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Elizabeth Smart’s Father Ed Smart Comes Out As Gay, Divorces His Wife

Elizabeth Smart’s Father Ed Smart Comes Out As Gay, Divorces His Wife

The father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart has come out as gay. Ed Smart, 64, recently revealed his truth on Facebook in a post, which he’s since removed. According to a report from People, in the post, Ed also announced that he filed for divorce from his wife Lois Smart in early July. Lois and […]

5y ago

Elizabeth Smart & Katie Beers Offer Advice To Jayme Closs

Elizabeth Smart & Katie Beers Offer Advice To Jayme Closs

Jayme Closs of Wisconsin was reported missing on October 15, 2018 after her parents were found fatally shot inside of their home. Nearly three months later on Thursday, January 10, the 13-year-old reportedly emerged from a wooded area nearly 70 miles from home and flagged down a woman walking her dog for help. According to […]

5y ago

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Wanda Barzee Is Living Near An Elementary School

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Wanda Barzee Is Living Near An Elementary School

Wanda Barzee, the woman who helped to kidnap and imprison Elizabeth Smart, is living a few blocks from a Salt Lake City elementary school, the Associated Press is reporting. Back in 2002, Wanda Barzee and her husband, street preacher Brian David Mitchell, kidnapped the then-14-year-old from her Utah home. Over the next nine months, the […]

5y ago

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Wanda Barzee Set For Release Today

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Wanda Barzee Set For Release Today

Wanda Barzee, the Utah woman who, along with her accomplice Brian David Mitchell, kidnapped then-teenager Elizabeth Smart and held her captive for nine months, will be released from prison today. As ABC News reports, Barzee was originally scheduled to be released in 2024. However, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole determined that miscalculations were […]

6y ago

Wanda Barzee’s Family Won’t Take Her In Following Release

Wanda Barzee’s Family Won’t Take Her In Following Release

In 2002, Elizabeth Smart was just 14-years-old when she was abducted at knifepoint by Wanda Barzee and her husband, Brian David Mitchell, from her bedroom in Salt Lake City. Smart was missing for nine months before she was discovered walking through a suburb in Salt Lake City with Barzee and her husband. During her captivity, […]

6y ago

Elizabeth Smart Speaks On Wanda Barzee Release: ‘She Is A Threat To Any Vulnerable Person In The Community’

Elizabeth Smart Speaks On Wanda Barzee Release: ‘She Is A Threat To Any Vulnerable Person In The Community’

Elizabeth Smart is not happy that one of her captors is set to be released from prison on September 19. Earlier this week, news broke that Wanda Barzee would be released from prison. She, along with her husband, Brian David Mitchell, kidnapped and held Elizabeth Smart captive for nine torturous months. As many recall, Elizabeth […]

6y ago

Wanda Barzee’s Lawyer Says His Client Will Not Contact Elizabeth Smart Upon Prison Release

Wanda Barzee’s Lawyer Says His Client Will Not Contact Elizabeth Smart Upon Prison Release

Elizabeth Smart and her father Ed are very concerned that one of Smart’s kidnappers, 72-year-old Wanda Barzee, is being released from prison. As the Inquisitr shared earlier today, Wanda Barzee will be released from prison next week on September 19. She and her husband, Brian David Mitchell, abducted Smart from her Salt Lake City bedroom […]

6y ago

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper, Wanda Eileen Barzee, To Be Released From Prison Next Week

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper, Wanda Eileen Barzee, To Be Released From Prison Next Week

After serving 16 years in prison for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, Wanda Eileen Barzee is scheduled for release next week according to CNN. In 2002 a then 14-year-old Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City bedroom by Barzee and her husband Brian David Mitchell. Smart was missing for nine months before […]

6y ago

Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping Survivor’s Name Back In The Spotlight After Larry Nassar’s Prison Transfer

Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping Survivor’s Name Back In The Spotlight After Larry Nassar’s Prison Transfer

Elizabeth Smart’s terrifying nine-month ordeal is back in the spotlight after disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been transferred to a federal prison in Arizona, where her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell was serving his life sentence. Nassar pleaded guilty to sexually abusing several girls, including U.S. Olympic gymnasts and was sentenced to 175 years in […]

6y ago

Elizabeth Smart Is Bringing Her Story To TV, Reveals She Is Proud Of It

Elizabeth Smart Is Bringing Her Story To TV, Reveals She Is Proud Of It

Elizabeth Smart has been through a lot over her life, and now she is going to be bringing her story to television. Yahoo! shared an interview with Smart where she talks about her new movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart, that will be coming to Lifetime. As a child, she was abducted from her Salt Lake […]

