The Children of Elizabeth Smart's Kidnapper Speak Out

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Original Air Date: 02/02/2010 Oprah sits down with four of the six children of Wanda Barzee to talk about their mother, their childhood and their stepfather. They share that they were not shocked to learn their mom kidnapped Elizabeth Smart. Plus, they talk about what their lives were like growing up with Barzee as a mother.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Open Winfrey Show was one of the greatest
0:08.7	classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The AHA moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.7	The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	us somewhere else.
0:30.9	I'm bringing them back.
0:33.4	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	That's what I say, mean anything to you.
0:52.9	You are listening to the Open Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.6	In 1981, this mother was raising six children.
1:03.8	She was a homemaker and the organist in her church.
1:07.6	Two decades later, she would take part in one of the most infamous kidnappings of our
1:12.0	time, the abduction of Elizabeth Smart.
1:14.9	Let's take a look back at the horrific crime that put Wanda Barzi in the headlines.
1:21.2	It was almost eight years ago, 2002, when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at
1:26.9	knife point from her bedroom.
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