They reunited with their daughter more than two decades ago and played a crucial role in Elizabeth’s recovery.

When Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and abducted out of her childhood bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, back in 2002, her family was catapulted into the spotlight as the world set out to find her. As ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Smart has opened up about how much she shared with her parents in the wake of her brutal ordeal in 2002 when she endured nine months of daily torture and rape after being kidnapped as a teen ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --More than 20 years ago, the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl from her Salt Lake City bedroom had many Americans glued to the news, hoping to learn who was to blame and whether she'd ...

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 ...

Ed Smart appeared in Netflix's 2026 documentary 'Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart' Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Utah home on June 5, 2002, by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee She was reunited ...