In this digital age of modern technology, there are more choices available to the consumer of entertainment than ever before.
This is especially true of audio and video entertainment. Now, due to the devices used for the playing of entertainment media shrinking in size to the level where they will even fit into a small pocket, and the elimination of the need to have access to the electricity mains by the production of extremely small, highly effective, long lasting batteries, it is possible to enjoy audio and video entertainment in virtually any location.
Modern technology has also increased the choices for consumers of the printed word. Now, it is possible;e to download a series of True Crime Audiobooks, which you can enjoy in your own home, out in the garden, while driving, while out walking or jogging, or in virtually any other location you can think of. On of these True Crime Audiobooks which is now available is “Bringing Elizabeth Home”, which is the true story of the abduction, and then return, of the then fourteen year old daughter of Ed and Lois Smart.
This is one of those very rare true crime accounts where the kidnapped person is actually returned to the family, albeit after nine months of horrific abuse.
The home that Ed and Lois Smart shared with their children was in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the burglar alarm was not in use. This was because the children had a habit of setting it off by moving about the house. Thus the alarm was not functional when the break in occurred that was to result in Elizabeth's kidnap.
Her nine year old sister, Mary Katherine, shared the same room, and pretended to be asleep while her sister was kidnapped. She was then able to give details to the police, although many of these details proved to be erroneous. The police also kept secret the fact that the younger sister had not seen the face of the intruder.
The breakthrough that led to Elizabeth's return came when a picture of a muscular woman in the Guinness Book of Records somehow made Mary Katherine suddenly remember where she had heard the voice of the intruder before.
The Smarts had a habit of allowing local destitute people earn money by paying them to do odd jobs around the community. It was one of these people, an itinerant who claimed to preach to the homeless, who turned out to be the abductor. His name was Brian David Mitchell.
The story of how, despite police scepticism, this lead was followed through, and the kidnappers caught, can now be heard on the True Crime Audiobook version. This story is a testament both to modern technology, and to a remarkable family.
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