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Please keep adding 6/24/02 dated Elizabeth Smart updates to this thread... Remember to keep checking back to this thread today fortoday's developing news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping. Some people may consider today to be actually day 20, I count 1 day for each 24 hours that have passed since Elizabeth was kidnapped. Links Suspect being held by FBI in Smart case in SLC - 6/23/02 10pmElizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 18Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 17

Salt Lake City authorities trying to solve the kidnapping case of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart were able to glean "helpful" information from a young drifter hospitalized in West Virginia, police said on Sunday. But Bret Michael Edmunds, who was the subject of a nationwide search before he turned up at City Hospital in Martinsburg last week, is still not considered a suspect after undergoing two days of questioning in an intensive care unit guarded by U.S. marshals. "At this time, he's still a witness. All along, that's all we wanted to talk to him about," said Salt Lake City Police Sgt....

After eight days of searching...investigators think they're getting -closer to the kidnapper of 14 year old Elizabeth Smart. Tonight... Eyewitness News has learned police have one more strong -reason to talk to this man...Bret Edmunds... Police confirm they -spotted Edmunds at the -candlelight vigil Sunday night in which hundreds of people rallied for hope for Elizabeth. Yesterday, police announced they wanted to talk to 26 year old Bret Michael Edmunds... a transient... living in his car... who was spotted in the neighborhood of the Smart home. Now police tell Eyewitness News, they saw him Sunday night, at a place where...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) --Salt Lake City police have been flooded with tips and possible leads about a man wanted for questioning in the disappearance of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, a police spokesman said Thursday.</p> <p>The man was identified Wednesday as Bret Michael Edmunds, 26. Police are not calling him a suspect, but they said he was seen in Elizabeth's upscale Federal Heights neighborhood days before the June 5 kidnapping.</p>

June 22, 2002 - Late Evening Report MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) _ A hospitalized drifter sought for questioning in the disappearance of a teenager in Utah was alert and talking with investigators Saturday. Bret Michael Edmunds, 26, was cooperating with investigators, said FBI spokesman Kevin Eaton. Salt Lake City police sought Edmunds for questioning in connection with the disappearance of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her family's home June 5. Wanted for QuestioningBret Michael Edmunds 6"2' 235 lbs. 1997 green Saturn Considered Dangerous "He's talking to us. He's not telling us, 'go away, I want a lawyer,"' Eaton said. But investigators won't...

Saturday, June 22, 2002 Police fly to W.Virginia to question EdmundsSearchers returning to Draper area after dogs pick up scentBy Brady SnyderDeseret News staff writer      A Salt Lake police detective and an FBI agent were en route Friday night to West Virginia to interview Bret Michael Edmunds — a man they hope can give them clues in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart. Maren Laurence, 10, plays the harp Friday at the Arts Festival trying to raise money for the Elizabeth Smart Search Fund. Laura Seitz, Deseret News       Boarding a Delta Air Lines jet at 5:08...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) --  The drifter wanted for questioning in the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was caught Friday at a West Virginia hospital after checking himself in under a fake name with drug-related liver damage.</p> <p>The capture of Bret Edmunds, 26, shed no immediate light on the June 5 abduction and police said again that he is not a suspect. But authorities said they were looking forward to talking with him and searching his car.</p>