Elizabeth Smart

I mean, it was boring.

It made me think, will people remember me?

Will I just become another name from the past that sounds familiar, that nobody really knows how they know that name?

Or maybe they remember what happened, but they just give up hope.

I mean, because unfortunately, you know, those first 48 hours are critical.

And the sooner, you know, the sooner you can be organized, the sooner you can get the word out, the sooner you can be out searching, using available resources, the better chance you have of bringing that victim home alive.

And I mean, that's why we're doing what we're doing.

And I mean, I remember when I was in college, I saw this.

It was an article in our college news in the campus newspaper.

And I remember thinking, wow.

Why do they have to do this?

Why do they have to drag me into this?

But it was actually talking about, you know, why did my case receive so much attention and other cases just simply did not.

And what it boiled down to was that I was white.

I had blonde hair.

I looked pretty.

My parents, you know, we had a nice home.

We came from a nice neighborhood.

My parents were well-connected.

And that's basically what it boiled down to.