Elizabeth Smart, Kidnapping | featured news

Elizabeth Smart to work as ABC commentator focusing on missing persons, child abduction cases.

Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Now 23, she stood tall in the courtroom - stoic, with an even voice and a strength Brian David Mitchell clearly lacked....

A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday morning convicted a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher of kidnapping and repeatedly raping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, rejecting arguments by the defense that Brian David Mitchell was insane at the time of the crimes.

The jury is expected to begin deliberations late Thursday in the trial of a homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart is competent to stand trial, paving the way for him to face charges nearly eight years after the girl was snatched from her bedroom....