Elizabeth Smart Reveals Graphic Never-Before-Told Details Of Brutal Rape In Captivity
Nov. 8 2017, Published 8:30 p.m. ET
Elizabeth Smart was tragically kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home when she was only 14-years-old. Almost 15 years later, Smart, now 29, is telling all on the horrors she faced while being held by her captors for nine months, Radaronline.com can exclusively report.
In Smart's upcoming documentary Elizabeth Smart: The Autobiography, she describes how her captor, Brian David Mitchell, got away with stealing her in the middle of the night while she was sound asleep in her bed.
Smart woke up to the threatening voice of Mitchell who had a blade held up to her neck.
"If you scream or you yell I'll kill your family or I'll kill you," Smart recalled Mitchell telling her.
She believed that some of her family had already been dead and she thought to herself "either go with him or die."
As Mitchell, who was 49-years-old at the time, now 64, made his escape with Smart, she recalls they were close to having a run-in with a police car that drove by.
Smart remembers Mitchell saying, "If this work is true, God, then let this car pass."
"He was kidnapping me and he was mentioning God, it didn't make sense," Smart said. "As soon as the police car was out of sight, he had me up and running. He was always right behind me, the knife always on my back."
After running for a while, Smart stopped abruptly and told Mitchell if he was planning to rape and kill her to do it right then in the open field they were in.
"In my mind I was thinking 'I want my parents to know what happened to me. I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body,'" Smart explained.
"He had this smile and it was bone-chilling. He smiled and said 'I'm not going to rape and murder you yet.'"
Smart eventually made it to an isolated part of the woods where she would meet Mitchells wife, Wanda Barzee. Smart described how creeped out she felt the moment she saw Barzee. Within moments, Barzee had summoned her to the tent and forced Smart to take all of her clothes off despite initially refusing several times.
"She threatened if I didn't take my clothes off that she would send in Mitchell," Smart said. Barzee then made her put on a robe.
"The tent door unzipped and in came Emmanuel" — the name Mitchell called himself — Smart said.
"He knelt down next to me and started to speak and I just remember thinking, 'no just go away, just leave me alone.' I calmed down enough to hear the last sentence. He told me that I was now 'sealed to him as his wife before God and his angels as his witnesses and that could never be undone,' Smart recalled. "I just remember being filled with horror, I remember just screaming out 'NO!' and he looked at me and said 'if you ever scream out like that again, I will kill you.'"
Smart said Mitchell repeatedly told her 'it's time for us to consummate' their marriage."
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"I remember thinking 'wait a second, does he mean what I think he means? No, no, no.' I was trying to go over all the reasons why this couldn't' be legal or binding, why this wasn't okay; I was 14-years-old — did he realize that?"
Smart told him that she hadn't even had her period yet, to which Mitchell yelled out from inside the tent to his wife asking if it was still okay to have sex with Smart. Barzee responded with 'it's fine.'"
"No matter how much begging, or pleading or c