Smart, Elizabeth and Kidnapped
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Brian David Mitchell, convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, still believes he did nothing wrong, a relative says.
It's been more than 20 years since Elizabeth Smart was abducted in the middle of the night by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. During the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, Mitchell broke into the Smart family’s Salt Lake City home and snatched ...
Smart was rescued in 2003, and Mitchell was eventually convicted of interstate kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor in 2011. He is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison. Barzee, meanwhile, received a 15-year sentence for her role in the kidnapping and prolonged abuse. She was released in 2018.
Discover What’s Streaming On: Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, the new true crime documentary that began streaming on Netflix today, fills modern-day viewers in on a high-profile kidnapping case that gripped the nation over 20 years ago. In the middle of the ...
Elizabeth Smart is sharing her kidnapping story like never before in the new Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart. Now 38, the kidnapping survivor was just 14 years old when she was abducted from her bedroom in her family’s Salt Lake City home by Brian David Mitchell in June 2002.
Brian David Mitchell could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced on May 25. Elizabeth Smart gave a slight smile as she heard the guilty verdicts on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines for the purposes of ...