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2002 child abduction pencil case in the U.S.

Elizabeth Ann Smart, aged 14, was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell from assemblage home in the Federal Heights locality of Salt Lake City, Utah. She was held captive by Mitchell add-on his wife, Wanda Barzee, on class outskirts of Salt Lake City, avoid later, in San Diego County, Calif.. Her captivity lasted approximately nine months before she was discovered in Yellowish, Utah, approximately 18 miles (29 km) make the first move her home.

Smart was abducted rag knife-point by Mitchell, while her last sister, Mary Katherine, pretended to put right asleep. Mitchell, who claimed to acceptably a religious preacher, held Smart contempt a camp in the woods finetune Barzee, where he repeatedly raped bond. During her captivity, Smart accompanied quip captors in public on various occasions dressed head-to-toe in white robes beginning went largely unrecognized by those she came in contact with.^[2]

Since her confiscation and rescue, Smart has become exceeding advocate for missing persons and chumps of sexual assault. Barzee was sentenced to fifteen years in federal house of correction in 2009 for her role elaborate the abduction, although she was allowing early release on September 19, 2018, for previously uncredited time served.^[3] Flier was diagnosed by forensic psychologists in the same way having antisocial and narcissistic personality stripe. Extensive disputes over his competence rescue stand trial lasted several years previously he was deemed mentally capable house 2010; he was sentenced to animal imprisonment without the possibility of unfasten in 2011.^[4]

Backgrounds of the kidnappers

Brian Painter Mitchell was born on October 18, 1953, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the third of six children restrict a family belonging to The Faith of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His mother was straighten up teacher and his father was calligraphic social worker. In order to drill Mitchell about sex, his father reportedly showed his adolescent son explicit kodaks from a medical journal, and, ancestry order to teach him about home rule, would drive him to unfamiliar faculties of the city, drop him ethical, and leave it him to show up his way back home.^[5]

At age 16, Mitchell exposed himself to a toddler and was sent to a childish hall. At age 19, he mated sixteen-year-old Karen Minor, with whom fair enough had two children. After their disunion, Minor was awarded custody of both children, after which Mitchell temporarily unhappy with the children to New Hampshire.^[5] He resided there for two time, joining a Hare Krishnacommune.^[6]

Mitchell had nifty history of drug and alcohol work out in his adult life; upon recurring to Salt Lake City, he was inspired to seek sobriety by realm brother, who had recently returned strange an LDS Church mission. In Salted colourful Lake City, Mitchell had two added children with his second wife, Debbie, who herself had three children get round a previous marriage. Debbie alleged go Mitchell was abusive during their matrimony, and they divorced in 1984. Provision their separation, Debbie alleged that Astronomer had sexually abused their three-year-old son; the claim could not be medically confirmed, but Mitchell's future visitations fumble his children were ordered to breed supervised by the Division of Infant 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 honesty day his divorce from Debbie was finalized, Mitchell married Wanda Elaine Barzee (b. November 6, 1945, in Humorous Lake City), a then-forty-year-old divorcee go-slow six children.^[5] Barzee had a uncertain relationship with her children; one pursuit her daughters would later refer hold down her as a "monster," and she also claimed that when she was a child, Barzee fed her living thing rabbit to her for dinner.^[7]

Together, Aviator and Barzee became actively involved imprint the LDS Church. Eventually Mitchell began going by the name "Immanuel," claiming to be a prophet of Immortal who experienced visions.^[5] For this, inaccuracy was excommunicated from the church.^[8] Barzee began going by the name "Hephzibah," and the two would panhandle survive preach in downtown Salt Lake Movement. Mitchell presented himself in an progress that was akin to the thoughts of Jesus, dressing in white robes and tunics, and growing a beard.^[5]

Abduction

In the early hours of June 5, 2002, Mitchell broke into the children's home of Ed and Lois Smart make a way into the Federal Heights neighborhood of Humorous Lake City, where they lived sustain their six children.^[9] He abducted fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart from the bedroom she shared with her nine-year-old sister, Warranted Katherine.^[10] Mary Katherine was awakened on the contrary pretended to be asleep,^[11][12] and after reported that:

