Elizabeth Smart took the witness stand Tuesday morning for a second day of testimony, focusing on how Brian David Mitchell forced her to comply with his demands  even as they ventured from a mountain campsite into the public. 
 
 A few weeks into her captivity at a campsite above her Salt Lake City home, Smart said Mitchell removed a cable that tethered her ankle to the site. But that didn't mean she could leave. 
 
 "He said even though you have this cable removed of your ankle now that doesn't change the fact that you will be killed if you try to escape. Your family will be killed," Smart testified. 
 
 Smart said either Mitchell or his wife, Wanda Barzee, were always with her at the camp. Mitchell was a light sleeper and sleeping arrangements were also handled in a way that prevented her escape, Smart said. 
 
 When the three hiked down into Salt Lake City where Mitchell shoplifted items from a Whole Foods grocery store, Smart testified he made her wear white robes as a disguise and told her to say she was the couple's daughter if anyone asked. Again, she said, he threatened her life and the lives of her family if she tried to escape. 
 
 At a Salt Lake City party the three attended, Mitchell again warned her he would be watching and made her wear the robes, which included a veil for her face. 
 
 "He said to stay next to him at all times and if I tried to run away I would be killed," Smart testified. "He said that I wasn't to talk to anybody. I wasn't to go anywhere without him. That I needed to stay next to him at all times. And I had some blue toenail polish that my younger sister and I had painted our toenails earlier with it. There wasn't a lot but there were remnants left of that. He said I needed to get rid of it so there couldn't be any sort of mark or sign that I was Elizabeth Smart." 
 
 Smart also recounted Mitchell's failed attempt to kidnap her cousin in July of 2002, and his efforts to distance her from her family by making her refer to her parents as Ed and Lois. 
 
 Although Mitchell made Smart burn the red pajamas and shoes she was wearing when he took her from her home that June, she told jurors she tried to save parts of the items. Smart said she retrieved a safety pin from the pajamas and a piece of her shoe and put them in a three-ring binder she had at the time. 
 
 When asked why she did so on the witness stand, Smart replied: "Because I didn't want to let go of my family, of my life." 
 
 Other visits to Salt Lake City followed, including times the three spent the night with people Mitchell met, Smart testified. One day, Mitchell told them they were to leave Utah. 
 
 "He said that he felt like we needed to find a new city for a new life," Smart testified. "He said he received a revelation that seven different wives were going to be from seven different cities so he wanted to go to the library to look at maps of different places." 
 
 At the library, Smart detailed how close she came to being rescued when a Salt Lake City homicide detective approached the trio and asked Smart to lift her veil. He told her he was looking for Elizabeth Smart. 
 
 Mitchell refused to allow the detective to lift Smart's veil, and the detective left, Smart testified. 
 
 "I felt like hope was walking out the door," she said. "I felt terrible that the detective hadn't pushed harder, that he had just walked away. I felt upset with myself that I hadn't done anything, that I hadn't taken a chance...." 
 
 Smart also went into the difficulties of life in California, where the trio traveled by bus. There, she said, she was forced to view pornography and had very little to eat when Mitchell would leave her and Barzee alone at a campsite for days without food. 
 
 Smart detailed how Mitchell changed his appearance and demeanor to interact with members of an LDS church there. 
 
 "He would brush his hair and but it into a ponytail, and he would tie his beard into a ponytail on his face. He would wear normal clothing. He tried to wash up a little bit so he didn't smell quite as bad," Smart testified. 
 
 Mitchell befriended a member of the church who invited him to dinner, Smart testified. He then targeted the man's stepdaughter to take as another wife failed in a kidnapping attempt. 
 
 When Mitchell began talking of moving to another city, Smart testified she suggested they go back to Salt Lake City. There they might find another wife for Mitchell, she told him, in Mormon girls' camps held in the mountains. 
 
 "...I felt that the more cities we went to and the farther we went out, the less chance I'd have of being found," she testified. 
 
 The trio would hitchhike back to Utah  the beginning of Smart's ultimate rescue. 
 
 Smart's testimony concluded for the day at 2 p.m. Tuesday in U.S. District Court. She resumes her testimony Wednesday morning.  
 
 About the case 
 
 Brian David Mitchell is charged with kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor for the June 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart. The self-proclaimed prophet took the then-14-year-old Smart from her Salt Lake City home to make her a plural wife, prosecutors have said. 
 
 Smart has testified Mitchell raped her repeatedly during her nine months in captivity  which included a journey to California  before she was spotted with Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, in Sandy in March 2003. 
 
 Earlier this year, Barzee pleaded guilty and is serving 15 years in prison for her part in the abduction. She is listed as a potential witness for Mitchell's defense. 
 
