The Story of Brian David Mitchell 

Brian: God told me she was 18 Judge: God told me to lock you up forever

Seriously, I don’t know how the heck those police detectives didn’t just punch Mitchell in the face during his interrogation. Elizabeth Smart is one amazing, strong young woman.

You didn’t mention Richard Ricci, the innocent man accused of her disappearance who died in prison. Can you imagine what he felt? Charged with a dissappearance he had nothing to do with. He doesn’t get enough mention and he’s the one who paid the ultimate price.RIP

Elizabeth’s concern for her little sister is truly brave, only for her sister to be awake and trying to help her as soon as she could. Truly heartwarming to see their care for one another, especially since her sister remembering Brian’s voice is what eventually brought Elizabeth back to her family. So glad that occasionally these things can have a happy ending.

The interrogator cutting him off to ask her age again in the midst of his rambling deflection thrilled me.

Elizabeth moving on with her life the way she has is humbling.

I'm an ex-Mormon (grew up in the church and didn't have a choice) and cases like this one reminded me of all the uber-weird people that are drawn to fundamentalist religions. There weren't any people that I recall outright saying they were prophets but definitely more than a fair share of unhinged and mentally vulnerable people that the church preyed upon. Gross cult.

Him trying to figure out how to spell his made up name for Elisabeth was second hand embarrassment

"The lord told me she was 18". That won't hold up in court, sir

The fact that he would even entertain that question with "God told me she was 18" tells me everything I need to know. He felt the need to defend himself when talking about her age. This tells me despite all his rambling incoherence he knew exactly what he did otherwise what does her age even matter.

I love that even the detective beat him in a theology debate.

Wow. She was with them for 9 months?! Thank God she didn't get pregnant. At least she was spared that particular horror... Elizabeth seems like the very definition of grace, mental fortitude and spiritual strength. Absolutely amazing how despite this deep trauma, she went on to become an absolute rockstar at life.

Let me get this straight. He hid his two kids from his first wife for two years and then when he got remarried instead of giving them to her, he put them in foster care and they were later adopted away from their mother for good? How freaking cruel. Also, the fact that the court system couldn’t do some sort of research to realize that the children had a mother and give them back to her is heartbreaking for her. Wow.

Perfect! Just clocked in for a 10 hour graveyard shift. Alone. At a convenience store. These keep me on my toes 🤣

Omg. The interrogation was so infuriating! I am so shocked his wife Wanda didn't get life in prison.

Seeing the detective lose it with him and just call him what he is was a great addition to the video. Those detectives weren’t going to stand for his shit and wanted to spare Elizabeth more suffering. Thanks for including it as I hadn’t seen it before now.

"She's had a glorious experience." The detective on the right had to lean back because i bet he wanted to reach across the table and beat the snot out of this dude.

There's no cure for these vile creatures & they should never be set free.

It's fantastic to know Elizabeth grew into a bright mature woman. God bless her.

“When he was 19 years old, he married a 16 year old named Karen Minor”

It's funny how God always commands them to do the things they already wanted to do. Mysterious ways.....

Elizabeth Smart is an amazing human being. I can’t imagine having her strength.

Him:she’s had a glorious experience, Detective:With U??!!, let the pistol whippin begin,, those 2 detectives are stronger than I would’ve /could’ve been🤬

Elizabeth Smart has to be one of the most resilient people to ever live. What a true survivor and hero. And her sister that got a physical description and his voice. Incredible sisters.

"Did the Lord, God, take her out of her room and deliver her to you?" lmaooooooo GOT EEEEEEM

Officer: how old is she? BDM: once again, that question... Officer: is very relevant. How old is she? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I can't believe that officer at the library didn't insist on Elizabeth removing her veil. He just took the word of the crazy guy. The very visibly and obviously crazy guy.

I've seen many interviews in true crime stories. I'm always shocked at how the investigators manage to appear so calm, even though I know their blood is boiling. It was satisfying to see some detectives go off on a criminal! Of course they were docile compared to how I would have been! Detectives have one of the hardest jobs I can imagine!

What a disgusting man, you can see him trying to evade questions and think on his feet. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Besides Elizabeth, those detectives are absolute legends. They were not buying any of this cho-mos BS.

Of course I'm not the only one watching crime in the AM

How does a guy like this get married so many times? Sheesh.

So many weirdos hide behind religion and the church - so glad Elizabeth was able to escape this madman - that took immense courage after being controlled for so long. This story could have ended so differently.

