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0:05- Every parent's worst nightmare.
0:07- Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart...
0:08- Was kidnapped from her home. - Police in Salt Lake City
0:11say they have hundreds of leads.
0:13- In the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart.
0:17- When my case finally came to trial
0:19about eight years after I was rescued,
0:21I felt as I stood up on that stand,
0:24and as I gave my testimony,
0:26it was just question after question after question.
0:27I mean, it was just--felt like facts on a sheet of paper.
0:30It didn't feel like it was real.
0:32It didn't feel like it was really my story.
0:35- Next, we turn to the latest on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping.
0:38- I wanted to say, "You heard the facts,
0:40but you don't understand what it was like.
0:42You have no idea."
0:45"I have a knife at your neck.
0:47Don't make a sound.
0:48Get up and come with me."
0:51- This 14-year-old girl
0:53is at the center of a mystery and an intense search.
0:56- I wasn't just raped, I was chained up,
0:59I was starved, I was denied water,
1:02I was denied food.
1:06- This is a sick, misguided person.
1:08- People still say to me,
1:10"Why when your captors took you out in public
1:12didn't you escape?"
1:14"They took you to a party. You couldn't escape then?"
1:18"You encountered police officers.
1:20Why didn't you tell them who you were?"
1:22"Did you sympathize with your captors?"
1:26"Why didn't you try to save yourself?"
1:29The truth is...
1:30I made my rescue possible.
1:34And I want people to know that.
1:36- It's real.
1:37- Now, I want to tell my story,
1:40the whole story.
1:42The real story of what really happened.
1:57[harp music]
2:00♪
2:10- I grew up very much...
2:14like that happily-ever-after little girl.
2:20Looking forward to that day
2:22when your prince charming finally comes,
2:25and you finally meet him, and you get married,
2:27and you live happily ever after,
2:28I think that was very much
2:31my mentality prior to my kidnapping.
2:34And so he took that away from me.
2:41The three words that come to mind
2:42that really describe it
2:46are terror,
2:49boredom,
2:50and rape.
2:53- Bag, B.
2:56- Uh-hmm.
2:58[suspenseful music]
3:01♪
3:10- My whole kidnapping, I was living night and day
3:14in threat of my life, and not just my life,
3:16but my family's life.
3:18It was like Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee
3:21both were invincible.
3:23He got away with everything that he said
3:25he'd get away with.
3:27So, when people would say,
3:29"Why didn't you run?"
3:30"Well, how could I run?"
3:33[dramatic music]
3:36♪
3:43- In February, we had the Winter Olympics here
3:46in Salt Lake City.
3:47And my father had been diagnosed
3:49with a brain tumor.
3:51He went in for surgery quite soon
3:53after he was diagnosed,
3:55and...
3:58passed away two months after.
4:00- When he died, I remember just kind of thinking,
4:04"This isn't right.
4:05Why did he have to die?"
4:08- And his funeral was the day
4:09before Elizabeth was kidnapped.
4:13It was at the end of the school year
4:16and Elizabeth was going
4:18to receive some awards.
4:20And the principal had called her
4:21to play her harp that night
4:25so things were just kind of crazy.
4:27- That night, I think we had both been
4:31pretty tired with Lois' father
4:35passing away
4:36and we were just exhausted.
4:39- I was trying to cook dinner, waiting for them to come home,
4:41trying to figure out where the harp, you know,
4:43how we're gonna get that put in the car.
4:45And I burned the potatoes.
4:48You know, the smoke was not very pleasant.
4:51And I went to the window and cranked it open.
4:55And so then, um, I remember
4:58having our meal,
5:00trying to get to the school,
5:02and we were late.
5:03I was a little bit on edge,
5:05you know, just thinking,
5:07"This is not working out the way it was supposed to."
5:10- We went home. And I remember going into my bedroom
5:13that I shared with my younger sister.
5:15- Me and Elizabeth had gotten into a routine
5:17where we were reading a book.
5:19And that night, we were reading
5:20Ella Enchanted. - ...Ella Enchanted.
5:22Yes, I like those princess
5:25happily-ever-after books.
5:27I'd read out loud for so long,
5:28my voice was getting dry.
5:30And I put the book down and went to bed.
5:33[suspenseful music]
5:36- The next thing I remember
5:39was being awakened
5:42in the middle of the night.
5:43[suspenseful music]
5:46- And it was still dark.
5:48And at first,
5:50I heard this voice.
5:52And when I first heard that,
5:53I thought it had to be part of a dream.
5:59Then I heard it again.
6:00This time, as the voice spoke,
6:02I not only heard it, but I opened my eyes.
6:06Standing above me
6:07was this dark shadow of a man.
6:10And I remember him saying, "I have a knife at your neck.
6:14Don't make a sound.
6:16Get up and come with me."
6:17And that second time that I heard this voice,
6:23I mean, I was instantly awake.
6:27I could feel the knife at my neck.
6:32"What if I don't do what he says?
6:34He might take my sister. He might hurt my sister.
6:36I have to go."
6:38- And she got up out of bed
6:40and they went into the bathroom and the closet.
6:43- Going in to get a pair of shoes
6:45meant that we were going outside,
6:47we were going somewhere other than my home.
6:49I was asking him why he was doing this. And he said,
6:52"I'm taking you hostage for ransom."
6:56- And they go out the hallway,
6:58and we--we had some squeaks on the floor
7:00so you could kind of tell where they were.
7:03- As he was taking me out through my house,
7:05he had whispered to me, you know,
7:06"If you scream, if you yell,
7:09like, I'll kill your family or I'll kill you."
7:12And really, at that point,
7:14I thought maybe he already had killed some of my family.
7:17Seemed like either do what he says and go with him,
7:20or have your neck cut open and die.
7:26I could hear the grandfather clock ticking
7:28from downstairs.
7:29"Dad, please wake up."
7:32I was praying in my mind,
7:34"Mom, can you hear me?
7:36Please wake up and save me."
7:42He just led me down the stairs
7:45and he still had his knife on me.
7:51- I was in my bed for a long time
7:52trying to work up courage enough
7:54to run--to run across and tell my parents.
7:56So, the first time I got up,
7:59I got to about my bedroom door,
8:02and I just freaked myself out.
8:05I ran back in bed and I kept thinking,
8:07you know, "Someone's got to tell
8:09my parents what happened."
8:12- He led me downstairs
8:13into the kitchen and out the backdoor.
8:18I just remember thinking, "This is real.
8:21This is really...
8:23happening to me.
8:25I'm--I'm being kidnapped."
