Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek Lavasar. Today, we're jumping into part three of the Elizabeth Smart case. Now we're getting into the actual

investigation and we're also going to find out what happened to Elizabeth when she got to the

location where Brian David Mitchell was bringing her. So it's going to be an interesting episode,

a hard one in some areas, but we're here for it all. So in the early hours of June 5th, 2002, a 14-year-old

girl was taken from her bedroom while her family slept just feet away. In part one, we explored

who she was. In part two, we examined the man who would ultimately abduct her. But now we

step into the space between the hours, days, and months that followed. What happens after the door

closes, after the footsteps fade? After a child disappears into the dark, this episode moves

in two directions at once. So we follow Elizabeth, who was frightened, disoriented, forced into a

reality no child could prepare for, as she's led into the mountains above her home and into a world controlled entirely by her captors.

And at the same time, we return to the house on that quiet street in Federal Heights, where her family wakes up to a nightmare and begins a desperate, relentless search.

While Elizabeth is being isolated, manipulated, and stripped of everything familiar,

her parents are facing police interviews, media, law enforcement, and public scrutiny,

false leads, and the unbearable uncertainty of not knowing where their daughter was

or what was happening to her.

So this is the story of captivity and survival, of faith and fear, of a family trying to hold

themselves together while their daughter fought to hold on to herself.

And this is what happened next.

So we are going to kind of follow and pick up from where Brian Mitchell took Elizabeth. And from what we can tell,

Brian David Mitchell brought Elizabeth through the back area of her home, up Lymekin Gulch,

and eventually to an area deep within the foothills of Dry Creek Canyon, over three miles

through rough and rocky terrain and thick rush. Now recently, and you guys have mentioned this in the comments,

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