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Mitchell and Barzee were deep within their newly concocted universe last Wednesday morning as they walked along a highway in Sandy, Utah, just south of Salt Lake. They wore crowns of flowers in their hair, and they had a young girl dressed in a long robe and white veil in tow. Recognizing Mitchell's face from a recent episode of America's Most Wanted, passersby dialed 911. When police officers arrived, the girl was trembling. Three times she told them her name was Augustine. "I know who you think I am. You guys think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl...
...ordeal was beginning to unfold. For now it remains a swirl of dark allegations and questions. How could police, who twice had nabbed Mitchell on petty crimes, not have seen the kidnappers living so conspicuously in their midst? "All we had was a description and a sketch," said Salt Lake police chief Rick Dinse at one point. And, perhaps most confounding, how did this young girl with the toothy, all-American smile grow so attached to her unhinged captors...
Sometime in the late 1990s, Mitchell and Barzee became fixtures on the streets of Salt Lake. They kept a high profile, dressing in robes and wheeling their possessions around in an elaborate handcart Mitchell had crafted. The stained-wood vehicle, clearly modeled on the carts pushed by the early Mormon pioneers, had a sloping canopy and rested on bicycle wheels...
...just such an affable preacher that Lois Smart says she met in downtown Salt Lake in November 2001. He introduced himself as Emmanuel and asked her for money. She gave him $5 and offered him a day's work repairing the roof of her house and raking leaves. This didn't seem unusual to her husband Ed, a real estate broker who often helped people with temporary work. He labored in tandem with "Emmanuel" on a roof project and described the man as genial and soft-spoken. After four hours the Smarts told "Emmanuel" he was welcome to come back...
Around this time, the trio vacated its mountain hideaway. And as the Smarts continued to hold twice-daily press briefings about their missing daughter, Elizabeth and her captors began living openly in the streets of downtown Salt Lake. With their eccentric dress--all three wore billowy robes, and the women adorned their heads with burqa-like coverings--the threesome was hard to ignore and at times seemed to flagrantly court attention. On Sept. 27, Mitchell had the first of two brushes with law enforcement when he was picked up for shoplifting batteries, gum, a flashlight and a beer from...