Jan 31, 2020
4 min read
Elizabeth Smart Speaks
On June 5, 2002, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. For nine months the abduction of the 14 year old lacked answers. Investigators, volunteers, and her family and friends searched for her and clues to her whereabouts, desperate to find her.
For those nine months, Elizabeth Smart was being held hostage by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was shackled to a tree with a metal cable to keep her from escaping the camp in the mountains that she was told she would now call home. Forced to put on a white robe, she could do nothing while her…
