Where is Brian David Mitchell now, after kidnapping Elizabeth Smart?
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Netflix’s newest true crime exploration, Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, revisits the shocking 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart, who was taken at knifepoint from her family home in Salt Lake City, Utah, aged 14. At the time, Smart was sharing a bedroom with her younger sister who would go on to provide vital evidence as part of her case.
Smart was held captive for around nine months by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, before she was found alive in March 2003 after members of the public recognised Mitchell from widespread media coverage and contacted police.
The case became one of the most high-profile missing-child investigations in the US, and Smart has since spoken publicly about surviving abuse, coercive control and the long aftermath of captivity.
Who is Brian David Mitchell?
Brian David Mitchell was a Salt Lake City man who styled himself as a religious street preacher and who used faith-based language to control those around him.
Crucially, he had briefly worked as a handyman for the Smart family before the kidnapping – which gave him a familiarity with the home and the family’s routine. It took some months for Elizabeth’s sister, Mary Katherine, to connect the dots in her mind as to who Mitchell was, having heard his voice on the night he broke into their home and kidnapped her sister.
Describing the night she was taken in an interview with People in January 2026, Elizabeth said her sister had fallen asleep when Mitchell entered their bedroom. “Hearing a man’s voice in my bedroom wasn’t normal, that wasn’t allowed, so I didn’t immediately respond. The voice repeated the same words again: ‘Don’t make a sound, I have a knife at your neck. Get up and come with me.’
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