sentenced to 15 years in prison. as part of her plea deal, she agrees to testify against brian david mitchell. that s the first step in trying to turn your life around. and we do really sincerely hope that wanda does that. at barzee s sentencing, lois smart stands up and confronts her, mother to mother. i said, no mother should treat another mother the way you treated us and the children. you took from them things that never can be replaced. maybe justice won t be served in the way that we thought it should be. but there will be a point, some point, that she will have to make amends for what she did. and what he did. and what he did. mitchell s trial finally commences in november 2010 nearly 8 1/2 years after the kidnapping. his defense argues he is not guilty by reason of insanity. elizabeth takes the stand november 8th and testifies over
there s at least one person who agrees that ricci didn t do it. the crime s only witness, 9-year-old mary katherine who shared a room with her sister and saw the man who took her. mary katherine apparently saw some of the coverage. she snuck into the room where her father was watching it. when richard came onto the screen, she said, dad, why is richard on tv? mary katherine said to us what s richard doing on the tv? he didn t do it. two months after elizabeth s disappearance, ricci dies from a burst aneurysm. we don t know with certainty what information he would have been able to give to us. i would say it s a setback to the case. after his death, i think there were some who felt, well, now we ll never find her. we ll never find her body because the only link between elizabeth and where she s at has just died. meanwhile up in the mountains of salt lake city, brian david mitchell continues his subjugation of elizabeth smart who testified he raped her on a daily basis.
emmanuel is identified as brian david mitchell. we got the tip from his ex-wife. that s not a guy named emmanuel. that s a horrible guy named brian david mitchell. he s a creep. a disturbing portrait emerges of his the two who were married in 1985 and active in the mormon church, but family members report that his religious zeal ultimately became something more extreme. at the same time his face is being broadcast nationwide on america s most wanted, mitchell is cooling his heels in a jail cell. elizabeth later testified mitchell had gotten drunk and passed out. he said he had broken into one of the churches that was in lakeside, and he woke up the next morning and found himself in, like, a child s nursery in this church building and that there was a woman there and several police officers who then escorted him to the jail.
in salt lake. they kind of lived in the wilderness. they had actually a tarp over them. according to elizabeth s testimony, mitchell soon begins looking for another girl to kidnap using the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints as his hunting ground. he said that we had come to california to find another wife. and now that he was beginning his search for another wife and that he was going to go around to the other lds chapels to find her. a man invites mitchell to dinner to talk about the mormon faith. he got in the car with this man and his wife, and they took him to their house and had dinner. while she was making last-minute preparations, he saw the photograph of a young girl on the piano. elizabeth testifies that mitchell then goes back to the home to take the girl. she says he attempts to break in but noises inside scare him off. i think he said when he tried to open the door more, the person inside the bed moved or something and that scared him. and so he didn t
i never want them getting out. that s for sure. i never would want anyone else s life to be endangered. and if they stay in a mental hospital, that s fine. if they go to jail, that s great, too. is mitchell competent to stand trial? can he be forcibly medicated? by october 2008, more than six years after elizabeth s kidnapping, the state s case seems stalled when a judge rules mitchell can t be medicated against his will. prosecutors frustrated by delays and roadblocks in the state case move mitchell s trial to federal court in an effort to move forward. once again, the court examines the issue of competency. mitchell continues to sing during court proceedings and at one point is literally gagged to stop him from singing. i mean, i really got a little enjoyment out of seeing him gagged there. the first to testify at the federal competency hearing is the case s star witness, elizabeth smart herself.