Wife just as evil
Rapist’s kin set to go free, vic rages
Elizabeth Smart says kidnapper Wanda Barzee, due to be released from prison Wednesday, would encourage her husband to rape her during the time she was held captive.
“She would sit right next to me. Like, the side of her body would be touching me,” Smart told “CBS This Morning” in an interview that aired Tuesday.
Smart was taken from her Salt Lake City home at knifepoint by Barzee’s husband, Brian Mitchell, in 2002. Only 14 at the time, she was repeatedly raped and tortured for nine months before she was rescued.
Mitchell is serving a life sentence. Barzee had been slated to stay in prison until 2024, but is being released earlier because officials had miscalculated her sentence.
Smart was outraged by news of Barzee’s release, and Utah residents have also expressed concern. Barzee’s relatives do not want to have anything to do with her.
“I don’t know all the conditions of her release, but I have been reassured multiple times that she will be kept a very close eye on,” Smart told CBS. “And as soon as she messes up, which I’ve been reassured that she will, she will be taken back to federal prison for the duration of the five years.”
Smart told Gayle King on “CBS This Morning” she was given “a little bit of comfort” after she was abducted when Mitchell told her had a wife, but that soon changed.
“But as soon as I saw
her, I did not have that hope anymore,” she said.
Smart said she was raped every day by Mitchell, sometimes “multiple” times a day, and Barzee was always close by. “I mean, she was right there,” Smart said. “So, I mean, she — there were no secrets. She knew what was going on. And, I mean, she just was the kind of woman that — she was just evil and twisted.”