Missing girl's father receives note about disappearance

SALT LAKE CITY -- Elizabeth Smart's father said Wednesday he received a letter that he suspects may have come from someone with knowledge of his 14-year-old daughter's disappearance.\nBut Ed Smart also said he could not say whether the letter, which was postmarked July 3 and received Tuesday, was credible. It lacked solid information that it came from a person with specific information about his daughter, but was the first that seemed to be from someone willing to negotiate, Smart said.\n"I'm just anxious to do whatever it's going to take to get her back," he said during a news conference. He appealed to the letter writer, who appeared to be an intermediary, to "please correspond with me to give me a reason to truly believe that he truly does have Elizabeth."\nThe father said police received a copy of the typewritten, unsigned letter by fax even before he received a copy in the mail. He declined to say where it was postmarked.