SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart living near a school. (all times local): 4:20 p.m. Elizabeth Smart says people with a history of child abuse and sexual violence like the one who helped kidnapped her should be housed as far away […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Teenage kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart has given birth to her third child. Smart announced the birth on her Instagram account on Monday with a picture of her holding new daughter Olivia as husband Matthew Gilmour looks on. In her post, Smart says “So happy to welcome Olivia […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart has been transferred to a federal halfway house following her release from prison. An online entry in the Utah sex-offender registry shows 72-year-old Wanda Barzee is listed as living at a contracted residential re-entry center in Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah legislator has introduced a bill he says would close a loophole that allowed for one of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers to be released from prison. Rep. Ken Ivory of West Jordan says the loophole in a state law allowed 72-year-old Wanda Barzee to be […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the release of the woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart in Utah (all times local): 3:25 p.m. Documents say a woman released from prison in Utah after serving 15 years for kidnaping Elizabeth Smart will live in emergency housing chosen by her probation […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Smart says she’s been assured that the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be watched when she’s released from prison. In an interview Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” Smart says she believes Wanda […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart says a woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted should be committed to a mental-health facility after she’s released from prison next week. Smart said Thursday she was shocked to find out about […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on Elizabeth Smart’s reaction to the release of one of her kidnappers (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Elizabeth Smart says she has no desire to talk to her kidnapper after her unexpected release from prison next week. When asked during a news conference Thursday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on the release of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper (all times local): 12:35 p.m. Elizabeth Smart says it is “incomprehensible” that a woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap her will be released from prison next week. Smart said in a statement Tuesday […]
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, […]