8:28[suspenseful music]
8:30- We got up to the top of this vacant lot
8:33and he, I guess, had glimpsed some headlights
8:36coming down the road.
8:39I remember him whispering saying,
8:42"If this work is true, God,
8:44then let this car pass."
8:46He was kidnapping me and then he was saying,
8:50"God," mentioning God in the same moment.
8:54It just didn't make sense.
8:57"If you move, I'll kill you.
9:02One tiny peep
9:03and you know what I will do."
9:08As soon as that police car was out of sight,
9:12he was up and running.
9:13He had me up and running.
9:17We started climbing up the trail.
9:19The reality finally hit me,
9:21"This isn't a joke.
9:22This isn't a nightmare.
9:24This is real.
9:26I've got to run."
9:28But he was always right behind me,
9:30the knife always at my back.
9:36There finally came a point
9:37when I remember stopping him
9:40and just saying,
9:43"Well, if you're just gonna rape and kill me,
9:45please do it here."
9:48Because in my mind I was thinking,
9:49"I want my parents to know
9:51what happened to me.
9:53I wanted them to find me
9:54even if it was just my body."
9:58He had this smile
9:59and it was just--
10:02it was bone-chilling.
10:04And he--he gave this smile and he said,
10:06"Oh...
10:09I'm not...
10:11going to rape and murder you, yet."
10:19[suspenseful music]
10:21♪
10:33- I finally worked up enough courage again
10:35to run across to my parents' bedroom and tell them.
10:39- Mary Katherine comes,
10:40wandering into the room,
10:42and says, "Dad, you know,
10:43somebody has taken Elizabeth."
10:47- Just being woken up
10:49to something like that was very startling,
10:51and thinking like, "Oh, you know,
10:54she's had a bad dream."
10:57- "She's got to be here somewhere.
10:59This--this can't be happening."
11:02- The thing I remember first was my dad
11:04just coming in here, and say, "Hey, is Elizabeth in here?
11:06What's--where is she?"
11:10- As I made the rounds upstairs,
11:12and then went down the stairs,
11:14into the kitchen,
11:15once again, from the top,
11:17Mary Katherine reiterated,
11:20"Somebody has taken her,
11:21you're not going to find her."
11:24- And I went running downstairs
11:26and there was a big panel of light switches.
11:29And I remember I just hit them all.
11:33And as I looked over in the kitchen,
11:36I saw the window that, um, I had opened
11:39to let the smoke out.
11:41The screen had been cut. I could see that.
11:44And then I screamed and that was the beginning
11:47of our nightmare telling,
11:48"Ed, we need to call the police."
11:50- "Wow, Elizabeth's gone.
11:52Something really awful
11:54has happened to our family."
11:57- There wasn't a handbook on knowing what to do.
12:00- I remember waking up that night
12:03to probably one of the worst, um, sounds
12:06I've ever heard and that was my mom
12:09um, just crying.
12:12And I remember going downstairs
12:14because my--I've never heard
12:15my mother cry like this.
12:18- I've never once in my life seen my mom
12:20acting the way she was, it was beyond me.
12:24But they called the police.
12:26- 911.
12:27- I just started picking up the phone,
12:29calling everyone that I could,
12:30all my friends, family
12:34and, you know, said,
12:36you know, I've got to have your help.
12:38- But the police were called first.
12:41- I knew it was really bad.
12:42My sister was gone.
12:44She was my whole world.
12:46I knew it was bad.
12:51- [panting]
12:56- We kept going and that scared me
12:58because why else was he taking me?
13:01Then he said something about,
13:03I was his hostage, he was taking me for hostage
13:05and I remember saying-- telling him that my parents
13:08would pay anything to get me back.
13:09I mean, they didn't have,
13:11like, millions of millions of dollars,
13:13but if that's what he wanted, I knew they'd get it.
13:15I knew they'd do whatever it took to get me back.
13:18And we got farther and farther and I stopped him again
13:20and I said, "Well...
13:23don't you realize what you're doing?
13:25I mean, if you get caught,
13:28you'll spend the rest of your life in prison,
13:31but I promise you, if you let me go,
13:35my family won't press charges."
13:38And then he smiled that same
13:39just [shudders] awful smile.
13:42And he told me,
13:44"I know exactly what I'm doing
13:47and I know what the consequences are.
13:50The only difference is,
13:53I'm not gonna get caught."
14:03When I was kidnapped, I was only 14-years-old.
14:05And I had grown up in a very safe environment.
14:08I'd grown up in a very protected environment.
14:13I wasn't unintelligent,
14:15but I was very naive,
14:17even for a 14-year-old.
14:20Looking back on it, it was, like,
14:22I lived to just--in a bubble.
14:28Life just seemed like what could possibly go wrong?
14:33I don't know. Nothing.
14:36[sirens wailing]
14:43- The first two people there were two policemen
14:46that came in, and then as Edward was calling
14:49his neighbors and anybody he could,
14:51quickly within 10, 15 minutes,
14:54the whole area in his neighborhood
14:56were mobilizing looking for her.
14:58- Searching, driving the streets,
15:00you know, searching all over trying to find her.
15:03- And it was about, oh,
15:05around 5:00 in the morning that I got a call from Ed
15:08and I remember sitting on the...
15:16sitting on the edge of my bed
15:21and it's a-- it's a call that you--
15:23you never wanna hear, you never wanna get.
15:26- You get a call like that, it's just,
15:28it's--it's so surreal.
15:31Everybody in the family got the same call,
15:33and everybody came as quick as we can.
15:35- 13943, no one in the...
15:37- When I arrived, there was a large
15:39police presence there,
15:41and also, uh, Elizabeth's extended family
15:43was also inside of the home.
15:46- I arrived there right around 6:00 AM.
15:49I was just blown away.
15:50I've never seen a crime scene
15:52uh, that was...
15:54so totally contaminated.
15:57That house should've been sealed
16:00and it wasn't, and--and--and why it wasn't,
16:03to this day, I'm still at a loss.
16:07There was just a huge inexperience factor.
16:09Graveyard shift officers are usually
16:11the youngest officers on the department,
16:15but that still doesn't alibi the idea
16:17of not doing your job correctly.
16:20That scene was contaminated beyond all hope.
16:28- I don't think I'd ever prayed
16:29so hard in my life.
16:31I just remember thinking of all the scripture stories
16:35that I've learned growing up,
16:36you know, Moses parting the Red Sea
16:39and Hannah feeding the children of Israel
16:42out in the wilderness for 40 years
16:43and I remember just praying and praying, thinking,
16:45"Oh please, if you can do all of these miracles
16:47for all these others, like,
16:49I know I'm not a prophet, but please,
16:50like, let me find a way to escape."
