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 ...

Brian David Mitchell, convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, still believes he did nothing wrong, a relative says.

Brian David Mitchell is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the Federal Correctional Institution-Lewisburg, a medium security facility located in central Pennsylvania. This ...

It's been more than 20 years since Elizabeth Smart was abducted in the middle of the night by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. During the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, Mitchell broke into ...

More than two decades after Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped as a 14-year-old by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, she is opening up about the experience in Netflix’s documentary Kidnapped: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was supposed to be a normal night. But when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine went to ...

In 2002, Elizabeth Smart's parents, Ed and Lois Smart, were thrust into a nightmare. Elizabeth was just 14 when Brian David Mitchell threatened her at knifepoint and abducted her from her childhood ...

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 the United States. Smart was finally found nine months later, and ...

The Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart dives into the 2002 abduction of a teenage girl in Utah that shocked the country—and details the two people responsible: self-styled religious ...

Brian David Mitchell could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced on May 25. Elizabeth Smart gave a slight smile as she heard the guilty verdicts on charges of kidnapping and unlawful ...

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, ...