On the morning of June 5th, 2002 - a 14 year old girl vanished from her home in Salt Lake City.

Within hours, the case had left the city - and entered the national bloodstream. But the version carried across airwaves - never quite fit the ink of the official record.

Each episode takes one period of time - and builds it line by line.

Before the talk-shows and interviews. Before the websites. Before the foundations. Before the search teams ruled out the canyons.

We follow the paper trail — and the clock.

There is no hindsight here. No later testimony. No retrospective framing.

This is not an argument. It is not a theory. It is a reconstruction.

This is... Doubt!

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The opening episode stays inside Day One, following the case from the first breaking news through the earliest hours of the investigation.

As information reaches the public, police work to reconcile conflicting statements and rapidly developing leads.

What appears straightforward at first begins to show fractures — ending with a detail from the crime scene that raises new questions.

Doubt reconstructs the Elizabeth Smart case as it unfolded in real time—using contemporaneous reporting, public statements, and primary records as they entered the record. No hindsight. No later testimony. No retrospective framing.

Follow the series in order. Some details that seem minor early will matter later.

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