Elizabeth Smart, alive & well

I heard that live on my local 6 oclock news. I was blown away. Finding someone alive after so much time has to be in the <10% range.
 
unclehobart said:
I heard that live on my local 6 oclock news. I was blown away. Fonding someone alive after so much time has to be in the <10% range.
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Yeah, I've hardly ever seen someone fond alive.

:retard: :p
 
That's amazing really. How many of us gave her up for dead? How many of us were certain it was that richard reesi guy who died un prison of a brain hemorrhage? Something to think about.
 
Leslie said:
so...she'd run off with him? or been brainwashed?
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I'm wondering the same thing, she was 15 miles from home, I would have thought she could have made it away sometime in the last 9 months, but who knows.
 
Lots of people go missing, it doesn't necessarily mean they're dead, just tha they don't want to be found for some reason. The fact that she was so close to home makes me think she wasn't unwilling, but who knows? :shrug:
 
She was reportedly transported to different locations around the US ,only recently returning to Utah.That fact the younger sister reported that she was removed from the house under threat of violence and after nine months hadn't changed her story ,leads me to believe it to be a genuine Kidnapping.The male who was arrested was a self-proclaimed religious figure ,so she may have been "brainwashed " into not seeking help once she was kidnapped,only time will tell:shrug:

The info being reported right now is somewhat confused,On CNN the witnesses who called police said they recognized the "male" said they never realized it was Jennifer ,on another station a reporter was saying they recognized Jennifer and called police right away. So its going to take sometime for the facts to be straight.
 
Smart family spokesman Chris Thomas said, "My understanding is that she camped a fair amount of that time. She also traveled around the country to different places. I believe Ed mentioned San Diego."

He also said that there was no way Elizabeth could have escaped because "she said she had two people with her at all times."
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from CNN

Wow, that's just amazing. You never hear happy endings anymore, it's so nice to see one for a change.

Do you know about or do you have the ALERT system where you are? We have these displays above major highways giving traffic information and last week, it said ALERT GRAY DAEWOO NJ LIC PLATE#..... and had a license plate number listed. That story had a happy ending too:

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- The man accused of abducting his 2-year-old daughter and taking her on a 26-hour odyssey was charged Monday with kidnapping, carjacking and other crimes, authorities said.

Angel M. Rivera, 26, of West Palm Beach, Fla., was expected to be arraigned Tuesday, The Record of Bergen County reported.

Saddle Brook Deputy Police Chief Robert White told the newspaper that Rivera also will face charges of assault and unlawful weapons possession.

Rivera is accused of taking his daughter from the Holiday Inn in Saddle Brook around 9:30 a.m. Friday, police said. The abduction touched off a multistate dragnet under the Amber Alert program, which uses radio broadcasts and highway message boards to alert the public about child abductions.

When Rivera's car skidded into a snow bank and became disabled, he carjacked another vehicle at gunpoint and sped away with the child, police said. He was captured the next day after police saw him leaving a home in Camden. His daughter, Angela, was found unharmed inside.

Rivera, who was arrested after a brief foot chase, remained hospitalized Monday at Cooper Hospital University Medical Center in Camden. He was being treated for a leg injury he suffered during the chase, hospital spokeswoman Sharon Clark said.

The Amber Alert system, which was activated for only the second time since being established in New Jersey in December, was a "tremendous help" in the case, State Police Lt. Al Della Fave said Monday.

Rivera told officers that one sign on an approach to the George Washington Bridge caused him to change direction and stay in New Jersey, Della Fave said.

"It gave him cause for concern, and made him believe it would be very difficult to elude capture," Della Fave said.

Rivera also faces felony drug trafficking charges in Palm Beach County, Fla., and officials there said they probably would seek extradition after Rivera answers charges in New Jersey.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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:thumbup:
 
really? I've never seen it. All I've ever seen are DOT tests that never seem to end. I've yet to see a single useful tidbit broadcast on one of those things.
 
it could be worse

WahingtonPost said:
The overwhelming majority of children abducted by strangers eventually return home safely, experts say, though very few are held as long as the nine-month ordeal of Elizabeth Smart.

About 4,600 children are abducted each year by strangers, according to Ann Scofield of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But she said most are held only briefly before being freed.

Only 100 or so abductions by strangers each year fit into more serious categories - cases in which the child is held for an extended period of time or is killed, she said.

Elizabeth Smart's abduction from her Salt Lake City home last June captured the nation's attention and, coupled with two high-profile abduction-murder cases in California, contributed to a perception that there was an epidemic of child abductions.

But experts said kidnapping by strangers has always been rare and is probably on the downswing.

Scofield said Elizabeth Smart's safe recovery, resulting in part from telephoned tips, "reflects the change that has occurred in how our nation handles child abductions."

"We are a more educated nation ... with a public more ready to participate in search and recovery," Scofield said. Nine months later, "this girl had not been lost in time," she said.

Most child abductions in the United States are the work of parents or other relatives. But experts in the field say precise statistics on child abductions are elusive, in part because different jurisdictions define the crime differently.

© 2003 The Associated Press
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