Person: Elizabeth Smart

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‘Nine months of hell’ recounted by kidnap victim

Just minutes after Elizabeth Smart, 14, was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police car idled by along a neighbourhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint.

general

From troubled relationships sprung some of the best women’s writing

world

Preacher guilty of kidnapping

world

Former preacher convicted of kidnapping teenager

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Writers as lousy lovers

world

Girl raped 'three times a day' by self-styled prophet

Kidnappers had psychological hold over girl - police

Kidnapped teenager Elizabeth Smart, trapped in the hills above her anguished family’s home for the first two months of her disappearance, may have been kept from escaping or crying out for help by the growing influence of her captors, police said.

Fri, 14 Mar, 2003

Girl kidnapped by ‘prophet’ is reunited with her family

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl kidnapped at gunpoint from her bedroom nine months ago has been dramatically reunited with her parents in Utah.

Fri, 14 Mar, 2003

Missing girl found alive after nine months

A 15-year-old American girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months ago was found alive walking down a street with a drifter who had once done work at the family’s home.

Thu, 13 Mar, 2003

Girl critical after being raped and beaten with hammer

AN 11-year-old girl, who was raped and beaten with a hammer after being snatched from her bedroom, was in critical condition yesterday following nine hours of surgery.

Wed, 21 Aug, 2002

Child's body found in forest may be that of kidnapped girl

A CHILD'S body that resembles an abducted five-year-old American girl was found in a rugged, heavily forested area of a neighbouring county, but officials couldn't immediately say if it was that of missing Samantha Runnion.

Thu, 18 Jul, 2002