kidnapped or missing girl Jaycee Lee Dugard found after 18 years
Kidnapped girl Jaycee Lee Dugard found 18 years later, 11-year-old California girl who was abducted from Lake Tahoe had been missing on June 10, 1991 by two people in a gray sedan.A woman who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11 turned up at a California police station on Wednesday, authorities said, and a couple accused of abducting her has reportedly been arrested.
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Kidnapped girl found 18 years later; couple arrested
Police say sex offender, wife snatched Jaycee Dugard in ’91
Kidnapped California girl resurfaces 18 years later
Published: 08.28.09, 00:09 / Israel News
A woman who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11 turned up at a California police station on 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. (Reuters)
Telegraph: Sex offender arrested after girl returns 18 years later
A woman kidnapped in 1991 when she was 11-years-old was reunited with her mother on Thursday night after walking into a police station and announcing she was the victim of one of California’s oldest unsolved crime
Kidnapped Girl Found After 18 Years
Thursday August 27, 2009
For years, she smiled from her FBI missing child poster, one of those children that had been missing so long no one expected her to ever be found alive. But Jaycee Lee Dugard turned up today at a California police station 18 years after she disappeared from a school bus stop in 1991.
Dugard was 11 years old when she was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 in South Lake Tahoe.
Authorities said Dugard has been held in captivity for the past 18 years, by a convicted sex offender who kept her in his backyard compound sheltered in tents, sheds and outbuildings in Antioch, California.
Police have arrested Phillip Garrido, 58, who they say kept Dugard as a virtual slave and fathered two children by her. The children are ages 11 and 15.
Kidnapping, Rape Charges Filed
Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were charged with conspiracy and kidnapping. Garrido has also been charged with rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.
Garrido is on parole from a Nevada state prison on a conviction of rape by force or fear. He was paroled in 1999.
Dugard’s ordeal began to come to an end after California parole officials received a report that Garrido was seen with two young children. They called him in for questioning.
Parole Officer Interviews Garrido
“The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee’s agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. “It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, and that the children were his.”
Garrido brought Dugard and the two children to the parole meeting. He admitted kidnapping after meeting with his parole officer.
Dugard and her children were kept isolated behind Garrido’s home.
“None of the children have ever been to school, they’ve never been to a doctor,” El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. “They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will. There was electricity from electrical cords, rudimentary outhouse, rudimentary shower, as if you were camping.”
Reunited With Mother
Authorities said Dugard appeared to be in good health when she arrived at a San Francisco Bay area police station Thursday where she was reunited with her mother, who was “overjoyed” to find her daughter alive.
Also welcoming the news was Dugard’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, the last person to see her before she disappeared and a longtime suspect in the case.
“It broke my marriage up. I’ve gone through hell, I mean I’m a suspect up until yesterday,” Probyn told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, California.
“I have a million questions.”
Missing US girl is found after 18 years
Posted by The Independent
Friday, 28 August 2009 at 01:06 am
Author: By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Jaycee Lee Duggard, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl of 11 when she was abducted, in broad daylight, while waiting for a school bus, surfaced on Wednesday after wandering into a parole office in a town near San Francisco.
In a case that bears chilling echoes to that of Joseph Fritzl – the Austrian electrician who kept his daughter in a cellar – police believe Ms Duggard was locked away in a darkened building for several years, and repeatedly raped by her captors.
Now 29, Ms Duggard is reported to have borne several children to 58-year old Philip Garrido, the man accused of snatching her from her home, in South Lake Taho. He was last night being held on suspicion of kidnapping, conspiracy, rape, lewd acts with a minor, and illegal sexual penetration.
The FBI was yesterday searching the home Garrido shared with wife Nancy, 54, who is also being held on $1million bail. The couple were booked into the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, but have since been moved to an undisclosed site in Northern California, apparently for their own protection.
Reporters descending on the rambling property, in a rural area near Antioch, say that local police believe Ms Duggard was kept in captivity in a shed for at least two years, before being moved around a range of different outbuildings.
Neighbours described the Garridos as an eccentric couple, who had security bars on all of their windows conducted what were described as “religious revivals” in a tent in their untidy garden.
