Wanda Barzee, who with her husband, Brian David Mitchell, kidnapped Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002, will be freed from prison Wednesday.
The release has angered Smart, who was 14 at the time of her abduction, and those supporting her. Salt Lake Tribune readers sent questions about her sentence, why she is being released, where she will go and why the Smart family is upset. Here are answers:
On Nov. 17, 2009, Barzee pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of kidnapping and one count of enticement of a minor.