Posted on 06/05/2002 11:36:20 AM PDT by Barbie Doll
Utah Girl Kidnapped From Room At Gunpoint Parents Were Asleep In Bedroom Posted: 2:04 p.m. EDT June 5, 2002 Updated: 2:26 p.m. EDT June 5, 2002
SALT LAKE CITY -- A gunman forced his way into a house and abducted a 14-year-old girl Wednesday while her parents slept in their bedroom, police said.
Police said the man also threatened Elizabeth Smart's 9-year-old sister and said he would harm the teen if her sister said anything. The two girls share a bedroom in the home in the affluent Federal Heights neighborhood.
Her sister waited several hours before alerting her parents because of the threat, said Duane Baird, a Salt Lake City police spokesman.
"A two-hour window gives anyone the opportunity to be away from this area," Baird said.
Searchers began looking for clues before dawn Wednesday.
Elizabeth was abducted at about 2 a.m. on June 5, 2002. The abductor is described as a white male, with dark hair and wearing a white jacket and a white baseball cap. Elizabeth was wearing red pajamas, and he let her take a pair of shoes, police said.
The sister told police that the soft-spoken man got into the house by forcing open a window and had a small black handgun.
There was no indication that the man knew Elizabeth, police said. He didn't call the teen by name and didn't appear to know his way around the house, the sister told police.
No other neighbors reported anything suspicious during the night, Baird said.
This is AWFULLY fishy.
Smells like the girl ran away and the 9 year old sister is covering for her, or something similarly odd.
If there had been a lot of shouting matches between daughter and parents prior to this disappearance, kurfew violations and the like, then it may be a lovers' pact. I would rather it be a setup, as the other scenario is too horrible to contemplate.
But I agree this doesn't pass the smell test. I'd like to know more about her relationship with her parents and THEIR connections before I'd take a flyer at guessing what happened.
Leni
This is typical behaviour among this crime group; that 9 year old sister is beside herself, you can bet the farm on it! Just talk to experts in this field.
Donning flame-retardant suit)You came remarkably close with this early assessment ...This is AWFULLY fishy.
Smells like the girl ran away and the 9 year old sister is covering for her, or something similarly odd.
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