Kidnapping of

Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Ann Smart was kidnapped at

age fourteen on June 5, 2002, by Brian
David 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
months before she was discovered in
Sandy, Utah, approximately 18 miles
(29 km) from her home.
Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart

Smart's missing person flyer distributed by

the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Location Abduction:
Salt Lake City, Utah,
U.S.
Confinement:
Salt Lake City, Utah,
and San Diego
County, California,
U.S.

Date June 5, 2002 –

March 12, 2003

Attack type Kidnapping, child

abduction, child
rape

Perpetrators Brian David Mitchell

Wanda Barzee

Motive Sexual abuse

Sentence Mitchell: Life

imprisonment
without the
possibility of
parole
Barzee: 15 years
in prison (paroled
after 9 years);
probation until
2024

Convictions Various offenses,

including
kidnapping and
child endangerment

Smart was abducted from her home at

knife-point by Mitchell, while her
younger sister, Mary Katherine,
pretended to be asleep. Mitchell, who
claimed to be a religious preacher,[1]
held Smart at a camp in the woods with
Barzee, where he repeatedly raped her.
During her captivity, Smart
accompanied her captors in public on
various occasions dressed head-to-toe
in white robes and went largely
unrecognized by those she came in
contact with.[2]

Since her abduction and rescue, Smart

has become an advocate for missing
persons and victims of sexual assault.
Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in
federal prison in 2010 for her role in the
kidnapping and abduction, although
she was granted early release on
September 19, 2018 for previously
uncredited time served.[3] Mitchell was
diagnosed by forensic psychologists as
having antisocial and narcissistic
personality disorder. Extensive disputes
over his competence to stand trial
lasted several years before he was
deemed mentally capable in 2010.
Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole in
2011.[4]
Backgrounds of the
kidnappers

Brian David Mitchell

Born October 18, 1953

Salt Lake City, Utah

Other names Immanuel, David,

and Isaiah
Criminal status Incarcerated

Conviction(s) Kidnapping (18

U.S.C. § 1201)
Interstate
transportation of a
child for the purpose
of engaging in
sexual activity (18
U.S.C. § 2423)

Criminal penalty Life imprisonment

without parole

Imprisoned at USP Terre Haute

Wanda Barzee

Born Wanda Elaine

Barzee
November 6, 1945
Salt Lake City, Utah

Other names Hephzibah

Criminal status Released

Conviction(s) Federal
Kidnapping (18
U.S.C. § 1201)
Interstate
transportation of a
child for the purpose
of engaging in
sexual activity (18
U.S.C. § 2423)
Utah
Attempted
kidnapping

Criminal penalty Federal

15 years
imprisonment
Utah
1 to 15 years
imprisonment

One of Smart's abductors, Brian David

Mitchell, was born on October 18, 1953,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the third of six
children in a Mormon family. His
mother was a teacher and his father
was a social worker. In order to teach
Mitchell about sex, his father reportedly
showed his adolescent son explicit
photos from a medical journal, and, in
order to teach him about independence,
he would drive Mitchell to unfamiliar
parts of Salt Lake City, and drop him
off, leaving him to find his way home.[5]

At age 16, Mitchell exposed himself to

a child, and was sent to a juvenile hall.
At nineteen, he married and had two
children with Karen Minor, who was
three years younger than he, making
her 16 years old at the time of their
marriage. After their divorce, Minor was
awarded custody of both children, after
which Mitchell temporarily fled with the
children to New Hampshire.[5] He
resided in New Hampshire for two
years, where he joined a Hare Krishna
commune.[6] Mitchell had a history of
drug and alcohol abuse in his adult life;
upon returning to Salt Lake City, he was
inspired to seek sobriety by his brother,
who had recently returned from a
mission. In Salt Lake City, Mitchell had
two additional children with his second
wife, Debbie, who herself had three
children from a previous marriage.
Debbie alleged that Mitchell was
abusive during their marriage, and they
divorced in 1984. After their separation,
Debbie alleged that Mitchell had
sexually abused their three-year-old
son; the claim could not be medically
confirmed, but Mitchell's future
visitations with his children were
ordered to be supervised by the
Division of Child and Family Services.
One of Debbie's daughters from her
previous marriage would later claim
that Mitchell had sexually abused her
for four years.[5]

