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American Morning

Still Few Leads in Smart Investigation

Aired June 14, 2002 - 08:07   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Want to start now in Utah. The intense search for Elizabeth Smart still coming up empty right now. Police in Salt Lake City looking at everyone, including friends and neighbors and many family members as well.

James Hattori back on the scene there live this morning in Salt Lake with the latest -- James, good morning.

JAMES HATTORI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill. Investigators continue to say there is no single focus, no single suspect they're looking at. Still, a lot of media attention being focused on polygraph tests and members of Elizabeth Smart's extended family. Now, even as police dogs were sent back into the home, the Smart home, where Elizabeth was kidnapped nine days ago, police officials say the possibility of family involvement, an inside job, is still just one theory they're looking at. And they say no one has been ruled out as a suspect, and the family has been very cooperative.

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CYNTHIA SMART OWENS, AUNT OF ELIZABETH SMART: We feel it's part of being thorough in the investigation, if they can find anything, anywhere that will lead to bringing Elizabeth home, we are more than happy to do that.

DAVID FRANCOM, UNCLE OF ELIZABETH SMART: And we know that it's police procedure. I mean, it's nothing that they have -- singled anyone out. It's just their procedure, and we understand that.

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HATTORI: Salt Lake City police won't say who besides Ed Smart, Elizabeth's father, has been given a polygraph test. They won't characterize the results of any of the tests. As for the single witness that we know of in this case, 9-year-old Mary Catherine, Elizabeth's sister, who was in the room when Elizabeth was kidnapped, police interviewed her one more time. They say she has been consistently forthcoming. They say if she had seen somebody and recognized somebody inside the house, she would have told investigators. And that leads you to conclude that either she didn't get a good look, or that she didn't know who the person was -- Bill, back to you.

HEMMER: The mystery continues. James, thank you. James Hattori in Salt Lake.

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