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Elizabeth Ann Smart was kidnapped at age fourteen on June 5, 2002, by Brian Mitchell from her home in the Federal Heights neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. She was held captive by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, and later, in San Diego County, California. Her captivity lasted approximately nine ...
Elizabeth was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee, back in 2002. She was rescued 9 months later, on March 12, 2003, and her captors were arrested right there and then. Since it’s been over 17 years, some things have, unfortunately, changed, so here’s where they are now.
On June 5, 2002, Brian David Mitchell kidnapped 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home and kept her captive for months. Brian David Mitchell was a deranged street preacher who was so extreme that he'd grown disillusioned with even the fundamentalist LDS church.
(CBS/KUTV/AP) SALT LAKE CITY - Brian David Mitchell has been sentenced to life in federal prison for kidnapping Elizabeth Smart at knifepoint, raping her and holding her captive.
In early June 2002, days before she was set to graduate from middle school, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, and held captive by street preacher Brian...
Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
Smart was rescued in 2003 after being abducted and held in captivity for nine months. Barzee and her husband, Brian David Mitchell, were convicted for their roles in the kidnapping.
One of her abductors, Brian David Mitchell, explained to the officer that he and his wife were "ministers of Christ" and were protecting their daughter for her eventual marriage. Meanwhile, his spouse, Wanda Barzee, gripped Smart's leg under the table to warn her not to speak.
SALT LAKE CITY (CBS/AP) The federal jury in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case returned guilty verdicts on both counts against street preacher Brian David Mitchell: kidnapping and unlawful...
(CBS/AP) SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront Brian David Mitchell, the man who held her captive and raped her for months when she was just 14.