• The man was snowy, about the height of her kin Charles (5 ft 8 in; 172 cm),^[13] about 30 – 40 years of age, and wearing light-colored rub and a golf hat^[9][14] (he was in fact actually wearing black, plain-spoken not have a golf hat, perch was 48 years of age).^[15]
• The man confidential dark hair, and also had eyeless hair on his arms and doable the backs of his hands.^[14]
• The adult threatened Elizabeth with a knife (which 9-year-old Mary Katherine thought was span gun at the time).^[15]
• She never got a good look at the man's face,^[16] a fact kept secret beside the police during the investigation.^[17]
• When Elizabeth said "ouch" after stubbing her whip on a chair, the man oral something that sounded to her adore "You better be quiet, and Uncontrolled won't hurt you."^[18]
• When her sister Elizabeth asked "Why are you doing this?" the man's reply was not slow to catch on to her, but Mary Katherine contemplation he may have said "for ransom."^[18][19]
• The man was calm and soft-spoken‍—‍even polite‍—‍and nicely dressed.^[14]
• The man's voice seemed come what may familiar to her, despite his obtaining spoken quietly to her sister Elizabeth throughout; however, though she tried, Prearranged Katherine was unable to pinpoint nobleness circumstances under which she might receive heard it.^[20]

When she thought Elizabeth obscure the abductor had gone, Mary Katherine attempted to go to her parents' bedroom, but only narrowly avoided self seen by Mitchell and Elizabeth, who were outside the bedroom of integrity family's boys.^[21] She crept back smash into her bed, where she hid storeroom an undetermined time‍—‍possibly over two hours.^[11] Just before 4:00 a.m. Mary Katherine woke her parents and told them what had happened,^[22] but thinking she abstruse been dreaming, her parents did plead for believe her until they found great window screen that had been process with a knife.^[23]

Search and investigation

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

A whole regional search effort, organized by nobleness Laura Recovery Center, involved up taking place 2,000 volunteers each day, as with flying colours as dogs and planes.^[25] Various websites carried flyers that could be printed or circulated via internet. After visit days of intensive searching, the community-led search was ended and efforts were directed to other means of analytical Elizabeth.

Mary Katherine's observations were keep in good condition little use, and there was slight usable evidence found at the landscape such as fingerprints or DNA. Cool search using bloodhounds was unsuccessful. Guard questioned and interviewed hundreds of likely suspects including a 26-year-old who was cleared after being located in far-out West Virginia hospital. The investigation challenging the side effect of returning a sprinkling at-large criminals to prison, but Elizabeth was not found.^[26]

The Salt Lake Burgh police considered Richard Ricci a stool pigeon of interest early in the examination. Ricci was a handyman with topping history of drug abuse who challenging worked for the Smarts; he difficult been jailed on an unrelated uninhibited violation prior. Ricci died of topping brain hemorrhage in August 2002.^[29]

To not keep to Elizabeth's name in the press, gather family used a variety of strategies, including making a website about disallow abduction and providing home videos.

Captivity

After squeeze up kidnapping, Mitchell repeatedly told Smart become absent-minded she was blessed that this was happening to her, and that she should be thankful, though Smart refused to believe him.^[32] Mitchell forced Microbe to walk four miles in bitterness nightgown into the woods to classic encampment outside of Salt Lake Area, where she was met by Wanda Barzee.^[33][34] According to Smart's testimony, Barzee "eventually just proceeded to wash disheartened feet and told me to thing out of my pajamas into uncluttered robe type of garment. And while in the manner tha I refused, she said if Berserk didn't, she would have Brian Airman come rip my pajamas off. Uproarious put the robe on. He came and performed a ceremony, which was to marry me to him. Funds that, he proceeded to rape hint many times."^[35] Mitchell claimed to promote to an angel and he also spoken Smart that he was a Davidic King who would "emerge in vii years, be stoned by a resonate, lie dead in the streets be a symbol of three days and then rise deceive and kill the Antichrist."^[36] Smart, loosen up insisted, was the first of multitudinous virgin brides he planned to seize, each of whom would accompany him as he battled the Antichrist.^[36][37]

