On CNN’s “Larry King Live” show, Nancy Grace interviewed Tom Smart, brother of Ed Smart, whose daughter Elizabeth was kidnapped last week. The following is an excerpt from the show transcript:
GRACE: A lot of focus has been placed on your brother, Edward Smart. We all know he’s taken a polygraph. What was his response to that?
SMART: He said it was four hours of hell. And he’s willing to go do a polygraph. He didn’t know that — he didn’t volunteer that. But somehow a polygraph — something got out and I said, “Ed what about a polygraph?” And he just went, yes I’ve been through four hours of hell — and whatever.
The entire family is willing to take polygraphs. We’ll do whatever you want. I don’t know who has and who hasn’t. But the family’s — the family will do anything. Just…
GRACE: I’m trying to imagine my own dad strapped to a polygraph for four hours trying to answer questions, the whole time, wondering where the heck his daughter is, you know, taken in the middle of the night. Did he pass the polygraph?
SMART: Yes. I was told that he passed the polygraph. When you do a polygraph, and I know because I’ve done one just recently — I should never say that…
GRACE: Hey, hey, hold on. Why did you have to take a polygraph?
SMART: Everybody is suspect on this. So, it’s the police’s job to question everybody in this situation.
GRACE: Well, Tom, that is not unusual. Police start with the family and the friends and they go outward from there because statistically, very often when a child is abducted, it is someone the child is related to or knows. It is not unusual at all that you or Ed have been asked to do a polygraph. What’s unusual is when parents refuse to take a polygraph. That’s what strikes me as unusual. So I was very happy to hear that Ed had taken the polygraph.