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To: Kip Lange
Here is where I got some of my information.

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Elizabeth Smart Well Hidden In Mitchell’s Mountain Hideout

The camp where Elizabeth Smart was held for months

The structure was well hidden and designed to be nearly invisible from the air even with high-tech detection equipment.
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Apr 4, 2003 5:49 pm US/Mountain

For weeks Elizabeth Smart was held in a camp in the mountains about three miles from her home. You've seen the view from the air, now we want to show you what this area looks like from ground.

Rod Decker hiked to the makeshift hideout where Elizabeth spent all that time.

What you can tell from the lean-to is that Brian Mitchell put a lot of work and planning into his alleged scheme to kidnap Elizabeth Smart.

The lean-to is dug into the mountainside and covered with brush. You can see the trees all around and you can see the brush on the roof. The lean-to is hard to spot until you're right on top of it.

To start with, Mitchell dug a trench in the hillside about six feet deep. He put up posts to hold the roof. He wrapped the feet of his posts in plastic and duct tape to keep them from rotting. He made careful cuts in the uprights to fit them to his roof beams. He used smaller branches for roofing.

On top of the roof, he put several layers of plastic sheeting and then a plastic ground cloth to keep it dry.

Even Friday with the melting snow, it was dry inside. It's not too comfortable. I don't think I'd want to spend more than a day in here, Decker said.

Elizabeth Smart was kept here weeks, at times; her leg was chained to one of the poles.

Helicopters flew over these canyons searching with infrared equipment. Mitchell and the two women were dug into the ground with a roof over them, so the their body heat didn't show up.

Food and building materials had to be carried in and a nearby spring supplied water.

Searchers came up the canyon. Elizabeth Smart thought she heard their voices. But she was chained in the hideout, 150 yards up that gulch and they couldn't see her for the trees.

Officials suspect the structure took weeks to build, and was carefully designed to avoid detection. It explains how she was so close, yet was never spotted by hundreds of searchers.

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So do you read story like this and assume that Elizabeth ran away and set this whole thing up?

631 posted on 04/18/2003 5:55:05 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
How many times do I need to say this: I AM SPECULATING. The story reeks. Here, look at a quote from your own OLD news source, which I read when it was new.

Officials suspect the structure took weeks to build, and was carefully designed to avoid detection. It explains how she was so close, yet was never spotted by hundreds of searchers.

I would add it CONVENIENTLY explains why she was so close yet never spotted. Was it soundproofed as well? So a street bum knows how to build a shack that will withstand thermal imagery, eh? Interesting. Very convenient, too.

And even in the own news story you reference:

What you can tell from the lean-to is that Brian Mitchell put a lot of work and planning into his alleged scheme to kidnap Elizabeth Smart.

Maybe you need to look up "alleged", too?

Needless to say, have I ever said she didn't hide out in a shack? No. I just think she RAN AWAY to the shack. Of her own volition. And I said I *think*. I don't know. Neither does this article, since it doesn't address that issue.

Did you ever hear me say Mitchell is NOT a slimebag?

My gut says this story reeks. No, I don't read stories like this and think, "Oh, this reeks." I listened to the Smart's press conferences and read the transcripts later in detail. THAT's what reeks.

Truly, this is a "wonderful story", indeed, how could I find a comment like that out of place...

You haven't answered my question. Why are you so defensive when I am admitting I am simply speculating? :-)

Now, I have to go do some work, so I guess you'll just have to wait for someone else to come along who doesn't believe that Ed Smart walks on water to get all this pent-up defensive anger outta yerself. ;-)

The story reeks. Stinks. To high heaven. It is *rotten*. This is speculation by me. All I ask is that you consider my opinion, and, if you disagree, do so respectfully, as I have been TRYING to do with you.

You really do sound like a liberal. You won't open your mind a crack; you seem to merely want to provoke me into some sort of emotional response. It's not going to happen. Throw whatever touchy-feely pieces you want at me: THE STORY STILL STINKS. Do I have hard facts to back it up? No, and I must have said this fifteen thousand times at this point.

Do you work for the U.N. or something? ;-)

Anyway, like I said, I gotta run, but it has been a pleasure watching you refuse to exchange views with me, and I'm sure you'll find someone else you can stomp, yell, screech at and generally flame soon.

Again...I just wonder why you're so defensive about this. Methinks you doth protest a bit too much. Which makes me even more suspicious of your motives on this thread.

Have a good day. It's been completely unenlightening, but very silly, and I've gotten more than a few chuckles out of your thrashing about. :-) Keep at it, it's fun to watch.

633 posted on 04/18/2003 6:16:01 AM PDT by Kip Lange (The Khaki Pants of Freedom)
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