{"id":335855,"date":"2025-12-08T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:46:10","slug":"kidnapped-elizabeth-smart-documentary-watch-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335855\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart’ Documentary: Watch Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElizabeth Smart<\/a> was 14 years old when kidnappers grabbed her from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and abused her for nine months \u2014\u00a0now, at age 38, she\u2019s revisiting that nightmare and the media frenzy around it in a new Netflix<\/a> documentary, Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, due Jan. 21. \u201cI wanted to have some ownership over my story,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cAfter I was rescued, when I first got home, I did not want to talk about what happened with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTestifying at kidnapper Brian David Mitchell\u2019s trial years later changed her perspective. \u201cI remember sitting up on the stand, giving these answers, and feeling like there was no context around them,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember thinking that if all of this was going to be out there anyway, I wanted it to have some meaning, and for it to serve a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMitchell is serving a life sentence for the kidnapping. His wife, Wanda Barzee, who assisted in the abduction, was sentenced to 15 years and released <\/a>in 2018. In May, Barzee was arrested after visiting two Salt Lake City parks, a violation of her sex offender status. She told police she was \u201ccommanded to by the Lord\u201d \u2014\u00a0a claim Smart said was \u201cvery familiar\u201d and \u201cprobably the most concerning thing, because that\u2019s how they justified kidnapping me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA trailer for the 91-minute film was released today. The movie pairs Smart\u2019s own account with interviews from family members and investigators, along with archival footage, some previously unseen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSmart\u2019s case has been the subject of multiple TV projects. A TV movie based on a book by her parents aired on CBS shortly after her rescue in 2003, and in 2017 Lifetime produced<\/a>\u00a0I Am Elizabeth Smart, a dramatization starring Alana Boden and Skeet Ulrich, with Smart as executive producer and on-screen narrator. A companion two-part documentary,\u00a0Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography, aired on A&E the same year.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSmart, who has spent the years since her rescue as an advocate for survivors of abduction and sexual violence, said she made the new documentary with other victims in mind. \u201cI hope they realize they\u2019re not alone, and that they don\u2019t have to be ashamed of what happened to them,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I hope that people who watch this can gain compassion and understanding for other families who are going through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added: \u201cI also hope it brings comfort that there are happy endings \u2014 and that even after terrible things happen, you can still have a wonderful life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when kidnappers grabbed her from her Salt Lake City home in 2002…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,187242,134,344,435],"class_list":{"0":"post-335855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-elizabeth-smart","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-netflix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}