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...together, fully clothed and veiled even at night, while Mitchell slept elsewhere in the apartment. "They just looked like a family," said Trotta. And like any father, Mitchell doted on his putative daughter. When Trotta asked her name, Mitchell chimed in: "My Joy in Her." Though Elizabeth hardly spoke throughout her visit, she listened to Trotta's jokes, and he detected the faint outline of a smile beneath her veil...
...September evening, the trio wandered into a party in downtown Salt Lake, an area populated by the city's hipster crowd of musicians, artists and indie rockers. While the two women mingled with the other guests and smiled politely at small talk, Mitchell "was such a spaz," says Anne Elizabeth Maurer, who snapped a picture of him and Elizabeth. After getting into a tense theological argument with another partygoer, Mitchell began shouting "Jesus lives!" so loudly that he was asked to leave...
Though much less is known about the six months the trio spent touring San Diego County, there is some evidence that Elizabeth was falling further under Mitchell's sway. While in Salt Lake, Elizabeth had freely roamed the aisles of the Wild Oats supermarket in which Trotta worked, but Mark Arabo, the manager of Wrigley's Market in Lakeside, Calif., observed a much more chastened customer. Over the four months that the three patronized his store, Arabo said, they always stuck to the same pattern. The two women walked meekly behind the man and never grabbed anything from a shelf...
When police stopped them last Wednesday in Sandy, Utah, they found Elizabeth in a similarly deferential state. She insisted that she was traveling with her parents. And after finally surrendering her identity, she cried, "Are they going to be O.K.?" How could Elizabeth feel such warmth for her tormentors? Psychologists say it would be almost abnormal if she did not. "If you're in a situation where someone threatens your life and you can tell they're deliberating and they decide not to kill you, you're very gracious, and you start to form this bond," says Mark Zelig...
Once reunited with her parents, Elizabeth spent the week nurturing familial bonds. She belatedly celebrated her 15th birthday and modeled her brand-new wardrobe for friends and family. But even as she reacquainted herself with conventional teenage life, investigators were worried about the battery of questions they would soon have to ask, broaching such grownup topics as polygamy, sexual assault and religious fanaticism. On Friday evening several thousand people flocked to Liberty Park for a citywide celebration of Elizabeth's return. She did not attend but sent along an autographed poster with the message "I'm the luckiest girl...