Cop: Missed Opportunity To Save Elizabeth Smart Left Me Traumatized
Nov. 11 2010, Published 5:18 a.m. ET
The Salt Lake City detective who failed to spot Elizabeth Smart after he bumped into the 14-year-old and her evil abductors months before she was released claimed he had no regrets about the incident.
Detective Jon Richey testified at the trial of Brian David Mitchell who is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Smart following her 2002 abduction from her parents home.
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“I don’t see anything else I could have done,” he said.
“It’s difficult for me, but I’ve lived with that — I live with that — and there’s nothing I would have done differently.”
Although a caller had reported spotting Smart wearing a robe and veil at the downtown Salt Lake City library, the detective told court