The message from Elizabeth Smart to missing Provo woman Elizabeth Laguna-Salgado? "We will find you." 
 
 Elizabeth Salgado Provo Police Department 
 
 On Monday, Elizabeth Smart Gilmour and Ed Smart, her father, joined the family of Laguna-Salgado for a press conference to show support for the missing woman's case that has baffled investigators and the public alike. 
 
 "We will find you. We are looking, and we won't give up," Smart said after being asked what her message would be to Laguna-Salgado. "Survive. Do whatever you need to survive." 
 
 Saturday marked one year since Laguna-Salgado left class at the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah, and headed out to walk the 18 blocks back to her apartment. She never made it. 
 
 The Smarts have dealt with a situation not unlike the one the Salgados face now. Smart, now 28, was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002 and held captive for nine months before being rescued. Many credit Smart's rescue to the widespread attention her case received, allowing a member of the public to recognize one of her captors and call for help. 
 
 "We don't know if she's been trafficked, or what the scenario is, but the family still holds out great hope that she is out there," Ed Smart said. 
 
 Elizabeth Smart and Libertad Salgado Figueroa, the mother of missing Provo woman Elizabeth Salgado. KSL News 
 
 Laguna-Salgado's family believes she is being held against her will somewhere. They've spent the past year talking to the media and creating videos in several languages to plead for her release. 
 
 "We can't help thinking about what she is going through right now," Rosemberg Salgado, Elizabeth's uncle, told Dateline. The situation has been especially stressful, as the majority of Elizabeth's relatives, including her parents, live in Mexico. Most do not speak English. "Stress is really high," he said. "She could be anywhere at this point." 
 
 The 26-year-old, who speaks little English, had moved to Provo two weeks prior to her disappearance. She had just finished serving a mission in Mexico for the Mormon Church. Then, as her uncle told Dateline, she "wanted to progress her life and be alongside those of the same faith." 
 
 There is still a full-time detective assigned to the case, but Provo police say that the stream of tips that came by the thousands a year ago, has drastically slowed. A $50,000 reward compiled from various donations is still being offered for Elizabeth's safe return. 
 
 "It's been a frustrating case," Lt. Brandon Post of the Provo Police Department told Dateline this week. "One we really would like resolved in a positive way, and we are still doing everything we can to get that outcome." 
 
 Laguna-Salgado is described as 5'4" tall, weighing 125 lbs. with black hair and brown eyes. If you have any information about the case, you're urged to call the Provo Police Department at (801) 852-6210. ||||| (KUTV) Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made a plea for information and tips in the case of missing Provo woman Elizabeth Salgado. 
 
 Twenty-six-year-old Salgado disappeared a year ago Saturday, in broad daylight, on the streets of Provo. The young woman was new to Utah, a recently returned LDS missionary from Mexico. 
 
 Tips coming into Provo police, a year after the fact, are drying up and the Smart's are hoping to get people thinking about where they were and what they saw one year ago. 
 
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 "I have faith in humanity and this community and that we can bring her home, you brought me home. Why can't it happen again? Why can't another miracle happen?" 
 
 Elizabeth Smart, now 28, was kidnapped at the age of 14 and held captive for nine months, knows the "impossible" can happen. 
 
 "Please, if you know anything, if you've seen anything, don't give up; there is a very good chance that she is still alive." 
 
 Elizabeth Smart was joined Monday, by her father Ed Smart who said, "We do not know if she has been trafficked or what the scenario is, but the family still holds out great hope she is out there." 
 
 Ed Smart is using the lessons he learned in the search for his own daughter Elizabeth to help the Salgado family. The idea is to keep her name in the news and on people's minds. 
 
 "It is hard to conceive that somebody did not see something out there." 
 
 Ed Smart held almost daily news conferences, sometimes more than one a day, while Elizabeth was missing. The heightened awareness eventually helped community members bring her home. 
 
 She was spotted in Sandy walking with Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. She was dressed in disguise, but her picture had been on the news so often, she was still easily recognizable. 
 
