Elizebeth Smart. What do you think happened?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here`s a chance for conspiracy theorists or those with wandering minds to offer up something other than what we know so far.

I have a feeling something fishy was going on but I can`t put my finger on it. Just a feeling. I think something will come out in the near future that will shock us, but I have no idea what it is.

Let me say that Im glad as heck that they found her. Im a father of four and I would not wish that on any parents. I just am not comfortable with the story as it stands now.

Others?

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I think there’s something fishy as well… I’m amazed that over several months and through a few cities she couldn’t once get ahold of somebody.

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I have a theory, but it makes people yell at me, so I’m keeping it to myself. It ain’t pretty.

Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.

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Thats what were here for. Do tell !!

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Ok, I’ll bite. I think that as a young girl, she was easy for the guy to convince that she was supposed to run off with him. He strikes me as one of those charismatics who can convince people to do very strange things.

I think he convinced her that she was specially chosen to be part of his cult or whatever, so she was afraid to alert authorities.

or not.
:smiley:

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Hey ** GearLube **, howr they hangin?

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about like this I think :

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I think that something was going on in the family that may have caused Liz not to want to come back home so soon.

She should have had many opportunities to get away from her kidnappers. I cant imagine why she didnt run when she had the chance. Poor girl.

Who brings these types of people into their home when you have children anyway?

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I would imagine Mitchell fed her some story about how she was a burden to her parents, they didn’t want her, they paid him to come take her away. That’s what Steven Staynor’s (sp?) kidnapper told him.

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Was Steve the same age as Liz?

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Good for you Babe. Enjoy them while you can.

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Yes, it seems fishy to me.

But I’m thinking the Stockholm Syndrome was a factor here.

She is young, and even those of us who grow up to be resistant to these kinds of things might not have been resistant when we were young.

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It occurs to me that even those of us who THINK we would be resistant to the “Stockholm Syndrome” don’t really know we could withstand it…until we had to deal with it.

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I don’t know. If I was a kidnapper, I’d explain very calmly that one of my buddies also kidnapped someone else you love, and if you so much as look at someone wrong on the street or try to run, your love one gets it. Might not work in her case, because she probably saw at least some form of media to disprove this. Or you could always kidnap another kid and pray on her sense of duty – tell her if SHE runs away the kid gets it. Might work.

Hey, I’m only morbid when I want to make a story out of it, ok :wink:

/Shadez

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No conspiracy here folks, just a sheltered little rich girl taken from her home at knifepoint (possibly gunpoint), threatened with physical harm, probably threated in every other way, family, sexually, religiously, etc. Brainwashed, mentaly abused, probably physically abused. I

f this were an adult we were talking about, I’d call BS. But we’re talking about a kid here. An innocent sheltered kid from a family of blissfully religeous non-streetwise people (A lesson for you folks, the sign reads “Will work for food” - it can be translated “Crazy, gimme 6 pack”)

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I can’t imagine the trauma that anyone, especially a child/young adolescent, would undergo if kidnapped. Perhaps she was simply so terrified that she didn’t dare try to get away.

Also, we mustn’t forget that the kid wasn’t snatched off the street; she was taken from her home. That means that at least one kidnapper (if there was, indeed, more than one) knew where to find her immediate family. I’m willing to bet that even if no one explicitly warned, “Don’t even think about trying to get away - I know where your little sister sleeps at night”, the unspoken threat was in her mind.

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I think that is possibly a bit harsh, **NurseCarmen **.

…maybe it would be a bit better not to generalize? I realize that in a lot of cases this is true, but there are a lot of really good people who are homeless through no overt fault of their own. NOT all of them are crazy.

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Scotticher, I lay dollars to donuts that over 90 percent of those folks you see at highway exits holding the “Will work for food” signs are just looking for a handout that’ll give them that next drink. I am in no way condemning the homeless. The homeless have plenty of legitimate avenues for work and betterment. Pathetic drunks and loonies end up holding cardboard signs at freeway exits.

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Yeah, something fishy was going on. Here’s my far-fetched theory: she was kidnapped by the media in order to create non-9/11 news … and now that everybody is sick of hearing about the War With Iraq, they released her to make news. Sounds like something those slimeballs would do.

*disclaimer - I know I’m just being bitter with this theory, but in all seriousness, it really pisses me off that one missing girl gets so much national news, while the hundreds of other missing children (who do not meet all 4 of the criteria of being white, female, cute and wealthy) barely make third act local news. *

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I’ve read and heard many people asking “what were those people thinking when they brought a homeless person to their home to work on the roof, especially since they have small children at home”.

Let me preface this by saying I still think of Utah as “my” home and I miss it VERY much! I burst into tears the other night when one of the TV anchorwomen from KSL in SLC came on the screen. Watching shots of SLC all day had been hard, but that was the straw that broke my back and the homesickness came flowing out. So, I’m not saying this to badmouth Utah or Utahans as I considered myself one for abt 25 years (and still do since I am not a Californian at heart and have no where else to call home), but more as a way to make it more understandable for ya’ll.

People leave front doors unlocked all the time. They leave cars unlocked… they even leave the keys in the ignition. People go for a walk, alone, late at night without thinking twice about it. And the thing that was most disturbing to me, they leave their children outside playing without supervision.

The mindset in all of Utah, not just the small cities, but Salt Lake City too, is that those things just don’t happen here. They don’t even think about someone breaking into their house, or stealing or car or kidnapping, etc.

Another thing that happens a whole lot in Utah is helping those who are in need of help…so I can clearly see how the Smarts would think hiring a homeless man for some day labor would fit in with helping someone in need of assistance.

As someone who was abused as a child I can guarantee you that if they said anything to her that would even suggest they might hurt her loved ones, she wouldn’t say or do a thing to help herself but rather go along with them to protect her family. One threat is all it takes for you to keep your mouth shut. Afterall, they had already kidnapped her, what was stopping her from believing that they couldn’t and wouldn’t harm another member of her family?

I don’t want to try to guess what might have happened to her. I’m having a hard enough time right now with my little girl being so sick. Some of my experiences as to things that could have happened to her would be to much for me to handle right now. Ric had to go out of town until tomorrow night so I can’t fall apart right now.

I’m just going to rejoice that Elizabeth is home, pray that she’ll be strong enough to overcome the things she has experienced and hope that this expierence will help in getting the nationwide Amber Alert system in place.

There’s my 2 cents…carry on :cool: