Elizabeth Smart case, August 13, 2002

Is it an "invalid assumption" that young children look to their parents in times of distress, even in the middle of the night? No.

MK, I'm telling you, JG, did not wait any long length of time to run to her parents' bedroom. Fall back to sleep? I doubt that.

Ed & Lois got up, searched everywhere in the house, then Lois saw the window screen & screamed. No barrier, sounds do carry in the still of the night, JG. They can sound as if they are coming from another direction, too.

Don't tell me Ed & Lois wouldn't have asked MK, "What did he look like, what did he say, which way did they go?" And MK would have answered. She might have even said, "It was ____!"

Over these weeks, we have learned that the perp did NOT threaten MK! She knew he had not seen her looking at them. Keep that thought in mind & you'll see why there was no need for her to wait 2 hours! (I wonder which brain came up with that feeble excuse?)

This is not anything like the Klauss case, where the girls were tied up & told to wait before getting loose. No one, even MK's age, would find any benefit in waiting 2 or so hours - & that subject has been explored on these threads.

LE's, & the Smarts', lies, distortions, contraditions have triggered disbelief. Anything they say from now on, will be compared to other statements.

I don't know if these threads are petering out or if I've been cut from ping lists, but this thread was the most recent on my self-search. Anyway. One of the tabs. . The Globe, i think. (Maybe TNE?) has a small item this weekend reporting that a cousin of Elizabeth Smart, whose name I forget but may have been Shirlkey KJnight, was the victim of an attempted kidnapping in late July. Her screen was cut, and the intruder fled when she woke up and started screaming.

I hope this was informative and vague enough for everyone.

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