Elizabeth Smart, pictured here as a child, was kidnapped from her bedroom at age 14 on June 5, 2002. Now seven years later, 21-year-old Smart will testify about the nine-month long abduction in the same courtroom that will hold her alleged captor.
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A family photo of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart who was abducted at gunpoint from her Salt Lake City, Utah home June 5, 2002. Smart was found alive in the car of a drifter March 12, 2003 outside Salt Lake City.
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Elizabeth Smart is shown in this December 2000 family photo. Smart, the 14-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom was found alive during a traffic stop in suburban Salt Lake City.
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The mug shots of Elizabeth Smart’s alleged kidnappers Brian David Mitchell, left, and wife, Wanda Barzee.
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Former missing teen Elizabeth Smart smiles with mom Lois during a cereomny in the Rose Garden at the White House April 30, 2003 where President George W. Bush signed the Protect Act of 2003.
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Elizabeth Smart walks with dad Ed to the Rose Garden ceremony at the White House.
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Elizabeth Smart gives her first interview since her abduction on “Larry King Live.”
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Elizabeth Smart’s kidnap suspect Brian David Mitchell being led into a Salt Lake City federal courthouse today for a competency hearing in relation to Smart’s 2002 abduction.
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Elizabeth Smart, right, walks out of the federal courthouse with her mother Lois Smart after testifying at a competency hearing for her alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, Oct. 1 2009, in Salt Lake City.
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Elizabeth Smart, right, arrives at the federal courthouse with mother Lois Smart and father Ed Smart, prior to her testimony in a competency hearing for her alleged kidnapper Brian David Mitchell today in Salt Lake City.
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