 Elizabeth Salgado did not disappear in the dark of night like Elizabeth, she disappeared in broad daylight, walking home from Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah. The young woman had an 18-block walk to her apartment where she never arrived. 
 
 "I am begging the community to please help," said Salgado's uncle, Rosemberg Salgado, He remembers the relief that came when Elizabeth Smart was found. He believes his niece is still alive, and spoke directly to a possible captor. 
 
 "If you have any compassion in your heart, any goodness, any conscience please listen to my plea and let my niece go." 
 
 Salgado's mother is heartbroken and spoke in Spanish about her loss and desperate desire to have her daughter back. Elizabeth Smart encouraged her to keep faith and encouraged the missing young woman to do the same. 
 
 "I would want her to not lose faith in her family, because your family still loves her it doesn't matter what has happened to her they still love her unconditionally and they want her home more than anything." 
 
 Elizabeth Salgado is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. 
 
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 Provo Police still have a full-time detective assigned to the case, but say the stream of tips has drastically slowed from this time last year. There is a $50,000 reward offered for Salgado's safe return. 
 
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 ||||| Born in Utah in 1987, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home at age 14 in June 2002. Held captive by a fanatic named Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, Smart was repeatedly raped, drugged and forced to endure religious rituals, until earning her freedom in March 2003. She has since become a noted activist and author, launching the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011 and authoring My Story in 2013. 
 
 By the time she reached middle school, Smart was sought out to perform as a harpist at local weddings and funerals, and she regularly participated in the annual fall concert at the Capitol rotunda in Salt Lake City. Smart was also a skilled equestrienne and distance runner who was training to compete in cross-country racing when she reached high school. She attended Bryant Intermediate School, where she was known as an intelligent and diligent student. 
 
 Elizabeth Ann Smart was born into a devout Mormon family on November 3, 1987, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The second of six children of a successful real estate developer and a homemaker, Smart was known as a kind, smart, shy and obedient child. Her greatest passion was the harp, which she began playing at the age of 5 and practiced for hours each day. 
 
 Abduction 
 
 On June 4, 2002, Smart and her family attended an end-of-year awards ceremony at her school, where the 14-year-old won several awards for academics and physical fitness. Early the next morning, about an hour after midnight, Smart was awakened in the bedroom she shared with her younger sister Mary Katherine by the sound of footsteps and the feeling of cold metal against her cheek. A man whispered, "I have a knife to your neck. Don't make a sound. Get out of bed and come with me, or I will kill you and your family." The kidnapper, a man by the name of Brian David Mitchell, led Smart out of the house and marched her for hours through the forest to a camp where his wife, Wanda Barzee, was waiting. 
 
 Mitchell believe he was a prophet named Immanuel, and after performing a bizarre wedding ceremony—he was also a polygamist—he declared Smart to be his wife and raped her. "I tried to fight him off me," she later testified. "A 14-year-old girl against a grown man doesn't even out so much." 
 
 Mitchell and Barzee held Smart captive for the next nine months as they moved between California and Utah. Mitchell raped Smart daily—sometimes multiple times per day—and frequently kept her tethered to a tree. He forced her to consume vast quantities of alcohol and drugs and often did not feed her for days, bringing his captive to the brink of starvation. All the while, Mitchell attempted to indoctrinate Smart in his bizarre religious beliefs and convince her that he was a prophet. 
 
 Discovery and Rescue 
 
 The night of Smart's kidnapping, her younger sister Mary Katherine had pretended to be asleep in the other bed while silently attempting to observe her sister's kidnapper in the dark. "I stayed in bed," she recalled. "I was scared. I couldn't do anything. I was just shocked, petrified. I didn't know what to do, knowing someone had come into my bedroom and taken my sister." 
 
 After several months, it suddenly occurred to Mary Katherine that the kidnapper resembled a man who had once worked on their home as a handyman—a person who called himself Immanuel. Police discovered that Immanuel was a man named Brian David Mitchell, and in February 2003, the popular crime detective show America's Most Wanted aired his photograph in an episode. 
 
