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THE KIDNAPPING OF ELIZABETH SMART

The summer breeze blew in through an open window as 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart slept soundly in her bed on June 5, 2002.

The teenager, from Salt Lake City in the USA, was sharing a room with her younger sister Mary Katherine, aged 9, in their devout Mormon household.

Mary woke with a start at 2am as a man climbed into their bedroom and held a knife

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