She is the definitely the definition of courage and hope.

Congrats on hitting 100K!! In no time at all we will be congrating you on 1 million!! Your hard work sure does show!! Thank you!!💜💜

Elizabeth Smart is SUCH a power house of a woman...I can't help but feel intense pride for her. Shes just really amazing!❤

This guy was pure evil... and hes currently here in tucson at the federal state prison. Im so glad i dont work there 🤢

Imagine putting your OWN children in foster care willingly and keeping someone elses kids instead

Once in a while, I love my dyslexia. I read the title as Brain Dead Mitchell lmao.

Thank you for the upload. My insomnia sucks a little bit less right now.

Insomnia kicked in. Perfect timing! Thank You!

Strangely enough I dated the son of Wanda. It was very strange to hear these stories first hand. Very scary as well....

WHAT?! 11 minutes ago?! What a bedtime treat!! I love your works!

I've watched the full interview a few times and each time I was reminded just how much patience and willpower it takes to be an interrogator. Gotta be one of the most frustrating ones to watch, bless them.

"Sherrrrr Sherard Sheshu?? I'm sorry, I can't pronounce that. I'm just gonna call her Elizabeth" love these 2 interrogators 😂😂

Demonspawn masquerading as the divine.

The Immanuel David Isaiah voice was absolute perfection.

My dad was in a friend group (read: BFF's) with Wanda Barzee in HS. I've always had a gross feeling of closeness to what happened to Elizabeth since the details came out all those years ago. This was the first time I'd heard that interrogation of that nasty bastard. You were right- it was nauseating. How did those cops restrain themselves...

It's crazy how much he sounds like Charlie Manson with his mumbo jumbo answers.

Thanks from Alberta Canada again. And again and again. Just at the right time. 😊

I love coming home on Wednesday nights to a new podcast from you, I always fall asleep to my headphones on and then I have to re-watch it on Thursday lol

These are very good well produced videos. Not too much extra chat, concise I appreciate that! Thank you 😊

"He married a 16 year old named Karen Minor" Yeah, she's a minor alright

When it comes to mormans nothing suprises me anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

"God told me she was 18" might not be the best defense....

Elizabeth Smart is one hard-core woman. I admire her indomitable spirit and her tremendous faith and will to survive. As Henry Rollins would say, she's pretty hard to kill in an urban environment.

That little girl showed strength, hope and intelligence in a horrendous, scary and hellish situation. He is a monster...

I listened to his entire interrogation and it’s the most infuriating thing ever. The investigators deserve awards for not strangling him.

Why were the children not sent back to the mother. That’s a bit unfair.

I'm so proud of the woman and mother Elizabeth Smart has become!

Your voice is so soothing. Even though the content is horrifying, you really help calm my anxiety. 10/10 channel.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Elizabeth Smart. She is so strong and such an inspiration.

