Editor’s note: This story was originally published on March 12, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 12, 2003, Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old ...

Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped in 2002 Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee abducted 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart on June 5, 2002 She was found nine months later, and her kidnappers ...

Elizabeth Smart became a household name after she vanished from her bedroom on the night of June 5, 2002. The then-14-year-old was snatched from her Salt Lake City home while she slept by Brian David ...

SALT LAKE CITY — On Sunday, June fifth, it was 20 years since Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. Smart was abducted from her family's home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002. She was sexually abused for ...

Ed and Lois Smart divorced in 2019 after Ed came out as gay In 2002, Elizabeth Smart's parents, Ed and Lois Smart, were thrust into a nightmare. Elizabeth was just 14 when Brian David Mitchell ...

In the early hours of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her Salt Lake City, Utah bedroom while her sister Mary Katherine slept nearby. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, the ...

Ed Smart, father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, expressed deep empathy and offered advice to the family of ...

Elizabeth Smart’s name is tied to one of the most harrowing and well-known kidnapping cases in American history. Over two decades later, largely thanks to her story constantly being rehashed via ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most infamous kidnapping cases in American history comes into the spotlight again with Netflix's Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, a documentary premiering Wednesday. Smart was kidnapped from her ...