidnapping,
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where it doesn't seem
there's much you can do
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other than keep turning over stones,
neighborhoods, people.
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You know,
after three or four days of that,
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with no sleep, um…
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you… you tend to collapse on yourself.
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[gentle instrumental music playing]
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When I'd been polygraphed,
it had been five and a half days into it.
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I mean, I was hearing things.
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But finding Elizabeth
was the only important thing.
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I mean, we were never waiting for them
to tell us we were cleared.
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I mean, who gives a shit?
[chuckling] We knew we were cleared.
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[pensive music playing]
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As a standard in these kinds of cases,
the families get looked at,
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and it's really, really tough on them.
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But their alibis checked out,
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and with all of the computers we'd seized,
emails that we'd looked at,
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we did not find anything suspicious.
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It was dumbfounding
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as to how long it took the police,
essentially, to clear the family.
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[somber music playing]
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And as the finger was pointed at us,
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we saw a real drop in people that were…
were coming to help us search.
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[Dave] The numbers just took a dive.
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I don't think those reporters
realized the impact that they had.
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But we just keep going,
keep going, keep going.
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Don't give up.
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[Cory] We got a call.
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There were remains found
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out by the Great Salt Lake
by Interstate 80.
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It was a female victim.
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Called Ed and Lois and said,
"Look, we don't know,
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but potentially, it could be Elizabeth."
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[somber, unsettling music playing]
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[Ed] The girl's body
had been burnt beyond description
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so that there…
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You know, she could not be recognized.
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I tried to shield myself
from the raw emotion
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until it was confirmed.
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[music swells]
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[music fades]
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[Cory] We were able to determine
that it was not Elizabeth.
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It was another poor victim.
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[somber music playing]
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[Ed] I felt such a relief,
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but your mind was just constantly going,
"Where is she? What's happening to her?"
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[Cory] I dealt with Ed and Lois every day.
They were strong.
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In my family, we've experienced
some loss and tragedy,
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and I had a basic understanding
of what Ed and Lois were going through.
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It hurt to watch them suffer.
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{\an8}Elizabeth, if you can hear us,
we love you, Elizabeth.
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We haven't forgotten,
and everybody wants you back,
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and we won't stop until you're home.
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[Ed] The not knowing
is the worst part of anything.
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What is she going through?
How is she surviving?
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You know, what could you possibly do
to bring this to a close?
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[newswoman 1] The key person in this case
is the nine-year-old sister.
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Time is of the essence here.
The clock is ticking.
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[newswoman 2] Right, exactly.
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[birds chirping]
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[ethereal music playing]
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[Mary Katherine] The police officers
didn't want me talking to anyone
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because it would possibly
influence my memory.
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So I was on my own lonely island,
if you will.
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Wanting to know,
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trying to sneak and hear tidbits
of things that happened, but…
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people shutting me out.
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[birds chirping]
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I tried to remember who it was
who had taken Elizabeth.
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I knew I'd heard the voice,
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I just couldn't remember
where I'd heard it from.
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I wanted to help… in any way that I could.
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I was interviewed multiple times.
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They even tried to hypnotize me
at one point.
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But there was pressure from everyone.
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Pressure not to have me talk to anyone.
Pressure of "Let's get everything out."
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It was a lot for a nine-year-old.
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- [music fades]
- [birds chirping]
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[Cory] Mary Katherine was
in a heck of a place.
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I mean, she was terrified,
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but she was certain
that the voice was familiar.
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[pensive music playing]
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So we had the family create a list
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of everybody that had recently been
to the Smart home.
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Have there been a lot of people
going through your house?
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We have had some contractors in there.
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And we came up with a number of people
who warranted further looks.
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[anxious music playing]
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One of them was Richard Ricci.
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{\an8}[Cordon] Richard Ricci was a contractor.
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{\an8}He had done work on the Smart home.
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{\an8}And we found out that he and Ed Smart
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had some sort of a conflict
over wages owed.
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So a search warrant was obtained
for Richard Ricci's house,
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and some jewelry items belonging
to Lois Smart were found at his house.
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And so he was dragged in and interrogated.
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[menacing music playing]
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[man] When was the last time
you were in that fucking house?
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In April.
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[speaks indistinctly]
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[man] Tell me what you know
about the kidnapping.
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- I don't.
- [man] Oh, shit.
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You couldn't live in this valley
for the last two and a half weeks
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and not know something
about the kidnapping.
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I'm not playing games. I'm not saying,
"Tell me why you did the kidnapping."
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Tell me what you know about it,
what you've heard on the news.
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I heard somebody
broke into the Smarts' house.
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- [man] Okay.
- Took Elizabeth.
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- [man] Okay.
- And now I'm the number one suspect.
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We'd gone for weeks with no answers.
Could this person know where Elizabeth is?
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A man with a long history
of criminal behavior
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leaps to the top of the list
of suspicious people in the Smart case.
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[Cordon] Richard Ricci
was a violent felon.
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He had actually shot one of my friends
on the police force in a pharmacy robbery.
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[tense droning]
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I didn't have the slightest clue
that Richard was a felon.
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He had come recommended
from the church employment center.
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So I was shocked.
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[newsman] This 1990 white Jeep Cherokee
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given to Richard Ricci by Ed Smart
for handyman work
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continues to be the potential
key piece of evidence.
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We were able to determine that quite a bit
of mileage had been put on the Jeep
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right at the time
of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping.
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[menacing music playing]
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And it was several hundred miles.
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So he had taken the long drive
the night of the kidnapping
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or the day after.
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But he didn't have
any rational explanation
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for that amount of miles.
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Did Richard take her,
in that vehicle, off somewhere
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and put her someplace
where she couldn't get out?
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[menacing music continues]
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[Cory] We had reports that someone
had seen him removing digging tools
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out of the vehicle at the time.
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Had he concealed the body by burying it?
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If you were in there and were doing this
and she woke up, what would you do?
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I'm not gonna sit here
and fucking tell you, pal!
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[Tom] The police said,
"We're 99.9% sure we've got our man."
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It all kind of came together.
This… this makes sense.
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[menacing music intensifies]
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But here's the thing.
The only eyewitness said it wasn't him.
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[tense music playing]
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[Mary Katherine] I had been kept away
from watching the news,
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but one day I saw a report on the TV
about possible suspects,
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and a picture of Richard Ricci came up.
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[newswoman] The man
police call a potential suspect…
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[Mary Katherine] He had done
a lot of work around the house.
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He had always been very nice.
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And, um,
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I just knew it wasn't Richard Ricci
that night in my bedroom.
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[unsettling music playing]
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00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,200
Richard Ricci was not the man,
June 2002, that took my sister.
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[pensive music playing]
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Mary Katherine was conclusive
that it was not Richard Ricci.
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But law enforcement was convinced
Ricci was the prime suspect.
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Mary Katherine had been asleep.
She would have been groggy.
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Uh, the reports we have said she kept
her eyes shut during the abduction.
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Maybe she didn't really realize
it had been Ricci.
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[Ed] I would ask Richard
from the bottom of my heart
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to please either clear himself
or tell us where Elizabeth is.
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I…
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Our family has been through hell,
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and I would like an end to this.
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[music fades]
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[Dave] Initially, when they told us
about Richard Ricci,
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it seemed, okay,
there's progress being made here.
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That was blown apart July 24th.
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[wind blowing]
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[tense music playing]
487
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,960
[distant dog barking]
488
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,319
{\an8}Someone tried to break into the home
of Liz Smart's aunt and uncle.
