VAN SUSTEREN: All right. We're going to take a quick break. David and Angela, stand by. We're going to be right back.
We continue with more on the search for Elizabeth Smart. We're back with Richard Ricci's wife, Angela, and his attorney, David Smith.
Angela, how long have you been married to your husband?
RICCI: Since February 14th, Valentine's Day, this year.
VAN SUSTEREN: How long have you known your husband?
RICCI: Oh, about a year and a half.
VAN SUSTEREN: Where'd you meet him?
RICCI: Through my brother.
KING: All right, now let's help us, Ed, to understand something with regard to young Catherine in all of this.
Initially police said that she was threatened by the kidnapper, and that's why she didn't immediately tell you. They now say the abductor didn't speak at all or even realize that she'd seen him. The kidnapper said to -- that Mary Catherine got out of bed soon after, and then did not head to her parents' room, but retreated in fear when she thought the man -- or saw the man still in the house.
What -- can you get us up to date on what that aspect of the story is?
E. SMART: You know, I really can't go into the details, other than, you know, if you were in a room experiencing -- if somebody was threatening your sister, what would you do? I mean, would you get up, would you stay in bed? What would you do?
That's the only thing that I can even think of.
And, you know, Mary Catherine has been incredibly strong through this whole ordeal. And, you know, we have not asked her questions.Sorry, but this does not compute with me. Why wouldn't you sit with your daughter and ask her what happened? You are the people she loves and trusts more than anyone in the world. This is hard to believe. We -- you know, we don't want to have -- see any more scars on her than what was initially put there by this perpetrator.So the reason for not asking her any questions, is they don't want any more scars on her than what was initially put there by this perp? Please, for you parents here on this board...do you belive this?
And we just -- you know, we've tried so hard to, you know, keep our children out of the limelight just so that they could maintain some kind of sense of innocence or a normal life-trend.
I mean, we're not really public people. When I say that, we don't like to be in the limelight. We never would have, in our wildest dreams, ever have thought that this would happen.
And so we just feel a tremendous need not to put any pressure on Mary Catherine.It is one thing to keep MK sheltered from the press, and out of the public view, that I agree with. But to imply that by them, the parents to not ask her ANYTHING because it would put pressure on her, is to me a calculated story in front of a national audience of people who sincerely care about what happened to this beautiful girl.
KING: Well Lois, can we say then that the initial stories about the kidnapper threatening her were wrong?
E. SMART: You know, it's easy to me to perceive that there's a threat there. And, you know, the rest of it's really in the hands of the police and what they've talked to her. We just -- we really try to stay away from it as much as possible.
KING: How then is she, Lois? How is this 9-year-old?
L. SMART: She is doing remarkably well. She has a lot of family -- cousins, aunts and uncles -- who have rallied around her and the other children. They do fun things that help her, try to take her mind off what has happened.
She's doing very well. She has a little dog now that follows her around.
KING: Is she still in school, or is school out for the summer?
L. SMART: No. School is out for the summer.
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This is one of the reasons why I have alot of trouble with the little information we have. Every time they speak..it is not coherent. This has nothing to do with HATING the Smarts. It has everything to do with pointing out that many have problems in this country following this, when there are so many things said that just don't make sense. It sounds like a purposfull runaround.