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.

In the Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, out Jan. 21, Smart recalls the night she was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, by Brian David Mitchell, who believed he was following a call from God. Smart was kept captive and ...

An almost 24-year-old kidnapping case, one of the most publicized in American history, has been thrust into the spotlight once more, serving as the inspiration for a new Netflix documentary. "Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart" recounts the true story of a 14-year ...

Elizabeth Smart has offered glimpses into her life more than two decades after her abduction and rescue. Smart was abducted from her bedroom in 2002 by Brian David Mitchell when she was only 14 years old. With help from Mitchell's wife, Wanda Barzee, Smart ...

It was an abduction so brazen that local law enforcement officials said they had never seen anything like it in their careers. A 14-year-old Utah girl named Elizabeth Smart had been taken at knifepoint out of the bedroom of her family home in June 2002 ...