489
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,839
{\an8}In fact, a screen was cut
in the bedroom window
490
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320
{\an8}of Elizabeth's female cousin,
an 18-year-old.
491
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,719
{\an8}[newsman] Detectives have been
working overtime ever since
492
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,399
{\an8}to figure out who did it and why.
493
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,399
{\an8}[tense music continues]
494
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,519
When I went out to the scene,
one of the things that I observed
495
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,479
was that there were two chairs
by the window,
496
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,679
just like they'd placed a chair
up against the wall at Elizabeth's house.
497
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,520
[camera clicks]
498
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,839
[Ed] The coincidence was outrageous.
499
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:47,999
How many people try to break into a house
and take a person?
500
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,759
What is the connection here?
Why our families?
501
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,439
It could have been the same perpetrator
doing the same MO,
502
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,959
or it could have been somebody
that was aware of the scene
503
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,639
and this chair at Elizabeth's,
504
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,239
and doing it as a prank
or a cruel copycat trick.
505
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,399
Well, we didn't look at it that way,
506
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,439
because the chair being propped up
against Elizabeth's house
507
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,479
had never been released to the public,
508
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,160
so it couldn't be a trick
that someone was trying to play on them.
509
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,960
[Ed] The fact that Richard Ricci
was in jail when this happened,
510
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,160
and then there's Mary Katherine
saying it wasn't Richard Ricci…
511
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,319
It did definitely make me feel,
512
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,279
"I don't know that we've got…
that we've got the right person."
513
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,920
[pensive music playing]
514
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,079
[Cory] Richard Ricci was
a really baffling individual.
515
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,200
He had lots of opportunities to…
to clear himself, but he wouldn't do it.
516
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,640
He would not tell us
how he spent those miles.
517
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,519
We didn't have any direct evidence
that it was him,
518
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,200
and we were desperate
to try and find Elizabeth.
519
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,879
So we brought him and his lawyer in
and told him,
520
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,000
if you will tell us where you were
and what you did with the Jeep,
521
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,399
if it's anything
except homicide or kidnapping,
522
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,999
we'll offer you immunity from prosecution.
523
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,159
[Richard] Want me
to make up some bullshit?
524
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,079
[man] No, I don't want you
to make up bullshit.
525
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,439
Well then, fucking believe me, god dammit.
526
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,119
Well, there's too many things
that don't line up.
527
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,880
F… Find out who the fuck did this shit.
528
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,119
[Cory] So we did the interview
to offer the immunity,
529
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,920
and he and his attorney
were taking that under advisement
530
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,560
when I get a call and they said,
531
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,439
"Richard just got transported up to UMED.
532
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,439
"He collapsed in his cell,
and it is not looking good."
533
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,519
In Utah, police say the leading suspect
534
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,360
in the disappearance
of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart has died.
535
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,519
[newsman 1] Suffering either a stroke
or an aneurysm in his prison cell.
536
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,919
[newsman 2] What secrets
does he take with him?
537
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,719
[anxious music playing]
538
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,319
[distant siren wails]
539
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,240
[Cory] I was sick to my stomach.
540
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,840
Our most likely suspect died.
541
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,160
Everything he knew was gone with him.
542
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,120
And that left us at a dead end
that was very difficult.
543
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,479
As law enforcement,
you do set an emotional wall,
544
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,439
and, uh,
that wall started to erode for me,
545
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,960
and I started feeling a lot of
emotional investment in Elizabeth's case.
546
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,080
[Ed] The call came from Cory
that Richard had had an aneurysm.
547
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,360
There was a period of shock.
548
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,200
If he did something with her,
we may never know what happened.
549
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,120
I always would say to Ed and Lois,
"Don't give up."
550
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,000
But honestly, internally…
551
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,519
my judgment was that it was very unlikely
552
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,600
we were gonna get
a happy resolution in this case.
553
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,680
[stop button echoes]
554
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,719
[Ed] It seemed like
it was a losing battle,
555
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:15,280
but I had this overwhelming feeling
that Elizabeth was still out there.
556
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,439
- [ethereal music playing]
- [birds chirping]
557
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,959
I remember coming home
one Sunday from church.
558
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,360
Lois and I would sit down
and read letters that would come,
559
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,520
and then we fell asleep.
560
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,120
[ethereal music continues]
561
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,920
I had this dream that Elizabeth
came walking back into our life.
562
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,640
"Oh my God."
563
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,280
"This is… this is… this is over."
564
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,880
"She's here, and she's okay."
565
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,920
And the feeling inside was so euphoric
566
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,960
that I was just overwhelmed.
567
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,520
If I could have ever
asked for anything in my life,
568
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,760
it would be to have Elizabeth come home.
569
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,199
So when I thought of her being out there
570
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,440
and going through whatever hell
she was going through,
571
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,840
inside I just thought
we could not give up.
572
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,920
[tense music playing]
573
00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:46,959
[man] The face of Salt Lake
seems to be very Mormon,
574
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,560
but there's a counterculture
to the Mormon culture.
575
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,080
Back in the day, we had lots
of underground dance parties.
576
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,119
And in around 2002,
577
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,960
every other weekend there would be
a house party at somebody's place.
578
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,399
There was alcohol, of course.
A lot of weed, mushroom tea.
579
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,639
Acid was pretty good back in the day.
580
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,839
[people laughing and chatting]
581
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,799
It was a fairly typical night,
582
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,200
and, um,
583
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,639
these three people come in.
584
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,639
[tense music builds]
585
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,120
A man and two ladies,
dressed fully in white gowns,
586
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:36,160
and the two ladies had face scarves,
so only their eyes were showing.
587
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,399
The younger lady had bluish-gray eyes.
588
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,920
[suspenseful music playing]
589
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,879
[Mary Katherine] After my sister
was kidnapped,
590
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,520
I was very frightened to go to sleep.
591
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,799
My dad would have to come in
and tuck me in,
592
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,719
and while I was waiting for him,
I would be looking at books
593
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:11,959
or rack my brain about who…
who could have taken Elizabeth.
594
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,519
[tense music playing]
595
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,560
One particular night, four months
after Elizabeth had been taken,
596
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,360
I was flipping through
the Guinness World Records.
597
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,200
And for some random reason…
598
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,120
[tense, contemplative music playing]
599
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,480
…in that moment…
600
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,040
the name popped into my head…
601
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,119
and I knew immediately
602
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,240
that's who was in my bedroom, June 2002.
603
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,719
That's the man who kidnapped Elizabeth.
604
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,680
[anxious music playing]
605
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,399
[Jared] It was not unusual
to see people dressed in long robes.
606
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,359
It was a time of self-expression.
607
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,159
"Come on in. What are you doing?"
608
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,120
"What's your story?
Would you like a drink?"
609
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,359
And the guy said, "I can have a drink,
but the ladies can't."
610
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,240
[camera clicks]
611
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,840
He had an energy of authority,
delusions of grandeur.
612
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:27,799
[camera clicks]
613
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,039
I turned to the lady to my right,
who was younger,
614
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,799
"What are you doing? This guy's…"
615
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:39,039
"This gentleman who you came with
seems a little… a little controlling."
616
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,999
And the older lady said
something to the effect of,
617
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,479
"You… you really can't talk to her."
618
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,999
She was pretty curt,
and that's about where I drifted off.
619
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,999
I'm like, "Oh my God,
we'll let these guys just…"
620
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,679
I… I thought they were kooks.
