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terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city this is "nightline," december 10th, 2010. good evening, all, i'll bill weir. the elizabeth smart kidnapping in 2002 gripped the nation. because it violated the sense of security all families hold deer. the 14-year-old girl was in her own bed at night with her parents at home and the door locked in a neighborhood where such invasions were unthinkable. her younger sister watched and listened as the kidnapper abducted the teen at knife point. a frantic nationwide search ensued. nine months later, she was found. but not until today, more than eight years later, that justice was finally served and mike von fremd has our report. >> guilty in the kidnapping of elizabeth smart. >> they did convict brian david mitchell on two counts of kidnapping. >> reporter: it's a decision eight years in the making. a trial that's gone on for six

weeks and a verdict that took jurors only five hours to decide. >> it's real. >> reporter: the scene at the courthouse here in salt lake city, utah was solemn. as this child abduction case which has riveted the nation has come one step closer to an ending. >> today's a wonderful day and i'm so thrilled to be here. i'm so thrilled with the verdict. >> reporter: elizabeth, who was sitting in the front row with her family smiled when the verdict was read. today, on the steps of the federal court, she was overjoyed. >> i hope that not only is this an example that justice can be served in america, but that it is possible to move on after something terrible has happened. >> reporter: but this poised 23-year-old we see today is a far cry from the shy 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped in her bedroom at knife point and went missing from her family for a terrifying nine months. >> the prayers of the world have

brought elizabeth home. >> reporter: the road to this verdict has been arduous. and for a man who so many thought was guilty mitchell was able to avoid a verdict for eight long years. from the start mitchell's defense argued that he was legally insane. he was twice declared mentally unfit to serve trial and during the trial, the jury had become accustomed to his bizarre behavior. >> after the first day of testimony, and the jurors returned to the juryroom at the end of receiving testimony, not a single word was said. and there were four or five people visibly crying. >> reporter: the gray-haired mitchell was routinely removed from the kroum after loudly singing hymns and christmas carols. >> he said little things you know, god let him down why would god put him through all of

this? he hasn't said much about it. i am concerned about how people are going to treat him now because this came in. >> reporter: a few weeks ago, he suffered a seizure in court and had to be taken out on a stretcher. forensic psychiatrist dr. michael wellner was an expert witness for the prosecution who helped convince the jury to hand down the guilty verdict given today. >> you know when you look at this case from 10,000 feet, you say to yourself here's a guy in robes with a long beard who sings and he breaks into a house in the middle of the night and just grabs this girl and goes up into the mountains. well, that sounds crazy. it certainly is something that we can't relate to. and i think that brian david mitchell and his defense were very successful for years in advancing that notion. >> reporter: just five weeks ago, elizabeth flew back from her mormon mission in paris to take the stand and recount her nine months of hell. in a composed voice, smart told

the jury about what happened in the early morning hours of june 5th 2002. i remember him saying, 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. >> when elizabeth smart stood in court and testified and said you will hear me i will be heard, no matter what this verdict is in my professional opinion, it is heroic. >> reporter: elizabeth said she was marched three miles to a connon where mitchell and his accomplish, wanda barzee made her his wife staging a wedding. she says she cried herself to sleep that night. when she woke up there was a cable around her ankle that was tethered to a nearby tree. she would remain there for a month and a half. he forced me off the bucket and into the bed that they had where he proceeded to force the robes off, where he raped me.

i was forced to go into the tent and watch them have sexual intercourse. there was one particular moment elizabeth remembered fighting back. i bit him. i bit his tongue as he was trying to kiss me and i bit him. he pulled back and said if i ever did that again, he would never have sex with me again and i'd be the most miserable woman in the world. >> it's real. it's real. >> reporter: when she was found alive, after going missing for almost a year everyone called ate miracle. but worried if she would ever psychologically recover. mitchell's accomplice wanda barzee, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in the kidnapping. mitchell's sentencing is set for may 25th where he could face life in prison. today, while the verdict was read, he began to sing hymns. >> thank you so much. i am excited to go back to france and complete my mission. >> reporter: for the smart family, the case was the end of

an ordeal. asked to describe the family's emotions, her mother, lois said one word came to mind. victorious. >> there was another day that she used the word victorious and that was when he came home and i think this is an exceptionally victorious day for us all. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm mike von fremd in salt lake city. >> and our thanks to mike von fremd for that report. when we come back how far some women will go to look good in torturous heels. we examine the growing trend of plastic surgery for the feet. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil.

