More than 20 years ago, Ed Smart and Lois Smart were unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight after the kidnapping of their then 14-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Smart. Over the course of the next nine months, the couple fought for the safe return of their child, even when authorities started losing hope that she would be found.
In March 2003, police found Elizabeth and arrested her abductors, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, allowing her to reunite with her parents and siblings. Elizabeth has become an advocate for missing persons and has maintained a life as a public figure, but her parents have mostly retreated to their private lives.