By LINDSAY WHITETHURST DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart when she was a teenager and stood by as the girl was sexually assaulted was released from prison Wednesday after 15 years in custody. Wanda Barzee, 72, left the Utah state prison in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper, spokeswoman …
In her first on-air interview, Tennessee girl Elizabeth Thomas sat down to discuss what happened before, during, and after the 38 days her former teacher, Tad Cummins, reportedly abducted her. Elizabeth was just 15 when she disappeared from her Columbia, Tennessee, home in March 2017. Her disappearance sparked an AMBER Alert and a nationwide hunt after …
In her first sit-down interview since the news of her abductor’s upcoming prison release, Elizabeth Smart shared additional details on kidnapper Wanda Barzee, some of which have never been heard before. “…Just the feeling that kind of radiated from her. It just was dark. And it was evil. And I just knew that she — …
Kidnapper Wanda Barzee apparently won’t be staying with family members upon her prison release this week, according to a relative. Barzee, 72, has completed a 15-year sentence in connection with the 2002 kidnapping of then-teen Elizabeth Smart, but the abductor could now faces additional issues: finding a home upon her release. Her new residence will …
Elizabeth Smart was shocked to learn her kidnapper, Wanda Barzee, is set for prison release in less than week. On Thursday, she pleaded with officials to keep Barzee behind bars for the sake of “any vulnerable person in our community.” Barzee, whose been in prison for the past 15 years for kidnapping then-teen Elizabeth Smart in …
Authorities in Michigan said a foursome of quick-thinking girls were able to overpower and outwit a would-be kidnapper. In a Facebook post, the Millington Police Department described the incident, which occurred on Friday evening outside of a convenience store. “A 22 yr old man followed them across the street and grabbed the youngest girl around …
Police believe the suspects planned to sell the 11-year-old victim for drugs
Surveillance cameras reportedly captured the tense moments when a California gas station clerk helped a woman escape from men who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Per KCRA, Savannah Pritchett was working at Triple R Gas and Mart in Waterford Wednesday afternoon when a distressed woman came in asking for help. The woman said she was kidnapped …
Authorities in Florida say a kidnapping suspect was taken into custody after the alleged victim made a daring move that was caught on a veterinary clinic’s surveillance camera. According to the U.K. Independent, the unidentified woman passed a message to staff at the DeLand clinic informing them of her situation. “Call the cops,” she wrote. …
Prosecutors filed a federal kidnapping charge on Monday against a man who reportedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl on Independence Day, after meeting her online in February. FOX4 reports that 22-year-old Dechon White is accused of buying a one-way ticket to Minnesota with pre-planned intentions of taking a girl who had just turned 13 with him. The …
Mother Shanara Mobley reportedly cut ties with daughter Kamiyah, 20, for talking to her jailed abductor mom
Authorities in Mississippi say a Madison County man kidnapped his young daughter before killing her and himself a short time later. According to Mississippi News Now, 23-year-old Lavonte Lloyd allegedly traveled from his home to the home of the 1-year-old girl’s mother, Kimberly Outlaw, in Holmes County. Upon arriving, police say he kidnapped Outlaw and …