On the day Mitchell and Debbie's

divorce was finalized, he married
Wanda Elaine Barzee (b. November 6,
1945, in Salt Lake City), a then-forty-
year-old divorcee with six children.[5]
Barzee had a troubled relationship with
her children; one of her daughters
would later refer to her as a "monster,"
and she also claimed that when she
was a child, Wanda fed her pet rabbit to
her for dinner.[7] Together, Mitchell and
Barzee were actively involved in the
LDS Church. Eventually Mitchell began
going by the name "Immanuel," claiming
to be a prophet of God who
experienced visions.[5] For this, he was
excommunicated from the church.[8]
Barzee began going by the name
"Hephzibah," and the two would
panhandle and preach in downtown
Salt Lake City. Mitchell presented
himself in an image that was akin to the
image of Jesus, dressing in white robes
and tunics, and growing a beard.[5]

Abduction

Federal Heights, the neighborhood where Smart resided, and from where she was kidnapped

In the early hours of June 5, 2002,

Mitchell broke into the home of Edward
and Lois Smart in the Federal Heights
neighborhood of Salt Lake City, where
they lived with their six children.[9] He
abducted 14-year-old Elizabeth from
the bedroom she shared with her nine-
year-old sister, Mary Katherine,[10] who
was awakened but pretended to be
asleep,[11][12] and later reported that:

A white man about the height of her

brother Charles (5 ft 8 in; 172 cm)[13]
about 30 or 40 years old, wearing
light-colored clothes and a golf
hat.[9][14] (He was actually wearing
black, did not have a golf hat, and
was 48.)[15]
He had dark hair, and also dark hair
on his arms and on the backs of his
hands.[14]
The man threatened Elizabeth with a
knife (which Mary Katherine thought
was a gun at the time.)[15]
When Elizabeth said "ouch" after
stubbing her toe on a chair, Mitchell
said something that sounded like:
"You better be quiet, and I won't hurt
you."[16]
She heard Elizabeth ask "Why are you
doing this?" and though the answer
was not clear, Mary Katherine
thought the answer might have been
"for ransom."[16][17]
Mitchell was soft-spoken—even
polite, calm, and nicely dressed.[14]
Although Mitchell spoke to Elizabeth
quietly, Mary Katherine thought
Mitchell's voice seemed somehow
familiar, but she could not pinpoint
where or when she had heard it.[18]
She never got a good look at
Mitchell's face.[19] This fact was kept
a secret by the police during the
investigation.[20]
When she thought Elizabeth and the
abductor had gone, Mary Katherine
attempted to go to her parents'
bedroom, but only narrowly avoided
being seen by Mitchell and Elizabeth,
who were outside the bedroom of the
family's boys.[21] She crept back into
her bed, where she hid for an
undetermined time—possibly over two
hours.[11] Just before 4 a.m., Mary
Katherine woke her parents and told
them what had happened;[22] thinking
she had been dreaming, they did not
believe her until they found a window
screen that had been cut with a
knife.[23]

Search and investigation

On June 6, 2002, Ed and Lois went on
television and pleaded for the
kidnapper to return their daughter.[24]

A massive regional search effort,

organized by the Laura Recovery
Center, involved up to 2,000 volunteers
each day, as well as dogs and
planes.[25] Various websites carried
flyers that could be printed or circulated
via internet. After many days of
intensive searching, the community-led
search was ended and efforts were
directed to other means of finding
Elizabeth.

Mary Katherine's observations were of

little use, and there was little usable
evidence found at the scene such as
fingerprints or DNA. A search using
bloodhounds was unsuccessful. Police
questioned and interviewed hundreds
of potential suspects including a 26-
year-old who was cleared after being
located in a West Virginia hospital. The
investigation had the side effect of
returning several at-large criminals to
prison, but Elizabeth was not found.[26]

The Salt Lake City police considered

Richard Ricci a person of interest early
in the investigation.[27] Ricci was a
handyman with a history of drug abuse
who had worked for the Smarts; he had
been jailed on an unrelated parole
violation prior.[28] Ricci died of a brain
hemorrhage in August 2002.[29][30] To
keep Elizabeth's name in the press, her
family used a variety of strategies,
including making a website about her
abduction and providing home
videos.[31]