16:55I remember being scared, that maybe--
16:57maybe a way had been provided and--
16:59and I had missed it and that scared me.
17:03And he was still right there
17:05and he still had his knife and I--
17:07I remember looking at bushes and thinking,
17:08"If I ran and jumped behind that bush,
17:10would he find me?"
17:12I remember just being in this panic
17:14and this fear that maybe I had lost my opportunity,
17:16but there wasn't realistically
17:20an opportunity for me to escape.
17:22[suspenseful music]
17:26- He always made sure he was below me
17:28so that I couldn't run back down the mountain,
17:31and it was such thick
17:34scrub oak that running up at--
17:37the mountain really wasn't an option either.
17:46- My grandma came over
17:48and I fell asleep on my grandma's lap
17:51for a couple of hours and then I--a policeman came
17:54and woke me up and asked me questions.
17:58- Now she was the only one who saw the suspect
18:00and could describe the suspect.
18:04And that was it. There was just not
18:06a lot information to pursue.
18:10- As I walked in the front door,
18:12I looked off to the right where the family room was
18:15and--and...
18:18Lois was surrounded
18:20by family members
18:22and--and...
18:25it was the worst sound.
18:34It was the worst sound I had ever heard,
18:39just this eerie cry
18:42of pain and anguish.
18:45So, I walked into the kitchen and I was just, kind of,
18:48wandering around aimlessly.
18:50The thing that freaked me out so bad
18:52was that I had almost put my hands down
18:54on the counter and--
18:55and put prints and--and so forth
18:57and contaminated it.
18:59- Nothing was taped off,
19:01there wasn't a log of who was coming and going.
19:04- Finally, police say, "You can't have everyone in here,
19:06you know, you're--you're just ruining the crime scene."
19:12- I said, "Well, we're gonna get them out of this house,
19:16and we need to find out who they all are,
19:18and if they don't have ID,
19:20then we need to get their names
19:21and we need to get fingerprints from them,"
19:23and, um, it was just-- it was bizarre.
19:27- I just thought "So come on, what--what do we do?
19:29What do we do?"
19:37[suspenseful music]
19:38♪
19:53- I had on bright red pajamas.
19:58The sun was coming up so it was getting light
20:01and, yeah, red is a pretty noticeable color,
20:05and he was becoming more and more anxious.
20:07And I remember him saying, "Oh,"
20:08he was like, "We've got to run across
20:10the top of this mountain
20:12because you're like a flame,
20:13you're like a bright red flame
20:14on the top of a mountain and I don't want any
20:17early morning runners seeing you
20:18in your lovely pajamas or how lovely you look
20:21in your pajamas." Something pretty creepy.
20:30While he'd been taking me up the mountain,
20:32I actually had realized who--who he was.
20:34I'd recognized him.
20:37He saw me with my mom.
20:40I was out with all my siblings and my mom.
20:43We were getting clothes for school
20:45and my older brother, he said, "Mom, there's this guy
20:46who's asking for work.
20:48I think he really needs work or help.
20:50You know, can you help him out?"
20:52He was clean-shaven at the time
20:54and so my mom gave him five bucks
20:57and he didn't even ask for money,
20:59he did just ask for work.
21:01The next time I saw Brian Mitchell,
21:03was he actually did come and work for my dad,
21:06and then the next time I saw him
21:08after that was the night he kidnapped me.
21:11He later said that as soon as he saw me with my mom,
21:14that he just knew I was the girl he was gonna kidnap.
21:17He actually came down to my house
21:19a couple other times to find the best route
21:23in which he would take me to kidnap me,
21:26kind of, scouted the layout and everything.
21:28And I remember saying, "Why are you hurting my family?
21:32My parents tried to help you.
21:33Why--why are you doing this?"
21:35And he just--he gave, kind of, that same response,
21:38you know, "You'll find out in due time."
21:41We ran over the top of this mountain ridge
21:43and we started down the other side
21:46and he told me at this point that his wife
21:48was waiting for us
21:50and so I almost had this moment thinking,
21:53"Well, maybe--maybe he kidnapped me
21:57because they can't have kids?
22:01Maybe it wasn't just gonna be
22:03rape and murder."
22:06As we got further down the other side,
22:09he yelled out "Hephzibah."
22:13And then a voice yelled back "Emmanuel."
22:22Once we got inside the trees,
22:24I saw a tent set up,
22:26but I think really the most memorable thing
22:28about this whole camp was the woman.
22:36She looked scary.
22:42"She is a scary witch, stay away from her."
22:52She started hugging me,
22:53but it wasn't like a comforting nice hug.
23:02It was, like, she was trying to tell me that
23:06if I ever did anything
23:09that she didn't want me to do,
23:11I'd be sorry.
23:18If you can convey all that in a hug,
23:21that's what she was trying to convey.
23:25She led me inside the tent
23:27and she sat me down on this upturned bucket.
23:30I just remembered being so terrified.
23:34She started washing my feet
23:37and then she started to try to undress me.
23:39Well, I was...
23:42really shy as a 14-year-old.
23:45And I remember begging and pleading with her,
23:48telling her I'd showered last night,
23:51that I wasn't dirty,
23:52that I wasn't gonna take my pajamas off.
23:56She finally just said,
23:57"Fine, okay, put this robe on."
24:03I pulled it on over my head
24:05and then I took my pajamas off underneath,
24:07because she had told me that if--
24:11that if I didn't let her do it
24:14then she would have Emmanuel come
24:15and he'd rip my clothes off of me.
24:18I remember, I took my pajamas off
24:20but I didn't take my underwear off
24:21and she threatened me yet again
24:23that if I didn't do it,
24:24she'd have Emmanuel come in
24:25and he'd rip my underwear off.
24:27So I remember wiggling out of my underwear
24:30and then she got up
24:31and left me alone in the tent.
24:36I just remember feeling like
24:39I had just sunken into
24:41complete hopelessness, despair.
24:48I just remember being so confused
24:50and feeling so scared
24:52and just...
24:54so...
24:57overwhelmed.
25:07- [indistinct]
25:09- In all child abductions or any abductions, the people
25:12that are most prominent in the child's life,
25:14they all have to be cleared.
25:15And so the family needs to be cleared
25:17and eliminated as possible suspects.
25:20- One of the first things we wanted to do
25:22is find out everything we could about the family
25:25and the dynamics that existed in the family
25:27especially between the girl that was taken
25:29and the rest of the family members.
