Accused kidnapper’s wife says he wanted 350 wives
The woman imprisoned for helping her husband kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 told jurors in emotional testimony on Friday that he abducted the Utah teen after claiming that God had commanded him to “take” young girls as part of a plan to ultimately have 350 wives.
Wanda Barzee, testifying for a second day in the trial of her estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell, said the homeless street preacher began stalking 10- to 14-year-old girls about a year before kidnapping Smart, after getting what he called a “revelation”.
After his “revelation” had subsided and he went into the bathroom to clean up, he looked down and saw that God now needed to pee…