That happened to me, but I’m so much more,” Elizabeth Smart told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2013. RELATED | COURTROOM INSIDER: Elizabeth Smart and dealing with trauma, challenges and life’s ‘detours’“Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” revisits her heartbreaking experience through interviews with Smart, family members and others, featuring never-before-seen material, according to the filmmakers. Through the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which she founded in 2011, Smart advocates for victim support and abuse prevention. This police composite sketch shows a man wanted for information in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case on Feb. 3, 2003. Ed served as executive director of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and president of the Surviving Parents Coalition.

Source: CNN January 24, 2026 14:50 UTC