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As one story filled the front pages… another was quietly set aside. On the morning of June 5th, 2002 - 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart vanishes from her home in Salt Lake City. Within hours, the case leaves the city - and enters the national bloodstream. But the version carried across airwaves - never quite fits the ink... of the official record. Doubt reconstructs the Elizabeth Smart case as it unfolded in real time; using contemporaneous reporting, public statements, and primary recor...
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Doubt reconstructs the Elizabeth Smart case as it unfolded in real time - using contemporaneous reporting, public statements, and primary records as they entered the record. More: doubt-podcast.com Instagram: @thedoubtpodcast
This is 'Doubt'. If you know the name Elizabeth Smart, you already know the outline most people remember... A fourteen-year-old girl taken from her bedroom before dawn - a city mobilized - a nation watching - and, months later, a return that felt like a miracle. It became one of the most familiar stories in modern American true crime. And familiarity can do something strange. It can make a case feel finished - even when the path that produced the story is still largely unexamined. This ...
As his car turns up Chandler Drive, some residents peek through their blinds, as it slowly rolls by. Others - stand neatly on their front lawns - and begin to wave. For - word has got out... as it often does, in close-knit communities. The Prophet is Coming. On the morning of June 5th, 2002 - 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart vanishes from her home in Salt Lake City. Within hours, the case leaves the city - and enters the national bloodstream. But the version ca...
As one story filled the front pages... another was quietly set aside. On the morning of June 5th, 2002 - 14 year-old Elizabeth Smart vanishes from her home in Salt Lake City. Within hours, the case leaves the city - and enters the national bloodstream. But the version carried across airwaves - never quite fits the ink... of the official record. Doubt reconstructs the Elizabeth Smart case as it unfolded in real time; using contemporaneous reporting, public statements, and primary re...