#Elizabeth smart picture when found series

Hers was one of a series of high-profile abductions that dominated the news last summer, most of them ending tragically. In pictures taken by the family and released to media Thursday, Elizabeth indeed looked healthy, with rosy cheeks and the same shy smile that flashed from photos and video images across the country for months after her abduction. I don't want to traumatize her more than she's already been.' When asked whether he knew details of his daughter's experience in the past nine months, he said: 'I haven't gone there yet. 'She's well, she's healthy, she's happy,' Ed Smart said. One aunt, Heidi Smart, said one of Elizabeth's older brothers was nervous and didn't know what to say but that Elizabeth chided him by saying, 'Remember how mean you were to me that night?' That broke the ice, the aunt said. It was, according to various family members, an exhilarating, anxious, awkward reunion. As Mitchell and Barzee sat in jail, first in Sandy and later in Salt Lake City, Elizabeth was reunited with her parents and five brothers and sisters. The couples, recognizing Mitchell from police sketches, each called 911. Search dogs at the time followed Elizabeth's trail until it ended at a cul-de-sac abutting the foothills of the Wasatch National Forest.Įlizabeth was found and her abductors arrested Wednesday after two separate couples spotted the three walking down a busy street in the suburb of Sandy, about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City. The two walked out through a back door and disappeared into the night. He said Mitchell had crawled in through a window screen that he had cut open, and used a knife, not a gun as originally reported, to force Elizabeth out of the house. Smart said Mitchell had stalked his daughter, 'hiding in the bushes' behind the family home 'and watching her' in the weeks before her June 5 abduction.

The crowd rose up and applauded but minutes later was silenced by Smart's emotional account of his daughter's ordeal, saying she had gone through 'hell,' that she had been 'brainwashed' and that Mitchell was 'an animal' who had no idea what nightmare he had imposed upon the Smart family and Salt Lake City. 'It's real! It's real!' Ed Smart, the teen's father, told a crowd of supporters and media crews gathered outside the family'schurch Thursday afternoon.

Elizabeth smart picture when found