Captivity
After her kidnapping, Smart was taken
by Mitchell into the woods to an
encampment outside of Salt Lake City,
where she was met by Wanda
Barzee.[32] According to Smart's
testimony, Barzee "eventually just
proceeded to wash my feet and told me
to change out of my pajamas into a
robe type of garment. And when I
refused, she said if I didn't, she would
have Brian Mitchell come rip my
pajamas off. I put the robe on. He came
and performed a ceremony, which was
to marry me to him. After that, he
proceeded to rape me."[33] Mitchell
claimed to be an angel and he also told
Smart that he was a Davidic King who
would "emerge in seven years, be
stoned by a mob, lie dead in the streets
for three days and then rise up and kill
the Antichrist."[34] Smart, he insisted,
was the first of many virgin brides he
planned to kidnap, each of whom would
accompany him as he battled the
Antichrist.[34][35]
To keep Smart from escaping, she was
shackled to a tree with a metal cable,
which allowed her limited mobility
outside of the tent she occupied.[32]
During her captivity, she was forced to
take a new name, and she chose the
name Esther, after Esther of the Old
Testament (Brian David Mitchell also
called her Shearjashub).[36] It was later
revealed during court testimony that
Mitchell repeatedly raped Smart,
sometimes multiple times a day, forced
her to look at pornographic magazines,
and regularly threatened to kill
her.[33][37] He often forced her to drink
alcohol and take drugs to lower her
resistance, and both starved her and
fed her garbage.[32][38] Smart's abuse
was facilitated with the assistance of
Barzee, whom Smart would later refer
to as the "most evil woman" she had
ever met.[32]

Public appearances

The Salt Lake City Public Library building (now The Leonardo museum), one of several public locations where
Smart accompanied her captors
Smart accompanied Mitchell and
Barzee in public on numerous
occasions, but her presence was either
obscured or unnoticed via various
methods of concealment, which often
consisted of her wearing a headscarf
and a face veil.[2][32] In August 2002,
around two months after Smart's
kidnapping, Mitchell devised a plan to
leave Salt Lake City with Barzee and
Smart, possibly to Boston or New York
City.[32] To research potential places to
relocate, Mitchell and Barzee visited the
Salt Lake City Public Library with Smart.
There, they were noticed by a library
patron due to their unusual styles of
dress; each wore full-length robes with
veils which concealed most of their
faces. The patron was convinced to call
police after looking closely at Smart's
eyes.[39] A police detective arrived at
the library and confronted Mitchell,
Barzee, and Smart; however, he was
deterred by Mitchell, who claimed that
Smart was his daughter (named
Augustine Marshall[40]), and they were
unable to remove their veils or garb on
religious grounds.[32] When questioned
by the detective, neither Barzee nor
Smart spoke, and Mitchell stated that
their religion prohibited women from
speaking in public.[39] Smart would later
say that Barzee signaled her not to
move, and she gripped her legs under
the table.[32][41] She later recalled the
incident: "I felt like hope was walking
out the door. I was mad at myself that I
didn't say anything, mad at myself for
not taking the chance. So close. I felt
terrible that the detective hadn't pushed
harder. He just walked away."[41]

Smart also visited grocery stores and a

restaurant but went unnoticed.[2] In the
fall of 2002, she attended a party with
Mitchell and Barzee and was
photographed wearing a veil and robe
with Mitchell and another party
guest.[42]

Move to San Diego

In September 2002, Mitchell and Barzee

left Salt Lake City with Smart, relocating
to San Diego County, California, where
they held Smart in an encampment in a
dry creek bed in Lakeside.[43] Mitchell
and Barzee relocated with Smart
several times to different
encampments in San Diego County,
often moving in the middle of the
night.[37] On February 12, 2003, Mitchell
was arrested in El Cajon for breaking
into a church and spent several days in
jail over the incident.[37]

