She'll be "looking ahead, not looking back at her own story," an ABC spokesperson says
Brian David Mitchell just sings during the rebuke; he's sentenced to life
Elizabeth Smart meets with reporters after her kidnapper, Brian Mitchell, was sentenced to life in prison.
Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
A federal judge Wednesday sentenced the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart to life in prison, prosecutors said.
"It's a wonderful day," she says after Brian David Mitchell is convicted of her kidnapping
More than eight years after a homeless street preacher abducted and sexually assaulted her, a beaming Elizabeth Smart said that a federal jury's guilty verdicts Friday sent a message that victims can find justice.
Elizabeth Smart and her parents speak about the guilty verdict returned against her kidnapper, Brian Mitchell.
Brian David Mitchell is convicted of kidnapping and transporting a child across state lines for sexual purposes
Jurors on Friday reached a verdict in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002, a court spokesman said.
The jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002.
During testimony in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case, defendant Brian David Mitchell suffered a possible seizure.
Lawyers for a man accused of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart rested their case Thursday afternoon, a day after the young woman stormed out of court during testimony.
Elizabeth Smart stormed out of the courtroom Wednesday during the trial of Brian Mitchell, charged with kidnapping the Utah teenager in 2002, CNN affiliate KSTU reported.
Testimony about her from a forensic psychiatrist makes her get up and leave
Brian David Mitchell is taken away in an ambulance after collapsing on Tuesday morning in federal court
Wanda Barzee tells how she stood by as Brian David Mitchell committed rape
The estranged wife of the man accused of kidnapping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her family's Salt Lake City home in 2002 testified Friday that the defendant manipulated her into doing things by saying his orders were divine law.
Elizabeth Smart testifies about her kidnapping. CNN's Randi Kaye reports.
The elderly parents of Elizabeth Smart's accused kidnapper testified Wednesday that he was a troubled boy who grew increasingly self-absorbed as a man.
Maybe Elizabeth Smart wouldn't have spent "nine months in hell" if her mother hadn't burned the potatoes.
Witnesses recalled Brian David Mitchell as a clean-cut member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the defense case began for the self-described prophet accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart.
Brian David Mitchell told police Elizabeth Smart was "converted by the priority of God" and willingly stayed with him after she vanished from her bedroom in June 2002.
They were the words Elizabeth Smart waited eight years to say, and when she spoke them from the witness stand Wednesday, they poured out with an intensity that brought jurors to the edge of their seats.
As she completes her testimony, the defense suggests her alleged kidnapper suffers mental illness
On her second day of testimony, Smart lamented not alerting a detective who wanted to lift her veil
"I thought I was having a nightmare," she testified at the trial of her alleged abductor
Brian David Mitchell told Elizabeth Smart he wanted her from the moment he first saw her, Smart told a rapt jury Monday at Mitchell's federal kidnapping trial.
Attorney Brian David Mitchell argues that his client has a deep history of mental illness
Shortly after he was arrested in March 2003 and charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart in the dark of night, self-styled prophet Brian David Mitchell wrote that God intended for her to be at his side as he battled the Antichrist and restored the true Mormon faith to its rightful place.
Brian David Mitchell will stand trial for allegedly kidnapping Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002.
Elizabeth Smart has long been silent about the details of an ordeal that began in June 2002 when a stranger crept into her bedroom, held a knife to her throat, marched her up a hillside trail and made her his sex slave.
Brian David Mitchell is being tried on charges of kidnapping and sexual assault
A federal appeals court cleared the way Friday for the resumption of the trial of Brian David Mitchell, the man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.
An appeal to switch the venue out of Utah puts the trial of Brian David Mitchell on hold
A federal appeals court halted the trial of a man accused in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart just as it got under way Thursday in order to review the defense's request to move the trial outside the state.
More than eight years after a Utah teenager disappeared from her bedroom on a summer night, the trial of the man authorities believe masterminded her kidnapping is expected to get underway Thursday.
Brian David Mitchell sang hymns for half an hour before a judge removed him
More than eight years after a Utah teenager disappeared from her bedroom on a summer night, the man authorities believe masterminded her kidnapping is set to stand trial in federal court.
After waiting seven years, "Elizabeth will be glad to see it all coming to an end," her father tells PEOPLE
A federal judge has denied a request to move the trial of Brian David Mitchell, who is accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart in 2002, but may revisit the issue depending on the results of potential juror questionnaires.
"You hurt our family in ways you’ll never know," Lois Smart says at Wanda Barzee's sentencing
A woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002 -- and attempting to kidnap Smart's cousin a month later -- will be sentenced for both offenses in state and federal court Friday.
A November 1 trial date has been set for Brian David Mitchell, who is suspected in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, said a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors.
Brian David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday.
A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday.
A woman accused of helping kidnap Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her bed in 2002 apologized to the young woman Tuesday as she pleaded guilty to federal charges.
Wanda Barzee pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the 2002 abduction of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart.
Wanda Barzee agrees to testify against her husband, who allegedly masterminded Smart's imprisonment
"We all have our trials," she says, but we also "have angels on the other side"
The kidnapped Utah woman says she was drugged, bound, starved and repeatedly sexually assaulted
Dugard shouldn't let "this horrible event take over and consume the rest of your life," says Smart
Six years after her kidnapping, the now 20-year-old tells PEOPLE she "hasn't wasted time looking back"
Three years ago Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her suburban Salt Lake City bedroom and held captive for nine months. Brian Mitchell, a self-described "minister of the Lord," and his wife, Wanda Ilene Barzee, were charged in the girl's disappearance.
In March 2003, missing Salt Lake City, Utah, teenager Elizabeth Smart was found alive after being kidnapped and held captive for nearly nine months. Almost three years after her ordeal, the 17-year-old high school senior's life is getting back to normal, and she works as a quiet activist for missing children.
The man accused of kidnapping Salt Lake City, Utah, teenager Elizabeth Smart three years ago was found mentally incompetent to stand trial Tuesday.
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