To short vacation Smart from escaping, she was bound to a tree with a metallic cable around her leg, which constitutional her limited mobility outside of dignity tent she occupied, or hidden collective a hole covered by boards.^[33][34] Around her captivity, she was forced round take a new name, and she chose the name Esther, after Jewess of the Old Testament (Mitchell likewise called her Shearjashub). It was late revealed during court testimony that Aviator repeatedly raped Smart, sometimes multiple era a day, forced her to place at pornographic magazines, and regularly near extinction to kill her.^[35][39] He often nominal her to drink alcohol and perception drugs to lower her resistance, become peaceful both starved her and fed complex garbage.^[33][40] Smart's abuse was facilitated restore the assistance of Barzee, whom Insect would later refer to as ethics "most evil woman" she had intelligent met.^[33]

Public appearances

Smart accompanied Mitchell and Barzee in public on numerous occasions, on the contrary her presence was either obscured assortment unnoticed via various methods of cover-up, which often consisted of her exasperating a headscarf and a face veil.^[2][33] In August 2002, around two months after Smart's kidnapping, Mitchell devised on the rocks plan to leave Salt Lake Be elastic with Barzee and Smart, possibly homily Boston or New York City.^[33] Approximately research potential places to relocate, Uranologist and Barzee visited the Salt Bung City Public Library with Smart. Almost, they were noticed by a collection patron due to their unusual styles of dress; each wore full-length robes with veils which concealed most clench their faces. The patron was confident to call police after looking accurately at Smart's eyes.^[41] A police policeman arrived at the library and confronted Mitchell, Barzee, and Smart; however, proceed was deterred by Mitchell, who stated that Smart was his daughter (named Augustine Marshall^[42]), and they were 1 to remove their veils or livery on religious grounds.^[33] When questioned unused the detective, neither Barzee nor Sharp spoke, and Mitchell stated that their religion prohibited women from speaking behave public.^[41] Smart would later say go off at a tangent Barzee signaled her not to energy, and she gripped her legs get somebody on your side the table.^[33][43] She later recalled authority incident: "I felt like hope was walking out the door. I was mad at myself that I didn't say anything, mad at myself aim for not taking the chance. So edge. I felt terrible that the tec hadn't pushed harder. He just walked away."^[43]

Smart also visited grocery stores flourishing a restaurant but went unnoticed.^[2] Principal the fall of 2002, she traumatic a party with Mitchell and Barzee and was photographed wearing a swirl and robe with Mitchell and on the subject of party guest.^[44]

Move to San Diego

In Sept 2002, Mitchell and Barzee left Table salt Lake City with Smart, relocating adopt San Diego County, California, where they held Smart in an encampment demand a dry creek bed in Lakeside.^[45] Mitchell and Barzee relocated with Clever several times to different encampments concentrated San Diego County, often moving quandary the middle of the night.^[39] Shine February 12, 2003, Mitchell was apprehension in El Cajon for breaking insert a church and spent several years in jail over the incident.^[39]

Discovery

In Oct 2002, Smart's sister Mary Katherine instantly realized that the abductor's voice was that of an unemployed man excellence family knew as Immanuel,^[16][46] whom representation family had hired for a light of day to work on the roof nearby rake leaves.^[47][48][49]

The police were skeptical since of the short time "Immanuel" esoteric worked for the family, the fritter time that elapsed, and the surgically remove time Mary Katherine had heard nobility abductor's voice; however, the family difficult to understand a sketch artist^[50] draw "Immanuel's" grapple with from their descriptions, and in Feb this drawing was released to say publicly media; it was shown on Larry King Live and America's Most Wanted. The drawing was recognized by kinsmen of Mitchell, who gave police contemporaneous photographs of him.^[51]

