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Been home to life and could be in the future. more news later. but now back to the elizabeth smart story here on mbs. on february 3rd, 2003, eight months after their daughter was snatched from her bedroom, ed and lois smart take a gamble. they hold a press conference to release the composite sketch of the man elizabeth's sister believes is the kidnapper. ed shares what he remembers of his encounter with the man in question. >> talked with him about where he was from, what he was doing. he indicated to me that he was from all over, that he was going about the country from homeless shelter to ...

June 5th, 2002, just before 4:00 a.m., ed and lois smart are sleeping in their salt lake city home. parents of six children. they're awakened by their youngest daughter, 9-year-old mary katherine. >> she had her blanket over her head, almost as a shawl. and she said, "somebody's taken elizabeth." >> first she said, "elizabeth's gone. you're not going to find her. she's gone." >> shaking off sleep, ed and lois get out of bed and start searching the house. >> you go and look in the rooms. >> went across to the kids' room. starts going one to one. as i came down the stairs, mary katherine and loi...

>> it's like having your child all over again. >> exactly. yeah. it was. yeah. i carried her for nine months next to my heart. she was gone for nine months. and i was still carrying her in my heart. >> taken from her room nine months earlier, elizabeth smart finally gets to go home. friends, family and neighbors rejoice. >> the streets were lined with photographers and media and people wishing her well. she kept saying, what are all these balloons for? who are all these people? she didn't realize how big the magnitude of her kidnapping had become. and she didn't understand that they were there...

You know, if you can't let it go, then you're always stuck there. >> ed, you know, i can't imagine as a father you not wanting to just -- >> strangle him? >> -- reach over and strangle him. what does it take for you not to just want to take out every human emotion imaginable on the man who could do something like that to your little girl? >> the fact that elizabeth came home and that we have her back is such a miracle and such a blessing that -- >> we had to keep remembering, he did not kill her. he didn't kill her. >> tell me about elizabeth now. >> well, she's fantastic and beautiful and str...

Ed works with a sketch artist to develop a likeness of emmanuel. but police make the decision not to go public with it. >> all the circumstantial evidence pointed to richard ricci. it just seemed the most likely scenario as opposed to a man who was in the smart's house for a total of three hours of his entire life. >> but mary katherine is certain the man she saw take elizabeth is emmanuel. ed and lois are willing to believe she is right and that elizabeth may still be alive. they grow frustrated that police seem unwilling to follow up on the lead. >> i think there were some that felt by putti...