To answer “why would you accuse your partner of abusing your children and then leave your children with him”, it’s because she just didn’t care. That’s exactly what happened to me as a child. I grew up having an abusive mother and brother and that fucks you up and gives you lifelong trauma. I’ve diagnosed cPTSD and PTSD, my mother enabled my brothers abusive behaviour so she would gaslight me, psychologically abuse me, didn’t want to parent and made me care for her and my brother, would go out and have sex with random men and leave me to fend for myself and take full responsibility for my brother when I myself was merely a child, told me constantly that I was the reason she wanted to kill herself, wanted to act like a teenager and resented my existence, and was all around pretty awful. She enabled my brothers physical and psychological abuse which included him beating me regularly, smashing my head into walls to knock me out knowing I wouldn’t hit him back, allowing him to bully me despite me just wanting left the alone, enabling his homophobia and ableism towards me, and refused to get me medical attention whenever he knocked me out where I’d have to walk 3 miles to the hospital, something that (back when my body was more physically able, my nerve damage is too severe now) took me an hour maximum to do, which would take me 2-3 hours because I was so disoriented. I had a literal concussion but was so messed up by my family that I never phoned for an ambulance because I didn’t think I was important enough and thought the NHS would laugh at me for phoning an ambulance. It’s noted in hospital records in the mid 2000’s who the cause of these regular concussions were, in case I ever reported it to the police. My biological father physically abused me at ages 9-10ish when my mother abandoned us for 18 months because she didn’t want the responsibility whilst knowing my father, her husband, was physically and sexually abusive towards her, because she didn’t actually care about our safety. Back then my brother and I were close and would protect each other, I took his beatings and have the permanent nerve damage today for that. Once our mother had custody the abuse dynamic changed to different forms of abuse and so did our relationship as siblings, where he was the golden child and I was the scapegoat. He could do whatever he wanted, but I couldn’t defend myself because I would get further abused. He was highly aware of this and took advantage of it. I can’t even celebrate my birthday after all these years because he had a huge problem with my getting more attention than him for one day, so he would ramp up his abuse by shouting and screaming at me, berating me, gaslighting me, throwing objects at me, pushing me around, telling me how worthless I am and that I deserve to die. My mother would always do a weak “don’t do that” but my brother knew she wouldn’t do anything to stop him, so he ignored her and continued. When I worked full time at 18 (my mother relied on my wages, brother didn’t work and didn’t attend high school, at age 16 he was an alcoholic throwing regular house parties) I actually worked on my birthday because I’d rather be screamed at by customers and my angry boss than deal with the abuse at home, something one of my managers was aware of because she saw the bruising around my neck and on my face. She thought I had an abuse girlfriend and I ashamedly explained it was my brother, than my mother knew and I couldn’t do anything. When I got home after the long shift on my 18th birthday I was immediately met with a barrage of abuse, screaming, spitting, throwing things at me, attempting to grab me by my hair, but I’d walked home with a friend who I worked with who lived round the corner and he shoved my brother off and punched him in the stomach, telling him to wisen up. Maybe 10 minutes later, with constant screaming at me as I ignored him and did housework (because neither him or my mother did a damn thing, I was expected to care for them full time and work full time) Police Scotland arrived to tell him he was breaching the peace with his loud music and screaming. They spotted me in the kitchen, trying to hold it together and not cry, and because I’d known the officers since my younger teen years (because unsurprisingly the cops were around my house a lot growing up because my household was so broken) they immediately recognised what was happening. They couldn’t do anything because I didn’t want to report my brothers abuse, because of some dumb loyalty I had, because “we’re faaaaaamilyyyyyyy”. That stays with you even when you cut all contact from your family. I have no contact with my biological mother or brother, the very brief contact I had was 2 days to congratulate my brother on his fatherhood and within those 2 days he reverted back to his usual behaviour of being abusive. My mother enabled this, gaslight me and told me his very clear ableism towards me for being physically disabled and bedridden, along with mentally disabled were “differences of opinion”. As per Scottish law, he committed a literal hate crime, but according to her it was just his “opinion” that I should “respect”. She got custody of us when I was 11ish. She left my father, a deeply violent man, but she abandoned us with him for 18ish months, knowing he would take his violent anger out on us, hence I have permanent nerve damage from how he used to kick me in my stomach. He would beat and räpe her, he would beat us to keep her “in line” but because she didn’t want to be a parent and didn’t want the responsibility she just left us there, knowing we’d be violently abused. The worst night was the day after Christmas where they fought, he grabbed her hair and dragged her up the stairs, he tried throwing her down the stairs, he threw heavy objects as we ran down the stairs where one of the objects missed my brother by maybe an inch, which could’ve so easily killed him. The screaming was so, so loud, but our neighbour didn’t do shit. Our neighbour was a cop… who found me under the stairs, holding an axe, protecting my brother and my dogs. They were all underneath my dogs blankets, terrified, my brother hugging into my dogs who were whining/crying, and me, at age 9-10ish, holding a fucking axe and fully committed to using it to protect us as a last line of defence. My mother had just left us there, she drove away and left us, and then left us there for a further 18 months. She was too busy partying and having sex with random men to care about our safety. Some people should never have children, my mother is definitely one of those people. She constantly blamed everything on my father when growing up but she was just as bad, if not worse in many ways, I didn’t recognise just how damaging her abuse was until talking to a therapist and being diagnosed. I myself will never have children, my childhood was just too traumatic that I can’t function as a normal human on a daily basis because my cPTSD & PTSD are that bad where they affect my every day life, and at 30 with an infertile body that is unable to carry to term anyway, I decided long ago that I don’t want children, even if I could get pregnant I wouldn’t want them. I’m good, my traumatic childhood has put me off ever having children. Thankfully I have an “adoptive” family but it hurts knowing your biological “family” treats you with such disregard, it messes you up for life. Especially when a large part of your mother’s divorce was about how physically, mentally and sexually abusive my father was, and that she happily left us there because she had such little disregard towards my life, safety and happiness. She continues to enable my brothers behaviour where he’s pretty alienated from her family because of his constant thefts, lies, manipulation, alcoholism, and temper. I have zero contact with any of them where her super judgmental sisters claim that I was “being immature”, that I’m “bitter”, and that I’m “selfish”, for putting my own safety and sanity first, and for cutting contact with my toxic family. I don’t owe them anything, I know that now, but when younger I had this sense of loyalty to the very people who abused me, and I’m glad I’m out of their crutches!

