Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee charged in Elizabeth Smart abduction...

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[Maedhros]

Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and burglary in Elizabeth Smart abduction...

[Devil_Anse]

Don't listen to that fool, Utah Girl. That poster just likes to pull vicious little not-very-clever pranks.

[SarahW]

The "shoe store" girl story is here.
My favorite quote - "...he was really into sandals."

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[Yeti]

the yak ate the star.

She gets jealous and does things like that for attention. Besides, she stands higher than most yaks, so she has a big appetite. I hope you can forgive her.

Anyway, I agree that we agree about Elizabeth needing to deal with the reality she lived through. In fact, I agree with 99% of what you post anywhere on this forum, RG.

[Yeti]

C'mon, you guys! .... posters quarrelling.

Hey, at least that means we're speaking(or typing)! There are several very good posters who will not interact with me at all anymore. I guess we had the mutual misfortune to have crossed paths on one of my "bad" days :-(

If I, like Ed Smart, showed up somewhere in a nicely-pressed shirt and tie, would people be saying, 'Hmm... He showed up in a shirt and tie... Something is up...'?"

They would be right to say that about me if I were wearing a tie. Not that I am against 'em, I just rarely have occasion to wear one. I get a tie, and by the time I need it again it's outdated. If I had a media circus in front of my house, I might make a point of it, though -- just to avoid the trailer-trash thing.

Hey -- what do a tornado and a redneck divorce have in common?

[Yeti]

Hello, dumass.

LOL, I thought *I* was bad!

[Eva]

Do you have a link, I haven't read anything about her being kept in a hole in the ground. Thanks, the link that someone posted below your post doesn't mention the hole either.

[Devil_Anse]

Sooner or later, somebody's going to lose a trailer.

I'll freepmail you about the other matter.

[RGSpincich]

LOL, I get it. Glad to see everybody has maintained a sense of humor.

[Yeti]

Sooner or later, somebody's going to lose a trailer ...

Oh, so you live in the South, too ...

[RGSpincich]

I'm sorry the 1% got out of hand, I think I probably over reacted.

[sandude]

self ping

[Devil_Anse]

The air conditioning is already on!

[Yeti]

Think nothing of it. I am not the one to throw stones about something like that, RG.

You have mail.

[Devil_Anse]

I was dying laughing when I saw you posted "the yak at the star." How does that go? "The yak ate the star, the yak ate the star, heigh-ho the dairy-o, the yak ate the star!"

[Devil_Anse]

Thanks! Attractive girl--and apparently very brave, too.

She told him he was crazy, and said to go away.

Hey, I just thought of something awful. I hope she didn't have to help him try on those sandals. What must his feet have been like, after he'd lived outdoors for so long?

[Devil_Anse]

You yak sounds like Calcetines' dog. At least, she says it's a dog.

It WOULD be Calcetines who would assume this large domesticated animal was a dog, and then find out it was a yak all along.

"It did seem to like leaves. Dogs don't eat leaves very often, do they?"

[Palladin]

Rocky Urged Dinse Follow 'Emmanuel' Lead

BY MICHAEL VIGH and KEVIN CANTERA

© 2003, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Less than two weeks before Elizabeth Smart was found, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson implored his police chief to "aggressively" pursue leads that pointed to a homeless street preacher named "Immanuel" as the potential kidnapper.
Wedded to their focus on another former Smart family handyman, Richard Ricci, police were ignoring the potential lead, Anderson said in a Feb. 28 memo to Chief Rick Dinse, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through an open-records request.
"I am at a loss as to why the police department did not aggressively pursue the Emmanuel angle and why [investigators] discouraged [Elizabeth's father] Ed Smart from disclosing the possibility of Emmanuel being involved," Anderson wrote.
Immanuel -- now known to the world as Brian David Mitchell -- showed up in Sandy with the kidnapped teen 12 days later.
The mayor's memo also listed nine specific reasons why police should more closely scrutinize Mitchell who, along with his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged Tuesday with kidnapping and sexually assaulting Elizabeth, who prosecutors say was snatched from her Federal Heights home at knifepoint June 5.
"We must make certain that egos and commitments to erroneous theories do not get in the way of the resolution," Anderson wrote.


