Fox TV show Crime Watch Daily welcomed new correspondent Elizabeth Smart to the team this week. For her first episode with the show she explored the response of her alma mater BYU to students who were sexually assaulted during their time on campus.
Actress Ellie Kemper plays the lead in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Tina Fey’s Netflix series about a woman who was held captive by a doomsday cult leader since the age of 14. Kemper cites the story of kidnapping survivor, Elizabeth Smart, as the inspiration behind her portrayal of Kimmy. Smart was also 14 when she was…
Elizabeth Smart is now a mom. The 27-year-old kidnapping survivor gave birth to a baby girl named Chloe, back in February. Smart was 14 when she was taken from her parent’s home in Salt Lake City in 2002. She was held captive by a street preacher for nine months before she was found.
Margaret Talbot's piece in the New Yorker this week might be called "The Extraordinary Resilience of Elizabeth Smart" but a better title might be "How Elizabeth Smart Did the Impossible." The piece explores how Smart managed to get through her abduction and become that much more than an abduction victim forever…
Everyone else on earth is as annoyed with "purity" as I am, right? The idea that there are two kinds of women—"good girls" and everyone else, and one of them is good for fucking and the other one is good for marriage and never the twain shall meet and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? How is this fulfilling for anyone? Enough.
In what sounds a little bit like a pagan ritual, Elizabeth Smart married Matthew Gilmour in a Mormon temple on Oahu's North Shore yesterday. Smart, a Utah woman who was kidnapped at age 14 and held captive for nine months by Brian David Mitchell, is now an apparently functioning 24-year-old senior at Brigham Young…
This morning marked Elizabeth Smart's first appearance on Good Morning America, who had recently announced they'd be hiring Smart as their expert pundit on child abductions. Today she pundited about Jaycee Dugard's first public interview.
Even the worst criminals are entitled to legal representation, but do attorneys have to make offensive comments while defending them? Recently, Nancy Garrido's defense lawyer argued that she should be able to relax on the beach someday, and now the attorney representing Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper says the court…
Brian David Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart's alleged kidnapper and rapist, dropped to the floor and began to wail in court today just before jurors were brought in. Mitchell was rushed to the hospital, and it seems he suffered a seizure.
Brian David Mitchell's trial started today, seven years after he allegedly kidnapped and raped Elizabeth Smart. Smart will return from a Mormon mission in Paris to testify against Mitchell, who was ejected from court today for singing during jury selection.
Remember the girls from Miami University and their vomit-laden "formal"? They're not the only sorority that knows how to party. The Ohio University chapter of Pi Beta Phi has recently been accused of holding a similarly disgusting bash.
In a competency hearing for her kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart publicly revealed details of her captivity for the first time. She says, "There wasn't an actual 24-hour time period he wasn't able to rape me."
• The Dominican Republic has joined a small group of countries that Constitutionally prohibit abortion, with no exceptions for health-related cases. The ban was issued with support of President Leonel Fernandez and the Catholic Church. •