Discovery
In October 2002, Smart's sister Mary
Katherine suddenly realized that the
abductor's voice was that of an
unemployed man the family knew as
Immanuel,[19][44] whom the family had
hired for a day to work on the roof and
rake leaves.[45][46][47]
The police were skeptical because of
the short time "Immanuel" had worked
for the family, the long time that
elapsed, and the short time Mary
Katherine had heard the abductor's
voice; however, the family had a sketch
artist[48] draw "Immanuel's" face from
their descriptions, and in February this
drawing was released to the media; it
was shown on Larry King Live and
America's Most Wanted. The drawing
was recognized by relatives of Mitchell,
who gave police contemporary
photographs of him.[49]
On March 12, 2003, Mitchell was
spotted with a woman and a girl in
Sandy, Utah, by two separate couples
who had seen photos of Mitchell on the
news.[2] The woman was Wanda
Barzee, and the girl was Elizabeth
Smart—disguised in a gray wig,
sunglasses, and veil. Both couples
reported their recognition of Mitchell to
the Sandy Police Department, which
immediately dispatched police officers
to the location.[50] Smart was
recognized during questioning by the
officers, who then rescued her and
arrested Mitchell and Barzee.[51][52]
"Today, Elizabeth was introduced to the
AMBER Alert when she asked about a
videotape in my office. After watching the
coverage, Elizabeth asked why the legislation
has not passed when it saves so many
children's lives ... I could not give her an
answer."

Section of open letter penned by Ed, Lois

and Elizabeth Smart to the United States
House of Representatives. March 18,
2003.[53]

One month after the recovery of

Elizabeth Smart, the state of Utah
superseded the then-existing Rachael
Alert[54] with the nationwide AMBER
alert child abduction alert system—in
part to conform with recently
implemented nationwide procedures.
Although the Rachael Alert was
superseded, this system had seen a
success in the two years of its
existence.[55][n 1]

Legal proceedings

Competency evaluations

The court requested that Mitchell

undergo a competency evaluation,[4]
based on his claims of being a religious
prophet.[57] While awaiting the
evaluation, Mitchell was incarcerated at
the Utah State Hospital. Stephen
Golding, a psychologist hired by the
defense, distinguished between
zealous belief and delusion, and
concluded that Mitchell's beliefs
transcended zeal and were in fact
delusional. It was Golding's opinion that
Mitchell was not competent to stand
trial as a result of his delusions. The
court, however, overruled Golding's
opinion and found Mitchell to be
competent in 2004.[58] Plea
negotiations subsequently began
between the defense and the
prosecution. The defendant was willing
to plead guilty to kidnapping and
burglary for a 10- to 15-year sentence
on condition that Smart should not
testify. The prosecution refused to drop
sexual assault charges against
Mitchell, and no agreement was
reached.[58]

On October 15, 2004, plea negotiations

had still not determined an agreement.
The defense appealed as late as
October 21, asking the prosecution to
rethink their position in terms of what
they were offering Mitchell. Up until this
point the defense did not highlight
breakdown in competence as a
contributing factor to the deterioration
of plea negotiations; they cited the lack
of a coming to an agreement as being
the result of the sole discretion of their
client. The appeal was subsequently
rejected.

Jennifer Skeem, a psychologist who

initially stated that Mitchell was
competent, interviewed Mitchell again
per the defense's request in February
2005. After this interview, Heidi Buchi,
Mitchell's attorney, filed a brief stating
that Mitchell was no longer competent
to stand trial. Mitchell subsequently
began to act out in court, while jail staff
observed no change in his behavior and
thought process. Ultimately, Judge
Judy Atherton agreed with the defense,
asserting that Mitchell's behavior
reflected psychosis. The defendant re-
entered Utah State hospital on August
11, 2005, and remained there until
2008. While he was in the hospital, no
staff members observed Mitchell being
paranoid in a pathological sense.
In February 2006, a bill went before the
Utah legislature to allow prosecutors to
apply for forcible medication on
defendants to restore their competence
to face trial. Permission to forcibly
medicate Wanda Barzee was also
sought, relying upon the U.S. Supreme
Court's decision in Sell v. United States
(2003), which permits compulsory
medication when the state can
demonstrate a compelling interest is
served by restoring a person's
competence and that medication would
not harm the person or prevent him
from defending himself. In June 2006, a
Utah judge approved the forcible
medication of Barzee so that she could
stand trial.