621
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,680
[anxious music continues]
622
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,559
[music swells]
623
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,599
[music subsides]
624
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,840
[ethereal vocalizing]
625
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,600
[tense, hopeful music playing]
626
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,000
[ethereal music playing]
627
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,640
[music fades]
628
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,760
- [interviewer] Shall we begin?
- Yeah.
629
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,119
Going into the summer of 2002,
I was 14 years old.
630
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:06,159
I was so excited
to leave junior high in the past.
631
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,080
Just thinking back, it's a lot of happy…
632
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,240
happy memories, happy feelings.
633
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,280
[menacing music playing]
634
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,839
That night, I remember a man's voice.
635
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,199
"I have a knife at your neck.
Don't make a sound."
636
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,600
"Get up and come with me."
637
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:31,920
I was terrified.
638
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,480
Was he going to hurt me?
Was he going to kill me?
639
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,439
I was hoping my parents would wake up,
but nobody came.
640
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,080
- [menacing music continues]
- [distant dog barking]
641
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,839
He led me up through my backyard.
642
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,000
[bird squawking]
643
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,439
We started up this trail,
644
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,240
and I remember thinking,
"Where is he taking me?"
645
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,399
[tense, menacing music playing]
646
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,760
I was so worried that I was
missing my chance for escape.
647
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,159
I asked him if he was gonna
rape and kill me,
648
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,280
'cause I thought that must be
what he's going to do.
649
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,039
Um…
650
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,599
Then… I wanted him to do it
as close as he could to my house
651
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,240
so that my parents could find me.
652
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,239
[owl hooting]
653
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:30,320
He just had, like, this terrible smile,
654
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,199
and he just looked at me and he said,
"I'm not gonna rape and kill you yet."
655
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,240
[menacing music continues]
656
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,479
And then we came to this stand of trees.
657
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,159
[fire crackling]
658
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,999
And there was a woman
who walked out of the tent.
659
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,160
[mysterious music playing]
660
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,919
[bird cawing]
661
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,440
A man yelled out the name Hephzibah,
662
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,480
and she came up to me and she hugged me.
663
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,079
She looked different to anyone
that I had ever met before.
664
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:21,320
She had on, um, this long sort of tunic
and a headdress.
665
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,719
And she took my shoes off,
666
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:30,240
and then she started
washing the dirt off my feet.
667
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,960
And then she started
to try to undo my pajamas.
668
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,839
And so I remember
grabbing hold of the buttons,
669
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,279
and she said, "If I can't change you,
I'm gonna have him come in here,
670
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,760
and he's gonna
rip the clothes off of you."
671
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,839
- [eerie music playing]
- [owl hooting]
672
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,160
She passed me a robe,
just like the one she had on.
673
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,999
She scooped up my pajamas
and my underwear,
674
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,279
and she got up
and she walked out of the tent.
675
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:03,240
[birds squawking loudly]
676
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,080
I remember feeling like…
677
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,239
[sighs]
678
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:11,639
…like my doom was approaching.
679
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,359
[mysterious music playing]
680
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,520
I was crying.
681
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:18,840
I was scared.
682
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,279
These are his exact words.
683
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,239
He said,
"I hereby seal you to me as my wife
684
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,239
before God and his angels
as my witnesses."
685
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:31,760
At that point, I screamed out, "No."
686
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,479
And he looked at me, and he said,
687
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,080
"If you ever scream out like that again,
I will kill you."
688
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,720
"If it'll help you to not scream out,
I can duct tape your mouth shut."
689
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,639
I tried to explain to him
that this wasn't okay.
690
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,399
He couldn't just kidnap me
and then marry me.
691
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,719
It wasn't legal. I was just 14 years old.
692
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:59,239
And he had the same response to…
to everything,
693
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:01,999
which was, "It's now time
to consummate our marriage."
694
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
[eerie music playing]
695
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:08,679
And I remember thinking,
"If I can hold him off just long enough,
696
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,200
someone will rescue me."
697
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,960
But he pushed me onto the ground.
698
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,879
And, like,
I had led such an innocent life.
699
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,999
I thought that
if I rolled onto my stomach,
700
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,199
that he wouldn't be able to rape me.
701
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,480
[music fades]
702
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,680
It didn't matter what I did.
703
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,400
Ultimately, he raped me.
704
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,359
And I remember being in a lot of pain.
705
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,519
[inhales deeply]
706
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,120
I remember begging him to stop.
707
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,360
And then, when he was finished,
708
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:01,319
he got up, and he kind of smiled,
like it wasn't a big deal to him,
709
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,600
and he walked out of the tent.
710
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,959
And I just was… left on the ground.
711
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,799
And I…
712
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,439
I just… I just remember, like,
hurting so much physically.
713
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,039
Like, I remember looking down
714
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,440
and I could see blood
running down my thighs.
715
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,400
And then I must have passed out.
716
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,679
[chains rattling]
717
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,640
The next thing that I remember,
I could feel something around my ankles.
718
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,639
I remember actually begging him
in that moment to… to not chain me up,
719
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,439
that I wouldn't run away.
720
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,839
And he's like,
"I know you're not gonna run away,
721
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,279
but I'm just taking temptation
out of your reach."
722
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,280
[uneasy music playing]
723
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,640
The man who kidnapped me,
724
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,399
he looked like Rasputin.
725
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,879
[uneasy music continues]
726
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:03,839
He said his name was
Emmanuel David Isaiah.
727
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:08,880
And the woman, her name was
Hephzibah Eladah Isaiah.
728
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:14,200
And he had their…
their own set of scriptures.
729
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:22,240
He told me God commanded them
to kidnap seven young girls.
730
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,640
And I was the first of the seven.
731
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,600
He said my sister would probably
end up one of his wives.
732
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,520
Or my cousin Olivia.
733
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,800
I was horrified.
734
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,359
[bird squawking]
735
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,199
I wondered if my family was awake yet.
736
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,439
[somber music playing]
737
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,480
If they knew that I was gone yet.
738
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,080
Were the other kids in my class
graduating right now?
739
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,240
I was raised
in a very religious household.
740
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:05,480
I don't know how many lessons I had on
"don't have sex before marriage."
741
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,319
But no one had discussed with me
the difference between, like,
742
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:17,520
consensual sex, intimacy, versus rape.
743
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,159
[birds chirping]
744
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,039
I felt a lot of shame,
745
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,200
and I felt like I was filthy.
746
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,839
I thought, if my family knew
what had happened to me,
747
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,799
would they still want me back?
748
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,799
Maybe it would be better
if nobody ever found me.
749
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,800
[somber music continues]
750
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:42,759
[music fades]
751
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,319
[newswoman] Authorities have launched
a nationwide manhunt today.
752
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,439
[newsman] Thousands of volunteers have
been helping search for the young girl.
753
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:49,639
Debbie Norris has organized…
754
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,999
[Elizabeth] As time passed,
755
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,239
Emmanuel would bring back
newspaper articles or missing posters.
756
00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,719
And I specifically remember him saying,
757
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:00,759
"The whole of Salt Lake
is looking for you."
758
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,519
"Every window in Salt Lake
has a picture of your face in it."
759
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,999
"But they will never find you
because I have you."
760
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,160
[ominous music playing]
761
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,839
But one day,
I remember just all of a sudden
762
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,959
very faintly hearing my name.
763
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,520
[distant man shouts] Elizabeth!
764
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,679
And it was faint, um,
but I could still hear it.
