Kidnapped California girl resurfaces 18 years later

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Thursday, 27 August 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -
A woman who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11 turned up at a California police station Wednesday, authorities said, and a couple accused of abducting her has reportedly been arrested.
Jaycee Dugard had been missing since she was abducted near her home in South Lake Tahoe on June 10, 1991 by two people in a gray sedan.
"It's a pretty spectacular story just to find someone like that. Someone we assumed was dead," said Bill Clark, the chief assistant district attorney for El Dorado County, an area east of Sacramento that stretches into the Sierra Nevada and to South Lake Tahoe.
An El Dorado County Sheriff's spokesman said in a brief written statement that "1991 kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has been located in good health in the greater Bay Area of California."
Few other details were immediately released but the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported on its website that Dugard, now 29, was identified after she walked into a police station with the married couple accused of abducting her.
The paper, citing law enforcement sources, said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 55, came into the Concord station with Dugard to ask a question and were detained after arousing the suspicion of an officer.
Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender with a prior conviction for rape, was being held on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and kidnapping, the Chronicle reported.
Nancy Garrido was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping, the paper said.
Clark in the district attorney's office said it was too early to speculate on possible charges, but the office was busy reconciling current law with that on the books in 1991.
Dugard was walking to a bus stop near her home when the gray sedan pulled up next to her and she was yanked inside.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Alexandria Sage, Editing by Sandra Maler)




all i can say is i feel for the parents of her, 18 years of not knowing must have driven them mad104

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Friday, 28 August 2009

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A woman walked into a police station 18 years after she was kidnapped, having had two children by the man who snatched her as an 11-year-old girl, police said.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted by two people in a car from a bus stop outside her home in 1991.
Police said they were "99% certain" the person who recently walked into Concord police station in California was Jaycee.
Convicted rapist Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and other offences, the El Dorado Sheriff's Department said.
Mr Garrido is also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department said.
The kidnapped girl is believed to have borne two children, now aged 11 and 15, by her captor in a chilling echo of the Josef Fritzl case - the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while she was imprisoned in his cellar.
A spokesman at the Sheriff's Department said Jaycee was apparently kept in a shed in the backyard of the Garridos' house where her children were born and brought up. DNA tests are now being carried out to confirm the woman's identity and she has been reunited with her mother, although officers admitted that it "would be a long and ongoing process".
The Garridos were arrested on Wednesday after Mr Garrido - who was convicted of rape and kidnap in Nevada in 1971 - admitted the kidnapping under close questioning by a parole officer. He had been called in after being seen with two children at the University of California, Berkeley.
El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said Jaycee and her two girls were kept in complete isolation in a compound at the rear of the house in Antioch, California, where Mr and Mrs Garrido lived. They appeared to be in good health, but added that "living in a backyard for 18 years had taken its toll" on Jaycee. The children have never been to school and never been to the doctor, he said.
The undersheriff described the compound where the family was imprisoned as a "series of sheds" with electricity and a "rudimentary shower".

this story just gets worse105


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Saturday, 29 August 2009

Couple deny Jaycee kidnap charges

A couple accused of snatching an 11-year-old child and keeping her imprisoned for 18 years have pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges, including kidnap, rape and false imprisonment.
Phillip Garrido, 58 - who is accused of fathering two children with the captive - and his wife Nancy Garrido, 55, are alleged to have abducted Jaycee Lee Dugard from outside her Californian home in 1991 and held her in a secret back garden compound for almost two decades.
Meanwhile, forensic experts are searching the couple's property for evidence relating to the unsolved murders of a number of prostitutes.
Appearing at El Dorado Superior Court, the accused pair remained largely silent as 29 charges were laid before them. Both were denied bail.
Further details have begun to emerge about the kidnapping of Dugard and the alleged ordeal she endured.
The woman is believed to have borne two children - now aged 11 and 15 - by her captor in a chilling echo of the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while she was imprisoned in his cellar.
In a rambling phone interview with a local TV station from his jail, Mr Garrido, a convicted sex offender, described the years he spent with Dugard as a "heart-warming story".
He said: "(Over the) last several years, I have completely turned my life around. You are going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim."
A spokesman at the Sheriff's Department said Ms Dugard was apparently kept in a shed in the concealed area of the garden of the Garridos' house where her children were born and brought up. She has now been reunited with her mother.
Speaking about her initial reunion, Ms Dugard's stepfather said that his wife commented that her daughter looked young but healthy. In an interview with CBS, Carl Probyn, 60, added that Ms Dugard felt "really guilty for bonding with this guy", adding: "She has a real guilt trip."

