Ed Smart tapped into his own experience with his daughter Elizabeth's kidnapping to offer hope and advice to Nancy Guthrie's ...

Elizabeth Smart is revealing the onslaught of emotions she felt after she was rescued from her kidnapper following nine months of captivity and sexual assault. More than two decades ago, Smart, now 38 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was an abduction so brazen that local law enforcement officials said they had never seen anything like it in their careers. A ...

Elizabeth Smart and her husband Matthew Gilmour in April 2025. Elizabeth Smart’s husband didn’t know about her horrific kidnapping when they first met — but now, he’s helping her build a life on her ...

In 2002, a then-14-year-old Smart was taken at knife-point from her home in Utah and held captive for nine months.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abduction of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002, set off a frantic search that gripped ...

Elizabeth Smart’s captor was already planning his next crime — abducting her teen cousin and declaring her his new "wife." "I remember he said to me, ‘She’s supposed to be the next wife,’" Smart, 38, ...

True crime fans want to know if Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, is still alive. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, kidnapped the then-14-year-old from her bedroom in Salt Lake ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. More than 20 years after her kidnapping, Elizabeth Smart is ...

According to books and news stories, immediately after her abduction, Smart was kept at a campsite a few miles from her home. She was sometimes tethered to a tree or hidden in a hole. She once heard ...