Upcoming new documentary on the Elizabeth Smart case from Netflix

[mjm076]

So it looks like Netflix is going to be releasing a documentary on the Elizabeth Smart case on January 21st, 2026. Elizabeth Smart, her family members and investigators who worked the case are all interviewed for it.

I must confess that when I saw this come across while I was on YouTube I couldn’t help thinking: again?

Elizabeth Smart has already told her story through the Lifetime film I am Elizabeth Smart as well as the A&E Biography special.

Thoughts?

 

[mickey2942]

I don't know. Is it a money grab for ES? If so, I hope she gets a nice payoff. That girl went thru hell.

 

[mjm076]

Oh I would think she’ll get paid. Also, since she is choosing to participate in it and being interviewed in it, that does make it better then not involving her at all.

I just don’t know why Netflix feels the need to do a documentary on this case when there are already plenty of other documentaries or TV-Movies on her story out there already.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2011890834891800982

 

[dotr]

Jan 21 2026 lengthy article.

Where are they now? Netflix revisits Elizabeth Smart and key figures in her kidnapping case

“I’m not just that girl that was kidnapped. That happened to me, but I’m so much more,” Elizabeth Smart told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2013.

www.wqow.com

''(CNN) — “I’m not just that girl that was kidnapped. That happened to me, but I’m so much more,” Elizabeth Smart told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2013.

A new Netflix documentary premiering January 21 has renewed interest in one of the most closely followed kidnapping cases in American history. Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 and rescued nine months later.

Now 38, she has spent more than two decades turning her trauma into action, becoming an outspoken activist for child safety and survivors of sexual abuse.

“Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” revisits her heartbreaking experience through interviews with Smart, family members and others, featuring never-before-seen material, according to the filmmakers.''
#elizabethsmart #kidnaping #documentary

Jan 21 2026
'Elizabeth Smart joins TODAY to share her new Netflix documentary “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart” in which she shares details about being kidnapped at 14 years old and held captive for 9 months before her rescue. Smart also shares how she talks to her children about the experience, what it's like having people continue to approach her about her story more than 20 years after the ordeal and how her little sister helped find her. "She's my hero."

 

[mjm076]

So I am currently watching the documentary and already I’m willing to admit that maybe I was wrong. Maybe there is something new to tell about this case.