WOO HOO! Elizabeth Smart Found!

[EricBu12]

Elizabeth smart, kidnapped 9 months ago is found in Salt Lake city alive and well!



She was taken and had gone to 3 other places and then came back and 2 passers by recognized one of the suspects and called the police. so good turn out.

 

[parcher]

I was one of the cynics who thought the worst. . boy am I glad to be wrong!

 

[me4osu]

It is difficult not to think the worst. Only 2% of child abductions end with the child returned safely. Thank GOD she is alive.

 

[TURBOs4LIFE]

I still think there is something weird with this story.

 

[loncray]

Elizabeth Smart

I agree - something's hinky here. It's hard to keep a teenage girl that quiet for that long - either they kept her locked up almost the entire time, or she wasn't being held completely against her will. I hope it's the locked-up version; the idea that she might've been partially complicit in this is kinda nasty.

 

[illflem]

She reportedly wouldn't tell the police her real name when first brought in and expressed joy in the lifestyle that her new "family" offered. She wasn't always locked up, if at all, as she was seen in disguise several times in SLC. My feeling is she wanted to be away from her old family. Some people involved think she might want to go back to her new family except that they're locked up.

Maybe it was more fun than her other life?



Years ago a 14 year old girl in my town was "abducted" by her school counselor to become his third wife in Utah. Two years later when she was returned against her will she was only home a few weeks before running away back to Utah to never be seen again.

 

[RedRam1]

I'm with you Ioncray, something's fishy here. Seems to me, all she would have to do was wait until they were in any moderately public place, jerk off the wig she apparently wore, and yell "I'm Elizabeth Smart". Everyone in the world has heard of her; a dozen guy would have been all over that scumbag and his old lady in a heartbeat.



I also read where she said that one of the two dirtbags was with her at all times. I'm not sure about the guy, but from the photo's of everyone involved, I'd give Elizabeth about 100:1 odds against the old lady in a footrace. Just does not sound like it was totally against her will.

 

[Forrest]

& all the times she was out in public, she never had the chance to make a break for it to an officer?



WAG ... but i think it could be an overly oppressive religous family thing. i've personally seen it with the religion in this issue.

 

[ddesau]

Smart

A big problem with kidnap victims is after awhile they begin to identify with their kidnappers - even supporting them - often happens with Hostage victims also - called the Stockholm Syndrome. . It would appear that they did some brainwashing on the girl- and she just started identifying with them - has to do with survival. . Truly amazing that she was found - never though it would end that way. Also it didn't help that the Police focused on the other guy that died. . The family pushed the issue with the suspect...



Something of a miracle that she was found . .