On December 18, 2006, Mitchell was

again declared unfit to stand trial in the
Utah state courts after screaming at a
judge during a hearing to "forsake those
robes and kneel in the dust."[4][59]
Doctors had been trying to treat
Mitchell without drugs, but prosecutor
Kent Morgan said after the scene in
court that a request was likely to be
made for permission to forcibly
administer drugs. On December 12,
2008, it was reported that Mitchell
could not legally be forcibly medicated
by the State of Utah to attempt to
restore his mental competency, also
claiming that it is "unnecessary and
needlessly harsh," and therefore a
violation of the Utah state constitution,
to prolong trial proceedings to this
length.[60]

The case was eventually transferred to

Federal court on October 10, 2008.
Issues of competency proved to be the
crux of the case, and the court held an
evidentiary hearing on Mitchell's
competency on October 1, 2009, and
November 30 through December 11,
2009. On one occasion during a hearing
in October, it was reported that Mitchell
burst out singing hymns in court.[4]
During one of these hearings, Smart
described Mitchell as "smart, articulate,
evil, wicked, manipulative, sneaky, slimy,
selfish, greedy, not spiritual, not
religious, not close to God."[61]

Competency evaluations conducted by

Noel Gardner, Michael Welner and
Richart DeMier were presented at the
hearing. Gardner maintained that he
believed Mitchell was fully aware of his
actions and was attempting to deceive
the court. Welner, another witness in
the case, reviewed 210 sources and 57
separate interviews including Mitchell,
his wife Wanda Barzee, his family, and
Elizabeth Smart. The Court credited
Welner with presenting a 206-page
report.[62] Welner opined that Mitchell
was competent to stand trial, and
diagnosed him with non-exclusive
pedophilia, antisocial personality
disorder, narcissistic personality
disorder, malingering and alcohol abuse
in a controlled environment.[57] Welner
believed that Mitchell was highly
manipulative and used his religious
expression as a way to coax people into
overlooking his high function and
dismissing him as delusional.[57]
Experts for the defense including Dr.
DeMier, a clinical psychologist, did not
dispute these diagnoses; they
maintained he had a concurrent fixed
delusional disorder, believing that
Mitchell was mentally ill at the time of
the crime, and this greatly impaired his
judgment. Mitchell was deemed
competent to stand trial on March 1,
2010.
Prosecution and sentencing

Wanda Barzee eventually pleaded guilty

and was sentenced to concurrent terms
of 15 years in state and federal prison.
However, due to the delays and mental
evaluations, it took Mitchell's case
almost eight years to come to court.[63]

Mitchell's trial began on November 8,

2010. The defense acknowledged that
Mitchell was responsible for the crimes,
but contended that he was legally
insane at the time of the crime, and
should therefore be found not guilty by
reason of insanity.[58] The insanity
defense for Mitchell was rejected on
December 11, 2010, when the jury
found him guilty of kidnapping and
transporting a minor across state lines
with intent to engage in sexual
activity.[64] U.S. District Judge Dale A.
Kimball sentenced Mitchell to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
Mitchell is currently serving his
sentence at U.S. Penitentiary, Terre
Haute, a high-security federal prison in
Terre Haute, Indiana.
In 2016, Barzee's federal imprisonment
was terminated and she was
transferred from the Federal Medical
Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, to
the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, to
begin serving her state prison
sentence. She was released in
September 2018, which Smart
protested.[65]