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Jaycee: Police missed rescue chance

Police missed rescue chance


New details have surfaced in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case, suggesting that US authorities blew numerous chances to catch her alleged captor.
Neighbours complained to law enforcement that a psychotic sex addict was in their midst, alarmed that Phillip Garrido was housing young girls in backyard tents.
A deputy showed up to investigate, but never went beyond the front porch.
Probation officers also showed up at the home, but had no inkling that his back yard was actually a labyrinth of tents, sheds and buildings that were Jaycee's prison. They did not even know he had children on the premises.
Garrido also wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his every movement, the result of his sex-crime convictions that sent him to prison for a 50-year stint, only to get paroled after 10 years.
He was convicted of kidnapping a woman from a South Lake Tahoe car park, handcuffing her and raping her in a storage unit in Reno.
In 1977, Garrido was sentenced to 50 years for the kidnapping conviction and life for the rape conviction, but he was granted parole in 1988 for reasons that are unclear at this point.
Garrido served 10 years in the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, before being granted parole. He then served seven months for the rape conviction in a Nevada prison before being granted an early release in August 1988. Less than three years later, he allegedly kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee.
He is accused of holding her captive for 18 years and fathering her two children, before he was arrested this week.


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Monday, 31 August 2009


Police expand Jaycee kidnap search


Armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, about 20 police officers have combed the back garden of the couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Police in Antioch, California, also used sniffer dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbours say one of the suspects once served as a caretaker.
Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the local sheriff's department, refused to elaborate on what kind of evidence investigators were looking for or the nature of the possible crimes involving the second property.
The link to the kidnapping case is that Phillip Garrido, the man charged with holding Dugard in captivity for 18 years, had access to the neighbouring land when the house that sits on it was vacant three years ago.
"It looks like Garrido lived on the property in a shed," Mr Lee said.
Damon Robinson, who moved into the vacant house in 2006, and another neighbour say Phillip Garrido served as caretaker before Mr Robinson took occupancy. That same year Mr Robinson's then-girlfriend called police after she saw tents and children in next door's back garden - not realising they were the kidnapped Dugard and her daughters.
A third neighbour, Janice Deitrich, 66, said that Phillip Garrido visited and helped to feed an elderly neighbour who lived in the house before Mr Robinson.
Police in Pittsburg, a city near where the Garridos lived, have said they are investigating whether Phillip Garrido may be linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the 1990s. Antioch police are also looking into unsolved cases but declined to give further details.
Investigators also continued clearing brush from the scruffy back garden compound of tents and sheds where Garrido and his wife, Nancy, allegedly took Dugard after abducting her from her family's street 170 miles away in South Lake Tahoe.
Neighbours called Garrido "Crazy Phil," partly because he ranted about hearing voices from God, and some knew that he was a registered sex offender. But they assumed parole authorities were keeping a close watch on him.



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Wife watched over kidnapped Jaycee
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Nancy Garrido watched over kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard for years while she cared for her elderly, bedridden mother-in-law at the home she shared with her husband, it has emerged.
When Phillip Garrido went to prison for six weeks on a parole violation, his wife, a former nursing assistant, watched Jaycee at the home in Antioch, California, authorities said.
"You can reasonably infer from the charging document that the wife was doing that," said former US Attorney McGregor Scott, acting as a special spokesman for the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.
The emerging details paint a conflicting portrait of the 54-year-old woman charged with her husband over the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee, now 29, who authorities say had two children with Garrido during her 18 years imprisoned in the back garden. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn said Nancy Garrido fitted the description "dead-on" of the woman who pulled the then 11-year-old into a car in South Lake Tahoe nearly two decades ago. Nancy Garrido's lawyer, Gilbert Maines, did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
But on CBS's The Early Show, he said his client loved and missed the two girls her husband fathered with Jaycee and said she saw them all as a family.
It was unclear if the lawyer would claim Garrido was coerced into aiding her husband. But such a claim could be undermined by her silence about Jaycee's captivity while her husband was held at a jail for six weeks in 1993 on a parole violation, said criminal defence lawyer Michael Cardoza, a former San Francisco Bay area prosecutor.
"There are too many facts in the case and too many opportunities for her to make it right that she did not take advantage of," Mr Cardoza said. "No jury will believe that for those 18 years she was under duress that whole time."
Garrido looked haggard when she appeared in court last week wearing an orange jail jumpsuit. She cried and put her head in her hands several times.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Yay, this means there still is hope for our dearest Maddy!

[From_Nowhere]

Fucking wrong on so many levels. There isn't a place for hell for people like that... just ceasing to exist.

