Elizabeth Smart

And so he had done that for years.

He'd done it to his face.

family when he married my other captor that was i think his third wife then he and his third wife they just fed off of each other but they had both used that tactic for years and years however i think if you look at that time period you know he saw me in like september

October maybe of 2001, right around 9-11.

I think any form of extremism people just pulled away from.

Made people very cautious.

So he had stopped wearing the robes he usually wore and he had stopped kind of pushing that facade as much.

So when my mom saw him, I mean, he was clean shaven.

He had clean clothes on.

He just kind of looked like a guy who had hit hard times.

Not necessarily like your average homeless person.

Yeah.

And he didn't even ask my mom for money straight out of the gate.

He asked her for work.

When you were out clothes shopping.

And so my mom was like, well, I don't have any work, but you can call my husband.

And he only asked for work because he saw me and wanted to find out where we lived.

And so from the time he saw me back in September, October, all the way up until June was when he kidnapped me.

He planned it.

What the fuck?