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Welcome to Murder She Watch, the podcast where we solve murders from our couch. My name is Amy Archer. I'm your host and I'm here today with my partner in crime, Kyla. Hi, Kyla. Hi. Hello. Hey, everybody. How are you? I'm really good. I'm excited to record today. I'm excited to talk about this topic. Yeah. I've been down the Elizabeth Smart rabbit hole and I am her, I'm one of her fan girls right now.

Yeah. So full disclosure, I did not know much about this case. Like I knew the very vague outline. Like I knew that she was kidnapped from her bedroom because this happened right before I had my kids, four years before I had my kids.

So I was like, yeah.

So I knew that she was kidnapped from her bedroom.

I knew that it was for a long time.

Yeah.

And I knew that she was returned.

And I also knew that the guy was like outside the family. Yeah. And I knew that she was returned. And I also knew that the guy was like outside the family.

Yeah. Those were like the things I knew. That was it. But is there somebody else who had a famous

kidnapping? Yes. I was just going to say a lot of people confuse her with J.C. Dugard. Very similar.

But she was gone for like a decade, I think. And she ended up

having children with the man. And they started, it was nuts. Her book is very good. Yeah.

So that's what I was mixing her up with because I'm like, didn't she have a kid?

Yes. And it's funny because I think everybody makes that because their stories are so similar.

Was Dugard, was that in, J.C. Dugard was that in Salt Lake City as well?

Lake Tahoe.

But she was also taken by a stranger from the bus stop.

That school, like waiting for the bus in the morning.

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