7y ago

Claude Hudson, 80, Gets 12 Years In Prison For Approaching Elizabeth Smart With A Knife, Punching A Cop

Claude Hudson, 80, Gets 12 Years In Prison For Approaching Elizabeth Smart With A Knife, Punching A Cop

Claude F. Hudson is an 80-year-old man who is facing 12 years in prison. Hudson was convicted after acting as his own lawyer in court, wherein Claude told the judge that in spite of battering a cop at an Elizabeth Smart book signing at Indiana State University in the Heritage Lounge at Tirey Hall, he […]

7y ago

Sherri Papini Update: Kidnapping Survivor Elizabeth Smart Says Abducted California Mom Can ‘Never Go Back To Normal’

Sherri Papini Update: Kidnapping Survivor Elizabeth Smart Says Abducted California Mom Can ‘Never Go Back To Normal’

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah, bedroom in 2002 at the age of 14, has spoken out about the Sherri Papini case, saying the California mother’s life will be different from now on. Sherri went missing for about three weeks but was found on Thanksgiving Day on the side of […]

8y ago

Elizabeth Smart Says Pornography Made Her Life In Captivity Worse

Elizabeth Smart Says Pornography Made Her Life In Captivity Worse

Elizabeth Smart, the young woman who was kidnapped at the age of 14 but was miraculously rescued nine months later, has released a video regarding pornography and how it affected her captivity, saying that it “made my living hell worse.” The video was made by the organization Fight the New Drug, an anti-porn non-profit group, […]

8y ago

Kidnap Survivor Has Baby: Elizabeth Smart Becomes A Mommy

Kidnap Survivor Has Baby: Elizabeth Smart Becomes A Mommy

Kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart had a baby. Smart was kidnapped from her home in Utah when she was 14. She went on to become an advocate for missing children as a young adult. The kidnap survivor gave birth to her first child in February. The news of the arrival of the bundle of joy was […]

9y ago

Elizabeth Smart Had Baby Girl–Family Wants Public Eye Trained On Mission Against Child Sex Trade

Elizabeth Smart Had Baby Girl–Family Wants Public Eye Trained On Mission Against Child Sex Trade

Elizabeth Smart, known to the world as the girl who was snatched from her parent’s home 13 years ago, is now mom to a 3-month-old baby girl named Chloe. Her father, Ed, revealed the news during an interview with the East Idaho News, which was focused on the Smart’s mission to end child sex trafficking. […]

9y ago

Elizabeth Smart Welcomes Baby Girl

Elizabeth Smart Welcomes Baby Girl

Elizabeth Smart reportedly had a baby girl in March. At the age of 14, Elizabeth made headlines when she was abducted at gunpoint from her Salt Lake City, Utah, bedroom. Nine months later, she was found — less than 20 miles from her home. #ElizabethSmart, Kidnapping Survivor, Gave Birth to Baby Girl http://t.co/395R0vIXiG pic.twitter.com/4KpA60DLtn — […]

9y ago

Utah Dad Confronts Kidnapper And Saves 5-year-old Daughter

Utah Dad Confronts Kidnapper And Saves 5-year-old Daughter

A Utah dad thwarted an attempt by an intruder to kidnap his 5-year old daughter from her bed early Friday after confronting the intruder, who was carrying her across the lawn. The child wasn’t hurt in the terrifying ordeal, but the incident does evoke a haunting similarity of when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched out […]

10y ago

Elizabeth Smart Says Her Mother’s Love Was Key To Survival

Elizabeth Smart Says Her Mother’s Love Was Key To Survival

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and held captive, chained and raped, for nine months before escaping, has dedicated her life to activism following her ordeal. In 2006, she spoke to Congress in support of sexual predator legislation and the AMBER Alert system, and spoke publicly after the signing of the Adam Walsh […]

10y ago

Elizabeth Smart Opens Up About Her Abduction And Nine Month Rape Ordeal At 14

Elizabeth Smart Opens Up About Her Abduction And Nine Month Rape Ordeal At 14

Elizabeth Smart has been a part of the ABC News team for just over three years now, and also heads up her own foundation, traveling the country talking about her nine month ordeal at the age of 14, having been abducted from her home and raped by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. Twelve years […]

10y ago

Elizabeth Smart Shares Stories Of Kidnapping, Survival

Elizabeth Smart Shares Stories Of Kidnapping, Survival

Elizabeth Smart has taken a painful part of her past and is empowering herself and others. 1011 now is reporting that Smart is traveling across the country, telling her story in support of her new memoirs, Elizabeth Smart: My Story. In it, she outlines what happened to her and the abuse that she endured from […]

10y ago

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