Hey, everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious. Most people outside of Utah

never think about Wanda Barzee. I mean, honestly, why would they? But inside Utah, her name still

sends a chill.

Wanda Barzzi, along with her unhinged homeless husband, Brian David Mitchell, were living in a tent when Brian decided it was time to take on another wife, a celestial wife.

And he convinced Wanda it was a good idea to kidnap 14-year-old Elizabeth

Smart from her bed. The Smarts had taken pity on Brian David Mitchell, and they had offered him

some handymen work around their home. So he was, you know, milling about and got a good look at their young daughter Elizabeth.

And that's when he hatched a sadistic plan to steal her from the smart family and make Elizabeth

his additional wife. All along, convincing his aging and mentally ill wife, Wanda, that she'd still

be wife number one.

Elizabeth would just be a celestial wife, and Wanda could still be a part of everything that

happened with Elizabeth. And when I say everything, I mean everything, including the first night

they stole her from her bed.

Elizabeth would report to the police that Brian stripped her naked that night,

anointed her with oil in a strange religious ceremony, and then raped her while Wanda held her down.

Elizabeth said it happened not very far up the hill from her home in the woods and that

she could hear the voices of the search parties calling her name.

That couple held Elizabeth captive for nine horrifying months.

And every single day of that ordeal, Brian David Mitchell sexually assaulted Elizabeth,

sometimes multiple times a day.

And Wanda Barzzi helped him do it.

Sometimes even holding her own body up against Elizabeth's during the assaults.

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