Elizabeth Smart

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 4, 2013

Elizabeth Smart discusses how she survived being abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom and forging a new life in the wake of a crime. In My Story, she tells of the constant fear she endured, her determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convince them to return to Utah, where she was rescued.

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