Elizabeth Smart
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Elizabeth Ann Gilmour is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She was put into the national spotlight in 2002 at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City
Smart in 2023
Elizabeth Smart (center) and her mother Lois meet with President George W. Bush in the Roosevelt Room at the signing of the PROTECT Act of 2003
Smart in 2012
Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
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On October 15, 2018, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson abducted 13-year-old Jayme Lynn Closs after fatally shooting her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their home just outside of Barron, Wisconsin
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…survivors, participated in the Lifetime documentary Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case, which touches on the 2018 kidnapping of Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs, and the murders of her parents. Smart and the other women offer their perspectives on how Jayme can heal and recover. In 2021, Smart competed on The…
The Closs family home in Barron, Wisconsin, north of Highway 8, where the murders and kidnapping took place.