Elizabeth Smart
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from down in Salt Lake back to this hidden campsite, and he'd show them to me, and he'd be like, oh, all of Salt Lake is covered in blue ribbons and light blue balloons, and these missing flyers are on every tree and every telephone pole and in the windows of every house and every shop, every grocery store.
They're everywhere, but no one will ever find you
And everything he did just seemed to confirm that.
I mean, I remember at one point hearing my name actually being called as searchers were out searching for me.
And I mean, he was holding on to me and he had his knife in his hand and he said, "'It'll be your fault if anyone comes into this camp "'cause not only will you die, "'but you will first watch me kill "'whoever enters into this camp.'"
And I mean, he had his knife right there, the same knife that he had kidnapped me with.
I mean, it felt very real.
And I knew he was capable of evil because I had cried and I had begged and I had pleaded with him to not rape me, you know, to not make me go naked, to not...
forced me to do things I didn't want to do.
And just none of it had ever affected him.
So I knew he was capable of evil.
And I knew that he would do whatever he had to do to protect what he wanted.
And so to me, that was pretty clear that he absolutely would follow through with killing someone who came into...
came across the campsite or who came to try to rescue me.
And I mean, he'd always circle back once again to religion and he'd say, well, you know, God is protecting us.
They won't find us.
I mean, I remember there were helicopters.
Sometimes they would fly so low over the tent where I was held captive in that I thought they know we're here.
They know we're here.