765
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,480
[ominous music continues]
766
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,480
[Elizabeth] Emmanuel took me
inside the tent, pulled out his knife.
767
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,319
"If anyone comes into this camp,
768
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,679
this is the knife
I'm gonna use to kill them,
769
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,200
and it'll be your fault."
770
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,360
[distant shouting]
771
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,080
I only heard my name called a few times.
772
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,800
And then it faded away,
and I didn't hear it again.
773
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,360
[distant shouting]
774
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,240
- [leaves rustling]
- [birds twittering]
775
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,720
[bird caws]
776
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,439
[Elizabeth] It wouldn't be uncommon
to wake up to him raping me.
777
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,919
[melancholy music playing]
778
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,920
I had gone from
never even holding a boy's hand
779
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,240
to being raped every day,
multiple times a day.
780
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,080
After, he would be praying
for, like, 45 minutes.
781
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,120
He used God to justify what he did.
782
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:43,880
But more than anything, he loved power.
He loved feeling like he was in control.
783
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,880
Every day, he would humiliate me.
784
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,799
And the woman, Hephzibah,
she encouraged him.
785
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:54,999
[water trickling]
786
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,599
When he took me down to the spring
where we'd collect the water from,
787
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,679
he would hold on to the cable
and basically walk me like a dog.
788
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,239
[melancholy music continues]
789
00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:10,240
I was forced to drink, like,
beer after beer until I finally threw up.
790
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,400
And he just left me there,
face down, in my own vomit.
791
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,399
He threatened me a lot,
792
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:24,320
saying that if I didn't do
what he wanted me to do,
793
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,519
then I would be killed.
794
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,559
And if he didn't kill me,
then he would kill my family.
795
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,800
[reflective music playing]
796
00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:37,320
I always wondered
what my family were doing.
797
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:45,879
I could easily imagine my mom
driving the neighborhood
798
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,559
in her gold station wagon, looking for me.
799
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,960
[Lois] Good morning, Edward.
800
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,880
[Elizabeth] Thinking back to my dad,
he always just kind of had a little…
801
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,879
I don't know,
like a little sparkle in his eye.
802
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,520
Like, it just kind of made me feel like
I was a little bit extra special.
803
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:05,639
[voices laughing]
804
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,439
I tried to remember everything I could.
805
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:09,519
[voices chattering]
806
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,440
Trying to immortalize their memory
in my mind.
807
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,519
[music swells]
808
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,239
[music subsides]
809
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:27,119
I realized that I had something
that was worth surviving for.
810
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,120
[reflective music continues]
811
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,479
[music swells]
812
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,760
[music fades]
813
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,359
[Ed] Lois and I
had gone out for the evening.
814
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:46,800
And when we got home,
815
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,519
Mary Katherine said,
"I think I know who it is."
816
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,040
[pensive music playing]
817
00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,880
And she said, "It was Emmanuel."
818
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,920
And I went, "Emmanuel?"
819
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:07,480
[Tom] Ed calls me.
820
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,200
He says, "You won't believe this.
Mary Katherine knows who it is."
821
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:13,640
[Ed on phone] Emmanuel.
822
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,680
And I said, "Well, okay. Who's Emmanuel?"
823
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,879
You said you met him on the street.
Do you know what street that was?
824
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:28,800
The downtown. In that area
where a lot of homeless people go.
825
00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:34,240
[Ed] The previous year,
Lois had taken the children downtown.
826
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,399
And they saw this… this homeless person
827
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,959
who was going around
preaching the good word.
828
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,760
So when was the next time
that you saw this man?
829
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:45,720
Probably when he came up to our house.
830
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:48,559
[Ed] Lois had told him,
831
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,359
"If you need some work,
here's my husband's card."
832
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,000
And so this person helped me on the house.
833
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,399
I just thought this was an aha moment.
834
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,879
It was pretty joyous, frankly.
[spluttering] We've got something.
835
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,760
Was Emmanuel the man
who was in your bedroom?
836
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,960
I'm not quite sure. It might have been.
837
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,280
You're not quite sure,
but it might have been?
838
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,079
[Cordon] Mary Katherine
was reinterviewed.
839
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,639
But quite frankly, her… her memory
of Emmanuel being the kidnapper
840
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:26,279
came under, uh, some disbelief
on the part of the investigators.
841
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,919
[mysterious music playing]
842
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,639
It was based on voice identification,
which is evidence,
843
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,319
but it's not really
considered to be great evidence.
844
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,479
Plus, Emmanuel's contact with the family
845
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,519
had been limited to some number of hours
months and months before.
846
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,800
So there's some speculation
that her memory might not be accurate.
847
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,319
{\an8}We're not certain who Mary Katherine saw,
848
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,600
{\an8}and we're not certain
that she knows who she saw.
849
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,919
He's coming up with this new idea
850
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,560
or this… this breaking news on this case,
and it really is not.
851
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:02,359
I mean, for heaven's sake,
what more do you need?
852
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:07,519
You have this child
that is sitting in this room
853
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,159
watching her sister being taken,
854
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,279
that comes forward and says,
"This is who I think it is."
855
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,879
- [distant sirens wailing]
- [contemplative music playing]
856
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,799
I… I mean, I was not convinced.
857
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:21,759
[siren wails]
858
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,959
Emmanuel had not appeared
on any of the lists
859
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,480
of people we were investigating.
860
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,639
He was there for about three hours one day
861
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,000
and then didn't even come back
to get paid.
862
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,800
But we began to follow it up.
863
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,680
Anything that would lead us to Elizabeth.
864
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,600
[Mary Katherine] The police
brought in a sketch artist,
865
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:52,200
and we'd talk about
what the man looked like,
866
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,520
and she was sketching
while we were talking.
867
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:01,119
I was really hopeful that
in going out with that picture,
868
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,360
we would find Emmanuel.
869
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:09,880
The importance of getting the information
out to the public was huge.
870
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,360
[Dave] Yes, we're making progress.
871
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:16,960
Let's find this individual.
872
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:19,759
Law enforcement, "No."
873
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,839
[music swells, then fades]
874
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,480
"You can't put this out there."
875
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,679
Our perception was,
if we went public with it,
876
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,679
we could scare the perpetrator away.
877
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,359
[eerie droning]
878
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,440
{\an8}But now we knew a name,
and we had a sketch of him.
879
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:42,199
{\an8}He was medium height,
thin build, dark hair, clean-shaven.
880
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,760
[eerie music playing]
881
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,600
[Elizabeth] Emmanuel and Hephzibah
got into a massive fight.
882
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,759
She was angry that he would go down
into Salt Lake and he'd get all this food,
883
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,160
and we were stuck up
hiding in the mountains, starving.
884
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:09,559
So ultimately, it was decided
we would go down to Salt Lake.
885
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,559
[bird cawing]
886
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:16,639
This was a chance to be recognized.
Maybe I'd get away.
887
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,640
[anxious music playing]
888
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,720
We started down, and I saw people.
889
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:29,400
Was this gonna be a chance to be rescued?
890
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,199
But if I was up in the mountains
891
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,599
and I saw three people
that looked really strange…
892
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,639
[eerie music playing]
893
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,600
…I don't think I'd stop
and say hi to them either.
894
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:49,120
The thought of crying out
did cross my mind.
895
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,279
But I was 14.
896
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:56,480
I had been extremely abused for months.
897
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:02,920
When I disobeyed, I was raped.
I did have food withheld from me.
898
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:09,399
So when I made my bid for freedom,
I wanted it to be a sure thing.
