Posted on 06/05/2002 12:27:43 PM PDT by let freedom sing
Parents Were Asleep In Bedroom
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.
pretty sick, angry people-- really need more attention to detail-- we can know why they do it, but that doesn't help much.
Since he had to go off clean pathways to enter by the window, his shoes were probably dirty and left a tale of meanderings on the carpet/floors. It's a large, irregularly shaped house with 8 people living in it. Even if he'd been in there before, possibly as one of the workman doing the remodeling, he might still get lost, especially in the dark.
The other thing I am wondering .. this is an upscale neighborhood
Did they have an alarm and if so did they normally turn it on?? Because if the they .. why didn't the alarm go off when the guy broke into the house??
Consider how long he would have had to stay there while Elizabeth changed clothes. Could be he was just wanted to get out of there fast, before one or both of the girls broke down and started making noise. He may have had a change of clothes for her in a nearby vehicle.
Or you may be right.
So am I because the other scenarios don't look good
I think I can help you out with that. The girls didn't sleep in the kitchen and, as another more detailed article posted on this thread has made clear, the intruder came through a kitchen window.
No, no. No need to thank me...
I heard something chilling once. That there are from 40 to 50 serial killers at any one time in the US! Horrors...
I have no strong opinion on this. I wouldn't have thought it possible until a few years ago, but know better now. I am surprised that nobody has referenced the disappearance and murder in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago. A 13 year old girl disappeared, and her body was discovered. It turns out that she had been meeting men in online chat rooms, and meeting them for various kinds of kinky sex. It was like the 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' story, but with a 13 year old, not Diane Keaton. (That story was based on a true story itself.)
Never underestimate the intelligence of kids navigating on the computer, and the lengths pedophiles will go to stalk out kids on the internet.
vaudine
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