Elizabeth Smart

Eight years ago she was a symbol of stolen innocence, snatched from her bedroom at age 14, chained up and raped for nine months before being rescued. On Friday, Elizabeth Smart, now 23, symbolized something else in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City -- resilience. She watched a jury convict her kidnapper, the culmination of a long legal battle that featured Smart's calm, methodical testimony about the unspeakable things that Brian David Mitchell did to her during her captivity.

Salt Lake City - Elizabeth Smart, the young woman from Utah who was kidnapped at knifepoint at 14 and held captive for nine months by an itinerant street preacher, has married her Scottish fiance at a Mormon temple in Hawaii. The wedding was held several months earlier than planned after news of her engagement last month drew widespread media attention. A family spokesman said Smart married Matthew Gilmour of Aberdeen, Scotland, on Saturday on Oahu's north shore. "Elizabeth's desire was for what most women want - to celebrate her nuptials in a private wedding with family and close friends," family spokesman Chris Thomas said in a statement.

Elizabeth Smart is one bride who knows exactly what she wants. The Brigham Young University student just got engaged last month, and in a month's time managed to pull off a dream wedding in Hawaii. She was married there over the weekend, with close family and friends in attendance. Smart, 24, spoke exclusively to People magazine about the whirlwind wedding preparations. "It's everything you can imagine with planning a wedding. Only, it's compressed into a few days," Smart told People, which is directing readers to its print edition for further details, including a glimpse of the wedding gown.  Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in the middle of the night by a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher.

Elizabeth Smart is one bride who knows exactly what she wants. The Brigham Young University student just got engaged last month, and in a month's time managed to pull off a dream wedding in Hawaii. She was married there over the weekend, with close family and friends in attendance. Smart, 24, spoke exclusively to People magazine about the whirlwind wedding preparations. "It's everything you can imagine with planning a wedding. Only, it's compressed into a few days," Smart told People, which is directing readers to its print edition for further details, including a glimpse of the wedding gown.  Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in the middle of the night by a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher.

A two-hour CBS television movie about Elizabeth Smart's nine-month kidnapping ordeal is expected to air in November, her father says. The story will be told from the viewpoint of her parents, Ed and Lois Smart, who have also signed a book deal about the kidnapping. Filming is expected to begin in two weeks in Canada. The Smarts have contracted with Doubleday Books to tell their story in "Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope." Her uncles are working on a separate book.

Wanda Barzee, one of two people charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart, was ruled incompetent to stand trial by a state judge who committed her to a state hospital "to restore her mental health." Barzee this week waived her right to a hearing to contest the findings of two mental health experts who found her incompetent to stand trial.

Meetings are still underway about a possible deal to sell TV movie story rights for the family of kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart, a representative for the family said Thursday. Industry sources told The Times that some producers and networks have lost interest as negotiations made little progress and new details emerged regarding the 15-year-old Utah girl's abduction last year.

The abduction of Elizabeth Smart may have been part of a delusional plan to collect seven wives for Brian David Mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet and polygamist who also may have tried to kidnap Elizabeth's 18-year-old cousin, authorities said Friday. Salt Lake City police would not say whether Elizabeth, 15, was sexually abused. But more information has emerged regarding Mitchell's deep religious belief in polygamy as expressed in a 27-page manifesto police said he penned.

NBC News thought it had the first sit-down TV interview with Ed and Lois Smart since their daughter Elizabeth, the victim of a highly publicized nine-month-long kidnapping ordeal, was returned to them last March. Instead, the network's Friday interview special has been scooped by CBS' entertainment division. Big newsmaker interviews have become the subject of intense, sometimes unseemly wrangling by network news stars who stake their prestige on getting subjects to talk first.

A suspect in the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart died Friday at a hospital three days after suffering from a brain hemorrhage and collapsing in his jail cell, doctors said. Earlier Friday, doctors said Richard Albert Ricci, 48, had an irreversible injury to the brain stem after the hemorrhage Tuesday. He had not been listed as brain dead because he could breathe on his own, although he was on a ventilator, Dr. Richard J. Sperry said.

To watch Diane Sawyer's interview Sunday night with Jaycee Dugard was to wonder at times if that was Dugard herself on screen or an actress hired to play the role of the quintessential survivor. Dugard was so serene and lacking in rancor that it was hard to believe she had been kidnapped at age 11 and held prisoner for 18 years, during which she was repeatedly raped and bore two children, the first when she was just 14. But there she was, saying things like "there is life after something tragic" and joking about how being locked indoors for so many years was her secret to smooth skin.

Eight years ago she was a symbol of stolen innocence, snatched from her bedroom at age 14, chained up and raped for nine months before being rescued. On Friday, Elizabeth Smart, now 23, symbolized something else in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City -- resilience. She watched a jury convict her kidnapper, the culmination of a long legal battle that featured Smart's calm, methodical testimony about the unspeakable things that Brian David Mitchell did to her during her captivity.

A woman who helped her husband keep kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart enslaved for nine months agreed Tuesday to serve 15 years in federal prison after admitting her role in the abduction. Wanda Eileen Barzee, 64, also agreed to testify against her husband, Brian David Mitchell, whose attorneys claim he is not mentally competent to stand trial on charges relating to the 2002 kidnapping of Smart, then 14. Smart's disappearance and the nationwide search for her captivated the country.

The woman charged in the 2002 abduction of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart has agreed to plead guilty, her attorney said. Wanda Eileen Braze, 63, was indicted on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor. Attorney Scott Williams said she will plead guilty to both charges today in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. A final agreement was reached Monday, he told the Associated Press. Braze and her estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell, were both indicted in March 2008, six years after Smart was taken from her Salt Lake City home at knifepoint.

For the first time since her 2002 abduction by a self-proclaimed religious prophet captured worldwide attention, Elizabeth Smart spoke publicly about her ordeal today, testifying in federal court that Brian David Mitchell repeatedly invoked religion to justify sexually abusing her for months. Testifying in a hearing to determine whether Mitchell is mentally competent to face federal kidnapping charges, Smart, now 21, calmly detailed nine months of being shackled and repeatedly raped.

For the first time since her 2002 abduction captured worldwide attention, Elizabeth Smart spoke publicly about her ordeal, testifying Thursday in federal court that self-proclaimed religious prophet Brian David Mitchell repeatedly invoked religion to justify the sexual abuse she said she endured for nine months. "Any time that I showed resistance or hesitation he turned to me and said, 'The Lord says you have to do this, you have to experience the lowest form of humanity to experience the highest,' " said Smart, who was 14 when she was kidnapped.