899
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,960
[tense music playing]
900
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,000
We eventually made it down
from the mountains.
901
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,599
I knew exactly where we were at.
902
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,680
I was familiar with all the places
that were around.
903
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,600
I knew exactly how long
it would take me to get home.
904
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,799
I knew I could walk it. I could run it.
905
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:33,999
[traffic blares]
906
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,000
[disorienting music playing]
907
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,880
But I had been so far away for so long.
908
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,080
It was like seeing everything
through a different body.
909
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,640
Like being in a parallel universe.
910
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,799
I was walking through a place
that should be very, very safe…
911
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:01,959
[traffic blares]
912
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,079
[disorienting music continues]
913
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,920
…but now was fraught with peril.
914
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:11,640
[tense music playing]
915
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,920
We went to the Salt Lake Library
to go and look at maps.
916
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:24,760
And all of a sudden,
this man started approaching us.
917
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,640
"I'm a homicide detective,
and I need to ask you a few questions."
918
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,039
"I just need to make sure that this girl
is not this girl that we're looking for."
919
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:38,199
"Can I see her face?"
920
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,200
[tense music continues]
921
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,439
Emmanuel was like, "I'm sorry, but no."
922
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,960
"Like, that would be against our faith.
That would be against our religion."
923
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,119
"The only people
that will ever see her face
924
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,479
are her future husband
925
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,240
and myself, her father."
926
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,800
I wanted to yell out.
927
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:02,600
But Hephzibah grasped my leg.
928
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:05,920
[music intensifies]
929
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,960
And finally, the detective…
930
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,480
was convinced.
931
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,479
[music subsides]
932
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,799
I didn't feel safe enough crying out.
933
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,720
And that lifeline disappeared.
934
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,960
[tense music resumes]
935
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,479
After the confrontation
with the homicide detective,
936
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,080
Emmanuel rushed to get me
back up into the mountains.
937
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:48,799
He was… very anxious.
938
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,559
[tense music intensifies]
939
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:55,280
And he made up his mind.
We needed to leave Salt Lake City.
940
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:05,119
As we moved away from Salt Lake,
I thought of my little sister.
941
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:09,040
What was she doing? Where was she at?
Was she still sleeping in our bed?
942
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,999
I realized I might not ever
see my family again.
943
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,320
I might not ever come back here again.
I might not ever…
944
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,840
You know, I might not make it.
945
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,119
I just wanted to tell them,
946
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:31,159
"I'm still alive.
Don't stop looking for me."
947
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:35,200
- [wind whistling]
- [reflective music plays]
948
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,040
Both Mom and Dad
have been so wonderful to us.
949
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,920
So understanding and so considerate.
950
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,319
[Mary Katherine] Christmas 2002,
951
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,800
everyone's trying to put on a brave face.
952
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:57,000
My mom tried her best to make things
as normal as possible for us.
953
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,159
But I thought for sure, like,
we were never gonna see her again.
954
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,319
[pensive music playing]
955
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:07,199
[newswoman] It has been almost six months
since 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart
956
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,159
vanished from her home
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
957
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:15,600
I remember one day I was in the temple,
and I overheard somebody say,
958
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,600
"Can you believe Ed Smart?"
959
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,079
"You know,
he still thinks that she's alive."
960
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:25,759
[reporter] The sense is this investigation
is stalling or has stalled?
961
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:29,520
[Ed] No. No. It has not stalled.
It is not stalling.
962
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,119
[Cory] At the end of 2002,
963
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:38,680
I was offered a position
as a chief of police up in Ketchum, Idaho.
964
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,319
I talked to Ed and Lois,
965
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,040
told them I hated to leave the case
in the middle of it.
966
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:52,199
Up in Idaho, I would go home from work
and I would open up my computer
967
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,599
and I would pore over these leads,
968
01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:00,319
and… and just hoping that I could find
something that we'd missed.
969
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,439
[somber music playing]
970
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,240
I was obsessed.
971
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,639
I was haunted by it.
972
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:11,520
Afraid I might go to my grave
with this mystery haunting me.
973
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,039
Thank goodness the family
were going to do whatever they could do
974
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:19,440
to get Elizabeth back.
975
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:22,519
[pensive music playing]
976
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:24,119
[newswoman] With Richard Ricci's death,
977
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,719
the investigation
into Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping
978
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,320
appears to be at a standstill.
979
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:33,279
The police had spent thousands
of man-hours trying to find Elizabeth,
980
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:37,199
probably more than any single thing
in the history of Utah.
981
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,080
And I think that they were done,
and they believed they had their man,
982
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:42,600
{\an8}Richard Ricci.
983
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:49,440
All of us were wanting
to jump out of our seats and scream,
984
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,880
{\an8}"Well, what about Emmanuel?"
985
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:58,119
Here we have the person
that was in the room,
986
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,520
that said, "It's not Richard Ricci."
987
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:03,280
"It's Emmanuel."
988
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,880
We want to find this person.
989
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,519
[Tom] This is eight months, we've never
crossed the police on anything,
990
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,280
even though many reasons
why we could have been mad.
991
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,480
But we weren't gonna
just leave it to the authorities.
992
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,719
This is the biggest lead we have.
993
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:26,279
Now we've got breaking news
on the Elizabeth Smart abduction case.
994
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:31,079
I know in my heart, I absolutely know
that there is somebody out there
995
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,639
that knows something about this.
996
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,600
{\an8}[Ed] And so we released the sketch.
997
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,679
Of course that fired up interest.
998
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,239
[phones ringing]
999
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,439
It just takes one person
knowing some information
1000
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,439
that will bring everything to an end.
1001
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,479
[distant siren wailing]
1002
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,079
[Tom] A few days
after the press conference,
1003
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:55,639
I got a call from a man who said
he thought he might know who Emmanuel was.
1004
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,280
He had, uh, read it in the Deseret News,
he had seen the sketch.
1005
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,639
He said that chills went down his spine.
1006
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:03,120
[chilling sting]
1007
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:08,280
And he thought there was a chance
that it could be his brother-in-law.
1008
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,999
[man 1 on recording] Personally,
I would be very, very surprised
1009
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,119
if he did have anything to do with it.
1010
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,759
But… he's just crazy enough, um,
1011
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:30,239
that there's a possibility.
1012
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,679
I do know that he does have a…
1013
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:36,480
uh, a teepee
that he's had up in the mountains.
1014
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:42,119
But he has never ever
let any of the family know where.
1015
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:43,239
[man 2 on recording] Right.
1016
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,879
[man 1 on recording] If he does
have something to do with it,
1017
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,439
there's a really good chance
that she's still alive.
1018
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:49,560
[recording clicks off]
1019
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,039
Wow. [chuckles]
1020
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:53,160
Crazy.
1021
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:58,719
We thought, this is the main suspect,
and we've got to find this son of a bitch.
1022
01:03:58,720 --> 01:03:59,679
[tense music playing]
1023
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,199
[keyboard clacking]
1024
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:05,199
Everything he said just fit like a glove.
1025
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,400
Tom had them send a picture over.
1026
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,440
[pensive music playing]
1027
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,359
That is Emmanuel.
1028
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,400
Brian David Mitchell.
1029
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:26,280
[Cordon] My phone rings.
1030
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,359
First thing I did is check
Brian David Mitchell on the computer
1031
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:32,519
and found out that, strangely enough,
1032
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,919
he'd been arrested for stealing beer
from the Albertsons store.
