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Elizabeth Smart on Baby Lisa: 'I Think She's Alive'
Originally posted 10/18/2011 01:35PM
Now helping other kidnap victims with her foundation and in her role as an ABC News contributor covering missing person and child abduction cases, Elizabeth Smart was in Los Angeles Monday for the 6th annual Squeaky Wheel Tour kickoff, to help raise awareness on the 11th anniversary of singer-songwriter Gina Bos's disappearance in Nebraska.
The tour has drawn attention to thousands of missing persons and the organization's founder, Bos's sister Janelle Rap, claims their joint efforts with artists, media and law enforcement have helped lead to the discovery of more than 1,000 missing persons.
Attending Monday's event at the guitar store West LA Music with her father, Ed Smart, before returning to her classes at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City, Elizabeth, 23, spoke to PEOPLE about, among various topics, missing children. "There's always hope," she said. "There's my story, there's Jayceee Dugard's story and Shawn Hornbeck.
She also discussed the child safety education program radKIDS and her own Elizabeth Smart Foundation – as well as a Missouri missing child case currently making national headlines, that of Baby Lisa.
The tour has drawn attention to thousands of missing persons and the organization's founder, Bos's sister Janelle Rap, claims their joint efforts with artists, media and law enforcement have helped lead to the discovery of more than 1,000 missing persons.
Attending Monday's event at the guitar store West LA Music with her father, Ed Smart, before returning to her classes at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City, Elizabeth, 23, spoke to PEOPLE about, among various topics, missing children. "There's always hope," she said. "There's my story, there's Jayceee Dugard's story and Shawn Hornbeck.
She also discussed the child safety education program radKIDS and her own Elizabeth Smart Foundation – as well as a Missouri missing child case currently making national headlines, that of Baby Lisa.
