Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when kidnappers grabbed her from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and abused her for nine months — now, at age 38, she's revisiting that nightmare and the media frenzy ...

Elizabeth Smart shared a powerful message to Savannah Guthrie and family amid mom Nancy Guthrie's disappearance in an ...

When Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home in 2002, it set her life on a trajectory that was far from the one she’d first imagined. “I just saw this calm road ahead of me,” the survivor and ...

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 is not letting her past trauma keep her down. One week after Wanda Barzee—who kidnapped a then-14-year-old Smart in 2002 and held her captive for nine months—was arrested for violating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. In 2002, Elizabeth Smart’s abduction shocked the nation when the ...

Elizabeth Smart's 2002 abduction from her home in Utah resulted in one of the most publicized missing-person cases in U.S. history. For nine months, the 14-year-old endured abuse and starvation before ...

She was found by authorities nine months later, and her kidnappers were later sentenced to time in prison Now a married mother of three, Smart is a vocal victims' rights advocate and founder of the ...

High-profile abductions, like those of Patty Hearst and J. Paul Getty III, have captured the nation’s attention, but experts say kidnappings by strangers are exceedingly rare. By Michael Levenson A ...