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if the shoe fits wear it. so the saying goes. but there a lot of women that think, if the shoe looks fabulous, wear it even if it means soul crushing pain or even plastic surgery. toe-shortening operations are becoming very trendy and jeremy hubbard went in search of cinderella wanna-bes and the doctors that love them. >> reporter: it's all "sex and the city's" fault. >> i'm talking about a women's right to shoes. oh my god! i thought these were an urban shoe myth. >> reporter: carrie's eagerness to cram into those shoes -- >> if they don't fit to help me, i'm going to wear them anyway. >> reporter: left stylish women

thinking they, too, had to toe the line. today, kids stumble around in them. pop stars dance in them. tv hosts race in them. >> these shoes hurt my pinky toe. >> reporter: and now some women will go to extremes to fit in them. >> now i have to take down the bone of the other joint. >> reporter: this is toe shortening surgery. >> tell me if you feel any pain here. >> reporter: they say beauty is pain, but this looks worse than eight hours in a stiletto. however, this doctor says his patients feel nothing but elation. >> women say, look, my taupes are really long. i have a hard time buying shoes. i have to buy one size larger which means my heel doesn't fit in the back of the shoe or my size, which means the taupes have to cramp up. why would we not fix that problem? >> reporter: it is a problem that's existed since 1,000 b.c.

when women started wearing high heels to convey social status and sex appeal. the earliest versions of still let toes were discovered in the tombs of ancient egypt. now days, the taller, the better. this has a 12-inch heel. in the runways and the workplace, heels are the height of fashion. and though women are shelling out about $45 million a year to cure damage from high heels, the doctor says it is impractical to ask him not to wear them. >> let's take the 35-year-old attorney for instance. successful women, has to go to work. can you imagine her in court with birkenstocks on? these women will pay to be comfortable. >> reporter: how much will they pay? patients like audy drop up to three grand for this fancy footwork. >> when i go out anywhere, all the girls are wearing cute high heels, open taupes and look pretty. me, i have to wear closed shoes. because i feel like they're

staring at my long toe. >> reporter: you feel like you have a freakish -- >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: that is all about to change. the doctor is about to shrink her second toe, to make it shorter than the big one. we should warn you this is where it gets a little gross. he actually dislocated the toe -- >> i'm going to go another extra two millimeters. >> reporter: and saws out a two millimeter chunk of bone. he will stick in a rod to bring the shortened bone back together. >> i have to just make sure it is oriented. there it is. >> reporter: we checked back in to see how it turns out in just a minute. before that let's go to kelly. she's having fat injected into her feet. >> being a woman, you know you want to look your best and most of us have the shoe fetish you know? i mean -- we have to have 500 pairs of shoes in our closet. it's just the way it is. >> this is a nice thick callus she has. it is exaggerated because of the shoes and the function of the foot. so, this callus is really our

target spot of fat injection. this band right here is really where all the fat is going to go. >> reporter: first, fat is lipoed from her stomach, collected and injected into the balls of her feet. >> sometimes it's a little clumpy. >> reporter: think of it as an implanted eded dr. scholl's. >> just going to carefully insert it into the pockets i've made. >> reporter: but come on fat pads, toe shortening? even does arch reconstruction and toe lentening. isn't this all over the top? these are feet after all. but the doctor says don't underestimate the appeal of this appendage. >> we can't discount the fact that there is a sexuality to the foot. we'd be lying to ourselves. so, with that said, as a human being, as a member of the human race, i think we look at feet just like women look at men's hands or we look at women's eyes. there is something to be said about the foot. that's why women spend million of dollars. >> reporter: not everyone finds these procedures sexy.

the american medical association largely opposes these kinds of surge rips saying doctors are sum posed to relieve pain and fix deformities, not make women's feet fit into smaller shoes. >> it would be an ideal world if we could synthesize engineering, beautiful design and mess call knowledge into one ball and relinquish women from suffering that they're having every day. until then i'll fix them. >> reporter: and with our patients happy? first, kelly. the swelling will go away. she'll be left with a small pocket of fat to pad her weary feet. >> i feel great. i can't believe how easy that was. >> reporter: piece of cake? >> piece of cake. really -- i can feel the pillows in my feet. it's like puffy pillows. >> reporter: and audy? that unsightly second toe is finally shorter than its larger next door neighbor. in two weeks, it will be healed. after years of shame, this can

finally put her best foot forward. all thanks to a doctor who has made toes the new nose for cosmetic surgeons. i'm jeremy hubbard for "nightline." >> and this little piggy is probably not covered by your hmo. thanks to jeremy for that report. and up next, the do it yourself crafts website that did hundreds of millions in sales this year, and we go inside etsy.com. [scraping]

