Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002.

Quick Scoop: Core Fact

  • Elizabeth Smart was abducted in the early hours of June 5, 2002, at age 14.
  • She was taken from the bedroom she shared with her younger sister in her family’s home in Utah.
  • Her kidnapping and nine‑month captivity later became one of the most widely reported missing-child cases in the United States.

Brief context

  • Elizabeth Ann Smart (now Elizabeth Ann Gilmour) was born November 3, 1987, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Because she was born in late 1987 and kidnapped in June 2002, she was still 14 at the time of the abduction.
  • She was rescued on March 12, 2003, still a teenager, after being recognized in public with her captors.

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