1033
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,639
And so, thankfully, they had taken
a Polaroid photograph of him
1034
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,839
during his shoplift arrest.
1035
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,320
[pensive music continues]
1036
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:51,520
He was dressed as some sort of
itinerant fundamentalist preacher.
1037
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,800
He had on a long robe,
and he had a long beard.
1038
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:02,639
And the striking thing
about the photograph is that
1039
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,640
his arrest was during the time period
Elizabeth had been kidnapped.
1040
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,440
[Dave] So the police had him,
and they let him go.
1041
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,840
It was extremely frustrating.
1042
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:20,159
[Tom] When I see this photo of him,
I realize, I know this guy.
1043
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,000
I've encountered him many times, begging.
1044
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:27,879
And he had a woman with him
who most of the time was holding a doll,
1045
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:29,959
and it… it was bizarre.
1046
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:31,960
[tense music playing]
1047
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:37,919
So I put together a flyer
that we could distribute around town.
1048
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:42,200
{\an8}Had three or four pictures of him,
"Wanted for questioning."
1049
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:47,360
All of a sudden,
the family was totally supercharged.
1050
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,360
It was full throttle
trying to find this guy.
1051
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,479
[Cordon] Leads started coming in,
1052
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:58,319
and we were able
to trace Brian's movements
1053
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,919
for the last, uh,
couple of years of his life.
1054
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,920
[disturbing music playing]
1055
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,960
He was married to a woman
named Wanda Barzee.
1056
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:13,680
They had traveled extensively together
on foot around the United States,
1057
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,080
preaching the gospel
as they interpreted it.
1058
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,880
He believed himself to be
a prophet of God.
1059
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:28,359
In the last few years, he seemed to be
spinning into a violent state of mind.
1060
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,399
[disturbing music continues]
1061
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,560
[Dave] Brian Mitchell's ex-wife called.
1062
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:38,920
And for two hours, we sat there
and talked about Brian.
1063
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,120
We found out he's a dangerous individual.
1064
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,079
She had this fear of mice,
1065
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:51,919
and so he killed a bunch of mice
and put them in the stove
1066
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,480
so when she opened the stove,
there were all these dead mice.
1067
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:00,359
And there were historical allegations
of him sexually abusing children.
1068
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,360
[disturbing music continues]
1069
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:08,320
It was heartbreaking to think
what Elizabeth could be going through.
1070
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,319
We had one purpose and one purpose only,
1071
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,159
to find Elizabeth
and bring Elizabeth back.
1072
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,160
[pensive music playing]
1073
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:22,319
[Tom] We were going after him.
No mercy at this point.
1074
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:23,880
We're gonna find this guy.
1075
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,399
We started passing these flyers around,
1076
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:33,079
and one of my daughters said her friends
had seen these rogue people with veils
1077
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,280
at a place called Souper Salad.
1078
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,760
And so we went there,
and we talked to one of the waitresses.
1079
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,639
"We think that this might be
the person that took Elizabeth."
1080
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,999
And she said,
"Oh yeah, the… the Jesus people."
1081
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,399
"They would come in,
and there were three of them."
1082
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:53,400
[mysterious music playing]
1083
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:56,320
"And one of them was a girl."
1084
01:07:58,480 --> 01:07:59,840
They kept her veiled,
1085
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,840
but, I mean, obviously to eat,
the veil had to come down some.
1086
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:06,720
And she said, "Tom,
1087
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:09,680
I think that was Elizabeth."
1088
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:12,160
And, um,
1089
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,400
it felt like I was struck.
1090
01:08:16,480 --> 01:08:20,159
I fell to my knees.
I said, "My God, she's alive."
1091
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:22,240
[hopeful, pensive music playing]
1092
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,119
[camera clicking]
1093
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:31,040
The public is the greatest resource.
1094
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,920
We had a number of people
that sighted him.
1095
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,080
[Dave] We found a party
that they had been at.
1096
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:43,480
[camera clicks]
1097
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:46,520
[Jared] It gives me chills to think,
1098
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,840
but you never expected a kidnapping.
1099
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,639
I felt pretty much like an idiot.
1100
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,559
I felt blind.
1101
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:57,440
[camera clicks]
1102
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:01,440
[Ed] The light was getting
closer and closer.
1103
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:05,760
She's out there, and she's still alive.
1104
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:13,719
But there hadn't been any verifiable
reports of him since October.
1105
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:16,120
[tense music swells]
1106
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,720
[birds squawking]
1107
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:31,839
[insects and birds chirping]
1108
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:36,319
[Elizabeth] They had decided
on a little place outside of San Diego
1109
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:37,840
called Lakeside.
1110
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:43,200
And I'd been kept at this camp
for quite a while.
1111
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,600
- [voices whispering indistinctly]
- [sinister music playing]
1112
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,240
Being raped was horrific.
1113
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:57,719
But sometimes I also had to wonder
if maybe listening to him wasn't worse.
1114
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,919
- [voices continue whispering]
- [sinister music continues]
1115
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:04,599
He talked nonstop
about how special he was,
1116
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,119
about how difficult these things that…
1117
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:11,399
that in any other circumstance
would be wrong to do,
1118
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:13,319
and he didn't want to do it,
1119
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:16,039
but he had to
because God commanded him to.
1120
01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:19,279
- [fire crackling]
- [sinister music continues]
1121
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:23,359
One night he started to talk about
the places that they were going to go to,
1122
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:27,879
cities like New York, Boston,
far away from the West.
1123
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:32,039
And, I mean, I just remember sitting there
listening to them talk about it
1124
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:36,480
and thinking,
if we go to any other big city,
1125
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,439
like, I don't think I'll ever be found.
1126
01:10:39,440 --> 01:10:42,319
- [fire crackling]
- [sinister music continues]
1127
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,680
So I broke in.
1128
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,600
"I have this feeling."
1129
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:53,680
"I think… we… might…
1130
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:57,560
be supposed to return to Salt Lake."
1131
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:03,120
"And I know
God wouldn't really speak to me,
1132
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,359
but I know if you were to ask him,
1133
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,719
he would confirm to you
whether or not that was the right path
1134
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:16,759
because you truly are his servant
and you truly are his prophet."
1135
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:18,999
[sinister music continues]
1136
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,280
And he just turned to me
and was like, "Oh, well…"
1137
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,359
"God is finally
starting to work with you."
1138
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,800
"Now that you recognize
your own nothingness…"
1139
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,759
[sighs] "…we are supposed
to return to Salt Lake."
1140
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:35,760
[pensive music playing]
1141
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:41,359
[announcer] If you can help us find
Brian David Mitchell for questioning,
1142
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:45,720
please call us now at 1-800-CRIME-TV.
1143
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:48,799
[tense music playing]
1144
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:53,680
[Elizabeth] We got off the bus in Sandy,
which is south of Salt Lake.
1145
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:56,520
I was in disguise,
1146
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:01,160
and Emmanuel said he was
taking me back up into the mountains.
1147
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:06,479
I wasn't gonna be allowed
to come, uh, back down again.
1148
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:08,879
[phone ringing]
1149
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:09,839
[operator] 911.
1150
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:14,040
[woman] Who do I call if I think I see
that Emmanuel they're looking for?
1151
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,680
[tense music playing]
1152
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:22,080
[man] 2003, I was a patrol sergeant
for the Sandy City Police Department.
1153
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:26,759
I hear a dispatcher broadcast
that someone has called in
1154
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,359
{\an8}on a possible sighting of Elizabeth Smart
1155
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,480
{\an8}with three people
walking down State Street.