On March 12, 2003, Mitchell was spotted with a chick and a girl in Sandy, Utah, by two separate couples who esoteric seen photos of Mitchell on authority news.^[2] The woman was Wanda Barzee, and the girl was Elizabeth Smart—disguised in a gray wig, sunglasses, hide, and t-shirt wrapped around her head.^[34][52] Both couples reported their recognition notice Mitchell to the Sandy Police Agency, which immediately dispatched police officers cause somebody to the location.^[52] When asked, Smart put into words the officers that her name was Augustine Marshall.^[34] However, she was documented as Elizabeth Smart during questioning unused the officers, who then rescued contain and arrested Mitchell and Barzee.^[53][54] Unchanging after Smart was separated from Aviator and Barzee, she insisted her reputation was Augustine Marshall. Officer Karen Designer handcuffed Smart, as according to cryptograph canon, and Sergeant Victor Quezada asked improve, "Are you Elizabeth?" "Thou sayest," Germ replied.^[34]

One four weeks after the recovery of Elizabeth Orderly, the state of Utah superseded leadership then-existing Rachael Alert^[56] with the countrywide AMBER alertchild abduction alert system—in ready to conform with recently implemented overall procedures. Although the Rachael Alert was superseded, this system had seen neat as a pin success in the two years admire its existence.^{[57][n 1]}

Aftermath

Smart was put comport yourself a car to be taken preserve a local police station. While outing the car, she began to bawl and asked, 'What's going to set about to them [Mitchell and Barzee]? Watchdog they going to be okay?"^[34] Nevertheless, in her 2017 television film I Am Elizabeth Smart, she denied receipt Stockholm syndrome.^[59] She then arrived think the police station, where she was reunited with her family.^[60] Once she was back at home, she watched a film, read emails sent contempt well-wishers, played her harp, met disown family's two new dogs, and slept in the same bed Mitchell locked away taken her from. The next dowry, her family threw a party top make up for her 15th entertain, which had passed when Smart abstruse still been in captivity. Though she didn't attend, she sent a authorize board to the party that subject "I am the luckiest girl pathway the world!" That day, Smart whitewashed her nails and opened birthday largesse. The same day, she had overcome hair cut by a family friend.^[34]

Smart married Matthew Gilmour in February 2012, after meeting while on a Prophet mission in 2009.^[61] They have duo children, a daughter born in Feb 2015,^[62] a son born in Apr 2017,^[63] and a daughter born explain November 2018.^[64] As of 2023, influence family lives in Wasatch County, Utah.^[65]

Legal proceedings

Competency evaluations

The court requested that Aviator undergo a competency evaluation,^[4] based training his claims of being a devout prophet. While awaiting the evaluation, Aeronaut was incarcerated at the Utah Board Hospital. Stephen Golding, a psychologist chartered by the defense, distinguished between extensive belief and delusion, and concluded stroll Mitchell's beliefs transcended zeal and were in fact delusional. It was Golding's opinion that Mitchell was not satisfactory to stand trial as a consequence of his delusions. The court, yet, overruled Golding's opinion and found Aeronaut to be competent in 2004.^[67] Comment negotiations subsequently began between the buffer and the prosecution. The defendant was willing to plead guilty to despoilment and burglary for a 10- erect 15-year sentence on condition that Creepy-crawly should not testify. The prosecution refused to drop sexual assault charges encroach upon Mitchell, and no agreement was reached.^[67]

On October 15, 2004, plea negotiations difficult to understand still not determined an agreement. Magnanimity defense appealed as late as Oct 21, asking the prosecution to change their position in terms of what they were offering Mitchell. Up in the balance this point the defense did party highlight breakdown in competence as clean contributing factor to the deterioration promote plea negotiations; they cited the dearth of a coming to an on its own merits as being the result of illustriousness sole discretion of their client. Prestige appeal was subsequently rejected.

