Elizabeth Smart

DALLAS -- Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped in 2002 and missing for nine months, was in Dallas on Monday to tell law enforcement workers about her "sojourn into hell" and urge investigators to never give up on finding a missing child.

"We can never do enough when it comes to bringing a child home," said Smart, now 23. "Never doubt your efforts or give up on that child because that one child you save could have been me."

She was the keynote speaker at the Crimes Against Children Conference. About 3,000 police officers, physicians, attorneys and social workers from all 50 states and many other countries are attending the four-day event, which is not open to the public.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Attorneys for the former street preacher sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Smart say they won't appeal his conviction.

SALT LAKE CITY — Elizabeth Smart is taking a job with ABC News as a commentator focusing on missing persons and child abduction cases.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Attorneys for a former street preacher sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Smart are asking for an extra 30 days to decide whether to appeal.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Nearly nine years after she was taken at knifepoint, raped and held captive, Elizabeth Smart is set to publicly confront her kidnapper for the first time Wednesday when he is sentenced.

The sentencing of Brian David Mitchell will close a major legal chapter in the heartbreaking ordeal that stalled for years after Mitchell was declared mentally ill and unfit to stand trial in state court.

SALT LAKE CITY  -- A Utah parole board has denied parole to Elizabeth Smart kidnapper Wanda Barzee.