Kidnappers had psychological hold over girl - police

Kidnapped teenager Elizabeth Smart, trapped in the hills above her anguished family’s home for the first two months of her disappearance, may have been kept from escaping or crying out for help by the growing influence of her captors, police said.

Elizabeth, part of a devout and affluent Mormon family, was 14 when she vanished from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 5.