Held Captive The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart

The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart In the dead of night in June, 2002, 14year old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at knifepoint from her devoutly Mormon household. Nine months later, she was discovered with her two abductors just miles from her homeand returned to her family as a dramatically different person. Her innocence was stolen and her identity stripped over months in the gnarled mountains overlooking her family home, by captors who wrapped themselves in a religion of their own invention and said they were serving a revelation from God. The angelic teenager's homecoming on March 12 captured headlines and magazine covers around the globe, the rare piece of good news in America's era of terror and uncertainty. Yet the joyous story turned shocking just days later, as the disturbing details of her emotional and physical torture at the hands of her captors, serial paedophile Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, began to emerge. This bookthe first book on the dramatic kidnappingis the story of two worlds colliding; the girl in the bubble, and the man from the wild.Haberman, Maggie is the author of 'Held Captive The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart' with ISBN 9780060580209 and ISBN 0060580208.