25:31- When they took us to the police station,
25:33Ed in one car,
25:34I was in another, the boys were in another.
25:36I said, "Can't you just take us all together
25:38and get us down there?
25:39I can't do this. Time is wasting.
25:42We need to be out finding her."
25:44And when they took us down to the police station,
25:46they separated us once again.
25:49Ed and myself could no longer be together
25:51and the boys, the two older boys,
25:54Andrew and Charles were taken
25:57and Mary Katherine
25:58was certainly off by herself
26:00and I felt very concerned about Mary Katherine
26:04knowing that here she was,
26:05you know, this little nine-year-old and--and that
26:08she was the only one that saw what happened.
26:12- Would sit in a room for like an hour
26:16just keep asking me the same questions
26:19and I'd give them the same answers.
26:21- Only a mother can comfort a child
26:23and help a child and, you know,
26:26and assure her that it's gonna be okay,
26:29we're gonna find her sister.
26:31And so it was awful.
26:34- That morning or that day was probably the longest day
26:37of my life in a lot of ways.
26:38It felt like we were in that police station forever.
26:41- I wanted to answer all their questions
26:42the best I could
26:44and, uh, just so I could be back with my family.
26:47- I do remember them just asking
26:49very pointed questions over and over and over again
26:53and feeling like they were digging for something
26:55that I felt like wasn't there.
26:57- I just remember the boys coming out saying, you know,
27:01"They think that I did it."
27:03- As a child and a parent, you know, it's very difficult
27:05because they're already questioning what they did
27:07or didn't do or could have done
27:09or shouldn't have done or whatever.
27:11And so when we started asking those questions,
27:13I think it--it's a kind of pouring salt on an open wound.
27:16- Quickly put aside the idea
27:18that something tragic had happened
27:20inside that house and maybe somebody got hurt
27:23and now this was a sort of a cover up or something.
27:26However, we brought in cadaver dogs
27:28to search that house just in case
27:30we were looking for a--a--a body
27:32that have been, you know, secretly,
27:35you know, hidden away somewhere.
27:37- Every minute that went by
27:38and she was not found,
27:41my heart sank.
27:44They say within the first 24 hours
27:46if you haven't found them, they're more than likely dead.
27:56- The tent door unzipped
27:59and in came Emmanuel, Brian Mitchell,
28:04and he'd knelt down next to me
28:07and he started to speak
28:08and I just--I remember saying,
28:11"No, just go away.
28:12I--just leave me alone."
28:16I calmed down enough
28:18to hear the last sentence.
28:21He told me that I was now sealed to him
28:25as his wife
28:26before God and His angels
28:28as--as his witnesses
28:29and that--that could never be undone.
28:33I just remember being filled with horror.
28:36I remember just screaming out, "No."
28:42He looked at me and he said,
28:43"If you ever scream out
28:46like that again, I will kill you."
28:56Over and over he said,
28:59"It's time for us to consummate our marriage now."
29:02And I remember thinking, "Wait a second.
29:06Does--does he mean what I think he means?
29:10No. No."
29:13And tried to go over all the reasons why
29:16this couldn't be legal or binding,
29:19why this wasn't okay.
29:20I was 14-years-old.
29:22Did he realize that?
29:24I told him I hadn't even started my period yet
29:27and that stopped him for about half a second,
29:29long enough for him to yell out,
29:32"Hephzibah, is it okay
29:33that she hasn't started her period yet?"
29:37This woman Hephzibah, Wanda Barzee,
29:39she yelled back, "It's fine."
29:43No matter how much begging or pleading
29:46or crying I did,
29:49it just didn't make a difference to him.
29:51He physically grabbed me
29:52and forced me down onto the ground.
29:57I thought you had to face
29:59each other to have sex.
30:02And so, I thought if I rolled over
30:06onto my stomach and I crossed my legs
30:10and I remember holding--holding my arms up
30:12just right under my chest so he couldn't touch me,
30:15crossing my legs as hard as I could,
30:18rolling on my stomach,
30:19he--he wouldn't be able to--
30:20he wouldn't be able to rape me.
30:23Well...
30:25I was...
30:28terribly mistaken.
30:36I remember he just...
30:39pulled up the robe
30:41and...
30:45raped me.
30:48And I...
30:51was devastated
30:54and I...
31:00remember just thinking,
31:01"How on earth
31:03did this happen to me?
31:06Why did this happen to me?"
31:10And I--at that point,
31:13he got up and he kind of smiled
31:14and walked out of the tent,
31:16left me alone in the tent.
31:18I just remember lying on the ground
31:23just feeling so shattered,
31:27feeling like I truly was broken,
31:30feeling like...
31:32there was no coming back...
31:35from this, that...
31:39it would be better
31:41if I were dead.
31:49If someone can rape,
31:52then I felt like they can murder.
31:59- It is my honor and privilege
32:01to introduce tonight's speaker,
32:03Elizabeth Smart.
32:04[applause]
32:09- Every single one of us
32:11has a story and every single one of us,
32:14we--we have had something
32:16that's happened to us in our life.
32:18I mean, hopefully it's not all kidnapping,
32:21but it's not what happens to us
32:25that defines who we are.
32:27It's what we decide to do.
32:28It's our choices that define who we are.
32:31Whatever it is you're going through,
32:33don't give up.
32:36[dramatic music]
32:39♪
32:51- When I woke up,
32:53I remember not opening my eyes immediately
32:56because I could tell that Brian Mitchell
32:59was in the tent with me again
33:01and I wanted him to leave me alone.
33:07That didn't work so I opened my eyes
33:09and there he was
33:11and he had a metal cable
33:13that he was wrapping around my ankle.
33:19I was begging him. I was like,
33:21"Please, don't put this on. I promise I won't run,"
33:23even though I had every intention
33:25of running away that night.
33:29I remember just saying, "Well, I won't run."
33:30He's like, "I know you won't.
33:31I'm just putting this on.
33:33Just in case,
33:35remove temptation."
33:39After he chained me up
33:41and I was looking around at the camp
33:42and I looked at how well-prepared it was
33:45and how well thought out everything was
33:48and I very quickly realized that
33:50he didn't have plans to kill me,
33:51that he was gonna keep me alive.
33:55He wanted to keep me as a possession.
33:58And I was like,
34:00"How long is it gonna be like this?
34:01What if it's until they die?"
34:05I felt like being chained up just--
34:08it was like insult to injury.
34:12I don't know. It was devastating.
