This Day in True Crime — October 15, 2002 The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart In the early hours of October 15, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her Salt Lake City bedroom at knifepoint while her younger sister looked on in terror. Her abductor, Brian David Mitchell, and his wife Wanda Barzee, held Elizabeth captive for nine months, moving her between makeshift campsites in Utah’s mountains. Elizabeth’s remarkable rescue in 2003 — after she was spotted walking with her captors in p