# Elizabeth Smart found alive!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952 "2003-03-12T22:17:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/1 "2003-03-12T22:17:59Z")
It’s on the news…I can’t find a link yet…both the AP, ABC, and Fox News are reporting this…she was found in Salt Lake City…
Thank God.
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### Author:  [@mmm.forbidden\_doughnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmm.forbidden_doughnut)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/2 "2003-03-12T22:21:16Z")
Yes, thank you, God.
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### Author:  [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/3 "2003-03-12T22:21:25Z")
NO WAY!
Holy crap, is that amazing!
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/4 "2003-03-12T22:23:16Z")
Really? Her parents must be overjoyed, to put it mildly!
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/5 "2003-03-12T22:23:17Z")
her parents must be over the top!!! i can’t believe it. this is the most amazing news.
they announced on cnn that there will be a news conf. in utah at 7pm eastern.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/6 "2003-03-12T22:23:37Z")
She’s been missing since June 2002…I think they have some homeless man in custody, and there was another girl found with her…
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/7 "2003-03-12T22:23:42Z")
I’m stunned, but in a good way. I can’t imagine how happy her parents must be. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/8 "2003-03-12T22:25:13Z")
There’s a “Breaking News” banner on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) saying details to come. It’s unbelievable!
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/9 "2003-03-12T22:26:05Z")
That is amazing. I never expected that she would be found after all this time-- especially alive! Wow!
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### Author:  [@Grim\_Beaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Beaker)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/10 "2003-03-12T22:26:45Z")
The whole office is buzzing over this bit of news. Why can’t I get any info damnit!?!
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/11 "2003-03-12T22:28:40Z")
It’s being reported that they found her at a traffic stop, in the car of the drifter that did work in her home.
I wonder if it’s the same guy they were looking for previously…
Brian David Mitchell, known as Emanuel, was turned in by two different tips called in to police. I’m listening to the live press conference…
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/12 "2003-03-12T22:29:22Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \*
> \*\*There’s a “Breaking News” banner on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) saying details to come. It’s unbelievable! \*\*
They’re all saying that…Fox News, Drudge Report.
She was in the car of a drifter who was pulled over in Salt Lake.
WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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### Author:  [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/13 "2003-03-12T22:30:01Z")
Wow. That is just amazing.
Totally amazing.
I want to know where she’s been and what was happening.
Thank God she is alive.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/14 "2003-03-12T22:31:12Z")
Goosebumps.
goosebumps.
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/15 "2003-03-12T22:31:48Z")
[Incredible!](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20030312/ap_on_re_us/elizabeth_smart_5)
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/16 "2003-03-12T22:32:35Z")
It’s not the other homeless guy they were looking for previously. they found that guy along time ago and cleared him. It’s obviously not that guy who died in jail either, although the media had him tried and convicted already…
An uncle on Fox News just said they think she was abducted by a religious sect…
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/17 "2003-03-12T22:32:48Z")
That’s a freakin’ miracle! YAY!!!
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### Author:  [@gus28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gus28)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/18 "2003-03-12T22:34:59Z")
It is so damn nice to see some good news for a change.
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/19 "2003-03-12T22:35:49Z")
Thanks for the link, koeeoaddi.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-smart-found-alive/160952/20 "2003-03-12T22:35:52Z")
Yahooooooo!!
Good news, good news!
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