[stlnative]

Sorry folks I don't have Jolly's Ping List... but I do have my own. Maybe Jolly will pop in and send a ping to people on his list.

[trussell]

Ping

[SheLion]

brigette! So sorry. But could you remove me from the ping list? I have so much going on in here. So sorry.....

SheLion

[cookiedough]

http://www.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/special/science/snakes.htm

Snake warning article on KSL's website. Apparently the snakes love the drought conditions in Utah.

Another venomous snake in Utah is the nightsnake.

[cookiedough]

Maybe this will turn out to be a simple case. A person familiar with the neighborhood comes into a house at night, walks upstairs to the bedrooms, finds one with girls in it, and takes one of the girls. Rapes and kills her. Hides the body. Elizabeth selected because she awakened, or by pure chance. No ransom required because money was not the motive. No associates required.

Kind of like the Runnion case, except in the middle of the night, with no witnesses to see him or the car.

Maybe the perp got lucky and found an unlocked door at the Smart house. Knowledge of the where the bedrooms are doesn't require a floor plan -- just go upstairs, in virtually any house of more than one story. It doesn't take much effort to watch the comings and going of a large family, to discover whether they have girls.

Maybe it was a crime of opportunity and Elizabeth and her family weren't specifically targeted because of anything notable about them.