34:22- I mean, I went over in my mind
34:24time and time again,
34:25"Why, why, why?
34:29Why would anyone ever want
34:31to take Elizabeth?"
34:33- Any place that--that they could have stashed
34:35a body or a weapon.
34:39- I needed to be strong
34:42in front of my children.
34:43But at nighttime, then I could let all that go
34:46and cry myself,
34:49not to sleep but cry all night long.
34:54- The initial information that I got was this is a...
34:57pretty sheltered child that, you know,
34:59she has music in her life,
35:00she has her church in her life,
35:02she has school in her life and her family.
35:04And my first thought was
35:05this is gonna be a cake walk.
35:07We've got a much more limited pool of suspects
35:09on this particular young lady
35:11than we would normally have in some of these.
35:13Initially, I was relatively confident
35:15we would have it resolved in a few days.
35:17- I remember, uh, Tom coming and--
35:19and saying that we needed to go in front of the public
35:22to plead our case to have volunteers come out
35:25and help search for Elizabeth the next day.
35:27- Ed's brother Tom worked for the Desert News
35:30and he was familiar with media
35:33and we just felt blessed to have him
35:35and that he could navigate the way for us.
35:40- I spent a lot of time with Ed
35:42trying to get the word out
35:44to newspapers and to...
35:47the news stations.
35:48One of the things that I thought I could do
35:50was get her photos out there, get it on the internet,
35:53get it to the news stations,
35:55but they would not allow us to release
35:57anything for three hours.
35:59Three hours, sixty-five percent of the people
36:01are killed in a situation like that.
36:03- The latest on a developing story
36:05and it involves every parent's worst nightmare.
36:07Authorities in Salt Lake City, Utah
36:10say 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart
36:12was taken from her bedroom
36:14in the middle of the night.
36:15- Elizabeth, if you're out there,
36:18we're doing everything we possibly can to help you.
36:22We love you.
36:23We want you to come home safely to us.
36:27- We had every major
36:30newscaster morning show that you can think of
36:33doing live feeds and stuff like that.
36:35And it was important to get Ed and Lois out there.
36:38And we did get them out there that first morning.
36:41- We just can't even fathom
36:44who it is or why they took her.
36:47- It's painful if you see any of it
36:49how devastated they were.
36:50- We can't believe that it's really happened.
36:55- We know exactly what areas to cover.
36:56- We go straight right here
36:58and then go left on the main road.
37:00- So anybody who has a car,
37:02raise your hand.
37:03- There's a hospital near our home,
37:05it's called the Shriners Hospital
37:07and that's kind of where the search headquarters were.
37:09- That next morning,
37:10we got there about 6:00 or 6:30
37:12and there were people that were already showing up.
37:15- Location of Smart.
37:17- The line just kept growing bigger and bigger and bigger.
37:19By the end of that day,
37:21there was, uh, over 2,000 or so
37:23that had come to do the search.
37:25- Put that down right there.
37:27- Family members would walk out of the doors
37:30of the search center
37:32and just see the waves
37:34of volunteers who come.
37:37And it wasn't one type of volunteer.
37:39There was a biker,
37:41a housewife, a businessman,
37:43students.
37:45- Some of the kids from the neighborhood came down
37:48and wanted to give us this, uh, this poster
37:51that, uh, a bunch of the neighborhood kids had signed.
37:54It was so overwhelming at times
37:56that we'd have to turn around and walk back
37:59into the search center and try to gain composure
38:02of how overcome we were by--
38:06by the efforts of the volunteers.
38:10[dramatic music]
38:13♪
38:18- That first day, um,
38:22I-I remember crying so much
38:25and Barzee is looking at me and being like,
38:27"Oh, you should be happy. It's your wedding day."
38:30She's like, "But if you're gonna--
38:32if you're gonna cry then take today to cry
38:35because you can't cry anymore after."
38:40That didn't really happen though.
38:42I cried for a long time afterwards.
38:46Even though I had been raped,
38:47I was still very protective over my body.
38:50And I remember just begging him to leave me alone
38:54and to not touch me ever again.
38:56And he--and he'd say things like,
38:57"Well, we're man and wife.
38:59That's what man and wife do. They have sex.
39:01And it's important that you engage
39:03in all parts of a relationship
39:06between man and wife."
39:07And I remember just begging and begging and telling him,
39:10just, I'd do whatever he wanted
39:12just not that.
39:14He went ahead and raped me yet again.
39:18And there was just nothing I could do about it.
39:21I mean, I couldn't run away.
39:22I couldn't fight him off.
39:23I already tried.
39:25He was bigger, he was stronger.
39:28There's just nothing that I could do
39:30until it was done.
39:33He was the master,
39:35I was the slave.
39:37That was the real lesson of the day.
39:39[dramatic music]
39:52- So far, some 39 hours
39:53after the disappearance and kidnapping
39:55of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart...
39:57- I absolutely know that
40:00Elizabeth is still alive.
40:01- I think that what is really important tonight
40:04is the candlelight vigil, the prayer vigil.
40:08- I mean that first week,
40:09I felt like I didn't sleep at all.
40:12And you just--
40:16you just can't turn yourself off.
40:19It's just impossible
40:20because you just keep on thinking,
40:24"What can I do? What should I be doing?
40:26What's going to bring her home?"
40:27And that just does not stop
40:29along with worrying about,
40:31you know, what she's going through.
40:34You know, is anyone caring for--
40:38I mean, it's just-- it's horrific.
40:42- We had to kind of decide between us
40:46that one of us would--
40:47would be there for the family and the children
40:50and try to do the day-to-day, um, living
40:54that had to be done
40:55and then one of us would go
40:57and do the press conferences
40:59and meet with the media
41:01because we knew that it was very, very important
41:04to keep her face out in the public's eye.
41:07It finally caught up with him
41:09and, you know, he just had a breakdown.
41:16- It was about three days.
41:19Just one night, I just, um,
41:22couldn't get control of myself.
41:25And I was crying and shaking.
41:28And my dad came over and said,
41:30"Ed, if you just can't do this,
41:32I'm gonna take and commit you."
41:34And so he did.
41:36He put me in the hospital and, you know,
41:38I think they tried to sedate me there.
41:40And all night long, I was,
41:44you know, the basket case.
41:50- I didn't even know it happened.
41:51I was meeting in the morning with the--
41:54with the morning shows saying that
41:55Edward would be out soon
41:57and then I went up to Ed's house
41:58and they said, "No, Ed's in the hospital.
42:00He was taken to the hospital in the middle of the night."
42:02- I wanna ask you about Elizabeth's father
42:03because I understand he collapsed.
