Kidnapping

Holy crap! This is like the micheal devlin thing but a hundred times worse. Ya I’m with Alyssa on this one, I couldn’t imagine being kidnapped for almost two decades. It makes you wonder what sort of psychological trauma took place. Did she ever try to escape? Did she maybe stop trying to escape? And I think it’s kind of weird that the neighbors never saw anything. Does anyone know the name of that syndrome where the kidnapped person learns to trust the kidnapper? This also brings to mind the Salt Lake City kidnapping. Does anyone remember that one?
If I remember correctly she was taken from her home in the middle of the night by a man that the family knew. I think they were helping him out or something. Hey was apparently a religious fanatic who believed that god wanted him to have many wives and that this girl was to be one of them. Back to my point though about the psychological deal, the man had her under such control that he took her in public wrapped in the Islamic garb and went so far as to bring her into the same room as her parents and she did nothing to try and escape.
OK I found it here is the quote: Ed and Lois Smart, with their six children, resided in the affluent neighborhood of Federal Heights in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] On the evening of June 4, 2002, the family attended an award ceremony at Elizabeth's school. After the family returned home and got ready for bed, Ed made sure the doors were all locked, but he did not turn on the alarm. "If the children got up and moved (in the night), it would set the alarm off. And so we just said we’re not going to bother with it," Lois later explained



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