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experiences, big retail websites are as impersonal as they are inefficient. but what if your tastes run more to the farmer's market or the church be czar? well, it turns out that there's an online home for you folks, too. it's called etsy. devoted to crafts of all kinds and it is a huge business. for john donvan, that is a "sign of the times." >> reporter: etsy. a weird little word will get to shortly, which is a website, a classroom, an office space, a concept. >> more etsy means more hand made, less like not cold not industrial, not corporate, kind of more fun and enjoyable. >> reporter: etsy we'll get to. but first contemplate this word. digits. clocks and scores and heartbeats and computers, oh computers, building our cars for us coaching the cooking for us turning out toys for us.

it's true, santa, toys just ain't hand made anymore. but wait, digit finger or toe. fingers that hold things fingers that feel. fingers that make humans humans and the things they made hand made, like scarves and pottery and painting and all matter of items made with love skill and a human touch. and that's what bringing us to etsy.com. a website getting ready for what all involved hope will be a busy christmas season for goods that are made by hand. by humans. by craftspeople. people who otherwise would be selling at neighborhood fairs or to friends and family or per happens to no one at all. >> i wanted to start a furniture company. the name etsy was the furniture company that i was starting. >> reporter: rob, he's the guy that launched etsy a detail guy, even down to how to decorate the company headquarters in brooklyn, new york.

>> this space is nowhere near what i want it to be. >> reporter: what do you want? >> we're putting the wood flooring in. we need more art. >> reporter: he would make that very short list of someone you wanted to pick thato share that desert island with. >> my first mentor in woodworking only used hand tools. >> reporter: and he is a ceo seemingly stripped of the fear of saying the wrong thing. he is actually very interesting. whether it's on why he dislikes wall street. >> i think there's a very harmful dynamic with wall street being the shareholder of your company. we know what wall street's values are. >> reporter: or on why it's good to be a troublemaker. >> i see the way that twitter and facebook tick some people off, just a sign that this is the vibrant medium of our times and we're just getting started. >> reporter: on on whether being featured on "nightline" is from

mature. >> i'm actually surprised you're here. i think we have a long way to go. >> reporter: well, we came here because of where etsy's been already. consider some numbers, as customer rep michelle spokes us how she posts items for sale. >> this is all ready to go. it's all ready to be sold. >> reporter: on her case vintage merchandise, older than 20 years. current number of sellers, 400,000. current number of members, namely people who sign up to shop, 6.9 million. items currently listed 7.7 million. total sales so far, first 11 months of this year? $273 million. wow. that is a lot of craft interest. and the reason it works is because crafts come with a story. >> really interacting and having a conversation with the person who is making it. you get to know the story of the item from the person who made it so it has more meaning when it comes into your life. >> reporter: and it's true. this is kim, who makes scarves

and handbags in her brooklyn apartment and who lists on etsy. i met her at etsy and i bought one of her scarves for my daughter. i like it. and, you know what it made a difference when i brought it home when i said this cool designer made it by hand and now it is yours. and so forth, the scarf that will always have that story. >> there's not much a story telling aspect of anything on amazon. >> reporter: it's a community, where the buyers and sellers get to know one another. and some of it is actually face to face, because every week on mondays, they open their doors and offer craft lessons to whoever can get there in person or online. >> the ornament i made for my dog. >> reporter: and most recently it was christmas ornaments. they may be a little imperfect but each one comes with a story, made by the digits on the end of your hand. i'm john donvan for "nightline" in brooklyn. >> i got to admit, when i read

crafts, i wasn't expecting an inventory so hip. very cool. thanks to john donvan for that report. when we come back, bill clinton, back in the white house and that is the subject of tonight's closing argument. but first, here's what's up next with our friend jimmy kimmel. jimmy? >> jimmy: tonight, david se dare ris is with us. we have music from nicky [ female announcer ] give yourself the gift of time with the kfc festive

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