Netflix is set to release its next big true crime special, this time, focussing on the terrifying abduction of a 14-year-old girl.
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is on the way with the wait almost over for Netflix fans keen to delve into this harrowing case.
Netflix is renowned for its true crime series and documentaries and Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is bound to be subscribers’ next binge-worthy watch.
Delving into the 24-year-old case, the hour-and-a-half special focuses on the night that teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom, as well as the challenging nine-month manhunt to get her back.
As true crime fanatics eagerly await its release, here is all there is to know prior to watching Netflix’s Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart.
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart release date
The countdown begins for Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart to drop with the true crime special coming out on Wednesday, January 21, on Netflix.
This will be a one-off documentary so subscribers won’t have to wait for any further episodes to be released.
What is Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart about?
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is about the 14-year-old youngster who was taken from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the middle of the night, on June 5, 2002.
The only witness to the incident was Elizabeth’s nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine who pretended to be asleep as a mysterious man crept into their room.
Despite describing his voice as “familiar”, Mary Katherine couldn’t pin where she heard him before and for nine months, Elizabeth wasn’t able to return to her loved ones.
She explained during the trial that her captor, who turned out to be a man called Brian David Mitchell, hid her in a tent in the mountains, along with his wife Wanda Barzee.
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart trailer
Released last month, the official trailer for Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart gives Netflix fans an eerie taste of what to expect.
“I saw this cut screen and the window was wide open. My wife screamed ‘call 911’”, Elizabeth’s dad Ed Smart recalled.
A journalist labels it as the case that “captured the nation” while a detective working on the investigation at the time admitted there was “so little evidence to go on”.
The trailer then teases that officers were suspicious of the family before convicted felon Richard Ricci was thought to be behind it all.
However, Mary Katherine was the “key” to finding Elizabeth as she revealed after a nine-month search for her sister: “I think I know who it is”.
The trailer then ends with a clip of Elizabeth Smart herself, sharing that the documentary is going to feature “never-before-seen material” and a new interview with the survivor herself.
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart premieres on Wednesday, January 21, on Netflix.