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A security guard at a hospital near the Smarts' home said today that police may have let a potential clue in the disappearance go unexamined for eight days, but a spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Department denied the accusation.
Fred Trujillo, a security guard at a hospital just blocks from the Smarts' home, told ABCNEWS that on the night of the alleged abduction he reported a suspicious car to police.
It is unusual to see any car in the parking lot of the hospital in the middle of the night, Trujillo said, and the incident was all the more unusual because the driver seemed to want to conceal the vehicle, which he said was a white or silver sedan.
The driver turned off the lights when he pulled into the parking lot and pulled up behind trees, as though hoping to avoid being seen, the guard said.
When the car left the parking lot, it headed in the direction of the neighborhood where the Smarts live, Trujillo said.
"The time they say Elizabeth was abducted, somewhere between 1 and 2 a.m., I saw the vehicle going up toward Federal Heights," Trujillo said.
He said investigators failed to follow up on the report until eight days after Elizabeth Smart disappeared from her bedroom, taken, according to her younger sister, by a man armed with a gun.
Trujillo said he called 911 when he first saw the car in the parking lot of the Shriners' Hospital, and when he heard of the kidnapping he called police again to tell them that he had a security camera videotape of the vehicle.
Police collected the tape, but returned eight days later to ask if they could watch it on hospital equipment, because they did not have a machine that was compatible with the tape, Trujillo said.
Salt Lake City police spokesman Sgt. Fred Louis denied the security guard's claim and told ABCNEWS.com that investigators looked at the tape the day Elizabeth disappeared and they did not find anything significant on it.
Police did return to the hospital later, as Trujillo claimed, to view it on the hospital's equipment, but again found nothing they considered useful to the investigation, Louis said.