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.
How can you possibly come to such a conclusion?!
Utah is the VOLUNTEER STATE.
No, that would be Tenn.
Al Sharpton didn't have a thing to do with Susan Smith killing her kids and making up a story. He didn't have anything to do with the brother and sister who recently strangled and buried their baby brother and later pretended not to know what had happened to him. I have not suggested that the 14-year-old was anything other than "innocent". It should be pretty clear what I am suggesting as a possibility. Family members sometimes murder other family members, even in Utah. And sometimes they try to cover it up.
If it happened exactly the way the little girl claimed it did, I hope they find her sister in time.
Yes, the parents had the house up for sale. Yes, they had held open houses, which would be how this person could have known where the girls bedroom was. Yes, they were remodeling the house. Which means that it could have been someone that was working on the house. However, this can easily be checked out by people who were doing the remodeling to see if someone shows up missing.
As far as the younger sister waiting hours to tell her parents, I don't understand that part. My son would have been screaming bloody murder if he had just seen his brother taken by gunpoint. The saddest part of all is that this "window of time" has given the perpetrator plenty of time to get away.
And let's not forget about the two girls in Oregan who were kidnapped in broad daylight--they still haven't found who did this. So sad.
How would this square with the kidnapper "not knowing his way around the house" as is repoted in the 2nd story? A visitor to the house would have a minimal understanding of its layout, especially if they remembered exactly where her room was. And someone working on a remodel would have a pretty detailed understanding of the homes layout. And I still want to know how they know he didnt know his way around the house.
A little slow with the grey matter and quick with the keyboard. The little sister!
Homeowners turn them off too. I seldom have mine on when we are at home. Getting up in the middle of the night, when you are not quite awake, poses a danger of tripping a false alarm -- which comes with a big fine from my city, if it doesn't give me a heart attack first.
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