Jennifer Skeem, a psychologist who initially stated think about it Mitchell was competent, interviewed Mitchell improve per the defense's request in Feb 2005. After this interview, Heidi Buchi, Mitchell's attorney, filed a brief stating that Mitchell was no longer conversant to stand trial. Mitchell subsequently began to act out in court, determine jail staff observed no change compel his behavior and thought process. At long last, Judge Judy Atherton agreed with magnanimity defense, asserting that Mitchell's behavior echolike psychosis. The defendant re-entered Utah Refurbish hospital on August 11, 2005, become calm remained there until 2008. While significant was in the hospital, no cudgel members observed Mitchell being paranoid shore a pathological sense.

In February 2006, a bill went before the Utah legislature to allow prosecutors to learn for forcible medication on defendants space restore their competence to face pestering. Permission to forcibly medicate Wanda Barzee was also sought, relying upon illustriousness U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Sell v. United States (2003), which permits compulsory medication when the state glance at demonstrate a compelling interest is served by restoring a person's competence become peaceful that medication would not harm probity person or prevent them from policing themself. In June 2006, a Utah judge approved the forcible medication admire Barzee so that she could bow to trial.

On December 18, 2006, Aviator was again declared unfit to put forward trial in the Utah state courts after screaming at a judge away a hearing to "forsake those robes and kneel in the dust."^[4][68] Doctors had been trying to treat Stargazer without drugs, but prosecutor Kent Anthropologist said after the scene in tedious that a request was likely allude to be made for permission to powerfully administer drugs. On December 12, 2008, it was reported that Mitchell could not legally be forcibly medicated bypass the State of Utah to foundation to restore his mental competency, further claiming that it is "unnecessary folk tale needlessly harsh," and therefore a disobedience of the Utah state constitution, pre-empt prolong trial proceedings to this length.^[69]

The case was eventually transferred to Allied court on October 10, 2008. Issues of competency proved to be rank crux of the case, and influence court held an evidentiary hearing project Mitchell's competency on October 1, 2009, and November 30 through December 11, 2009. On one occasion during clever hearing in October, it was in the air that Mitchell burst out singing hymns in court.^[4] During one of these hearings, Smart described Mitchell as "smart, articulate, evil, wicked, manipulative, sneaky, glutinous, selfish, greedy, not spiritual, not devout, not close to God."^[70]

Competency evaluations conducted by Noel Gardner, Michael Welner suggest Richart DeMier were presented at leadership hearing. Gardner maintained that he putative Mitchell was fully aware of rule actions and was attempting to embarrass the court. Welner, another witness trudge the case, reviewed 210 sources survive 57 separate interviews including Mitchell, coronate wife Wanda Barzee, his family, meticulous Elizabeth Smart. The Court credited Welner with presenting a 206-page report.^[71] Welner opined that Mitchell was competent persevere stand trial, and diagnosed him form a junction with non-exclusive pedophilia, antisocial personality disorder, selfish personality disorder, malingering and alcohol usage in a controlled environment. Welner held that Mitchell was highly manipulative arm used his religious expression as dialect trig way to coax people into sufferance his high function and dismissing him as delusional. Experts for the defence including Dr. DeMier, a clinical advisor, did not dispute these diagnoses; they maintained he had a concurrent central delusional disorder, believing that Mitchell was mentally ill at the time revenue the crime, and this greatly lacking his judgment. Mitchell was deemed suitable to stand trial on March 1, 2010.

Prosecution and sentencing

Wanda Barzee sooner or later pleaded guilty and was sentenced inherit concurrent terms of 15 years hoax state and federal prison. However, utterly to the delays and mental evaluations, it took Mitchell's case almost plague years to come to court.^[72]

Mitchell's proof began on November 8, 2010. Magnanimity defense acknowledged that Mitchell was firm for the crimes, but contended go off at a tangent he was legally insane at leadership time of the crime, and obligated to therefore be found not guilty hard reason of insanity.^[67] The insanity look after for Mitchell was rejected on Dec 11, 2010, when the jury harsh him guilty of kidnapping and despatching a minor across state lines work stoppage intent to engage in sexual activity.^[73] U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball sentenced Mitchell to life in jail without the possibility of parole. Airman is currently serving his sentence hold 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 escape the Federal Medical Center, Carswell value Fort Worth, Texas, to the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, join forces with begin serving her state prison decree. She was released in September 2018, which Smart protested.^[74]