42:05- Edward literally hasn't had any sleep for three days.
42:08He wanted to be here very badly.
42:10- Couldn't sleep, couldn't think,
42:12couldn't do anything.
42:14The following morning, I, uh,
42:18uh, my bishop came over,
42:20he and my dad gave me a blessing.
42:22And in there was this reassurance that
42:26I needed to go home
42:27and be--be there.
42:30I needed to be the father
42:32and I needed to do the things
42:35that, um, are expected of me.
42:39And, um, and I got up and I went home.
42:48- It was probably the third day
42:51that I--that I was held captive.
42:57We were sitting and...
43:00he was talking and talking
43:02and talking as usual.
43:03And he stopped talking for a minute and all of a sudden,
43:07I remember hearing my name...
43:09being yelled.
43:12I felt like I recognized the voice.
43:14I felt like there's a familiar voice.
43:16I felt it was like the voice of my Uncle Dave.
43:18Um, I mean, it just sounded like someone I know.
43:21And maybe it wasn't but--
43:25but I felt like it was.
43:27And then I heard my name being called again.
43:31And I remember being so excited thinking,
43:33"They're gonna find me, they're gonna find me.
43:34That it's gonna be okay."
43:37When he said that he'd kill me
43:38and he'd kill anyone who came into the camp
43:41I mean, I knew I wasn't gonna scream out.
43:46But I couldn't stop hoping and then--
43:49and then I didn't hear the voice again.
43:51And I didn't hear a voice ever again after that.
43:55And that was pretty disheartening for me
43:58because they were so close.
44:01I mean, I could hear them.
44:03And then I never heard them again.
44:09- I remember going in early Saturday morning
44:12to see how Ed and Lois were doing.
44:14And when I came in,
44:15there was a law enforcement officer
44:17at the bottom of the stairs
44:19and they asked if Ed and Lois were up.
44:20And I said yeah.
44:21I remember seeing Lois
44:23was staring out, uh, their bedroom window
44:27looking out over the city and...
44:33you could see
44:36the anguish on her face
44:38just kind of a blank stare out in the city
44:41and she asked--asked me if, you know,
44:44"Where is she?
44:46What, uh, what's being done to find her?"
44:49And I told her that she had to come to the search center
44:52and see this huge effort that would--
44:55it would help give her hope.
44:57- We appreciate so much what you've done.
44:58It's so overwhelming to see.
45:02They told me that people were here
45:04but this is overwhelming.
45:06Thank you. I feel your love.
45:08I appreciate it.
45:09I know we're gonna find her.
45:10Thank you.
45:12- We had over what, 10,000 people that
45:15came out and helped in searches.
45:17And I felt the reason they did that
45:19was because they looked at Elizabeth
45:20as being their daughter.
45:22You know, "This could've been my daughter."
45:24- And they would hug me and, you know,
45:26try to console me by saying,
45:28"Oh, we'll--we'll get her. We'll find her.
45:29You know, she's not far."
45:33And that brought somewhat peace to me
45:36knowing that I wasn't the only one
45:38that wanted her back
45:39or I wasn't the only one
45:41that was looking for her.
45:43- I don't know anything but...
45:45- I love you. - I love you too.
45:47- At a point, she became everybody's girl.
45:57- Further down to where
45:59Dry Canyon leads to Shoreline Trail.
46:01- When you think of bloodhounds
46:03and helicopters and search person,
46:06you just think,
46:07"Well, surely someone would find you."
46:09I mean, we had walked the whole way,
46:11surely a dog would be able to just
46:13follow our scent right into our camp.
46:15And I remember helicopters being right over where--
46:18where our camp was hidden.
46:25And the helicopter felt like it was right above us
46:27and the trees we're blowing down
46:28and the tarp was shaking,
46:30and the tent was being blown down.
46:37I just kept waiting for guys
46:39to jump out of the helicopter and rappel,
46:40be in their full body gear
46:42and come and rescue me,
46:43yet that never happened.
46:47When I no longer heard
46:49the helicopters flying overhead,
46:52it was disheartening
46:54because it made me feel like
46:56maybe people had given up,
46:57maybe they weren't looking for me anymore,
47:01that I had just become old news,
47:03and nobody cared anymore.
47:11- Okay. Next, we turn to the latest
47:13on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping.
47:15Police confirming they have taken
47:1612 computers from the family.
47:18- We hope they do their job and--
47:20and if that means we come under scrutiny then--
47:23then so be it.
47:24- Police eye relatives in probe.
47:27- All of a sudden,
47:29there's a story in the Salt Lake Tribune
47:31that it looks like it's an inside deal.
47:34- It looks as though the screen was cut
47:35from the inside.
47:37- And it also said that there had been a family member
47:40who had not passed his polygraph.
47:42- That's according to police sources
47:44quoted by The Tribune.
47:45- You have to have sleep or you can't function
47:47and you'll just break down.
47:48Maybe one brother doesn't like another brother,
47:51you--don't get me wrong in that.
47:53This family is... - We love each other.
47:55- We love each other... - We love each other.
47:56- ...more than any brothers possibly could.
47:58In my case, I went for five days without sleep
48:00and then I was polygraphed
48:02and there's no way you're gonna get anything
48:04other than inconclusive after five days of no sleep
48:06when you're hearing things. I can guarantee it.
48:09- I've had many innocent people
48:11fail polygraphs.
48:13And especially in cases that involves
48:16kidnappings or child homicides.
48:20There's an awful lot of innocent family members
48:23that show up guilty on a polygraph
48:25because they feel guilty,
48:27they think that there's something
48:28they should've done better
48:30that would've protected their child,
48:31then their child wouldn't be missing
48:33or their child wouldn't be dead.
48:34- It lasted seven hours and...
48:39I was inconclusive.
48:40- It was like getting gutted basically.
48:44- All of the family
48:46and the extended family, we would looked at them.
48:48We'd looked at their credit card, their travel--
48:50and we'd looked at computer hard drives
48:52and we'd found nothing to implicate
48:54those family members.
48:55Although there were still elements
48:57who kind of still thought it was gonna come back to that.
49:01In that particular case,
49:02the way that that was leaked,
49:04what we had was had some people
49:05that were trying to, um,
49:08probably push forward their theory in the investigation.
49:12- The family's disappointed by today's
49:13Salt Lake Tribune article
49:15which is highly speculative
49:17and implies it's unusual to investigate
49:19the family in this type of case.
49:21Investigating the family is common practice.
49:24- Things just turned on the family really bad at that time.
