Where are Elizabeth Smart's kidnappers now?
Entertainment Weekly • • entertainment
Key Points:
- In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Utah home by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, who held her captive for nine months, subjecting her to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse before her rescue in 2003.
- Mitchell and Barzee, who met in 1985 and later married, lived a seemingly ordinary life before Mitchell's erratic behavior and claims of being a prophet led them to abandon their old lives and ultimately kidnap Smart.
- Following Smart’s kidnapping, Mitchell and Barzee were arrested in 2003; Barzee pleaded guilty in 2009 and was released from prison in 2018, while Mitchell was found guilty in 2010 and sentenced