Timeline

Abduction and investigation

June 4, 2002 – The Smart family

arrives late at the Bryant Middle
School awards function; Elizabeth
receives awards in physical fitness
and academics but does not play her
harp as planned. Family returns
home and retires to bed.[32]
June 5, 2002 – Elizabeth is abducted
from her bedroom in the early hours
of the morning. Mary Katherine, her
sister, is a witness to the crime.
Elizabeth is held prisoner at a camp
in Dry Creek Canyon, the entrance to
which is a short distance from the
Smart family house.
June 6, 2002 – A reward for her
rescue is set at $250,000.
June 7, 2002 – A milkman reports
suspicious activities of Bret Michael
Edmunds in neighborhood.
June 9, 2002 – Ed Smart is
questioned and polygraphed.
June 12, 2002 – Manhunt for Bret
Michael Edmunds.
June 14, 2002 – Suspect Richard
Ricci is arrested on unrelated
charges.
June 21, 2002 – Bret Michael
Edmunds caught at City Hospital in
Martinsburg, West Virginia, and
questioned the next day.
June 24, 2002 – Richard Ricci arrest
announced.
July 11, 2002 – Richard Ricci charged
with theft in the Smart home. Denies
any involvement with Elizabeth's
kidnapping.
July 24, 2002 – Attempted
kidnapping at the house of
Elizabeth's cousin.[66]
August 2002 – Salt Lake City
Detective Richey, based on a tip,
confronts Smart and her kidnappers
at the City Library. He is deflected
from examining Smart's face by a
religious argument. Smart later
testified, "I felt like hope was walking
out the door", as the detective
accepted the argument and left.[32]
August 2002 – Mitchell, Barzee, and
Elizabeth leave Dry Creek Canyon and
go to Salt Lake City.
August 27, 2002 – Richard Ricci
collapses.
August 30, 2002 – Richard Ricci dies
of brain hemorrhage.
September 17, 2002 – Police
suspend regular briefings with the
Smart family.
September 27, 2002 – Police arrest
Mitchell for shoplifting and later
release him.
September 28, 2002 – Barzee and
Elizabeth are spotted in the town of
Lakeside, California, in San Diego
County.
October 12, 2002 – Mary Katherine
remembers the voice of the
kidnapper as that of the man they
knew as "Immanuel".
February 3, 2003 – Smart family
releases the sketch of the man
known as Immanuel.
February 12, 2003 – Mitchell is
arrested in El Cajon, California, in San
Diego County, for breaking into a
church. He was not recognized as the
criminal wanted in Utah.
February 15, 2003 – America's Most
Wanted features "Immanuel" and
requests responses.
February 16, 2003 – Mitchell's family
identifies him to police as the man
known as "Immanuel".
February 17, 2003 – Newly published,
more recent photographs of Mitchell
made available.
March 5, 2003 – Mitchell, Barzee, and
Elizabeth leave San Diego County,
California.
March 12, 2003 – Elizabeth Smart is
found alive in the city of Sandy, Utah.

Aftermath

Smart with her mother, Lois, and President George W. Bush at the signing of the PROTECT Act of 2003
March 18, 2003 – Mitchell and
Barzee are charged with aggravated
kidnapping, aggravated sexual
assault, and aggravated burglary.
April 30, 2003 – Elizabeth makes her
first public appearance after her
return.
October 27, 2003 – Dateline NBC
interview with Elizabeth.
July 26, 2005 – Mitchell declared
mentally incompetent to stand trial.
December 18, 2006 – Mitchell again
declared unfit to stand trial.
April 30, 2008 – Ed Smart appears on
Madeline McCann One Year On.
November 17, 2008 – People
magazine features Elizabeth Smart
as one of their heroes of the year. In
the article Elizabeth says she plans
to live in England next year.
October 2009 – In a court hearing
Elizabeth Smart described Mitchell
as "smart, articulate, evil, wicked,
manipulative, sneaky, slimy, selfish,
greedy, not spiritual, not religious, not
close to God."[61]
November 17, 2009 – Barzee
sentenced to 15 years for her role in
the kidnapping.
March 1, 2010 – Mitchell ruled
competent to stand trial.[67]
December 10, 2010 – Mitchell
convicted in Smart abduction.
May 25, 2011 – Mitchell is sentenced
to two life sentences in federal prison
for the kidnapping of Smart.[68][69]
September 11, 2018 – The Utah
Board of Pardons and Parole
announced Barzee is scheduled to be
released on September 19 because
the board had failed to give her credit
for time served in federal prison.[70]
September 19, 2018 – After serving
nine years in prison 72-year-old
Barzee is released from prison. She
will be on parole, under federal
supervision, for five years.[71][72] Upon
release, she is a registered sex
offender (Identification #: 1134472)
in the state of Utah.[73]
December 31, 2018 – Three months
after Barzee's release, it is revealed
that she is living near a Salt Lake City
elementary school. There appear to
be no restrictions to how close she
can live to a school, though Utah's
state rules disallow her from going
on school property.[74]

Media

Television interviews

In October 2003, Elizabeth Smart and

her parents were interviewed for a
special segment of Dateline NBC. The
interview, conducted by the Today
show's Katie Couric, featured
Elizabeth's first interview with any
media outlet. Couric questioned
Elizabeth's parents about their
experiences while Elizabeth was
missing, including the Smarts' personal
opinions concerning Elizabeth's
captors. Couric then interviewed
Elizabeth about school and her life
following her kidnapping.

Shortly after the Dateline interview,

Elizabeth Smart and her family were
featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
where Winfrey questioned the Smarts
about the kidnapping.

