In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was woken up in the room she shared with her younger sister in Salt Lake City, Utah, by a man with a knife who threatened to kill her family if she didn't come with him. But the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart and held her captive for nine months was no stranger — The New Yorker reports that Smart immediately recognized her captor as Immanuel, a local beggar who her father had once hired to do work on their roof. What Smart wouldn't learn until later is that her abductor's real name was Brian David Mitchell.
