[Palladin]

From the Deseret News:

The search for Mitchell began after Mary Katherine Smart, the only known witness to her sister's kidnapping, remembered the roofer a few months ago. She told her father, who had a composite drawing done with a Salt Lake City police sketch artist. The drawing was later shown on "America's Most Wanted."
"The issue is the hair. She remembered his hair being combed back or slicked back," Ed Smart said of Mary Katherine's recollection of the man.
Mary Katherine has seen pictures of Mitchell since his name was brought to the attention of authorities but Ed Smart would only say, "She doesn't know if it's him. She thinks it still might be him."
Mitchell, or "Emmanuel," met the Smarts while he was panhandling in between Crossroads Mall and ZCMI downtown. Lois Smart asked him if he needed work and invited him to her Federal Heights house. It was a practice that wasn't uncommon for the Smart family. Ed Smart said he would regularly go to Travelers Aid Society to hire people to work at his house as a way to help the homeless. Though he said his attitude toward that practice has changed, at the time "I didn't feel I was putting my family at risk," he said.
The next day the man, who said his only other occupation was preaching to the homeless, raked leaves and did some work on the Smarts' roof for five hours. That was the last time the Smart family ever saw the man, though Smart said his sister believes she saw Mitchell at the Kinkos store near the University of Utah asking for money on the day Elizabeth was kidnapped.
Although Smart said he cannot completely discount Richard Ricci, another former handyman who worked for the family, as a suspect, anything is possible.
"I don't know. I really don't know. I'm anxious for (Mitchell) to come forward and talk to (police)," he said. "If there is something (to Mitchell) then great, if not then we're back to square one."

[Palladin]

John Walsh seems to be hot on the trail of Mitchell. Did you see the repeat of the AMW show on him last week? Sure is a creepy-looking dude, esp. when decked out in his white robes. AMW showed several different photos this time...Mitchell is like a chameleon...he looks different in every photo. Do any of you have other pics to add to this thread?

[cricket]

"Though he said his attitude toward that practice has changed, at the time "I didn't feel I was putting my family at risk," he said."

. . .hope more than his attitude has changed. . .

That said, how does a poor, 'homeless' couple travel around with a child as a prisoner without someone knowing.

[Devil_Anse]

"Smart said his sister believes she saw Mitchell at the Kinko's store near the University of Utah asking for money on the day Elizabeth was kidnapped."--Deseret News.

How does Ed's sister know what the guy who worked on Ed's roof and raked leaves, for one day only, looked like? Was she at the house when the man was doing work there?

There has never been any mention of this Emmanuel guy having a vehicle. It almost sounds as though he doesn't have one, b/c if he did, chances are he'd be easier to find through license records. How could anyone have gotten Elizabeth out of the area without a vehicle, what with all the uproar?