Mental Health Hearing Set for Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Suspect
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Competency hearings are scheduled to begin today for the man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee are accused of kidnapping the teen in 2002 and keeping her for nine months.
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A lawyer for a woman accused of helping kidnap teenager Elizabeth Smart told the state Supreme Court on Wednesday that his client shouldn't be forced to take antipsychotic drugs to make her competent for trial.
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This is how a forensic psychiatrist described the dynamics likely playing out in the heads of the three key players in yesterday&#39;s hostage taking outside Union Station.
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The mother of a British girl who disappeared four months ago in southern Portugal is to be named a formal suspect in the case Friday, a family spokesman said, a shocking twist to a case that has gripped much of Europe.
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An Army lieutenant will face a hearing next week into allegations he raped a fellow soldier in Mississippi, military officials said Saturday.
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A woman accused of stalking and threatening actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is mentally fit to stand trial, a court-appointed psychiatrist told the woman&#39;s attorney Monday.
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A judge ordered a new round competency evaluations in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case Friday after the suspect broke out in a Christmas hymn at a court hearing.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
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The Nigerian kidnappers of three year-old British girl Margaret Hill may release her within 24 hours, the chief of police in Rivers State said on Saturday.
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A warrant was issued Sunday for a man suspected of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy at gunpoint from a school bus stop, authorities said.
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A U.S. judge indicated on Monday that she would order prison psychiatrists to evaluate whether former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally fit to stand trial in one of the highest-profile terrorism cases against a U.S. citizen.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah judge has found Brian David Mitchell competent to stand trial in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Mitchell appeared in court in handcuffs Tuesday morning for the first of what
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The two people evaluating the man charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart have never spoken with him, and the judge in the case has said they disagree on nearly every aspect of his psychology.
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A former police detective who worked for Robert Blake as a private investigator testified Thursday the actor proposed kidnapping Bonny Lee Bakley, forcing her to have an abortion, and if that did not work, "whack her."
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A House panel on Wednesday is scheduled to examine a woman's accusations that she was drugged and raped by co-workers at a contracting firm in Iraq two years ago.
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The accused terrorist's lawyers hope to use a competency hearing to show alleged mistreatment.