1156
01:12:33,480 --> 01:12:35,079
Course, we got numerous calls,
1157
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,799
you know, throughout the months,
and they all turned out to be false.
1158
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:43,359
So to be honest, I was very, um,
hesitant to believe it's gonna be true.
1159
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:44,999
[tense, pensive music playing]
1160
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,200
[Elizabeth] We started
walking up the sidewalk.
1161
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:49,639
[police radio chatter]
1162
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:52,159
A police car pulled up
and stopped next to us.
1163
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,559
And then there were more police cars
that showed up.
1164
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,040
[brakes squeal]
1165
01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:00,040
And officers started
questioning my captors.
1166
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,360
All three parties say
they had no identification whatsoever.
1167
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:06,720
They're messengers from God.
1168
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,920
The girl, she was definitely in disguise.
She had a horrible wig on.
1169
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,440
Her answers are not making sense.
You can tell that she's very nervous.
1170
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,759
So we bring the younger female
over to this location,
1171
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:24,240
separating everybody
probably ten yards away from each other.
1172
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:29,080
[Elizabeth] This officer,
he was so persistent in his questioning.
1173
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,279
"There's this girl.
She's been missing now for a long time."
1174
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:35,039
"The family's never given up hope.
Like, don't you wanna go home?"
1175
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:36,879
And of… of course I wanted to.
1176
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:38,399
[tense music playing]
1177
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:41,799
But my captors were just right there.
1178
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,080
I was terrified.
1179
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:48,600
I needed the safest answer
I could possibly give.
1180
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,439
And I says,
"Just for the sake of this nation,
1181
01:13:52,440 --> 01:13:56,159
and for your family,
just tell me you're Elizabeth."
1182
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:57,839
[music grows to crescendo]
1183
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,279
And she looked at me and said,
"Thou sayeth."
1184
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:02,160
And I've never heard those words
in my life.
1185
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:05,159
But I says, "I'll take that as a yes."
1186
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:06,679
[ethereal music playing]
1187
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,720
Then we put her
in the back of Officer Jones' police car.
1188
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,800
At that time, she started to cry.
1189
01:14:18,480 --> 01:14:20,480
[ethereal music continues]
1190
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:30,359
I had a call,
"Come out as soon as possible."
1191
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:32,120
"Don't stop, don't do anything."
1192
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,080
"Just get yourself out here."
1193
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:40,960
And I finally got up there.
1194
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:43,440
I walked through this door,
1195
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:48,399
and there is this row of officers
at attention.
1196
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:52,159
And as I'm going past them,
they're all saying,
1197
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,879
"God bless you, Mr. Smart.
We hope everything works out,"
1198
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:57,999
and all of these comments.
1199
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:02,080
So I get to the end and I turn the corner,
and there is Cordon Parks.
1200
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:06,400
And Cordon said to me, "Ed,
1201
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:10,159
we really think
that we have found Elizabeth."
1202
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:12,879
[reflective music playing]
1203
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:13,840
[exhales]
1204
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:18,280
I am just going
1205
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:21,400
crazy inside.
1206
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,520
And we open this yellow door,
1207
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,280
and there is this young woman on the sofa.
1208
01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:41,200
It is not the young woman
that left me nine months ago.
1209
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:44,039
She was a… a young girl,
1210
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,719
and yet in front of me
was this young woman.
1211
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:52,599
Her face was sunburned, it was swollen,
1212
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,120
her hair was pulled back in these braids.
1213
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,839
My brain is just going 100 miles an hour.
1214
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:04,400
And I said, "Elizabeth, is it really you?"
1215
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,359
And then she goes, "Yes, Dad."
1216
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:12,360
[emotional music playing]
1217
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:18,760
And I held my miracle in my arms.
1218
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,639
[Elizabeth] It took me a minute to respond
1219
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:26,960
because, I mean,
I thought I was in trouble.
1220
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:34,599
But finally, my dad was there,
and he was gonna protect me.
1221
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,399
And no matter what happened,
he wasn't going to abandon me.
1222
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:40,559
And it was gonna be okay.
1223
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:43,640
- [emotional music continues]
- [birds chirping]
1224
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,719
I remember being pulled out of school.
1225
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:53,800
My oldest brother, Charles,
he said that they might have found her.
1226
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:00,279
There was just this feeling
of excitement, of… of happiness.
1227
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,079
[bright music playing]
1228
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:05,640
Just awe in the moment
that she was actually here.
1229
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:11,560
I remember being so excited
to see my sister and my brothers.
1230
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:14,799
My mom, she just, like,
was cupping my face,
1231
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:16,759
and we were all crying.
1232
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:18,760
[bright music continues]
1233
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,719
[people cheering and applauding]
1234
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,800
[Dave] I wanted to scream out loud.
1235
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,759
I can't tell you how grateful I was
at that time
1236
01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:37,440
to hear that she'd been found.
1237
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:41,000
It's over.
1238
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:46,920
[Elizabeth] Seeing my family again…
1239
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:54,879
it reminded me
that everything that had happened,
1240
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:59,000
it didn't take away from my value
or my worth. Like…
1241
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,880
those… monsters
could never take that away.
1242
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:09,200
[bright music continues]
1243
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:16,039
Utah's miracle. Elizabeth Smart
is alive and well after nine months.
1244
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:19,279
{\an8}Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart
was found alive today.
1245
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:21,279
280 days after she was kidnapped.
1246
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,239
[newswoman 1]
As if she came back from the dead.
1247
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:24,999
[newswoman 2]
A story that defies all odds.
1248
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,719
{\an8}A lot of people all across the country
bursting into tears.
1249
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,000
Spirits are soaring
here in Salt Lake City.
1250
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,439
- It's real.
- [happy laughter]
1251
01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:33,479
It's real.
1252
01:18:33,480 --> 01:18:35,760
[cheering and applause]
1253
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,159
[Tom] Everybody's helped.
Everybody's prayed.
1254
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:42,199
We thank God for all the searchers,
for all the people.
1255
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:43,519
In the history of the world,
1256
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:46,759
I don't think a little girl has been
prayed for more than Elizabeth Smart.
1257
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:48,919
And we thank you
for answering those prayers.
1258
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:50,519
- [Lois] Thank you.
- [cheering, applause]
1259
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,999
Mary Katherine is our hero.
1260
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:56,040
- [applause echoes]
- [bright, emotional music continues]
1261
01:19:00,480 --> 01:19:03,240
[Elizabeth] I just remember
being so excited to be home.
1262
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:06,999
I woke up a few times during that night,
1263
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:10,359
and both my parents were,
uh, standing above me,
1264
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:12,040
making sure I was still there.
1265
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:18,359
[Cory] My phone rang.
1266
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,760
One of the detectives said,
"Cory, they found her."
1267
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:27,280
This sense of relief was just unreal.
1268
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:34,279
I caught a ride with the CBS News crew
up to the camp.
1269
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:36,680
[reflective music playing]
1270
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:43,560
I stood at the edge, and I was just
1271
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:45,520
sick.
1272
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,000
And I felt
1273
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,599
like we'd let her down
by not finding her sooner
1274
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,120
and saving her from much of that pain.
1275
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:05,759
As law enforcement, we have to recognize
that we don't have all the answers,
1276
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,320
and we can't pretend that we do.
1277
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,719
Thank goodness her family
went contrary to recommendations
1278
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:17,040
from the police department
in terms of releasing a… a sketch.
