The Oprah Show today invited Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper Wanda Eileen Barzee’s family. Four of Wanda Barzee’s children appeared on the Oprah show Tuesday to discuss their mother and having Brian David Mitchell as a step-father. Her youngest daughter, opening up to Oprah, remembered her mother as a “Monster”, feeding them their pet rabbit for dinner. “I asked what’s for dinner and she said chicken,” LouRee Gayler told Oprah Winfrey on her show today. She remembered her mother Wanda Barzee and her second husband Brian David Mitchell just picking at their meals, “but she had a smile on her face the whole time,” Gayler said.
When Gayler went to feed her pet rabbit the next morning, she found the cage empty. ”What happened to Peaches?” she asked her mother, referring to the pet. “You had it for dinner last night,” she said her mother replied.
In 2002, Barzee and Brian David Mitchell kidnapped then 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and was held captive for nine months in a campsite in Salt Lake City. Smart testified she was sexually abused by Mitchell during her captivity.
Elizabeth Smart testified at Brian David Mitchell’s competency hearing in October of 2009. She said she was taken to a remote campsite just a few files from her home. She said that they performed a religious ceremony in which Smart was married to Mitchell, and Barzee washed her feet and dressed her in robes for the ceremony.
Brian David Mitchell has yet to stand trial.


