The Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping: The Untold Truth

***** In the days immediately following the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, I told the Salt Lake City police who had taken her and where they could find her. *****

The ability to time travel has many implications with regard to terrorism, crime, politics, war, weather, health, etc.

(Note: The following is a TRUE and ACCURATE account of events as they actually occurred.)

There are some rather disturbing details about the Elizabeth Smart case that nobody will ever hear about because somebody wants to keep them a secret. As for myself, I have spent many months over the past several years trying to get this information to the right people with little success. Contrary to what has been said publicly, the following are the real facts in this case.

To begin with, I knew details about the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in the early morning on June 5, 2002, not because I’m a psychic but because I was THERE when it happened. You see, I’m what you would call a time traveler, so I saw everything that happened before, during and after her kidnapping. And this was the information that I was then able to give to the police. What they would decide to do with that information was, of course, entirely up to them.

Most readers will recall the ensuing media frenzy that occurred almost around the clock following Smart’s disappearance and which lasted for many weeks. The media blitz involved everyone from the police to her family pleading for her safe return and asking the public for any information on her whereabouts. Twelve days after her disappearance, I finally called the Salt Lake City police department.

Detective Coates was on the other end of the tip line that morning that had been set up specifically in response to the kidnapping of Smart. We had a rather long conversation that lasted about 20 minutes, during which I described her abduction in detail, gave a physical description of the kidnapper, described his relationship to the victim and her family, and indicated Smart’s condition and whereabouts.

In short, I told the detective who had taken her and where she was.

Of course, the detective wanted to know how I had come by my information. So, the first question he asked me was if I was a psychic. I told him that he could think of me sort of like a psychic if he wished. Our conversation immediately proceeded to go downhill from there. I tried to reassure him, however, that everything I had told him about Smart’s disappearance and where she could be found was absolutely true. I only wanted to help everyone involved. However, the detective only insisted on ridiculing me: How could I possibly know anything? I lived 2000 miles away!

At the conclusion of our conversation, I asked the detective to please pass on my information to the primary investigators in the case and have someone call me because I had even more information that I wanted to share with them. However, nobody ever called me back.

Below is a detailed list of the information that I gave to Detective Coates and discussed with him at the time about the crime scene, the abductor, the victim and other miscellaneous information.

THE CRIME SCENE

Crime occurred in the middle of the night.

Abductor had gone up a flight of stairs.

He entered and exited (with the victim) using the same door.

He did not use a kitchen window (as was being reported by the news media).

THE ABDUCTOR

Physical description: White male, in his 40s, 5’8” tall.

He was known to the Smart family.

He briefly helped work on the family’s house.

THE VICTIM

Victim was alive and well.

She was in the Salt Lake City area.

There would be no ransom demand.

She was being held in sexual bondage.

OTHER INFO

Relatives of the victim were not involved.

That’s a whole lot of information! And remember, I still had more information to give the investigating team had someone bothered to call me. Obviously, this sheds a whole new light on everything. Given the fact that the police had little else to go on and assuming that the information that I had provided might possibly be of some help, the question then of how I knew what I knew about the kidnapping suddenly seems not nearly as important as what the police did or did not do with the information that I had given them. As it was, Elizabeth Smart was not found until many months later as a result.

In the end, I was a bit disappointed in the response, or lack thereof, by the Salt Lake City police, of course, but not entirely surprised since I have seen it happen many times before under totally different circumstances involving other authority figures and other incidents…but that’s another story.