1279
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:26,799
This is a case that involved
the strangest people I've ever met.
1280
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,119
[singing to herself]
1281
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,159
I've never lied about anything.
All I've told you--
1282
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:35,079
[Cordon] Then you tell me the truth.
How did Elizabeth wind up with you?
1283
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:36,439
Tell me the truth, right now.
1284
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:39,079
By the power of God,
she was delivered to us.
1285
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:41,039
[Cordon] Every time we got close to him
1286
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,399
making an actual admission
of criminal conduct,
1287
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:47,119
he would launch into a spiel.
1288
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:49,039
- I am the servant of the Lord.
- No.
1289
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,639
And I've only done… I've only done
what I've been commanded to do.
1290
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:53,239
I found him very crafty.
1291
01:20:53,240 --> 01:20:55,200
Get thee behind me, Satan!
1292
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,519
Get thee behind me, Satan!
1293
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,279
[Cordon] I'm not Satan,
and I'm right here. I'm Cordon Parks.
1294
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,319
Get thee behind me, Satan!
1295
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:05,279
[Cordon] And I want
a rational explanation--
1296
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:07,480
Get thee behind me, Satan!
1297
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,200
Brian David Mitchell
is a terrible pedophile
1298
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:15,799
who justifies himself through God,
1299
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,040
and he's capable of anything.
1300
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,080
I don't think he was mentally ill at all.
1301
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:25,120
But I think he was playing for
a mental health issue, and it worked.
1302
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:30,120
The district court judge delayed the trial
and delayed the trial.
1303
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:37,240
[Ed] The whole case was very frustrating.
1304
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:42,600
But it… it did give Elizabeth time.
1305
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:46,200
Time to heal.
1306
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:53,200
- Hello.
- Hi.
1307
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:01,919
My family was, of course, very concerned
1308
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:05,759
about trying to help me move forward
1309
01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:09,239
and to pick up the pieces of my life.
1310
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:11,519
[gentle music playing]
1311
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:14,519
But when I came back, I was scared of men.
1312
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,599
I was scared of a lot of things,
1313
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:21,719
and I still didn't hear anyone
speak about,
1314
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:23,879
like, being raped or being abused.
1315
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,999
I mean, it just…
it was not a common conversation,
1316
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:30,999
so I felt a lot of shame and embarrassment
around what had happened,
1317
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:32,960
even though I knew it wasn't my fault.
1318
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:37,199
It was easy to think, "I should've ran,
should've done that, should've done this."
1319
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:41,200
You know, it's… it's really a shame that
we don't have both of your harps here.
1320
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:43,559
[Elizabeth] Oh, well.
1321
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:45,599
[Ed] How often do we get together,
you know?
1322
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,639
[Elizabeth] Would you like me
to play folk harp?
1323
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,999
[Mary Katherine] I think it's your turn
to play the folk harp. I always get that.
1324
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,919
- [Ed] Is that fish and chips?
- Yeah, that's fish and chips too.
1325
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:57,439
[Mary Katherine] When Elizabeth came home,
it was a joyous time,
1326
01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:03,359
but it was also difficult
trying to get back to a normal state.
1327
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:05,080
But what is a normal state?
1328
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:08,960
Certainly we did a lot of things together.
1329
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:17,120
[Elizabeth] My mom, she played a huge part
in helping me process what happened.
1330
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,960
But now, she's ready
to leave it in the past.
1331
01:23:23,480 --> 01:23:25,119
[Mary Katherine] Another Christmas,
1332
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:28,079
when I got a whole bunch
of really nice stuffed animals,
1333
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:30,439
and then you threw them all in a bag.
1334
01:23:30,440 --> 01:23:33,599
Yeah, but if you rewind that a little bit,
1335
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:37,079
Mom said I couldn't do anything
until our room was clean.
1336
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:38,919
You left me no choice.
1337
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:40,239
[Ed laughing]
1338
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:43,559
[Elizabeth] I feel like the things
that really helped the most
1339
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,640
were spending time with my family.
1340
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:50,199
[pensive music playing]
1341
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:54,400
But the case just drug on
for years and years.
1342
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:00,560
It felt like the system
was rigged against me.
1343
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:06,040
And I thought, this has gone on
for almost a decade. It needs to end.
1344
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:09,159
I don't care what it takes.
1345
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,239
I don't care
if I have to sit in the courtroom
1346
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:12,719
every day for months on end.
1347
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:15,600
If this is gonna bring it to a close,
then that's what I'm going to do.
1348
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:21,279
[newsman] Elizabeth Smart herself
gave a brave and graphic testimony
1349
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:22,920
about her horrific ordeal.
1350
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,959
[Elizabeth] I didn't want to face him.
1351
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:32,439
But at the same time, if he was released,
1352
01:24:32,440 --> 01:24:34,920
he would definitely
go after another young girl.
1353
01:24:36,480 --> 01:24:39,999
So when the verdict finally came in,
1354
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,039
um, as guilty,
1355
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:43,359
I mean, it was…
1356
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:47,200
It was just like,
"It is about time. Thank goodness."
1357
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:51,520
"It's done,
and I can leave it in the past now."
1358
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:56,879
I'm so thrilled to stand
before the people of America today
1359
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:58,599
and give hope to other victims.
1360
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:00,839
We can speak out, and we will be heard.
1361
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:02,840
[pensive music continues]
1362
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,439
[Elizabeth] I used to sit and wonder
what my life would be like
1363
01:25:31,440 --> 01:25:33,000
had I not been kidnapped.
1364
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:38,559
I mean, I had always dreamed of
finding someone who loved me,
1365
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:40,280
finding someone who I loved.
1366
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:42,920
And,
1367
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,000
I mean, that did come true.
Like, I… I did find someone.
1368
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,920
And we did get married,
and we do have a family together.
1369
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:55,160
[determined music playing]
1370
01:25:57,040 --> 01:26:01,800
As time passed, I began speaking publicly
about what happened.
1371
01:26:04,440 --> 01:26:07,599
I just felt like
it needs to serve a purpose.
1372
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,520
It needs to…
to bring some good in the world.
1373
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,239
But we all have a choice to make.
1374
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:17,439
We have the choice to stay in bed
and keep the covers pulled over us,
1375
01:26:17,440 --> 01:26:19,560
{\an8}or we have a choice to move forward.
1376
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:26,959
I can talk about the things that hurt me
1377
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:30,720
and things that have been
difficult to overcome.
1378
01:26:31,440 --> 01:26:35,159
I wanted survivors to know
that they had nothing to be ashamed of.
1379
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:37,279
I wanted them to know
they… they weren't alone,
1380
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:41,159
that there were other people in this world
who have experienced it
1381
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,800
and who can understand.
1382
01:26:45,440 --> 01:26:50,800
As time went on, I began to realize
I'm stronger than I thought I was.
1383
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,599
[hopeful music playing]
1384
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:55,840
It took a lot of time.
1385
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,040
I have good days. I have bad days.
1386
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:10,160
But I've developed
a better relationship with myself.
1387
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:13,599
My inner voice has changed from,
1388
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,720
"You should've done this,"
or, "You could've done that,"
1389
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:18,599
to, "You'll make it through this."
1390
01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:20,959
"You can finish this.
You're strong. Keep going."
1391
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:23,680
[hopeful music continues]
1392
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:29,000
You can survive anything
that comes your way.
1393
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:33,000
[music fades]
1394
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:41,960
[pensive music playing]