absolutely not. the family nightmare began on the last day of george smith s life. the evening of july 4th, 2005. josh was in a casino with george. three young men of russian origin from brooklyn. they were known as the russians were also there. after the casino closes they all head to the disco. georgianed jennifer get into a fight at the disco. some say after shouting she kicks george. all agree the young people were all noticeably drunk and jennifer storms out. george continues drinking heavily and get so drunk he is unable to walk. josh and the three russian boys say they helped him back to his cabin. when they discovered jennifer was not in their cabin the five boys went looking for her with no luck. they returned they put george to
absolutely not. the family nightmare began on the last day of george smith s life. the evening of july 4th, 2005. josh was in a casino with george. three young men of russian origin from brooklyn. they were known as the russians were also there. after the casino closes they all head to the disco. georgianed jennifer get into a fight at the disco. some say after shouting she kicks george. all agree the young people were all noticeably drunk and jennifer storms out. george continues drinking heavily and get so drunk he is unable to walk. josh and the three russian boys say they helped him back to his cabin. when they discovered jennifer was not in their cabin the five boys went looking for her with no luck. they returned they put george to
followed was a family nightmare and now the smart family may finally get justice in all of this. brian david mitchell, accused of kidnapping elizabeth smart and holding her for nine harrowing months has finally been found competent to stand trial. the court date is going to come out later this morning. ed smart, elizabeth s father, joins us. what a long haul this has been for you and your family. it s a great day. great day. martha: i m curious what your daughter elizabeth s reaction is to this, this moment after all these years is finally going to happen. you know, we were anticipating that this would happen, but i don t know that she actually knows yet. she s currently serving a mission in france, and we re in the process of trying to contact her. so i know it s going to be, you know, one of those great steps in moving forward, potentially this whole issue can be resolved in the next year. it will be great for the family. martha: you were saying
real family nightmare. a nightmare that started in july of 2009. i spoke with sarah shortly after she was released and asked what she was doing hiking on the border? a question of our viewers have. she maintains there was an innocent excursion. denies any accusation of spying. they don t know and we don t know whether or not they crossed the border. if they did, that was illegal. those questions aside today, they are home. it is worth mentioning the u.s. had little to do directly with their release. our officials and families relied on switzerland, oman and iraq to communicate with iran. oman paid the million dollar bail for their release. you can see them getting on the plane headed back to the states this is a reminder of the fact we have no diplomatic relationship with this country. if they take our people, there s no one going in to get those people back. this is really a broader background to the story that