Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek

Lavasar. And today, as you see, we have Elizabeth Smart with us, as promised. Yeah. Over 10 hours, we were just talking before we hit record over 10 hours of actual crime

weekly, not including all the research that Stephanie did.

So I feel like anybody who's followed this series up to this point is very familiar with

Elizabeth's story, but not necessarily her life or where she is now. And I know for some

of you, if you're not following Elizabeth, she's doing some great things out there. She's making a big

difference. And we were talking about some other things she's got going on, septic tanks, etc.

We won't go into it. It's the boring stuff. But I was saying in the series, Elizabeth, I got the chance to know you a little bit on America's Most Wanted. And I almost feel guilty because we had one dinner together where we talked a little bit. And you mentioned in passing about some of your experiences and what you went through. But what I love about you is you don't sit there and you're just not, it's not about me, me, me talking about how you're helping others you and callahan a lot when we went to dinner and i have so much

respect and admiration for you because now knowing the depths of what you went through and candidly

i personally think you you saved your family's lives i really do but based on your decisions

and your actions that night, I think that's

the reason you're all still here. Just my personal opinion. So knowing how young you are,

we're at the time, 14, I have a daughter that's 13, and knowing that you had the wherewithal

at that time to make those decisions under those stressful circumstances, I just gained even

more respect for you

than I already had. So I appreciate you coming on and talking to us for a little bit.

Absolutely. Glad to come on.

So we can sort of start by, if you want, Derek, we can kind of talk about, first of all,

Elizabeth has written, you know, she's done a million

things. And she's also written three books. I have read two of them at this point. Your most

recent book is called detours, correct? Yes. Now, this is-

I came out in December, right? December? Okay, cool. Yeah. This is more of a book about how you kind of have moved through things in your life.

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