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One of Smart's abductors, Brian David Mitchell, was born on October 18, 1953, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the third of six children in a Mormon family. His mother was a teacher and his father was a social worker.In order to teach Mitchell about sex, his father reportedly showed his adolescent son explicit photos from a medical journal, and, in order to teach him about independence, he would drive ...
Jul 27, 2022 · Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison, where he remains to this day. Wanda Barzee, who had testified against Mitchell, got 15 years and was released in 2018. And Elizabeth Smart has gone on to have a successful life of her own as an activist, author, and mother.
Aug 1, 2020 · Brian David Mitchell was born on October 18, 1953, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in a Mormon family. Apparently, to teach him about sex, his father, a social worker, showed his adolescent son explicit photos from a medical journal. Brian was just 16 when he was arrested for the first time, for exposing himself to a child.
Apr 19, 2021 · June 5, 2002: Smart is kidnapped. Smart is jolted awake in the early-morning hours by a knife pressed to her throat and a voice ordering her out of bed. Her younger sister, Mary Katherine, is also ...
Dec 10, 2010 · Brian David Mitchell is found guilty of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, then 14, from her Utah home in 2002 and transporting her for sex.
May 25, 2011 · AP. (CBS/KUTV/AP) SALT LAKE CITY - Brian David Mitchell has been sentenced to life in federal prison for kidnapping Elizabeth Smart at knifepoint, raping her and holding her captive. Smart, now 23 ...
Sep 18, 2018 · Smart was rescued in 2003 after being abducted and held in captivity for nine months. Barzee and her husband, Brian David Mitchell, were convicted for their roles in the kidnapping. Barzee, now 72 ...
District of Utah (801) 524-5682. SALT LAKE CITY—Brian David Mitchell, 57, of Salt Lake City, will serve life in federal prison for the June 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball imposed the sentence Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Salt Lake City. Mitchell was convicted of interstate kidnapping and ...
Dec 10, 2010 · Mitchell faces a possible sentence of life in prison. The jury started deliberating just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday and deliberated for a little over three hours before adjourning for the night.
Sep 19, 2018 · Barzee and her husband Brian David Mitchell kidnapped Smart from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002. ... Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison in 2011, ...
