Elizabeth Smart recaps the time in which she was kidnapped and tells her perspective of it . It starts on June 5 , 2002 with the kidnapping of 14-year old Elizabeth Smart ( Alana Boden ) in the middle of the night by a religious fanatic named Brian David Mitchell ( Skeet Ulrich ) . In his hilly encampment , Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Ileen Barzee ( Deirdre Lovejoy ) subjected her to bizarre religious rituals . Brian David Mitchell raped , starved , and drugged her while claiming that he has followers that will kill her family if she does n't do as he says . She was treated as his " second wife " while captive with the couple . In one of these rituals , Elizabeth was rendered naked and had to choose a female name from the bible to be renamed . Elizabeth 's narration stated that she chose the name Esther
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Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
I Am Elizabeth Smart