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>> 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 putting out another picture that it might confuse the public. it might cloud the investigation. >> around the time of mary katherine's revelation, brian mitchell decides it's time to leave utah. before they do, elizabeth is nearly rescued. at a local library. the three are stopped by a police detective who wants elizabet...

Her, to really work with her to allow her the time and space she needed to come up with something. if they did that, if it was forced, she may suppress those memories. if it wasn't forced, over time, something may come out, and it did. >> in october, four months after elizabeth disappears, mary katherine remembers. >> after months and months of thinking about it, it just came to her one day, she said, i know who it is. she pointed to a handyman who worked on the smart roof who at the time called himself . he was a guy who they found on the street. he was in downtown salt lake city street preac...

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...

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...

He was in downtown salt lake city street preaching. >> lois had crossed paths with emmanuel in 2001, seven months before elizabeth disappeared. >> he needed work, and i said, call ed up. >> he called me the next morning and claimed that he was a born again christian trying to help the homeless. he was very evasive. wouldn't really give any pertinent information. >> he said he was traveling with his sister. >> with his sister. >> spreading the word of god. >> so, you know, and i had respect for somebody who would spend their life trying to help other people. when he didn't show up again, i thou...