{"id":3553,"date":"2002-06-14T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:13:01","slug":"polygraph-raises-suspicions-in-elizabeth-smart-kidnapping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/14\/polygraph-raises-suspicions-in-elizabeth-smart-kidnapping-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Raises Suspicions in Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an article titled “Sister Didn’t See Face of Abductor,”<\/a> Salt Lake Tribune<\/em> reporters Kevin Cantera and Michael Vigh detail developments in the Smart kidnapping case. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, police continued to say they had not ruled out any suspects, including members of Elizabeth’s family. The girl’s June 5 disappearance sparked a large-scale search and has made headlines around the globe.<\/p>

David Smart, Elizabeth’s uncle, told reporters Thursday the family understood that its members were a necessary focus of the probe and they were willing to sit for lie-detector tests. “If they did not investigate us, they would be negligent,” he said.<\/p>

The Tribune has confirmed an NBC report Thursday that the responses given by one member of Elizabeth’s extended family during a polygraph test raised investigators’ suspicions about his alibi.<\/p>

Police have refused to comment on lie-detector tests they have administered in the case, except to say that Elizabeth’s father, Edward Smart, was tested Sunday.<\/p>

His brother, Tom Smart, appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday night and said he, too, had been tested.<\/p>

Tom Smart characterized the polygraph test administered to Edward as “four hours of hell.”<\/p>

“We’ve been ripped apart by our polygraph[s],” Tom Smart told CNN. “We’ve been ripped apart to the core.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an article titled “Sister Didn’t See Face of Abductor,” Salt Lake Tribune reporters Kevin Cantera and Michael Vigh detail developments in the Smart kidnapping case. Excerpt: On Thursday, police continued to say they had not ruled out any suspects, including members of Elizabeth’s family. The girl’s June 5 disappearance sparked a large-scale search and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[401,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-3553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-elizabeth-smart","8":"tag-utah","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}