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Brian David Mitchell Found Guilty: A Look Back at Elizabeth Smart's Ordeal [TIMELINE]

(Dec. 10) -- After more than eight years, Elizabeth Smart and her family are finally getting some closure. Former street preacher Brian David Mitchell, 57, was found guilty today on charges of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines. That minor was Elizabeth Smart, now 23, who captured the nation's...

Defense Psychiatrist Says Mitchell Is Paranoid Schizophrenic

(Dec. 2) -- A prison psychologist testified today that the street preacher accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart is a paranoid schizophrenic, convinced that he will battle the Antichrist. "I believe he has a mental illness," said Richard DeMier, a clinical psychologist who conducted a court-ordered evaluation of Brian...

Smart: Religion Used 'to Justify Everything'

(Nov. 10) -- Elizabeth Smart testified today that her kidnapper claimed to be a prophet, but he was really a manipulative hypocrite who used religion to get what he wanted: sex and alcohol. Smart, now 23, completed her third day of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, 57, a former itinerant preacher who called...

Elizabeth Smart Tells of Terror, Even at Her Rescue

(Nov. 9) -- He raped her every day. He took away her name and gave her another one. Whenever they ventured out in public, her face and blond hair were hidden by a veil. He said that if she tried to get help, he would kill her and her family. And when police finally found her, she was so terrified that she lied about her...

Elizabeth Smart Testifies in Alleged Kidnapper's Trial

(Nov. 8) -- Elizabeth Smart took the stand today in the federal trial of her accused kidnapper and described how she awoke in the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, to feel a knife at her throat. The man holding it threatened to kill her and her family if she did not come with him, she said. "He said he was taking me...

Background on elizabeth smart kidnapping

The kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart occurred on June 5, 2002, when 14-year-old American girl Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City, Utah, bedroom.

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