Kidnapping / Abduction Survivors

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KIDNAPPING / ABDUCTION

Do you know, every 40 seconds a child goes missing or is abducted in the United states? The most common age to get kidnapped / abducted is when you are 12-20 years old, or in middle school. Luckily, 99% of juvenile kidnapping cases were not found dead, but alive. There are many cases where the person who was kidnapped survived, these are some examples of those people.

JAYME CLOSS

Jayme Closs was kidnapped on October 15 2018, the same night her parents were shot and killed. The police followed thousands of tips and did everything they could to find her, but their efforts to find her failed. Until January 10 when Jayme Closs was found outside of a small town called Gordon, which was located about an hour away from her home. 21 year old Jake Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Jayme Closs’s parents and Jayme’s kidnapping after pleading guilty.

ELIZABETH SMART

Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped by Brian David, then held captive by Brian and his wife. She was held in the woods, where she was abused and sexually assaulted for nine months. Elizabeth’s sister recognized the kidnappers voice, which led them to get a sketch of him and eventually catch the kidnapper. Brian was sentenced to life in prison while his wife was released after 15 years in September 2018.

KARA ROBINSON

Kara Robinson is a 15 year old girl who was kidnapped while she was watering her friend’s plants. Richard Evonitz came up to the house and got Kara to come closer to him by pretending to give her a flier, when she got close enough to him he held a gun to her neck and forced her to get into a container in the trunk of his car. Kara was held hostage for 18 hours, where she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. Kara waited for her captor, Richard Evonitz, to fall asleep. Then she wiggled out of her restraints and escaped through the front door where she flagged down a vehicle and got them to help her. Richard was then connected to three other murders of girls around Kara’s age, and was suspected that he would’ve killed her too. Her captor shot himself when he was cornered by the police.

KAMIYAH MOBLEY

On July 10 1998, A woman named Gloria Williams had a miscarriage. Leading her to kidnap Kamiyah Mobley, who was born only a few hours earlier. Gloria brought her back home to her husband and her other children, where she raised Kamiyah as her own. When Kamiyah was 16 she wanted to get a job, which forced Gloria to explain to her why she didn’t have a valid birth certificate and social security card. For the next year of her life they lived in hiding, until someone sent in an anonymous tip about Kamiyah. Kamiyah has a strained relationship with her biological mom, and she has made it known that she supports Gloria, who Kamiyah continued to address as “mom”.

KATIE BEERS

After Katie beers was kidnapped, on December 28 1992 two days before her tenth birthday, she terrified the nation with a phone call that was released to the public: “Aunt Linda, a man kidnapped me and has a knife, and oh no, here he comes right now,”. A family friend, John Esposito, kidnapped her and sexually abused her in a bunker located in his basement. Katie Beer’s was missing for 17 days before John led the authorities to the bunker where he kept her. He told the authorities he had made the bunker for her, but Katie Beers sees the case differently. She associated the kidnapping with “”saving her”. Before the kidnapping Katie was living with her godmother and her husband, who abused her.

These are all examples of people who survived kidnappings/Abductions and their stories. Although these people got a happy ending not every kidnapping story has a good ending. Do you know anyone who’s been kidnapped? How did their story end?

Elizabeth Smart

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Elizabeth Smart

Most people have heard the story of Elizabeth Smart. She is an american girl who got abducted from her home in Salt Lake City at age 14. In this article I’m gonna tell you more about the story and her life before.

Who is Elizabeth Smart?

Elizabeth Smart was born on November 3rd 1987 in Salt Lake Utah. She has 5 siblings and is the second oldest. One of her favorite things to do was play the harp. She got abducted when she was only 14 years old in June 2002. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Bareez held her hostage until she got her freedom back in 2003. While she got held hostage she got raped, drugged, and forced to do religious rituals. Smart is now an activist and has written her own book called my story.

Her abduction

On June 4 of 2002 Elizabeth’s family attended an Award ceremony for her school. She won many prizes for academic and physical fitness. The next morning around midnight or 1a.m. she got woken up by a man holding a knife to her neck. He told her to come with him or he would kill her and her family. Meanwhile Smart’s 9 year old sister Mary saw the whole thing. Mary was awake a little bit when she saw this man in her room. She didn’t know who he was or what he was doing but she heard him tell Elizabeth to go get some shoes and then they walked out. After they walked out Mary went to the door to tell her parents but then saw the man forcing Smart down the hall, so she just went back into her bed to hide. About two hours later Mary got up and went and told her parents.

Smart’s kidnappers name is Brian David Mitchell. Once Elizabeth and Brian got out of the house he took her to a forest where they hiked to a camp that Brian’s wife, Wanda Barzee, was waiting for them.

Mitchell thought he was a prophet and so he did a ceremony for smart and then declared that she was his wife. After that he raped her. Mitchell raped her daily and sometimes more than once a day. They held Elizabeth captive for 9 months and they would live/move between Utah and California. Mitchell would tie Smart to a tree and give her drugs and alcohol. Sometimes he wouldn’t feed her for days, almost starving her and tried to convince her that he was a prophet. Mitchell tried to brainwash Smart to believe his insane religious beliefs.

Her Rescue

A couple months after Elizabeth’s kidnapping her sister Mary remembered that the man who took Smart looked like a man who had worked on her house as a handyman in the past. He had once called himself Emmanuel.

Soon after Mary figured that out her family told the police and the police then discovered that Emmanuelś real name is Brian David Mitchell. One day someone saw Mitchell walking with Elizabeth, who was wearing a veil, sunglasses, and a wig,in Salt Lake and then reported him. Apparently Brian would take Smart out places a lot but no one would recognize her. The police arrested Brian and his wife and then took Smart to be with her family again.

The prosecution for Brian went on for years but on December 10 of 2010, almost 8 years after the kidnapping, Brian was sentenced to life in prison. Brazee was sentenced 15 years locked up because she helped in the crime.

Smart is now an activist and goes and speaks to people. She has come a long way since she got kidnapped and now has a family and 3 kids. She lives in Salt Lake City and is very happy!