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Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is a gripping new Netflix documentary that recounts one of the most widely covered missing-persons cases that America has seen.

Told through Elizabeth’s own words, Kidnapped takes viewers back to the terrifying night of June 5th, 2002, when 14-year-old Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was reportedly taken away at knifepoint, and her sister, Mary Katherine, witnessed in shock. When law enforcement investigated her family members, they found nothing shady.

But thanks to Mary thinking on her toes, a crucial detail was finally discovered. She remembered the kidnapper was someone called “Emmanuel,” a street preacher who previously worked in their home, later identified as Brian David Mitchell. Despite the breakthrough, authorities delayed releasing a sketch of the subject. Throughout this time, Elizabeth was held captive by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, in a remote mountain camp, where she endured sexual assault over the months.

By the fall of 2002, the captors relocated her to a camp outside San Diego, and the rescue never felt so impossible. Elizabeth was gradually confronted with a critical choice, which altered the course of events for her. But where is she now?

Where is Elizabeth Smart now?

Elizabeth Smart, the subject of Netflix’s latest true crime documentary, Kidnapped, revisit the terrible kidnapping that left a permanent scar. Smart not only decided to open up about it 24 years later but also detailed what’s happened since the trial and what her life looks like now in an interview on Netflix’s Skip Intro podcast.

In 2012, Smart tied the knot with Matthew Gilmour, a Scottish native whom she met during a mission trip to Paris. “Because he didn’t know anything [about] my past, he wasn’t afraid to tell me what he really thought. I appreciate that I’m not my past [with him]. I am just who I am right now, right here in the moment,” she told Skip Intro’s host Krista Smith.

Elizabeth and Matthew have three children, and together, they live in Utah. And she’s raising her child with the same fierce support and backing that she received from hers. “[My experience] makes me a lot more conscious and aware of what my kids are doing, who they’re interacting with – making sure that they understand that their safety is a priority to me,” she tells Tudum.

“It’s why we don’t do sleepovers. I am very intentional and cautious about where they go and who they interact with. It’s led to a lot of safety conversations, and using the correct body part names and not associating guilt or shame with being able to say ‘penis’ [as easily as they say] ‘elbow,’” she explained. Elizabeth also recently published her third book, Detours, a memoir that tracks her journey back to normalcy.

So, to hear Elizabeth’s part of the story, don’t forget to tune into Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, currently streaming on Netflix.