[Papahyooie]

Neh ceasing to exist is too easy for em. I sure as hell hope theres a place in hell for them. Regardless, this is great news. I wonder how the girl herself feels. Is she happy to be back with her family? All those years, she doesnt even really know them. (kinda like someone adopted meeting their biological family and doesnt want anything to do with them, so to speak.) What about her kids?

[Ashe]

Bless her heart. She's going to be so scarred for the rest of her life like that poor Elizabeth Smart girl. :(

[FordGT90Concept]

The good news is that Nevada still has capital punishment. If proven guilty, they should both get put down. I think that would be a fitting sentence for people who willingly stole 18 years of another's life.

[HossHuge]

The good news is that Nevada still has capital punishment. If proven guilty, they should both get put down. I think that would be a fitting sentence for people who willingly stole 18 years of another's life.

I like your choice of words "Put down." Like the animals they are. I am not an adovcate of the death penalty, but if you took one of my sons for any amount of time and did those things to him. You better hope the cops catch you first.

[JC316]

Fucker needs his dick split up the middle with a rusty butter knife. That or duct tape his hands to his ankles and throw him in the prison showers.

Honestly though, there had to be some way she could have fought back. You are flat out gonna have to kill me if you want to keep me like that. There are two possible options, I am gonna kill you, or you are gonna kill me. At 11 it might have been difficult (I still would have tried), but she grew to an adult.

[WhiteLotus]

Fucker needs his dick split up the middle with a rusty butter knife. That or duct tape his hands to his ankles and throw him in the prison showers.

Honestly though, there had to be some way she could have fought back. You are flat out gonna have to kill me if you want to keep me like that. There are two possible options, I am gonna kill you, or you are gonna kill me. At 11 it might have been difficult (I still would have tried), but she grew to an adult.

No you wouldn't. At 11 you would have been shit scared and/or had the crap beaten out of you every time you even breathed wrong. Eventually you would break and become your captures play thing - at which point as time goes on you just do everything your new master tells you to. and then EVENTUALLY Stockholm syndrome would kick in and you would think that your master is right for doing what s/he does to you.

No two ways about it, if someone wants to keep you that bad, then they will break you, and they will make you into their play thing.

It's amazing that this woman had the guts to just walk in to police station.

[FordGT90Concept]

It sounds like she and her kidnappers were there--not sure why her kidnappers would take her to a police station. They just must be that stupid. But it is good for her.

[WhiteLotus]

It sounds like she and her kidnappers were there--not sure why her kidnappers would take her to a police station. They just must be that stupid. But it is good for her.

That is what i heard as well, wasn't sure though... anyone confirm this?

Unless they finally got tired of trying to hide her for all these years.

[FordGT90Concept]

If they could trust her enough to not scream "I've been kidnapped!" at a police station (which she didn't do) then they exerted full control over her. It sounds to me like even if she wasn't present at the police station during the interrogation, it still probably would have came to an end because he violated his parole. They would have found her one way or another.


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The investigation went years without apparent progress until Tuesday, when Garrido showed up on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley with his two daughters and tried to get permission to hand out literature and speak, Kollar said. He did not know the subject of either the literature or the planned talk.

Police officers "thought the interaction between the older male and the two young females was rather suspicious," so they confronted them and performed a background check on him, Kollar said.

That check revealed that Garrido was on federal parole for a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, for which he had served time in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.

The two female police officers contacted Garrido's parole officer, who requested that he appear Wednesday at the parole office.

Garrido did just that, accompanied by his wife "and a female named Allissa," Kollar said.

The presence of Allissa and the two children surprised the parole officer, who had never seen them during visits to Garrido's house, Kollar said.

"Ultimately, Allissa was identified as Dugard," Kollar said

I think he wanted to get caught. He got tired of living a lie.

[3991v]

This just sickens me to no extent. I have no other comment on these low life pieces of fucking shit.

[Papahyooie]

I agree, theres no way she would have gotten away. At 11 years old, youre not gonna do anything, and when you've grown your entire life (in essence) in that environment, theres no way she mentally grew into a true adult. Plus, (and im definitely NOT being sexist here) a man has an instict to fight back. A girl pretty much raised in that condition (and most likely most men) are just gonna do whatever the hell thier told. And like said above, obviously they exercised complete control over her, as they willingly walked into a police station with her. Either they wanted to be caught, which could be the case, or they didnt even dream that she would do anything, which means she was definitely thier "play thing."

[Frick]

This is one of the reasons I don't really watch the news anymore. They make my head go kaplooie on me.

[Rothbardian]

Good thing the cops won't be punished for missing this for so long.

Wait.....