Mitchell and Barzee were both sick sadistic people.
Newspaper Article
Testimony: Mitchell a longtime pedophile
By Stephen Hunt
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Dec 03 2010 08:08PM
Updated Mar 23, 2011 12:22AM
Jurors heard evidence Friday that Brian David Mitchell — on trial for kidnapping and sexually assaulting the then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002 — is a longtime pedophile with a history of using religion to justify his crimes.
LouRee Gayler testified she was between 12 and 14 years old when Mitchell, her stepfather, would show her pictures of nude women while they prayed alongside her mother, Wanda Barzee.
“I’d open, and then close, my eyes,” said Gayler, who testified Mitchell would lay the pictures on the bed, then nudge her to make her look. “I felt it was wrong.”
And when Mitchell came to her room to say good night, Gayler said, “He’d caress me way too much. His hugs were too long. He’d brush up against my breasts.” At other times he would kiss her on the lips, despite her requests to stop, or thrust his pelvis at her.
Mitchell and Barzee took no pains to hide their sexual relations from Gayler, and Barzee often discussed her sex life with the girl.
“Religion was used as an excuse for their behavior,” Gayler said. “They could treat anybody anyway they wanted and repent so they didn’t have to answer to their wrong doings.”
Gayler, now in her 30s, also provided testimony supporting the prosecution claim that Mitchell is a master manipulator — not an insane religious zealot as his defense asserts.
“He’d play games … with the people closest to him — mind games to get more dominance,” Gayler testified. “Power was important to Brian. He could never get enough.”
[Edited - Mitchell got mad after watching a scene in the movie GOONIES the kids were watching on TV]
Soon after, her parents served Gayler her beloved pet rabbit, Peaches, for dinner, after telling her it was chicken. She found out she had eaten her pet when she couldn’t find Peaches the next morning.
“Wanda started laughing hysterically and said that I ate her for dinner,” Gayler said, adding that Mitchell was in a nearby room “watching with glee.”
TESTIMONY OF ELIZABETH SMART
Viti: On July 23 what occurred?
Smart: He prepared to go down to Salt Lake and go and kidnap my cousin.
Viti: in the general vicinity, where did your cousin live at that time?
Smart: She lived very, very close to the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon.
Viti: What preparations did you observe him making before he left that day?
Smart: I was watching him pack the green bags that he had used when he had kidnapped me.
Viti: What did you see him pack into the green bags?
Smart: I saw him pack into the green bags some ... a change of clothing, different from his robes. I saw him pack duct tape. I saw him pack a knife. I saw him pack ... I recall him packing some food and water.
Viti: Ms. Smart, can you describe the duct tape that you saw him put in the bag?
Smart: It was on a cardboard cylinder like the kind in the middle of a roll of toilet paper and he wrapped it around it.
Viti: Why?
Smart: He said it was to save on weight and room.
[AK = JonBenet had duct tape on her mouth, and Elizabeth also testified that Mitchell told her if she made noise he would "duct tape my mouth shut."]
Viti: Look at government Exhibit 35. Do you recognize it?
Smart: Yes. It’s duct tape around a cardboard cylinder.
Viti: Does that look like the duct tape he wrapped around the cardboard cylinder on July 23?
Smart: Yes.
Viti: May we publish it?
Judge Kimball: You may.
Viti: Ms. Smart, can you describe the clothing you saw him pack in the backpack?
Smart: It was dark clothing, the same he used to kidnap me in, a stocking cap, dark shirt, dark sweats.
[AK = The attacker of JonBenet's dance school classmate "Amy" also wore dark clothes and a cap, and dark fibers were found on JonBenet near her vagina and on her thighs. The attack on "Amy" happened 9/14/97; Mitchell and Barzee record returning to Utah on 9/21/97.]
Viti: What did he tell you?
Smart: He said he had snuck around the back. There was a window that was slightly open, he pulled it and opened it a little bit more.
There was a screen and he cut the screen. On the other side of the screen there were blinds that were down. He started to push the blinds so he could get in the room and on the window sill on the other sides of the blinds, there were small figurines or books. There were small objects on the other side of he blinds, so when he pushed, they fell off and that scared him so he stopped for a moment, but when he heard nothing, he thought all the objects had fallen already so he pushed again and a lot of objects had fallen off and he heard someone running down the hallway and the lights had come on and a voice yelled “Jessica.”
Viti: What did he do at that time?
Smart: He said he had already started running away from that house.
Viti: When he returned on the 24th, what was he wearing?
Smart: Um, he was wearing the dark clothing.
Viti: What was he wearing on his feet?
Smart: Hiking boots.
[AK = Sole prints from a Hi Tec hiking boot were found in the Ramsey basement.]
Viti: Did he tell you how he was able to reach the window at the Wrights’ home?
Smart: He said he had taken a chair and put it up against the outside of the home.
[AK = A suitcase, with JonBenet's bedding and a Dr. Suess book, was found under the basement window. Detective Lou Smit thought an intruder had put it there to exit through the window. This shows that both BDM and a possible intruder at the Ramsey home used found objects to boost entry/exit through an unlocked window. It also IMO shows a possible intent to transport the child.]
Viti: Please put up government exhibit 16. Do you recognize it?
Smart: Yes.
Viti: What do you recognize it to be?
Smart: A picture of the outside of our kitchen window with a chair up alongside it.
Viti: In June 2002, was that where it was placed usually?
Smart: No.
Viti: Where did that chair belong?
Smart: Just above, as you walk out the kitchen door, there’s a smaller patio, and the chair belongs up on the patio.
Viti: Thank you. Ms. Smart, I’d like to turn your attention to on or about ... withdrawn. Did he ever give you a reason why he chose the 23rd and 24th to kidnap Olivia?
Smart: He talked about the 24th because it was a holiday and he talked about it just being a holiday. They would be not as quick to respond.
Viti: I’m sorry, who wouldn’t be?
Smart: The public.
[AK = I wonder if BDM went the "police", or the public in general. As Doug Oswell noted, JonBenet was killed on a holiday, Christmas night.]
Viti: What holiday is that, for those who might not know?
Smart: It’s the 24th of July. It’s a Utah holiday, Pioneer Day.
The dark fibers found on JonBenet were from JR's shirt:
Q. (By Mr. Levin) I've got some
8 questions, Mr. Ramsey, that deal with fiber
9 evidence, and this is probably going to be
10 questions that your lawyer is going to advise
11 you not to answer, but I would like to pose
12 them to you.
...
21 Q. (By Mr. Levin) Mr. Ramsey, it is
22 our belief based on forensic evidence that
23 there are hairs that are associated, that the
24 source is the collared black shirt that you
25 sent us that are found in your daughter's
0058
"hairs" here was a typo, they were obviously talking about fibers
I personally think the Smarts copied, in many ways, the JBR murder. Even to this day I feel like there's a lot more to the ES kidnapping than we will ever know.
The picture of the chair near the Smart's window showed up, via Ed Smart, AFTER Amy's alleged intruder.
The screen in the Smart's house was cut from the inside.
ES sister described a totally different man than BDM that morning and the Smarts, at first, said BDM had a gun- later, a knife.
I want to know why no one has ever heard Ed Smart's 911 call.
There was no ONE shred of evidence that BDM had been in the Smart's house....not even a fiber.
Ed, like John, calls friends over before calling the police.
And weirdest of all....Elizabeth Smart's actions.
Have you read the Vanity Fair articl from about 12 years ago? Very infomative.
