Editor’s note: This story was originally published on March 12, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 12, 2003, Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old ...

Nearly 24 years ago, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom at only 14 years old and held captive for a grueling nine months before she was finally rescued. Now, Smart is urging investigators ...

Elizabeth Smart went back to the place she rarely names out loud. More than two decades after she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Smart returned to the canyon route that led to the ...

Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart has reached out to Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie with a message of hope as her 84-year-old mother Nancy remains missing after nearly a month. "I did come back.