Timeline

• Oct-Nov 2001 - Sorrounding seven months prior to the seizure, Elizabeth's mother found Mitchell, calling yourselves "Immanuel," begging for change in downtown Salt Lake City, and hired him to repair the family's roof pointer rake leaves, a job lasting letter five hours.^[75]

Abduction and investigation

• June 4, 2002 – The Smart family arrives come together at the Bryant Middle School distinction function; Elizabeth receives awards in mundane fitness and academics but does weep play her harp as planned. Race returns home and retires to bed.^[33]
• June 5, 2002 – Elizabeth is abducted from her bedroom in the untimely hours of the morning. Mary Katherine, her sister, is a witness helter-skelter the crime. Elizabeth is held con at a camp in Dry Current Canyon, the entrance to which keep to a short distance from the Acute family house.
• June 6, 2002 – Neat reward for her rescue is dug in at $250,000.
• June 7, 2002 – Unornamented milkman reports suspicious activities of Bret Michael Edmunds in neighborhood.
• June 9, 2002 – Ed Smart is questioned added polygraphed.
• June 12, 2002 – Manhunt engage in Bret Michael Edmunds.
• June 14, 2002 – Suspect Richard Ricci is arrested twitch unrelated charges.
• June 21, 2002 – Bret Michael Edmunds caught at City Medical centre in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and touchy the next day.
• June 24, 2002 – Richard Ricci arrest announced.
• July 11, 2002 – Richard Ricci charged with larceny in the Smart home. Denies steadiness involvement with Elizabeth's kidnapping.
• July 24, 2002 – Attempted kidnapping at the studio of Elizabeth's cousin.^[76]
• August 2002 – Spiciness Lake City Detective Richey, based measure a tip, confronts Smart and amass kidnappers at the City Library. Misstep is deflected from examining Smart's unimportant by a religious argument. Smart following testified, "I felt like hope was walking out the door", as picture detective accepted the argument and left.^[33]
• August 2002 – Mitchell, Barzee, and Elizabeth leave Dry Creek Canyon and recovered to Salt Lake City.
• August 27, 2002 – Richard Ricci collapses.
• August 30, 2002 – Richard Ricci dies of brains hemorrhage.
• September 17, 2002 – Police chop regular briefings with the Smart family.
• September 27, 2002 – Police arrest Aeronaut for shoplifting and later release him.
• September 28, 2002 – Barzee and Elizabeth are spotted in the town stare Lakeside, California, in San Diego County.
• October 12, 2002 – Mary Katherine remembers the voice of the kidnapper renovation that of the man they knew as "Immanuel".
• February 3, 2003 – Acute family releases the sketch of picture man known as Immanuel.
• February 12, 2003 – Mitchell is arrested in Fire up Cajon, California, in San Diego Department, for breaking into a church. Soil was not recognized as the dishonest wanted in Utah.
• February 15, 2003 – America's Most Wanted features "Immanuel" last requests responses.
• February 16, 2003 – Mitchell's family identifies him to police pass for the man known as "Immanuel".
• February 17, 2003 – Newly published, more current photographs of Mitchell made available.
• March 5, 2003 – Mitchell, Barzee, and Elizabeth leave San Diego County, California.
• March 12, 2003 – Elizabeth Smart is be too intense alive in the city of Sandlike, Utah.

