Editing Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart (section)

===Abduction and investigation===
* June 4, 2002 – The Smart family arrives late at the Bryant Middle School awards function; Elizabeth receives awards in physical fitness and academics but does not play her harp as planned. Family returns home and retires to bed.<ref name=bio/>
* June 5, 2002 – Elizabeth is abducted from her bedroom in the early hours of the morning. Mary Katherine, her sister, is a witness to the crime. Elizabeth is held prisoner at a camp in Dry Creek Canyon, the entrance to which is a short distance from the Smart family house.
* June 6, 2002 – A reward for her rescue is set at $250,000.
* June 7, 2002 – A milkman reports suspicious activities of Bret Michael Edmunds in neighborhood.
* June 9, 2002 – Ed Smart is questioned and polygraphed.
* June 12, 2002 – Manhunt for Bret Michael Edmunds.
* June 14, 2002 – Suspect Richard Ricci is arrested on unrelated charges.
* June 21, 2002 – Bret Michael Edmunds caught at City Hospital in [[Martinsburg, West Virginia]], and questioned the next day.
* June 24, 2002 – Richard Ricci arrest announced.
* July 11, 2002 – Richard Ricci charged with theft in the Smart home. Denies any involvement with Elizabeth's kidnapping.
* July 24, 2002 – Attempted kidnapping at the house of Elizabeth's cousin.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.courttv.com/news/smart/040403_cousin_ap.html|title = Father says younger cousin of Elizabeth Smart target of alleged break-in|access-date = October 2, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030409104016/http://www.courttv.com/news/smart/040403_cousin_ap.html|archive-date = April 9, 2003|url-status = dead|date = April 4, 2003}}</ref>
* August 2002 – Salt Lake City Detective Richey, based on a tip, confronts Smart and her kidnappers at the City Library. He is deflected from examining Smart's face by a religious argument. Smart later testified, "I felt like hope was walking out the door", as the detective accepted the argument and left.<ref name=bio>{{cite AV media|title=Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography|publisher=A&E Networks|date=November 12, 2017|url=http://www.aetv.com/shows/elizabeth-smart-autobiography}}</ref>
* August 2002 – Mitchell, Barzee, and Elizabeth leave Dry Creek Canyon and go to Salt Lake City.
* August 27, 2002 – Richard Ricci collapses.
* August 30, 2002 – Richard Ricci dies of brain hemorrhage.
* September 17, 2002 – Police suspend regular briefings with the Smart family.
* September 27, 2002 – Police arrest Mitchell for shoplifting and later release him.
* September 28, 2002 – Barzee and Elizabeth are spotted in the town of [[Lakeside, California]], in [[San Diego County]].
* October 12, 2002 – Mary Katherine remembers the voice of the kidnapper as that of the man they knew as "Immanuel".
* February 3, 2003 – Smart family releases the sketch of the man known as Immanuel.
* February 12, 2003 – Mitchell is arrested in [[El Cajon, California]], in San Diego County, for breaking into a church. He was not recognized as the criminal wanted in Utah.
* February 15, 2003 – ''[[America's Most Wanted]]'' features "Immanuel" and requests responses.
* February 16, 2003 – Mitchell's family identifies him to police as the man known as "Immanuel".
* February 17, 2003 – Newly published, more recent photographs of Mitchell made available.
* March 5, 2003 – Mitchell, Barzee, and Elizabeth leave [[San Diego County, California]].
* March 12, 2003 – Elizabeth Smart is found alive in the city of [[Sandy, Utah]].