‘Nine months of hell’ recounted by kidnap victim

Just minutes after Elizabeth Smart, 14, was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police car idled by along a neighbourhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint.

“Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed.

It was one of several times Smart watched a rescue slip away during her nine-month ordeal, she recounts in My Story, a book released yesterday.