Elizabeth Smart – who was kidnapped aged 14 – relives real-life nightmare as she meets Candra Torres for Finding Justice

A woman who was kidnapped and held captive for days when she was 16-years-old, has re-lived the traumatic experience.

Candra Torres, who was abducted in 1976, tells Elizabeth Smart: Finding Justice in an exclusive sneak peek, that the man who took her bragged about shooting her dog and husband, before holding her against her will and sexually attacking her.

Torres – who was interviewed by kidnap victim turned crime reporter Smart – revealed that Thomas Browne shot and killed her husband Jose, who was also known as Julio, and held her captive for three days in Mount Hood, Oregon, in July 1976.

To celebrate her first wedding anniversary with Julio, 21, the young couple had gone hiking with their dog Rusty, to celebrate.

Browne killed Rusty and then bragged about it to the shocked and frightened teenager, before revealing he also killed her husband.

When she and her tormentor emerged from the woods three days after Julio was killed, Browne had convinced her to lie to the police for him and say Julio's death was an accident.

It took several days for her to tell police that he'd not only murdered her husband but also held her against her will and sexually attacked her.

Elizabeth – who was abducted when she was 14-years-old from her home in Salt Lake City and held captive for 9 months – revisited the spot where Torres was snatched 44 years ago, with her.

The episode will air on Sunday, after a TV-movie about the incident, A Murder to Remember.

In a preview clip that was shared exclusively with The Sun, Torres returns to the remote spot where her husband was killed.

She recalls to Elizabeth the horror of witnessing her husband being killed by Browne, who remains in prison.

"He [Browne] had his gun with him, I just felt uneasy the entire time," she remembered, explaining that the killer had used the excuse of deer stalking.

"I was at the campsite cooking the breakfast and then I heard a shot. My first thought was to run, take the dog and run as fast as you can and get away.

"And then I thought that's crazy, it would be stupid to run, my husband would be looking for me, I'd get lost in the woods, that's silly.

"But Thomas Browne came up by himself said, 'we shot a deer and he's down there cleaning it.'

"I knew that wasn't the case because Julio was not a hunter so I ran down the path to where I'd seen them go and I heard another shot and at that point, my beautiful dog fell to the ground, blood all over his head."

"I looked at him and said: "You shot my dog!" she recalled.

"He had a big smile on his face and he said, 'I shot your husband too,'" she told Elizabeth.

She then suffered brainwashing at the hands of her captor, as they explore the real-life nightmare endured by Candra at the hands of a master manipulator and murderer.

Elizabeth herself was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom in her family's house in Salt Lake City, Utah.

For the next nine months, Smart was raped daily, tied up, and threatened with death if she attempted to escape by Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee.

She's now happily married to Matthew Gilmour and they share three children, Chloe, James and Olivia.

The upcoming episode of Elizabeth Smart: Finding Justice will air on Sunday August 2 at 10pm on Lifetime.

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