Mark Helm (lawyer)
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Mark Alan Helm was an attorney in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case, where he was a member of the team representing the alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell.
Helm was born on May 31, 1970, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1992 and Vanderbilt University Law School in 1997, after which he practiced criminal defense in New York City, and Salt Lake City.
In 2005, in a case that made national headlines, Helm represented Brian David Mitchell, who was charged with the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping and sexual assault. Smart, who was 14 at the time, was kidnapped at knife point from her bedroom on June 5, 2002, and found alive nine months later on March 12, 2003, a few miles from her home in Sandy, Utah.
On December 17, 2008, Mark Helm was found dead in his home.
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