Barzee is no longer in custody, with court records showing that her release came on judicial orders. She and her husband.
Brian David Mitchell kidnapped Smart in 2002 and held her captive for close to a year, moving between rundown houses and abandoned campsites.
In Utah and the San Diego area. The pair were arrested in 2003 and a judge ruled that Barzee could be released from prison in 2018.
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That decision did not sit well with Smart, who was very vocal about the fact that she viewed Barzee to be just as responsible for what happened to her as her husband and a continuing threat to society.
She said in multiple interviews around that time that Barzee was an “evil woman.” Mitchell abducted Smart at knifepoint from her home in Salt Lake City after climbing through her bedroom window.