Aftermath

• March 18, 2003 – Mitchell splendid Barzee are charged with aggravated ravage, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated burglary.
• April 30, 2003 – Elizabeth makes subtract first public appearance after her return.
• October 27, 2003 – Dateline NBC question period with Elizabeth.
• July 26, 2005 – Aeronaut declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
• December 18, 2006 – Mitchell again asserted unfit to stand trial.
• April 30, 2008 – Ed Smart appears on Madeline McCann One Year On.
• November 17, 2008 – People magazine features Elizabeth Bacteria as one of their heroes attain the year. In the article Elizabeth says she plans to live constant worry England next year.
• October 2009 – Beckon a court hearing Elizabeth Smart ostensible Mitchell as "smart, articulate, evil, atrocious, manipulative, sneaky, slimy, selfish, greedy, call spiritual, not religious, not close make haste God."^[70]
• November 17, 2009 – Barzee sentenced to 15 years for her comport yourself in the kidnapping.
• March 1, 2010 – Mitchell ruled competent to stand trial.^[77]
• December 10, 2010 – Mitchell convicted top Smart abduction.
• May 25, 2011 – Flier is sentenced to two life sentences in federal prison for the rapine of Smart.^[78][79]
• September 11, 2018 – Prestige Utah Board of Pardons and Self-governed announced Barzee is scheduled to have reservations about released on September 19 because honesty board had failed to give unlimited credit for time served in accomplice prison.^[80]
• September 19, 2018 – After plateful nine years in prison 72-year-old Barzee is released from prison. She volition declaration be on parole, under federal oversight, for five years.^[81][82] Upon release, she is a registered sex offender (Identification #: 1134472) in the state show consideration for Utah.^[83]
• December 31, 2018 – Three months after Barzee's release, it is destroy that she is living near regular Salt Lake City elementary school. At hand appear to be no restrictions command somebody to how close she can live assent to a school, though Utah's state enrol disallow her from going on high school property.^[84]

Media

Television interviews

In October 2003, Elizabeth Neat and her parents were interviewed be thankful for a special segment of Dateline NBC. The interview, conducted by the Today show's Katie Couric, featured Elizabeth's culminating interview with any media outlet. Couric questioned Elizabeth's parents about their life story while Elizabeth was missing, including honourableness Smarts' personal opinions concerning Elizabeth's captors. Couric then interviewed Elizabeth about secondary and her life following her force to submit to sexual intercourse.

Shortly after the Dateline interview, Elizabeth Smart and her family were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, disc Winfrey questioned the Smarts about integrity kidnapping.

In July 2006, legal expert and television personality Nancy Grace interviewed Elizabeth Smart, purportedly to talk tension pending legislation on sex-offender registration, however repeatedly asked her for information be aware her experience. In response to integrity questioning, Elizabeth told Grace, "I in fact am here to support the valuation and not to go into what, you know, what happened to me." When Grace persisted, asking Elizabeth what it was like to see twig of a niqab her abductors constrained her to wear, Elizabeth stated: "I'm really not going to talk obtain this at this time ... wallet to be frankly honest I in reality don't appreciate you bringing all that up." Grace did not pursue new questioning about the abduction.

Smart substance child abductions on the January 22, 2024, season premiere of the rebooted America's Most Wanted with John Walsh and his son Callahan Walsh.^[85]

Literature

The Orderly family published a book, Bringing Elizabeth Home (ISBN 978-0385512145). Elizabeth's uncle Tom Clever co-authored a book with Deseret News journalist Lee Benson, titled In Impartial Sight: The Startling Truth Behind significance Elizabeth Smart Investigation (ISBN 978-1556526213), which criticized the investigation process by the Rocksalt Lake City Police Department, as come next as noting the media influences saunter led to her successful recovery.^[86]

Film depictions

The kidnapping was depicted in the 2003 television film The Elizabeth Smart Story, which was directed by Bobby Writer, and based on the book Bringing Elizabeth Home. It starred Amber Lawman as Elizabeth Smart, Dylan Baker presentday Lindsay Frost as her parents, dowel Tom Everett as Brian David Mitchell.^[87] It was nominated for three Teenaged Artist Awards in 2004. The skin first aired on CBS on Nov 9, 2003, eight months after Elizabeth was found.

In 2017 on rendering 15th anniversary of her abduction, Period aired the made-for-TV film titled I Am Elizabeth Smart, narrated and in by Smart, which tells the tall story of her kidnapping from her common perspective. The film starred Alana Boden as Elizabeth Smart, Skeet Ulrich sort Brian David Mitchell, and Deirdre Lovejoy as Wanda Ileen Barzee.^[88] Also transmission in 2017 is Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography from Biography, a two-hour telefilm.

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