In July 2006, legal commentator and

television personality Nancy Grace
interviewed Elizabeth Smart,
purportedly to talk about pending
legislation on sex-offender registration,
but repeatedly asked her for
information about her experience. In
response to the questioning, Elizabeth
told Grace, "I really am here to support
the bill and not to go into what, you
know, what happened to me." When
Grace persisted, asking Elizabeth what
it was like to see out of a niqab her
abductors forced her to wear, Elizabeth
stated: "I'm really not going to talk
about this at this time ... and to be
frankly honest I really don't appreciate
you bringing all this up." Grace did not
pursue further questioning about the
abduction.

Literature

The Smart family published a book,

Bringing Elizabeth Home (ISBN 978-
0385512145). Elizabeth's uncle Tom
Smart co-authored a book with Deseret
News journalist Lee Benson, titled In
Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind
the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
(ISBN 978-1556526213), which
criticized the investigation process by
the Salt Lake City Police Department,
as well as noting the media influences
that led to her successful recovery.[75]

Film depictions

The kidnapping was depicted in the

2003 television film The Elizabeth Smart
Story, which was directed by Bobby
Roth, and based on the book Bringing
Elizabeth Home. It starred Amber
Marshall as Elizabeth Smart, Dylan
Baker and Lindsay Frost as her parents,
and Tom Everett as Brian David
Mitchell.[76] It was nominated for three
Young Artist Awards in 2004. The film
first aired on CBS on November 9, 2003,
eight months after Elizabeth was found.

In 2017 on the 15th anniversary of her

abduction, Lifetime aired the made-for-
TV film titled I Am Elizabeth Smart,
narrated and produced by Smart, which
tells the story of her kidnapping from
her own perspective. The film starred
Alana Boden as Elizabeth Smart, Skeet
Ulrich as Brian David Mitchell, and
Deirdre Lovejoy as Wanda Ileen
Barzee.[77] Also airing in 2017 is
Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography from
Biography, a two-hour telefilm.

See also
Portals: Utah Biography
Latter Day Saints
List of child abuse cases featuring
long-term detention
List of kidnappings
List of solved missing person cases

Notes
1. The Rachael Alert system was named
after a three-year-old named Rachael
Runyan, who had been abducted and
murdered in 1982. Prior to the
implementation of the Rachael Alert
child abduction alert system in Utah, her
parents had relentlessly campaigned for
the implementation of an effective
method to alert the public and law
enforcement of child abductions and
general child safety in Utah. Rachael
Alert was formally inaugurated in May
2002[55][56]

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Cited works and further

reading
Haberman, Maggie; MacIntosh,
Jeane (2003). Held Captive: The
Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth
Smart (https://archive.org/details/hel
dcaptivekidna00habe) . Harper
Collins. ISBN 978-0-060-58020-9.
Murphy, Paul (2011). Guide for
Implementing Or Enhancing an
Endangered Missing Advisory (EMA).
Washington: U. S. Department of
Justice. ISBN 978-1-437-98383-8.
Smart, Ed; Smart, Lois; Morton, Laura
(2012). Bringing Elizabeth Home: A
Journey of Faith and Hope. New York:
Doubleday. ISBN 978-1-593-35517-3.
Smart, Elizabeth; Stewart, Chris
(2014). My Story. New York: St.
Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1-250-
05545-3.
Smart, Tom; Benson, Lee (2005). In
Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind
the Elizabeth Smart Investigation (http
s://archive.org/details/inplainsightst
ar00smar) . Chicago: Chicago
Review Press. ISBN 1-55652-579-6.
Williams, Charles (2005). Faces of the
Amber Alert. Bloomington, Indiana:
Author House. ISBN 978-1-420-
86783-1.
External links
Elizabeth Smart Missing Child Profile
(https://web.archive.org/web/200910
04004400/http://www.amw.com/mis
sing_children/brief.cfm?id=25470)
at America's Most Wanted
Brian Mitchell Profile (https://web.arc
hive.org/web/20081220015347/htt
p://www.amw.com/captures/brief.cf
m?id=27599) at America's Most
Wanted
Multimedia
NPR's This American Life, episode
#286: "Mind Games: The Invisible
Girl" (http://www.thisamericanlife.or
g/radio-archives/episode/286/mind-
games) – Writer/narrater, Scott
Carrier; producer, Ira Glass (segment
start: 43:30 minutes in podcast)

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