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Netflix’s documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart revisits the 2002 kidnapping and its aftermath, focusing on Wanda Barzee’s role, her 2009 plea, and her 2018 release on supervised parole as a registered sex offender; Smart opposed her release, and Barzee’s post-prison life has continued under monitoring, including a 2025 park-related incident; Barzee does not participate in the film beyond archival footage.
Elizabeth Smart’s Netflix documentary reveals new details about her 2002 kidnapping by Brian David Mitchell, including threats with a knife, sexual assault, coerced dress, captivity alongside Wanda Barzee, and her long road to rescue after convincing authorities she was Elizabeth.
Netflix's Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart revisits the nine-month search, detailing how investigators initially questioned the Smart family, how Elizabeth's sister Mary Katherine's testimony helped identify the abductor Emmanuel (Brian David Mitchell), the trials and Barzee's plea, and Elizabeth Smart's life after rescue as an advocate, harpist, and author who now owns her story and helps others.
Elizabeth Smart discusses the sexual assault she endured as a teenager in the Netflix documentary Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, joining her family to recount the nine-month ordeal, including being raped by Brian David Mitchell up to four times a day and kept in a dark hole with restraints; the film, which features input from her father, sister and law enforcement, aims to give survivors a voice and broaden public understanding of victims’ realities.