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March 17, 2003 Abducted Girl's Relatives Say Her Captor Brainwashed HerBy NICK MADIGAN ALT LAKE CITY, March 16 — With prosecutors expected to file charges soon against a nomadic homeless couple in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart, her family waged a concerted effort today to portray her as having been incapable of escape during months of wandering streets and canyons almost within sight of her home. Responding to increasingly direct questions about what happened to Elizabeth, now 15, after she was taken at knifepoint from her bed on June 5, relatives attending a church service this morning took pains...

Larry King is interviewing ex-wife, daughter, step-daughter and son of "Emmanuel".

MARCH 14--Claiming that he was a "minister for the Lord" living with his "wife and daughter," the man suspected of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart last month told a California judge that his February 12 arrest for vandalizing a San Diego church "was the worst night and the worst week of my whole life." Brian David Mitchell, the 49-year-old drifter who allegedly held the Utah teenager captive for nine months, claimed that, "for the first time in 22 years I got drunk that night and...the whole night was just a nightmare." Mitchell compared his one-week incarceration to "like, uh, Jonah getting...

I have been really wrong twice in my career. Once because of my faith; once because of my cynicism. Ironically, both times it involved girls kidnapped from their homes. Years ago it was a 3-year-old named Kali. Yesterday it was a 15-year-old named Elizabeth. Years ago I looked into a liar’s face and believed him. Yesterday I read a father’s words and didn’t believe them. Yet the miracle happened. And a nation rejoices. In yesterday morning’s “Salt Lake Tribune” there was an article about Ed Smart. The father of Elizabeth Smart, abducted from her home some nine months ago, he...

A woman unknowingly snapped a picture of the three here in Lakeside California. She just thought it looked so odd to see this here. She called the Rick Roberts Radio show and they contacted Utah police. Also, it seems that Emmanual spent some time in our El Cajon jail for vandizing a church. Here's the picture:

Elizabeth Smart snuggles with her brother William beside her sister, Mary Katherine, at their home in Federal Heights -- nine months after she was abducted. -- Tom Smart, Deseret News After nine months of sleeping in the wilds and on the floors of strangers' homes, Elizabeth Smart crawled into her own bed to sleep Wednesday night — the same bed from which she was snatched at knife-point. "She wanted to do that," said Missy Larsen, spokeswoman for the Smart family. But before calling it a day, the 15-year-old shared hugs and jokes with her parents, siblings and extended family....

Elizabeth Smart may have been photographed at a party with transient street preacher Brian David Mitchell in Salt Lake City last September. A photo taken at the party by Dan Gorder and e-mailed to 2News shows Mitchell with two women wearing veils. One of the females may be Elizabeth. The photos were snapped three months after Smart was abducted from her home in June. She has been the focus of a massive search since that time. Smart was found with Mitchell Wednesday in Sandy. Police started looking for Mitchell after Elizabeth's sister said he might be the man who took...

Elizabeth Smart may have been photographed at a party in Salt Lake City last September with transient street preacher Brian David Mitchell. A photo taken last September at a party by Dan Gorder and e-mailed to 2News showed Brian David Mitchell and two women in veils. It reveals a picture that may be Elizabeth Smart. Smart was found with Mitchell Wednesday in Sandy. Police had been searching for Mitchell after Elizabeth’s sister said he may be the man who took the girl from her bedroom last June. Mitchell worked at the Smart home briefly before Elizabeth was taken from her...

Photos released in Smart case TV show seeks help in finding homeless man-- By Joe Bauman-- Deseret News staff writer "America's Most Wanted," the Fox network anti-crime program, has released photos and the name of a man the network says is sought for questioning concerning the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. On Feb. 3, Elizabeth's parents, Ed and Lois Smart, released a police composite sketch of a transient called Emmanuel who had worked for them about a year ago. Police said they released the sketch because 9-year-old Mary Katherine Smart, who saw the abduction, said the man looks like the person she...

Investigators are looking for a homeless handyman who worked one afternoon at the house in Salt Lake City where Elizabeth Smart, 14, was abducted. The man, Brian David Mitchell, 49, was known to the family as Emmanuel. The police said Mr. Mitchell was not a suspect and might not be Emmanuel. Elizabeth's mother, Lois Smart, met Mr. Mitchell in November 2001, when he was panhandling in downtown Salt Lake City, family members said. Following Mrs. Smart's suggestion to earn money, he did yard and roofing work one afternoon. On June 5, Elizabeth was taken at gunpoint at night. She shared...

Investigators are trying to find a homeless man who resembles the kidnapper of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, according to her younger sister. A MAN KNOWN to the Smarts as “Emmanuel” has been identified as Brian David Mitchell, police Detective Dwayne Baird said Tuesday. The family said he worked on their roof and did yard work in November 2001. Police have been looking for the man since October when Elizabeth’s younger sister, the sole witness in the June 5 disappearance, told her parents she thought Emmanuel could have been the kidnapper. They were able to identify Emmanuel as Mitchell when the man’s...

01/11/2003 By SUSAN WYATT / KING5.com KIRKLAND, Wash. – The nationwide search for a missing teenage girl from Utah comes to Western Washington after a note is found that says she's now living in the Kirkland area. Police are now trying to figure out if the note is a hoax or a genuine tip. The King County Sheriff’s Dept. obtained a note indicating that Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted from her Salt Lake City home last June, is in the Kirkland area. Police are now trying to figure out if this is a hoax or a genuine tip. Explorer Scouts...

KING: All right, let's talk about the Elizabeth Smart case, which the media has kind of left now. What is your best read on that tragedy in Utah? WALSH: I spent yesterday by coincidence with Ed and Lois Smart. I had them on "The John Walsh Show" to kind of give an update to the case. You know, Ricci, the guy that was the main suspect, died in prison of an aneurysm. He's the guy that was the handyman at the house that put 1,000 miles on his pickup truck during the two days that she was missing. He was...

Police have confirmed they are checking to see if David L. Fuller, 47, the man who apparently kidnapped and killed a Faulkner County girl, may have done the same thing to other children. Kacie Rene Woody, of the Holland area northeast of Conway, and Fuller were found dead Wednesday night in a storage unit nearly 24 hours after the girl vanished from her home. "We can't help but believe the possibility is strong that he did this on other occasions É considering the amount of time and planning that went into this crime," said Major Mark Elsinger of the Conway...

Suspension Over Elizabeth Smart Case SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A deputy district attorney was suspended after his handling of a sexual battery case came under scrutiny by Utah detectives investigating the disappearance of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart. Randy Payne, a veteran sex-crimes prosecutor in Orange County, was placed on paid administrative leave Oct. 4, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Payne was suspended after questions were raised about a plea bargain in the case of a man who is being investigated by Utah authorities for a possible connection to Smart, who disappeared from her Salt Lake City bedroom June 5....

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Friday, September 6, 2002 Ex-bishop accused of sex abuse of teen girl By Brady Snyder Deseret News staff writer A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been charged with a sex crime involving a 13-year-old girl who attended his ward. Spencer Dixon Spencer Dixon, 38, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. He was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on a $100,000 warrant Thursday morning without incident, said Salt Lake City police Sgt. Fred Louis. Dixon posted bail and was...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) --The family of missing 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart offered condolences Saturday to the widow of former handyman Richard Ricci, and said they believed police would solve their daughter's case despite his death.</p> <p>"This change in Richard's health has been shocking to us, to put it mildly, but we have great faith that this is all in God's hands," Elizabeth's aunt, Cynthia Smart Owens, said. "We are very hopeful that the change in events will facilitate other people who do have information to come forward so we can find Elizabeth."</p>