Another question is what did the Smart parents KNOW when they made the first call? Getting all the facts out of a traumatized 9-year-old wouldn't have been an instantaneous process, and once they realized Elizabeth really was missing, they wouldn't have waited to have a careful talk with MK before calling police. Perfectly normal to call police in a panic, yell "my daughter's missing, and I think she may have been kidnapped!", and then go try to get more out of little MK, who was probably sobbing uncontrollably at the sight of her panicked parents. Who knows when the parents heard about the gun or the threat or the stopover in the bathroom or the fact that the voice sounded familiar?
Who knows when the parents heard about the gun or the threat or the stopover in the bathroom or the fact that the voice sounded familiar? I agree with most of your post, but we can't know that. Common sense tells us that a little 9 yr. old, who by description of family members on t.v. interviews and Jeanie Boylan, say she is a very mature, intelligent, gifted child, and I am sure she was traumatized if in fact E. was taken at gunpoint.I do, however, with that description, believe if that happened, she told her parents right then and there. But I have no way to state that as fact. Just my thought of how I hope it would have happened.
If I am not mistaken, the next day it was told that she was taken at gunpoint, and the threat of killing E. was there. Sometime that night, MK told her parents.
Or did she?