Elizabeth Smart, a Utah woman who was held captive and raped repeatedly for months as a child, says she was sexually assaulted on an airplane According to CBS This Morning, 32-year-old Smart revealed that she fell asleep on a flight to Utah last summer and woke up when she felt someone rubbing her legs. “I …
Wanda Barzee, a registered sex offender convicted of participating in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is apparently living in a dilapidated home in Utah following her early prison release, only blocks from an elementary school. According to the Utah Department of Corrections’ sex offender registry, 73-year-old Barzee is living less than a mile …
Elizabeth Smart knows all too well how quickly an abduction can happen, and she’s now spreading awareness about missing girl Jayme Closs, a missing Wisconsin teen who disappeared last Monday after her parents were found dead in the Barron County home. “Please repost and call the police if you have any information!” Smart posted on …
An arrest is made in the case of a tech exec stabbed to death while jogging on a Washington, DC, sidewalk. Nancy Graces looks at the case with a panel of experts including Marc Klaas — victims advocate and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation, Atlanta prosecutor Kenya Johnson, lawyer and psychologist Dr. Brian Russell — …
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 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 — …
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 …
Elizabeth Smart, the Utah woman who survived a kidnapping as a teenager, sought to help the daughter of actress Catherine Oxenberg escape the clutches of the NXIVM sex cult, RadarOnline.com reports. The revelation comes from Oxenberg’s new book, “Captive: A Mother’s Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult.” Oxenberg, 56, has helped expose …
By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 has been denied early parole. The decision announced Monday night by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole was expected after Wanda Barzee, 72, …
One of the individuals convicted in connection with the high-profile 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart reportedly skipped her own parole hearing this week. According to KUTV, Wanda Barzee was expected to appear Tuesday morning for the hearing at the Utah State Prison. A board member said the 72-year-old is believed to have “refused to attend …
To the outrage and shock of many, the Utah woman currently jailed for the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart could be eligible for parole later this year. CrimeFeed reported that Wanda Barzee, now 72, was sentenced to 15 years in jail on that conviction. While she’s scheduled to be released in 2024, an upcoming parole hearing …
Children’s right activist Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held for nine months as a teenager, is a survivor in the truest sense of the world. After the 13 siblings who were freed on Monday from alleged torture and imprisonment in their parents’ home, Smart sent a message of support. “I would want them to know …
