[freedox]

Thanks for posting this article, UG, but your highlighting does not resolve the issue. sandude made two assertions about the article:

"There was a lengthy article in the Tribune or Deseret News which refuted this. It states that LE was on the scene before any neighbor arrived and that the Smarts called police before anyone else."

"If you read the whole article it states that police arrived on the scene whithin 12 minutes of the first call and that no neighbors were present."

Neither of these statements is supported by what is stated in the article, with the exception of Suann Adams' statement. In this article, the police are accepting full responsibility for what happened to the crime scene AFTER their arrival......they neither can nor do they accept responsibility for what happened BEFORE they got there. Nowhere in the article do the police retract their previous reports of neighbors being present in the home when they arrived on the scene.

[Utah Girl]

The police arrived twelve minutes after the phone call. I tend to believe Sueann Adams, she hasn't been lying, and her statement jibes with what she has said from the very beginning. Her name wasn't used in initial reports to the media, all I ever heard was a neighbor who got dressed and was the first one over there, and the police were already there.