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True Crime Chronicles

A Story of Survival | 113

True Crime Chronicles

VAULT Studios

True Crime, News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"Nobody else can diminish your worth." Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held captive for nine months when she was 14 years old. Nearly two decades later, she shares her story of survival and restoration with WATN anchor Katina Rankin. Katina Rankin's full conversation with Elizabeth Smart is available at www.localmemphis.com, and you can learn more about the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and the Smart Defense program by visiting www.elizabethsmartfoundation.org To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A quick note.

0:01.6

This episode of True Crime Chronicles includes discussion of sexual abuse and an extended conversation

0:06.7

with a survivor of child sexual abuse and may not be suitable for all audiences.

0:11.6

If that's something you'd like to skip, we'll be back as always with another episode

0:15.4

next week.

0:18.6

This is of all studios production.

0:22.1

I'm Reed Redmond.

0:23.1

I'm Spencer Brunig.

0:24.1

I'm Will Johnson.

0:25.1

This show contains graphic material and is meant for mature audiences.

0:28.5

This week on True Crime Chronicles.

0:30.5

He was pulling me out of my bed and truly in that moment I didn't feel like I had an

0:34.6

option.

0:35.6

I felt like the only thing I could do was go with this man, do as he said, and so I did.

0:41.2

She talked about, you know, it's not your fault.

0:44.4

It's the predators that rape and hurt and abuse and that they're the ones that are at fault.

0:49.9

Nobody else can diminish your worth.

0:53.5

So whatever they do, they cannot diminish your worth as a human being.

1:08.0

I think every single one of us could agree that we all have a story in our lives, whether

1:12.7

it's just been through this past year of COVID or whether it's something more than that.

1:17.8

This is the voice of Elizabeth Smart.

1:20.1

And actually, it's probably more fair to say we all have stories, plural, rather than

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