49:28- One of the reasons he targeted me
49:30was because I was LDS,
49:32was because I was Mormon
49:34and he knew what the Mormon beliefs were
49:37and so he knew how I would feel about them
49:39and so...
49:42he would introduce some new punishment or torture
49:46because of what I believed in.
49:52The first time he ever brought alcohol
49:54back to the camp,
49:56I abstained for religious reasons
50:00but he'd say, you know,
50:01Christ sunk below all things,
50:03you know, he was out among the sinners,
50:05he was blessing them,
50:06do you think you're better than he is?
50:09I kept refusing and kept refusing
50:11and he said well, I'm not gonna let you sleep either.
50:13I'm not gonna let you have water,
50:14you can't have any of this food
50:15until you drink this wine.
50:17And I just had this tiny little sip
50:19and he said no, you have to drink the whole cup.
50:24But then he poured another cup and he said
50:26okay, now you have to drink this one as well.
50:29And so that's what he'd do, he'd have me drink
50:31and then he'd rape me.
50:33I was there for him
50:35to do whatever he wanted to do.
50:38- Joining us this morning from Salt Lake City,
50:40Elizabeth Smart's father, Edward Smart
50:42and her uncle, David Frank.
50:44Do you have anything new, anything hopeful?
50:46- I'm unaware of any new,
50:47you know, really conclusive leads.
50:52- One of our first priorities
50:54was getting a list of all the people
50:56that, um, worked at the Smart residence.
51:00- We had somewhere in the neighborhood
51:01of 60 contractors
51:03who had worked on that Christiana House.
51:06- Richard Ricci, um, was one of the people
51:07that was given to us on the list
51:09as having worked around the house.
51:10- He was a handyman in the house,
51:12uh, he was familiar with the kids in the house.
51:15- He had a long history of drug abuse.
51:17I mean, Richard was a career con.
51:20I think he had probably spent more of his adult life
51:22in jail than out of jail.
51:24- Ricci behind bars of the Salt Lake County Jail
51:26on a parole violation...
51:28- We did feel like he must've had something to do with it
51:31because it was not beneath him
51:33to steal from us.
51:34- I mean, stolen jewelry
51:36and different artifacts from,
51:37you know, my parents' home.
51:38- He did this late at night
51:41coming around the bed,
51:42the whole MO,
51:43it looked very, very compelling.
51:46- First, I was shocked he was out of prison
51:49but then I was shocked that he was actually
51:51working in this house.
51:52He shot at a cop during a pharmacy burglary,
51:55he's a dangerous, bad guy
51:58and that's sort of how he came into play
52:00so prominently.
52:12- In the first weeks
52:14of my enslavement,
52:16my captivity,
52:17there wasn't anything for me to do
52:18except having to sit there
52:20and listen to Mitchell
52:22talk nonstop
52:25about how he was gonna go out
52:27and kidnap seven young girls
52:29and we'd all be his wives
52:31and would all come to accept him and love him
52:34and I just would remember thinking,
52:36"What the hell are you thinking?"
52:43There's no way I'll ever think that way about you.
52:49Do you--do you have any idea
52:51how much you've taken from me?
52:53Do you have any idea
52:55what you've done to me?
53:02- Tonight is exactly four weeks
53:04since an unknown gunman entered the bedroom
53:07of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart
53:09and stole her into the night.
53:11Police and FBI agents hauled off two full bags
53:14from the home of former Smart family handyman,
53:17Richard Ricci.
53:20- There was a lot of work that was done on Richard Ricci,
53:23including finally having him take a polygraph,
53:26which he passed.
53:27- So his wife Angela had said that, uh,
53:29he was at home sleeping all night next to her.
53:32- I love my husband, I believe in him.
53:34- Ricci had an alibi and he passed the polygraph,
53:36that was good enough for me,
53:38plus more importantly,
53:40there wasn't any evidence he did it.
53:43- One of the problems is Richard started lying
53:45about a lot of things that were easily caught
53:48and the more lies that he did,
53:50then the more people started
53:52to jump to that conclusion
53:53well, he must be hiding something.
53:55- I'm representing Mr. Ricci
53:56here this morning, [indistinct]
53:58- I mean, I remember sitting in the courtroom
54:01as Ricci was brought in
54:03trying to think,
54:05"Could you really have taken her?"
54:07- Richard Ricci... - We were watching the news.
54:10A flash came up on the scene
54:12about Richard Ricci.
54:14- I was in my parents' room when I saw it
54:16and I said that I didn't think it was him,
54:18that it's not Richard Ricci.
54:20- Mary Catherine pointed to him and said
54:24it wasn't Richard Ricci.
54:27- His wife says Ricci was at home in bed
54:29the night of Elizabeth Smart's abduction.
54:32- You know, that's the best I can do there,
54:34he was in bed with me.
54:38- From the beginning, my captors told me
54:42that I wasn't gonna be allowed to speak
54:44about my family, my parents, my siblings,
54:47my life prior to the moment
54:50that he kidnapped me.
54:52He spoke about where his mother lived,
54:56as he spoke about that area
54:58I recognized and realized that that's where my cousin lived
55:01and I naively said,
55:04"Oh, my cousin,
55:06my--like, my best friend,
55:07she just lives like a block away from your mom."
55:11And, like, this was the first time
55:13that Mitchell didn't get mad at me
55:15about speaking about my family.
55:17A couple days later,
55:20he comes and he's like
55:21oh, I received revelation
55:23and you're not gonna like it.
55:25The Lord has commanded me to go forth
55:28and plunder your cousin Olivia
55:31to be wife number two.
55:33And...
55:36I just--I felt like I'd betrayed my family
55:40and I remember the day came
55:43and as he got ready,
55:45he pulled out the knife that he had kidnapped me with
55:48and he held it up to me and he said,
55:50"Do you recognize this?"
55:53And then he left.
55:54[dramatic music]
56:04- That night, I woke up
56:07to the lights on,
56:09lots of commotion and chaos
56:11and just with my--
56:14with hearing my dad on the phone
56:15with the police and hearing him say the words
56:19someone just tried to break into our house
56:21and we're related to Elizabeth Smart.
56:26And then kind of hearing the story from my parents
56:30about him cutting the window screen,
56:33trying to get in and...
56:35luckily we had picture frames across our window sill.
56:39As he pushed in, it knocked the picture frames off
56:43and that noise woke up my sister
56:47who was actually in the bedroom at that time
56:50and scared him away.
56:52That was my bedroom too but...
