[stlnative]

A New Day - A New Thread... Please keep adding 6/23/02 dated updates to this thread... Remember to keep checking back to this thread today for today's developing news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping.

[John Jamieson]

I don't need the gory details, but what is the jest of the NE article. I can't find it anywhere.

[stlnative]

Ping for 6/23/02 - Day 18 - Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Daily/Chat Thread - New updates on the case will be added to this thread as they come in today. This will be your only PING from me today.

[Partisan Hack]

I just gor back from Salt Lake. There is a WILD rumor floating around town that the father staged the kidnapping so that he could receive the ransom. Aparently, Elizabeth's father is not exactly well regarded in the community.

[stlnative]

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News/Chat Thread - Day 17

[TheDon]

Looks like we have a disrupter on board this thread, see Partisan Hack. I guess everyone needs a hobby...sigh...

[Pistacio]

Edmunds cooperating with car search...my title

[goody2shooz]

When children go missing like this, for some parents it must feel like they've just disappeared from the surface of the earth.I'm sure that the police are doing all that they can to find this girl. But sometimes there is very little in the way of clues. And the waiting is excruciating.

[Carolina]

Elizabeth Ping!

Brigette, would you add them to your ping list.

Thanks.

[VaBthang4]

Listen you guys.

I understand that we have all seen the news about this story and have even commented on it in different threads, but creating a daily thread for a girl being kidnapped is rediculous.

There thousands of Children that are missing every year in this country. Why is it that many of you are following this one? Because you keep your face in the News too much.

Focusing in on one situation and harping on it, simply because the mainstream media does is pretty lame. We are by and large, conservatives who shouldnt get caught up in the hype.

We're all concerned for any child that is kidnapped but this is no longer about us commenting on the news as much as it is just plain vanity.

It smacks of Jon Benet Ramsay and OJ Simpson civil trial or the Condit nonsense as well as the other kind of stories we were focused on while Muslim terrorists were here preparing themselves to bring down the World Trade Center, Pentagon and White House and in doing so kill thousands of Americans.

I dont mean to imply that we are to not hear anything else but "Terrorism Terrorism Terrorism" but be real you guys.

We are currently involved in a War. Thousand of people have been killed so far and I am sure that thousands more will die in the days weeks and months to come. Harping on this story to the point of creating a daily thread is just nonsense.

Some of the people here have surrounded themselves with this story....get a grip.

[janetgreen]

I'm confused about something. I may have missed it, but does anyone know how the time of abduction (1AM) was determined? Did the little sister look at the clock, or was 1AM a guess?

[timestax]

Let's just quit talking about this...police tell us lies, parents are lying ,etc. Who cares!!

[The people have spoken]

Thanks for organizing the daily thread.

One minor quibble: June 5, the day of the kidnapping, was Day 1. June 6 was Day 2, etc. Therefore June 23, today, is Day 19, not 18.