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Show A-13 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, November 10-12, 2010 Elizabeth Smart testifies parents and siblings- including 9-year-old sister Mary Katherine, who shared her bed. Smart said she and Mitchell left the house and hiked three to five hours up a hill to a campsite, where Mitchell's now-estranged By JENNIFER DOBNER wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee, Associated Press took her in a tent, sat her down on a bucket and SALT LAKE CITY (AP) washed her feet. Smart said. Elizabeth Smart awoke Barzee also told her to when she felt a cold knife on her throat. Then she heard a take off her pajamas and man threatening to kill her underwear and put on a and her family if she didn't robe or "she would have the defendant come in and rip leave with him. them off," she said. "He said he was taking Smart said Mitchell me hostage, for ransom. I entered the tent wearing a was shocked. I thought I was similar robe and married having a nightmare," Smart them by pulling a sentence told jurors Monday, the first the traditional day of testimony in the trial from Mormon marriage ceremoof Brian David Mitchell, ny, called a sealing. accused of kidnapping her "He said, 'What I seal on from her bed in 2002 and holding her for nine months. this earth will be sealed to Smart's mother, Lois, tes- me in the hereafter and I tified earlier that she hired take you to be my wife," she Mitchell, then known only said, adding that she as a homeless street preach- screamed and he threatened er named "Immanuel," to to duct tape her mouth shut. "He proceeded to fight do handyman work at the me to the ground and force family home after she and the robes up," Smart said her children ran into him l downtown and one of her quietly, pausing, \vhere he sons encouraged her to give raped me." "I begged him not to. I him money. did everything 1 could to Mitchell's attorneys say stop him. I pleaded with him he was influenced by escanot to touch me but it didn't lating mental illness and extreme religious beliefs work." Mitchell chained her to a that made him think he was table, making it impossible doing what God wanted him for her to plea, she said. to. Lois Smart testified that Elizabeth Smart, who she was awakened hy Mary was 14 when she was kidnapped, described how Katherine, who had a baby Mitchell came into her bed- blanket wrapped around her room. She had left a kitchen head and neck and looked window open because her like a scared rabbit, went mother had burned potatoes downstairs and immediately noticed the kitchen window for dinner. was open and the screen was "I remember him saying cut in a U-shape. that I have a knife to your "It was utter terror. It neck, don't make a sound, get out of bed and come was the worst feeling knowwith me or I will kill you and ing that I didn't know where my child was. I was helpyour family," she said. Smart said she got up and less," Lois Smart said. She also told jurors how he grabbed her arm, took her family met Mitchell in her into a closet, had her put on tennis shoes and left the downtown Salt Lake Cityhouse, leaving behind her He was clean-shaven at the time but now has a long Kidnap victim says she awoke to knife on neck graying beard to the middle of his chest and long hair to the middle of his back. "He looked like a cleancut, well-kept man that was down on his luck, who just needed some help to get on with his life. I gave him $5," she said. Lois Smart also gave Mitchell the family's address and phone number, offering to hire him for odd jobs. Mitchell soon called her husband, Ed Smart, who had Mitchell come by a few days later to help fix a leaky roof, Lois Smart said. It was the only job he did for the family. "I do remember having a conversation with him, hoping that he would do more work. He seemed fine," she said. In opening statements, public defender Parker Douglas didn't dispute the facts but took issue with the prosecution's allegation that Mitchell is a calculating person who planned the kidnapping. "His life here is marked by an intense idiosyncratic set of beliefs. This is, as you will see, a pattern with Brian, a search for a deep connection and a belief that he has found something that has given him a certainty and a meaning in life," Douglas said. If convicted of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor, Mitchell could spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Smart was found in March 2003 after drivers spotted her walking in a Salt Lake City suburb with Mitchell. She is currently serving on a French mission trip for the Mormon Church but plans to resume her music studies at Brigham Young University next year. Mitchell was again removed from the courtroom Monday for singing hymns, so he's watching and listening from a holding cell. 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