Brian David Mitchell

Sale Lake City Nearly nine years after she was abducted at knifepoint from her bed, Elizabeth Smart watched Wednesday as a federal judge ordered a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping her while holding her captive for months.Brian David Mitchell's sentencing closed a major legal chapter in the heartbreaking ordeal that stalled for years after Mitchell was declared mentally unfit to stand trial in state court.Related Elizabeth Smart's abductor guilty of kidnapping, rapeWanda Barzee, 65, Mitchell's estranged wife and codefendant, is serving a 15-year sentence in a federal prison hospital in Texas for her role in the kidnapping.

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