According to one acquaintance, they claimed to have developed a device that allowed them to control sound with their mind. Former visitors said that several children seemed to be living on their property.
The arrest on Wednesday took place in bizarre circumstances. Mr Garrido was apparently brought in for questioning to a State Parole Office in Concord after a member reported suspicious activity involving him the previous day on the campus of UC Berkeley, a local university.
After what police described as “diligent questioning,” it soon emerged that the woman who was accompanying Garrido to the Parole Office was the missing Jaycee Lee Duggard. The two children were his.
The discovery of Ms Duggard brings an extraordinary ? if somewhat grim ? conclusion to a saga that began in June 1991, when she was grabbed by a couple driving a grey saloon car as she waited at a bus-stop, half a mile from her front door in South Lake Tahoe.
Jaycee Lee’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, witnessed the abduction, telling police and reporters at the time that he had seen her bundled into the vehicle by a man and a woman. Although he gave chase on a bicycle, he was easily out-run.
Several other witnesses came forward. But despite state-wide roadblocks, an international FBI investigation, and the fact that Jaycee Lee was wearing a distinctive pink outfit, police failed to get any meaningful leads. No arrests were ever made.
Probyn, who these days lives in Orange County, told reporters that he learned of Jaycee Lee’s discovery on Wednesday afternoon when his wife, Terry, and daughter, Shayna, telephoned out of the blue.
Shanya told him “Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?” The phone was then handed to Terry, who announced: “They found Jaycee. She is alive.”
The couple are said to have spent the next ten minutes in tears, as they discussed the remarkable news. Probyn revealed that his wife is, understandably, “in shock.”
“I had personally given up hope. This is a miracle,” he said. “She’s had a conversation with my wife, and she remembers everything…. They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife’s questions about her childhood.”
Much like the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which sparked a similar media frenzy in the UK two years ago, the case initially generated enormous public interest – and suspicion initially fall on Probyn, the last person to see her alive.
“The FBI put me through the wringer, having people say the step-dad did something,” he told reporters. “I have been kind of the villain these past 18 years. I’ve gone through hell. [But] I’ve never spent a day in my life in jail. My last speeding ticket was in 1977.”
As the family flew north to San Francisco to be reunited with their daughter yesterday, questions were being raised as to how Garrido escaped the scrutiny of investigators for so long.
Officials said Garrido had been arrested in Nevada for sexual assault in the late 1990s, and served time in State prison. He was paroled in June 1999, but parole officers never got round to visiting him at home.
Mystery also surrounds what happened to Duggard during the years that he was held in custody. Federal records also show that Garrido has a separate kidnapping conviction related to an offense committed in 1980.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11-year-old California girl who was abducted from Lake Tahoe, California 18 years ago, has been found. Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991 by two males from South Lake Tahoe in California. Police say a woman walked into an Antioch police station yesterday claiming to be the missing girl.
Local news footage shows a smiling woman who appears younger than 29 — the age Dugard would be now. Police say the woman is healthy. I would post the video, but the site that the video was hosted on has apparently crashed due to all the traffic from other sites.
Dugard’s mother, Terry Probyn, and stepfather, who separated due to the stress of their daughter’s abduction, are “thrilled and amazed” that she has returned. Probyn is flying to California to meet with the woman who says she’s her daughter.
There was no word on where she’s been or what she’s been doing for the last 18 years. According to Dugard’s stepfather, two suspects have been arrested in the case. A press conference is scheduled for 6 p.m. EST today. If the woman turns out to be the missing girl, her return will give hope to the many families of missing and abducted children.
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You know most of these so called “police/ parole officers” always have a chip on their shoulders, and even when they fail to do their jobs they appear arrogant like saying “what are you going to do”, let’s face it she who save herself, she was not save by the authorities. Does anyone believe that the authorities were investigating her disappearance? The car used in her kidnapping was in the backyard, the lazy ass cops didn’t even bother to go through the backyard when the information indicated that kids were living back there, they didn’t check local schools to see if the kids were going to school or even asked to see the kids, no report to child protective services, boy how lazy can you be and still pick up your public service check, not to mention the parole officers who failed to visit and find out where this freak was living and what he was doing, amazing, simply amazing.