Girl solves sister’s abduction after reading Guinness World Records

It was reading through Guinness World Records that helped Mary make the breakthrough that solved everything.

After the kidnapping, officials focused quite a bit on the 9-year-old because she believed she recognized the voice of the kidnapper. Mary explained in the documentary that she eventually was the clue that helped solve the mystery of who had kidnapped her sister.

She shared, “After my sister was kidnapped I was very frightened to go to sleep, my dad would have to come in and tuck me in and while I was waiting for him I would be looking at books or racking my brain about who could have taken Elizabeth.”

She recalled the fateful night of when it clicked, “One particular night, four months after Elizabeth had been taken, I was flipping through the Guinness World Records.”

She went on, “For some random reason in that moment the name popped into my head and I knew immediately who was in my bedroom June 2002, that’s the man who kidnapped Elizabeth.”

Ed Smart, the girls’ father said, “Lois and I had gone out for the evening and when we got home Mary Katherine had said ‘I think I know who it is, and she said it was ‘Immanuel’.” Continue reading…