High-profile abductions, like those of Patty Hearst and J. Paul Getty III, have captured the nation’s attention, but experts say kidnappings by strangers are exceedingly rare. By Michael Levenson A ...

Guthrie was reported missing from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.

Elizabeth Smart is revealing the onslaught of emotions she felt after she was rescued from her kidnapper following nine months of captivity and sexual assault. More than two decades ago, Smart, now 38 ...

Elizabeth Smart has been making gains. The child safety advocate and former child abduction victim revealed in an Instagram photo posted Tuesday, April 21, that she has begun competing in bodybuilding ...

Elizabeth Smart and her husband Matthew Gilmour in April 2025. Elizabeth Smart’s husband didn’t know about her horrific kidnapping when they first met — but now, he’s helping her build a life on her ...

Elizabeth Smart is not letting her past trauma keep her down. One week after Wanda Barzee—who kidnapped a then-14-year-old Smart in 2002 and held her captive for nine months—was arrested for violating ...

For months, the high-profile abduction case went cold, until a single word from a nine-year-old girl identified 'Emmanuel' and led to the rescue that shocked the world. The abduction of 14-year-old ...