quote: Dr. John MacArthur, a theologian and broadcaster who is president of the Master's College and Seminary, an evangelical institution in Santa Clarita, Calif., said, "It's an incredibly wonderful story of how God used a broken lady to stop a guy who could have killed again and again."
She doesn't sound very darn broke to me. She sounds like a survivor - a strong woman that is moving ahead, overcoming odds, and succeeding.
Elizabeth Smith has become something of a local hero. I for one would like to shake her hand for remaining cool under pressure and preventing that lunatic from killing again.
While I was waiting downtown to pick up Frisco for Wenchcon, Olivetta called and told me about the manhunt. I had wondered what all the helicopters were doing.
After I picked up Frisco, we drove by the courthouse where the escape and murders took place, about 3 hours after they occurred. I've been in that courthouse many times (to look up deeds, not shackled, thank you) and it will be weird the next time I go there. Posts: 327 | Registered: Oct 2003
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There's no way that woman was broken. Good for her, for being courageous and for seeing humanity where no one else would and getting a fugitive off the streets.
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quote:Just before dawn, he asked her to go with him to move the truck he had taken from Mr. Wilhelm. She agreed to follow him in her car, believing that if she refused he would kill her or flee. He left behind his guns but let her take her cellphone. She did not use it, she said, because she feared a shootout if the police surrounded them. When they returned to her apartment, Ms. Smith made pancakes and spoke about God.
"I said," she recounted, " 'You know, your miracle could be that you need to be caught for this. You need to go to prison and you need to share the word of God with them, with all the prisoners there.' "
What a brave woman. Probably makes really good pancakes too. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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