{"id":108998,"date":"2025-12-09T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=108998"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:36:40","slug":"official-netflix-trailer-for-kidnapped-elizabeth-smart-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/official-netflix-trailer-for-kidnapped-elizabeth-smart-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Netflix Trailer for &#8220;Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart&#8221; [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, igniting one of the most intense and widely covered missing-person cases in American history.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suZtQp5Vmo0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart<\/strong><\/em> is a gripping documentary feature that takes viewers inside the real story &#8211; told in Elizabeth&#8217;s own words and through exclusive interviews with her family, investigators, and those closest to the case. 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