 Mitchell's attorneys are arguing at trial he is not guilty of the crimes by reason of insanity. Prosecutors have told jurors Mitchell is calculating, not crazy. ||||| http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes;=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id;=952068&pid;=952067&uts;=1289254079 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf The Elizabeth Smart Case 
 
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 (Nov. 10) -- Elizabeth Smart testified today that her kidnapper claimed to be a prophet, but he was really a manipulative hypocrite who used religion to get what he wanted: sex and alcohol.Smart, now 23, completed her third day of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, 57, a former itinerant preacher who called himself "Immanuel.""He was crude and vulgar, self-serving. He was his number one priority, followed by sex, drugs and alcohol, but he used religion in all those aspects to justify everything," Smart testified in federal court in Salt Lake City, according to transcripts in The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News.In her first two days on the stand, Smart remained composed as she described in harrowing detail how Mitchell kidnapped her at knifepoint from the bed she shared with her little sister in their family's home in the early morning hours of June 5, 2002.Smart, who was 14 at the time of her abduction, said Mitchell made her his second wife in a bizarre "marriage ceremony," then raped her nearly every day during what she called "nine months of hell."She described her captor as working ceaselessly to terrorize her and strip away her sense of self. She said he gave her a new name, burned the clothes she was wearing when she was taken and forced her to wear veils and robes to conceal her face and blond hair.Over and over again, she said, he threatened to kill her and her family if she tried to run away or seek help.Defense attorneys have said Mitchell faces an escalating mental illness and is in the grip of a religious mania, but Smart said today his religion was purely self-serving."Well, nine months of living with him and seeing him proclaim that he was God's servant and he had been called to do God's work and everything that he did to me and to my family is something I know God would never tell someone to do," she said."God would never tell someone to kidnap a young girl from her family's home in the middle of the night from her bed that she shared with her sister, from her sister's side and give her no free agency and continue to rape her and sexually abuse her and give her no free agency to choose what she did."Smart said that what Mitchell called "ministering" to people was actually "panhandling," but he never used any of the money he got from begging to help anyone else.Asked by a prosecutor what was Mitchell's "primary concern," Smart replied: "Getting what he wanted."And what he wanted most, she said, was "sex and alcohol."Smart said she once told Mitchell how she felt about his repeated sexual abuse. "He said that I would become accustomed and learn to love it."She said Mitchell never expressed any concern for her well-being, "other than concern for us not being detected and me following what he said and um getting his own way, no.During cross-examination, a defense attorney asked whether Smart had ever seen Mitchell lose consciousness."Yes," she answered. "We were in California at the time. He was in the middle of raping me and he experienced a seizure."She also said that Mitchell "was very clear" that he was breaking the law and he knew he would be sent to prison if he were caught. But she said he also maintained that she would go to prison too -- and even from behind bars, he could make her or her family suffer."He said that he had friends that would come after me and my family if he couldn't. He said that if he were out, he would or if he was free he would come after me," she said.Smart was finally rescued on March 12, 2003, after nine months of traveling around, often sleeping in makeshift camps. She was found walking in Sandy, Utah -- only a few miles from her home -- in the company of Mitchell and wife, Wanda Barzee.On Tuesday, Smart testified that she was still so afraid of Mitchell that when police surrounded them, she at first lied about her identity. She also described an incident when a Salt Lake City police detective approached her, Mitchell and Barzee in a library. Smart said she was too terrified to ask for help.In her final day of testimony, Smart described one futile attempt she made to send an SOS. When the trio was in Salt Lake City, Smart said she had to go to the bathroom, so Barzee took her into a ladies' room in a restaurant."I tried to scratch 'help' into the bathroom stall," Smart said.Mitchell is being tried on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor over state lines. If convicted, he faces life in prison.Barzee earlier pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
– Elizabeth Smart continued her poised testimony today, explaining that she didn't try to escape captor Brian David Mitchell because he promised to kill her family if she did. The Salt Lake Tribune highlights this wrenching detail: Mitchell forced her to burn the red pajamas she had on when he abducted her, and she secretly saved a safety pin "because I didn’t want to let go of my family, of my life.” Mitchell also made her refer to her parents as Ed and Lois to try to distance the then 14-year-old from them. At another point, Smart testified that a Salt Lake City police detective approached her, Mitchell, and Mitchell's wife in the library and asked to see the girl's face under her veil, but Mitchell refused to allow it under a religious pretense. The detective, who said he was looking for Elizabeth, eventually gave up, notes AP. "I was mad at myself, that I didn't say anything," said Smart. "I felt terrible that the detective hadn't pushed harder and had just walked away." Yesterday, she told jurors of Mitchell's sexual assaults.