STOLEN

A fourteen-year-old girl disappeared from her own bedroom. Nine months later, she was found alive.

On 5 June 2002, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her family home in Salt Lake City. Her disappearance triggered an extraordinary search, intense media attention, investigative mistakes, and a public campaign that would eventually help identify the man police wanted to find.

STOLEN: The Elizabeth Smart Case examines the case not as spectacle, but as an investigation: the first hours, the witness in the next bed, the breakthrough that gave "Emmanuel" a name, the public sightings, the recovery, the long competency battle, the federal trial, and the advocacy that followed.

Drawing on court records, official material, contemporary reporting and survivor-led public statements, this first volume of STOLEN: The Case Files asks what happened, what the case exposed, and what can still be learned from it.

Victim-centred. Evidence-led. Responsible true crime.