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Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Lawyers for a man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart could conclude their case as early as Thursday, a day after the young woman stormed out of court during trial. Smart abruptly left the courtroom Wednesday during the trial of Brian Mitchell, who is charged with kidnapping the Utah teen in 2002. She was 14 at the time. Smart left during the testimony of defense witness Paul Whitehead, a forensic psychiatrist who treated Mitchell, CNN affiliate KSTU reported. Whitehead testified about Mitchell's desire to bear children with Smart, the affiliate said. "Mr. Mitchell was talking with Ms. Smart about having babies to the point where Ms. Smart actually picked out a name in case that happened," Whitehead testified. That statement prompted Smart's departure, followed by her mother. Mitchell's trial was halted Tuesday after he suffered seizures in court. Before the seizures, the suspect was singing Christmas carols when he was ...

Elizabeth Smart - Dressed in a beige coat, the young woman walked quickly as she braved a phalanx of photographers and TV cameramen that would have flattered even an A-list Hollywood star. But this was no red carpet scene. It was outside the courthouse in Salt Lake City and the woman was Elizabeth Smart, 23, plucked from obscurity and into national fame by one of the most horrific kidnappings in US criminal history. The story of that crime, which saw a 14-year-old Smart held captive for nine months and forcibly "married" to a man who considered himself a Mormon prophet, stunned America in 2002. The bizarre details of the incident have finally emerged. Smart last week gave three days of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, a former street preacher who crept into her bedroom and spirited her away into the mountains at knifepoint. All week Smart's story gripped Salt Lake City, dominating newspapers and TV shows, and was followed across the US. "There i...

Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart - Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says she was gripped with "indescribable fear" the night her alleged attacker held a knife to her neck as she lay in bed. Ms Smart, 23, was testifying in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, the man accused of abducting her eight years ago when she was 14 and holding her captive for nine months, CNN reported. She was allegedly taken from her bedroom in the early hours of June 5, 2002, made to walk to a hillside camp, bonded to Mitchell then raped. "I was woken up. There was a strange man's voice and something cold across my neck," Smart told the federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday. "I remember him saying 'I have a knife to your neck. Don't make a sound. Get out of bed and come with me or I will kill you and your family.' "I thought I was having a nightmare. It was indescribable fear." Accused .... Brian David Mitchell. Photo: Reuters Ms Smar...