kidnapping, 2002

In 2002 Michelle Knight was kidnapped by a Cleveland bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade she endured unimaginable torture. At her rescue, investigators and psychologists would liken her years of imprisonment to that of a prisoner of war. In 2003 Castro kidnapped Amanda Berry and in 2004 he took Gina DeJesus. The three escaped on May 6, 2013. Michelle's past fight to remain a person of worth and her determination now to build a life worth living is beyond inspirational.

Journalists Tom Smart, uncle of Elizabeth Smart, and Lee Benson chronicle the investigation of Elizabeth's 2002 kidnapping, tracing the movements of her abductors and the mistakes made by police and others during her nine months of captivity, and discuss the positive and negative actions of the media throughout her and her family's ordeal.