As a cop in that interrogation room, I would have unloaded my clip!!!! Hats off to those gents for keeping their composure!

I've never been so angry after a RU-vid video, my respects to those two detectives for keeping their cool.

I’ve seen some people who think none of this happened to Elizabeth and she just “ran away” people are fucked in the head sometimes. Great vid I’m glad she survived and went on to do amazing things basically flipping the bird that psychotic monster

Perfect timing!!! Thank you very much!

Great timing as always.

"Were you LDS? Is Joseph Smith a prophet of the Lord? did he say you have to subject to the laws of the land?" Boom! I like that detective.

I'm addicted to your show and I find myself excited and anxiously waiting for the next episode. Thank you for what you do. ~ ♡ Sheryl♡ ~

Some subtitles on the interrogation parts would be awesome for HOH and non-native speaking people.

I love that Elizabeth now uses this to help victims speak through crime shows, etc. Who else can relate like her? She really took all the shit, used it for fertilizer, and blossomed.

"When he was 19 years old he married a 16 year old named Karen Minor" You can't make this shit up.

I cant seem to find an activity that I cant do while listening to this channel. ❤❤❤❤❤ Hello from Amarillo, Texas.

Elizabeth is a remarkable person. Thank goodness she was finally rescued.

Its so sad that the cop walked away 😪

Thank God for that officer suggested they separate them.

Just in time for my insomnia, rad

One sick disgusting man. His so called wife, Wanda, wasn't any better since she allowed it. Thank God Elizabeth was a strong willed child and survived.

Can't remove her veil, it is about time the Authorities stopped giving People a free pass for their Religious beliefs.

Thank you for your hard work on this! I never heard the story this way.

I’m so glad that Elizabeth really takes after her name, Smart.

Elizabeth Smart is an incredible woman. She overcame something so horrible that no one should ever have to go through, started to heal, shared her story with others, and does work to positively impact the world. They say living well is the best revenge, and I think Elizabeth is a shining example of this. She refused to let this psycho keep her down and she has flourished.

Your channel is my favorite. Even when it's cases I know about, sometimes you give details I didn't know. Very good work.

I'm an Atheist, but like many, was once a Christian, and the blasphemy and insult is palpable even now. I feel for honest Christians that sit through that interrogation, along with every other decent human being. 🤢🤮

How crazy how he treated his first two kids. Those poor kids, how bad they must feel, and how they must think when their mom didn’t keep trying for them

A guy like this better be happy the police found him before I did.

Such a brave girl. Strong and strong willed. Good job.

You know someone is truly a monster when their fellow cult members ask them to tone down the portrayals of Satan due to being too realistic.

So glad his family sided with the victim.

"Brian David Mitchell grew up in a Mormon household..." enough said

Wow.. Wanda really got a slap on the wrist compared to him. She deserved way more than what she got. I bet she ended up living a somewhat normal life..smh. I'm glad Elizabeth was able to find some sort of peace. I saw her interviewing a victim on a different show. Interesting how things worked out for her.

Love the detectives attitudes towards him!

I lovvvvvve how you stop mid info-give your honest and always accurate opinion-then continue! Your opinion is always spot on. You’ve got good integrity man xx

I remember hearing about this when it happened. He had lost it and gone delirious out in the wilderness..... so glad she's home safe with her family! 💕

I learned more about this case in 15 minutes than I ever knew! Ty! I would have thought he was schizophrenic and might not be sane so it is awesome psych straightened all that out. Bless Elizabeth and her family - may they inspire others forever.

I was expecting a booming mountain man voice to come from Brian based on his looks. He sounded more like how I expected his wife to sound.

¡Maldito viejo! Elizabeth is an amazing person ✨ thanks for the video, awesome as usual!

These people were so irresponsible with their kids, the nicest part of this video is when Brian put the kids up for adoption! Good for them!

The fact that she went back to LDS almost made me cry.