Seriously, I was reading an early article today on the case and it was mentioned that the kitchen window screen had not only been cut but that the window itself had been jimmied to the extent that the entire window had to be replaced. Is this an established fact or just rickety journalism?
Earlier this week, Elizabeth's father acknowledged that he hadn't turned on the home's alarm system that night.I "I grew up in this neighborhood," Edward Smart said. "I was never one for locking doors or windows. I went down and locked all of the doors on the basement and the main floors."
But the man suspected of abducting Elizabeth cut through a screen in the kitchen and pried open the window to crawl in. After taking her at gunpoint from her bed, the kidnapper allowed Elizabeth to put on a pair of white, canvas Polo brand shoes, police said.
Interesting. Sounds like she often went running in pre-dawn hours. Also, the brand of the canvas shoes is different in this earlier story.