[Grig]

"Police said they released the sketch because 9-year-old Mary Katherine Smart, who saw the abduction, said the man looks like the person she saw take Elizabeth from their bedroom last June."

When was the sketch made? It sounds like the police were sitting on this sketch since June or July until now. They said all along they had a good description from the sister and the full co-operation of the family so what was the hold up?

[Palladin]

I believe the sketch of Mitchell was made recently by the SLPD working with Ed Smart. This is not to be confused with the sketch made by Jean Boylan working with Mary Katherine Smart.

Mary Katherine told her parents recently that she remembered who the voice of the abductor sounded like, and it was the roofer/itinerant preacher, Mitchell.

[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."