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