Early in the morning of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her 9-year-old sister, Mary Katherine, were awoken by the sound of a break in at their Salt Lake City, Utah, home.
Mary Katherine pretended to be asleep while a man abducted her older sister. Later, she would give police an inaccurate description of the kidnapper. Mary Katherine left her room to tell her parents what had happened but saw the kidnapper and Elizabeth outside her brother’s bedroom and quickly retreated, hiding in her room for hours before finally venturing out and explaining to her parents that Elizabeth had been kidnapped.
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