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Feb 2025
1h 17m

Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Kidnap...

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For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous couples in true crime history.


All Wanda Barzee wanted in life was for someone to take care of her, and in return she promised complete devotion. So when her paramour, self-styled prophet Brian David Mitchell, demanded she help him find a child bride, Wanda aided and abetted the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart.

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