 On March 12, 2003, a passerby recognized Mitchell walking with Smart, who was veiled and wearing a wig and sunglasses. Authorities arrested Mitchell and his wife and returned Smart to her family that evening. 
 
 The prosecution against Brian David Mitchell stretched on for years, complicated by questions about his mental fitness to stand trial. Finally, on December 10, 2010, more than eight years after the kidnapping, a jury in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City found Mitchell guilty of kidnapping and transporting a child across state lines for sexual purposes. He was sentenced to life in prison, and Brazee was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for her part in the crimes. 
 
 Personal Life 
 
 Remarkably, Smart managed to return to a relatively normal life shortly after rejoining her family. Only weeks after her return, she hiked with her family to the camp where Mitchell had taken her nine months before. "I felt great. I felt triumphant," she said of the experience. 
 
 "I don't think it's worth spending time in the past," she added. "It's not something I think about. If I feel like I want to [retell my story to someone], I will. But I don't have to. I don't talk about it much, I really don't care to." 
 
 Smart soon returned to the classroom and resumed her favorite activities. After graduating from high school in 2006, she enrolled at Brigham Young University to study music performance. Additionally, she became an activist on behalf of kidnapping survivors and child victims of violence and sexual abuse, recounting her inspirational story in interviews with Katie Couric and Oprah Winfrey, and eventually becoming a noted public speaker. Smart also helped to author the United States Department of Justice's 2008 handbook for kidnapping survivors, You Are Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment. 
 
 In 2009, Smart moved to Paris for her Mormon missionary trip, a period interrupted by a return to the U.S. to testify against Mitchell. It was in Paris that she met fellow missionary Matthew Gilmour, a native of Scotland. The two married in Hawaii in Feburary 2012, and went on to have two children together. 
 
 Foundation, Book and TV Projects 
 
 Smart in 2011 launched the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which aims to empower children and provide resources and trauma support for victims and families. That year, she also was named a special correspondent for ABC News to report on missing persons and child abduction cases. 
 
 In October 2013, Smart released a memoir entitled My Story, highlighting the horrific ordeals that she encountered while she was kidnapped. Although the story delves into the inhumane treatment that she received from her captors, Smart wrote the book as a form of closure. "I want people to know that I'm happy in my life right now," she said to the Associated Press. 
 
 In 2017, A&E and Lifetime announced a cross-network event to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Smart's abduction. A&E's two-part Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography, set to air on November 12 and 13, promised to reveal previously untold details about the horrific experience and its aftermath. A dramatized version of the story will follow on November 18 with the Lifetime movie I Am Elizabeth Smart, starring Alana Boden as the young victim and Skeet Ulrich as Brian David Mitchell.
– From one Elizabeth to another, an appeal to be strong and hopeful emerged Monday as Utah marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 26-year-old Elizabeth Laguna-Salgado, per NBC News. "We will find you. We are looking, and we won't give up," Elizabeth Smart Gilmour, who herself was kidnapped at age 14, said at a press conference with Laguna-Salgado's family and her own father, Ed Smart. "Survive. Do whatever you need to survive." Laguna-Salgado vanished one year ago Saturday after leaving a local language center in Provo during daylight hours to make the 18-block walk to her apartment; she never arrived. She had only been in Provo for a couple of weeks after returning from a mission in Mexico for the Mormon church. Her family believes she's being held against her will, and the Smarts are involved because they know how important continued exposure is in cases where leads are starting to fall off and memories are beginning to fade. "I have faith in humanity and this community and that we can bring her home," said Smart, now 28, per KUTV. "You brought me home. Why can't it happen again? Why can't another miracle happen?" Ed Smart concurs, with KUTV noting the news conferences he held on an almost daily basis while his own daughter was missing. "The family still holds out great hope she is out there," he says. "It is hard to conceive that somebody did not see something out there." Laguna-Salgado is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, about 125 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. (Smart's baby girl recently celebrated her first birthday.)