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"'My body carried me,' Elizabeth Smart says. Now she's celebrating it.

(. . .)

For Smart, bodybuilding isn't about the trophies. Yet, four competitions and several medals in, she's earned something she never expected: confidence in her body.

'I'm at a point in my life where I want to celebrate it,' Smart says, 'I don't want to carry shame about my body.'

(. . .)

In 2002, Smart was just 14 years old when a self-proclaimed prophet abducted her at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City bedroom while she slept beside her younger sister.

(. . .)

For months, the world watched the search for her unfold. Her face was plastered across television screens and the front pages of newspapers. All the while, she was living in the woods just miles from her home.

Now, at 38, Smart remembers the ways she tried to survive the nine months she was held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted. She endured frequent humiliation and psychological manipulation.

Smart attends a ceremony April 30, 2003 at the White House. President George W. Bush signed into law the Amber Alert package which would create a system to help find kidnapped children and impose tougher penalties on child abusers, kidnappers and pornographers.
Smart attends a White House ceremony in 2003, after then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Amber Alert package which would create a system to help find kidnapped children.

In her latest book, *Detours*, Smart describes trauma as a detour — a path you never planned for and never wanted. She's says she survived captivity in part by holding onto small memories and moments that reminded her that her life existed outside those woods."

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Elizabeth Smart pleads for tips as Nancy Guthrie remains missing, with up to $1 million offered for her recovery.

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February 28, 2026 at 12:47AM

I caught the documentary about the abduction of Elizabeth Smart by a particularly fucked up god-botherer pedophile back in 2002.

It clearly illustrated how useless the police are for the job the public thinks they are supposed to perform: protecting the public.

They wasted days looking at male family members because "it's usually family." They dismissed evidence as appearing staged. Then they glommed on to a guy who'd done some contracting work for the family because he had a record. And they put him through the ringer with no evidence, convinced it was him. He died in custody of either a stroke or heart attack.

Elizabeth's sister was in the room with her when the abduction happened, nine years old at the time. She heard the man's voice. It took her a while but it suddenly it came to her whose voice it was. She told her parents, who told the police. The cops got a sketch artist to draw the guy but then sat on it and didn't release it to the public mainly because they couldn't find a little girl's certain identification of the perp credible. The family finally had enough, released the sketch themselves, and eventually got Elizabeth back.

The cops were all but useless. Gave bad information. Didn't do their due diligence. Just assumed they knew better than everyone what happened, and acted accordingly.

Cops aren't there for us. They are there to protect the status quo. And the status quo doesn't really give a shit about women and girls. Especially if they're people of color. Elizabeth Smart was a white Mormon girl and even her case got screwed up by complacent and incompetent cops. The fact that they do even less for black, brown and indigenous folks should be a surprise to no one.

They don't do anything productive when needed, so what are they there for? I ask facetiously; they need to be abolished.

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10 Shocking Bombshells from “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart ”(Including How She Was Nearly Rescued Months Earlier)

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"There will be victims and survivors who watch this, and I hope they realize they’re not alone, and that they don’t have to be ashamed of what happened to them. And I hope that people who watch this can gain compassion and understanding for other families who are going through this. I also hope it brings comfort that there are happy endings — and that even after terrible things happen, you can still have a wonderful life." -Elizabeth Smart

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