"We did respond" to the mayor's concerns, Dinse said Wednesday. "But we absolutely did not give it the emphasis that the [Smart] family wanted, and obviously in hindsight we should have."
A half dozen Elizabeth Smart-related memos sent by Anderson to Dinse between June and February were obtained Wednesday by The Tribune through the Government Records and Access Management Act (GRAMA).
In a July 4 memo to Dinse, Anderson expressed "significant concerns" over how the chief's officers were handling the Smart investigation. Anderson threatened "disciplinary action, including possible criminal prosecution," against any officer who leaked sensitive information about the Smart family to news reporters. His criticism specified coverage by the National Enquirer.
Anderson said Wednesday that he was "utterly outraged about the kinds of things that were being said about [Smart] family members . . . We found information that at least some of it was coming out of the police department."
In the July memo, Anderson threatened that "if major progress is not made soon" he would hire "new, outside, reputable investigators" to "take a fresh look at the Smart case."
But just one day earlier, Anderson had said publicly that investigators had aggressively pursued every lead. "Police have done a remarkable job," the mayor said at a July 3 news conference announcing a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction of Elizabeth's kidnapper.
In the following months, the mayor did not call for outside investigators, but continued to monitor the investigation and used the memos to pass on at least one fruitless tip.
While acknowledging that he is "not an investigator," Anderson, an attorney, wrote in the Feb. 28 memo that "I have the strong sense that the same thing is happening here [in the Smart case] that occurred" in several unsolved Salt Lake City homicides from the 1980s.
Anderson represented victims' family members in their bid to probe the Police Department's investigation.
At a Monday news conference, Anderson announced his independent panel to examine the Police Department's handling of the Smart case, as well as the three unsolved murders from the 1980s.
In creating the panel, Anderson denied he had singled out any one officer who had botched the case or spoken to reporters out of turn.
But after reporters asked Anderson if he was referring to Salt Lake City police Sgt. Don Bell, the mayor acknowledged that Bell was an investigator on all of the cases. Bell told The Tribune that he feels like the "target."
The veteran investigator said he has retained an attorney and "does not rule out a lawsuit against the mayor."
Bell also denied that he ever leaked information to the media, saying he only spoke to a single reporter during Elizabeth's nine-month ordeal. "I categorically deny that I ever leaked anything to anyone from the media.
"This is a personal attack by the mayor because he's still mad about old stuff," Bell said.
The independent panel is designed to "get to the bottom" of all unanswered questions, Anderson said. He has requested $40,000 from the City Council to pay a private investigator to collect information for the panel, which would not begin examining the Smart investigation until the case against Mitchell and Barzee has concluded.
Instead of assigning blame for unsolved cases, Dinse said he has long asked for the resources to implement a special unit designed to investigate "cold cases."
Dinse said he would need to hire more officers and be allowed to authorize overtime for the special unit to be successful.
Anderson said that after a Wednesday meeting with Dinse, he supports the idea. "I'll do everything I can to find him the resources now that I know about it," Anderson said.
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[Sherlock]

"You are the only woman that God sent us to . . . We are one, even as I am one with the Father," Mitchell said in a four-page handwritten marriage proffer to Julie Adkison dated March 1, 2001.

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Notice how Julie Adkison looks amazingly like a brunette Elizabeth Smart. I wouldn't be surprised if Barzee had much the same look in her younger days. Ted Bundy had a look and hairstyle he preferred in his victoms.

[Palladin]

Woman Rebuffed Mitchell's Proposal to Be Plural Wife

Julie Adkison says she told kidnapping suspect Brian Mitchell he was "crazy' when he proposed to her two years ago. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)
BY MICHAEL VIGH and KEVIN CANTERA
© 2003, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper Brian David Mitchell proposed marriage to a 20-year-old woman two years ago, telling her God wanted her to become his plural wife and join him and wife Wanda Barzee in the rugged foothills east of Salt Lake City.
"You are the only woman that God sent us to . . . We are one, even as I am one with the Father," Mitchell said in a four-page handwritten marriage proffer to Julie Adkison dated March 1, 2001.
Adkison, who was engaged, rebuffed his proposal, telling Mitchell he "was crazy." She met Mitchell while working in the shoe department of a store at the Fashion Place mall.
Mitchell "was always hanging around and talking about what God had talked to him about [and] he was really into sandals," she told The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday. She also was interviewed by police.
Also Monday, The Tribune learned that police, who had been unable to find Mitchell, expected to be able to interview him at April's LDS General Conference, the semi-annual gathering of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mitchell was a regular fixture among the Temple Square-area crowds, in his dingy white robe and wild beard. Police said Mitchell was reportedly at October's conference, seeking converts to his doom-and-damnation style religion. Shortly afterwards, the Smart family went to police with their suspicion that the religious zealot had snatched the girl from her bedroom.

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[Utah Girl]

From the Deseret news, at the bottom of this article Mitchell, Barzee charged in Smart case
Also on Monday, KSL TV reported that Elizabeth was able to point out to investigators during her helicopter trip Saturday exactly where Mitchell and Barzee kept her for two months in the foothills of Dry Canyon about three miles above her house.

Investigators found a shelter dug out with board on top. The wooden board would have prevented infrared cameras from the Utah Department of Public Safety's helicopter from spotting them.

A knife, a rope and other evidence was also found at the campsite, according to KSL.

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I've also read, and don't have the source right at my fingertips, that Mitchell and Barzee planned this for months, digging this hole/cave in the mountain in "preparation" for Elizabeth. Pretty sick stuff. I'll try and find the source for you tomorrow, if you would like.