56:54ever since Elizabeth had been taken,
56:58we all slept in my parents' room on the floor
57:00and I think that was one of the first few nights
57:03that my sister decided to go back to the room.
57:06- The way I found out about the break-in
57:09was very disturbing. I mean, I heard it from
57:12um, Olivia's father, Steve Wright,
57:15and he said they were trying to come in
57:18through the back window,
57:19there was a chair up against the wall,
57:22you know, the exact MO.
57:25I immediately called my friends
57:27at the Salt Lake Police Department.
57:29Did any of them know about it? No.
57:32They, uh, came and took a look at it
57:35and, you know, they kind of brushed it off
57:36as being a potential copycat.
57:38- It just couldn't have been coincidence
57:40that it was someone else.
57:41It had to have been him.
57:43- It was kind of...
57:46shoved off and dismissed.
57:48- No eyewitnesses, no fingerprints,
57:51no DNA left at the scene,
57:53there was just no information to follow up on.
57:55- I believed it was either a sick joke
57:58or it was the same guy.
57:59- It was obvious that it wasn't Ricci
58:01because Ricci was in custody.
58:03- So what do you know about the kidnapping?
58:05- I don't. - Charles,
58:07Elizabeth's older brother, said...
58:09I think Elizabeth might be alive.
58:11If somebody's breaking into the Wright's house,
58:13maybe she's alive.
58:15- To a lot of us,
58:17we looked at that as
58:19Elizabeth is still alive,
58:20it gave us hope.
58:23It made us want to even
58:25search harder to try to find her.
58:37- I spent more than six weeks
58:40tethered to the trees,
58:44six weeks having a steel cable
58:46wrapped around my ankle,
58:49six weeks of never moving
58:52more than a few feet
58:54beyond the center of the camp.
59:03Mitchell and Barzee had had a huge fight.
59:06She was mad that we'd been left alone,
59:09that he was able to eat and drink
59:12and then we were left up there with nothing.
59:14She just said that she wasn't
59:16gonna stay up in camp any longer.
59:19He wasn't gonna leave me at camp
59:21even though there would have been
59:23no way for me to get through a metal cable.
59:25He's like well, you're gonna have to wear a veil
59:27and you can't speak
59:29and if you say anything,
59:30if you do anything,
59:33I'll kill you,
59:34I'll kill your family.
59:36As we were headed down,
59:38I was actually really surprised
59:40at how far away we actually were from Salt Lake,
59:43how far of a hike it really was.
59:46People that passed us,
59:48they looked away really quick.
59:49They just pretended like they didn't see us
59:52and I remember thinking,
59:53"Why aren't you looking at me?"
59:57We started making regular trips
59:59down to Salt Lake
1:00:01even though...
1:00:03the places we went to
1:00:05were places I'd driven by
1:00:08or gone inside before,
1:00:10it still didn't feel like it was my world.
1:00:14One of the grocery stores that we went into,
1:00:16the cashier,
1:00:18he's like oh, there's a big party tonight
1:00:20and I remember we headed over to this party
1:00:24and I'd never been
1:00:26to a party like this before.
1:00:30- You just don't figure that somebody
1:00:33who's been kidnapped
1:00:35is going to come in to the house
1:00:38and have a drink with you.
1:00:41- It was a China Blue Party too,
1:00:42this is an alternate scene.
1:00:44Uh, we were, uh...
1:00:46quite the, uh, active, uh,
1:00:49performance art collective here.
1:00:52- Salt Lake's a funny place,
1:00:54you're either Mormon or you're not.
1:00:57And so the counterculture
1:00:59is very strong,
1:01:01really strong here.
1:01:03That particular party had
1:01:05a lot of different elements,
1:01:08college kids, punk scene,
1:01:09and then the usual riffraff.
1:01:11And fire dancers in the backyard.
1:01:17- We are in the backyard watching the fire spinners
1:01:20and these three people walked in through the back.
1:01:23- I remember just being there
1:01:25with Mitchell and Barzee
1:01:28and being just as scared
1:01:30of the people that I was surrounded by
1:01:32as I was of my captors.
1:01:35- And the man was really aggressive
1:01:37right from the beginning.
1:01:38He immediately was someone
1:01:40who drew all the attention to him and--
1:01:43and had to be managed.
1:01:44- He bummed a beer
1:01:46and I turned him onto my, uh, bootleg,
1:01:49homemade absinthe.
1:01:51- He carried the glass jar around
1:01:53and he kept taking big drinks of it
1:01:56and he eventually--
1:01:58someone else was like hey, you're drinking it all,
1:02:00so they took it away from him.
1:02:02- He was trying to get more and more agitated
1:02:04while being more and more obnoxious.
1:02:07I said get the prophet the hell out of the house
1:02:10because the punks were on his ass.
1:02:12- This other woman just came up
1:02:14and grabbed him and said
1:02:15you need to leave, right now.
1:02:17- Elizabeth didn't say anything,
1:02:20she was just quiet.
1:02:23I do recall telling her specifically
1:02:26to ditch David.
1:02:28I'm like this guy's an ass,
1:02:30get away, he--he is--
1:02:33he's trouble.
1:02:35Elizabeth just seemed scared and lost.
1:02:40I felt bad for her
1:02:42but I didn't feel it was my position to, uh,
1:02:47to do anything
1:02:48but advise her to leave.
1:02:51I would apologize to her if I saw her,
1:02:55that I--that I didn't recognize
1:02:57the pain she was in,
1:02:59that I didn't...
1:03:03take action,
1:03:05the whole thing was really sad.
1:03:13Sorry.
1:03:15It's just--
1:03:20I have a daughter,
1:03:23I have family, I have friends,
1:03:26I can't believe this kind of stuff happens. I...
1:03:33- I started to wonder,
1:03:35will I ever be rescued?
1:03:39Maybe I don't.
1:03:42And maybe I die.
1:03:46[dramatic music]
1:03:49- We were sitting at a table in the library
1:03:52when the homicide detective approached us.
1:03:56I mean, here's a detective like
1:03:58feet away from me,
1:03:59he's just right there,
1:04:01this is it, I'm gonna be rescued.
1:04:03- I remember hearing
1:04:05they think they found a body
1:04:07or they think they found the place
1:04:08where she was decapitated.
1:04:11- I'm just thinking after everything that's happened,
1:04:14I'm gonna die of starvation,
1:04:16I'm gonna die of thirst.
1:04:19- I will never forget my older brother Tom
1:04:21coming to me and saying Ed, you know, she might--
1:04:24she might still be alive
1:04:25and I said yeah.
1:04:27I-I think so.

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