00:00Elizabeth Smart was a 14-year-old girl.
00:05The family said she'd been taken from her bedroom in the middle of the night.
00:10I saw this cut screen, and the window was wide open.
00:16My wife screamed, call 911.
00:21Elizabeth was living a very normal life in a very nice neighborhood.
00:25Our community had mobilized.
00:27Everybody was willing to just drop what they were doing and search.
00:32We love you. We want you to come home safely to us.
00:35This case captivated the nation.
00:37There was a sense of, is it the family?
00:40Could he be involved?
00:41My wife said, law enforcement, don't believe that you're telling the truth.
00:46I had nothing to do with this.
00:49There's so little evidence to go on, but there was a witness to the kidnapping.
00:54Her nine-year-old sister, Mary Catherine.
00:56I knew I'd heard the voice.
00:58I just couldn't remember where I'd heard it from.
01:02We had the family create a list of everybody who'd been to the smart home.
01:06One of them was Richard Reesey.
01:08He was a violent felon.
01:10What do you know about the kidnapping?
01:11Don't.
01:12No, I'm the number one suspect.
01:14Mary Catherine was very likely the key to finding Elizabeth.
01:19She would have been asleep.
01:21She would have been groggy.
01:22Maybe she didn't realize it had been received.
01:25You were in there and you were doing this and she woke up.
01:27I'm not going to sit here and fucking do it.
01:29One particular night, for some random reason, the name popped into my head.
01:37Mary Catherine said, I think I know who it is.
01:41We weren't going to just leave it to the authorities.
01:47She's out there.
01:48We could not give up.
01:53I just wanted to tell them.
01:55I'm still alive.
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