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Timeline: Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping

   

Jaycee Lee Dugard’s kidnapping from her South Lake Tahoe bus stop 18 years ago quickly became one of the area’s most high profile crimes, the tragedy of which gripped the community as detectives searched for leads that remained scarce for nearly two decades. Here’s a timeline of the case:

June 11, 1991: Jaycee Lee is snatched just 1,500 feet from her home by a couple driving a gun-metal gray sedan. Her step-father Carl Probyn witnessed the kidnapping from his garage and attempted to chase the couple on his bicycle.

June 12, 1991: Clutching her daughter’s stuffed pink bunny rabbit, Jaycee Lee’s mother Terry Probyn goes before reporters and television cameras to plead for her daughter’s safe return. A car fitting the description of the suspect’s vehicle, with a young girl sleeping in the back seat, is spotted at Fallen Leaf Lake.

June 14, 1991: The case is profiled on America’s Most Wanted, resulting in hundreds of tips to police.

Aug. 10, 1991: More than 250 people hold a candlelight vigil to show support for Jaycee Lee and her family.

Aug. 24, 1991: The FBI questions two suspects in Ceres, Calif., just south of Modesto, but find no connection to the case.

Nov. 25, 1991: People Magazine profiles the kidnapping in a three-page spread.

Jan. 1992: A Gardnerville musician records a song “Jaycee Lee” to help raise money for the search.

June 10, 1992: A candlelight vigil is held to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Jaycee Lee’s disappearance. In the months since the kidnapping, her friends and family have mailed more than 1.2 million photos of Jaycee Lee across the country.

June 10, 2001: More than 100 people bearing pink ribbons in honor of Jaycee Lee’s favorite color march down U.S. Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe to mark the 10-year anniversary of her disappearance.

June 2002: Investigators dig up the yard of a Truckee priest accused of molesting three girls in the 1970s, searching for clues to Jaycee Lee’s disappearance and that of another girl who had gone missing in Northern California. No connection is found.

Aug. 26, 2009: A 29-year-old woman walks in to a Contra Costa County law enforcement office, claims she is Jaycee Lee and says she was kidnapped 18 years ago.

ummmmmmmm  ::MonkeyEek:: WOW!!!!!!!!

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Sheriff's officials said Thursday they believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991 outside her South Lake Tahoe home.

The woman came into the Concord police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, the victim of the abduction 18 years ago, said sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department.

"We're 99 percent sure it's her," Lovell said. He said DNA tests were being conducted. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.

Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and he received a call Wednesday from investigators who had tentatively identified her as Dugard.

"Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging" a meeting, said Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. "We are very confident at this point in time that it is her."

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather was watching on June 10, 1991, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release Thursday.

The investigation has been ongoing since she was abducted

Lovell said two people are in custody in connection with the case, but he could not elaborate.

The sheriff's department has scheduled a news conference to discuss the case later Thursday.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KIDNAPPED_GIRL_FOUND?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543640,00.html
Woman Who Says She Is Kidnapped California Girl Comes Forward 18 Years Later
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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CONCORD, Calif. —  A young woman walked into a California police station and announced that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard — a missing girl who was snatched by an abductor from a Lake Tahoe-area school bus stop in 1991, authorities said Thursday.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, told KTVU that the girl’s mother Terry Probyn got a stunning phone call at work Wednesday from federal agents.

"She got a call from the FBI, they said they had found Jaycee and she was alive," he said in a phone interview from the couple's Riverside County, Calif., home. "They put her (the woman) on the phone. My wife talked with her and is convinced she is Jaycee. Jaycee remembers everything."

Terry Probyn then phoned Carl, her former husband, according to KTVU.

"My wife called me about 4 and asked me if I was sitting down," said Probyn, whose marriage broke up in the wake of the abduction. "(She said), 'They found Jaycee They found her alive.'"

Authorities said they have two people in custody in relation to the case. Terry Probyn was traveling to be reunited with her daughter, KTVU reported.

"After 18 years you do give up hope, this is a miracle," Carl Probyn told KTVU.

On the morning of June 10, 1991, then 11-year-old Jaycee left her family's South Lake Tahoe house to catch her school bus, dressed in a pink shirt and pink pants.

As Carl Probyn looked on from the family's driveway two blocks away, a gray sedan pulled up. Someone grabbed Jaycee and sped off. Even though the local police were quick to respond and there were witnesses, the little girl was never found.

A 2002 search of a vacation property owned by a defrocked priest living in the Bay Area turned up no evidence of the missing child.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/
Girl missing since 1991 found alive, police confirm
By Taylor Gandossy
CNN


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Jaycee Lee Dugard as she looked in 1991 and an age-progression image of what she might look like as an adult.

(CNN) -- A girl abducted in 1991 as an 11-year-old has been found alive in California, the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.
Jaycee Lee Dugard as she looked in 1991 and an age-progression image of what she might look like as an adult.

Jaycee Lee Dugard as she looked in 1991 and an age-progression image of what she might look like as an adult.

Jaycee Dugard is in good health, the office said in a statement, but provided no details.

Earlier Thursday, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, told CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, on Wednesday afternoon to tell her that Dugard had been found.

The girl was last seen walking to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991, according to the FBI.

At the time, "it was reported that a vehicle occupied by two individuals drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her in view of her stepfather," the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.

Despite extensive investigations, no sign of her or her possible abductors was ever found, authorities said.

Probyn said Dugard walked into a police station in Northern California earlier Wednesday. He said the FBI agent told his wife that authorities had "Jaycee and the people who she was with."

He said no further details were provided, and that the conversation with the FBI agent was brief.

"It was short and sweet, and 'Can you fly up here?'" he said.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's office has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET) to discuss the case.

Probyn said his wife, who is flying Thursday from Southern California to meet with Dugard, spoke to her on Wednesday.

"Jaycee remembers everything," he said. "They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife's questions."

He said, "I would say it's a 99 percent chance it's her. I'm feeling great! ... It's like winning the lotto."

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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dugard_jaycee.html



Jaycee Lee Dugard was last seen as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991. It has been claimed that she was abducted by two individuals, a male and a female) who were driving a car. However, extensive law enforcement investigations since the time of her disappearance have neither identified any abductors nor revealed the location of the victim.


REMARKS

Jaycee Lee Dugard was last seen wearing a pink windbreaker, a white t-shirt, pink stretch pants, and white sneakers.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/dugard.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8225621.stm
Missing girl 'found 18 years on'

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Jaycee Lee Dugard was said to have been grabbed off the street

A woman who walked into a US police station claiming she was kidnapped 18 years ago is likely to be telling the truth, police in California say.

DNA tests were being carried out, local police said, with officers almost certain that the results will back up the woman's story.

Jaycee Lee Dugard disappeared in 1991, aged 11, from outside her Lake Tahoe home, apparently taken by two men.

Two men are reported to have been taken into custody, US reports say.

Police in California are due to hold a news conference later on Thursday, at which there is widespread expectation they will formally confirm that Ms Dugard is alive and well.

Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, told ABC News in the US that her family is now convinced that she has been found.
   

"I had personally given up hope," he said, saying that he just wanted to find the people responsible.

According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Probyn was watching back in 1991 as the young girl was taken away by two unidentified men.

The FBI has told his wife that Ms Dugard and the men she was with are all with them, Mr Probyn told ABC News.

"She sounds like she's okay," he said.

"She had a conversation with my wife and she remembers things. I hope she's been well treated this entire 18 years."

Lovell said two people are in custody in connection with the case, but he could not elaborate.

That is great news!!! If anyone finds a live link to the news conference please post!  TIA!

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=65885&catid=2

Lots of links on right to past articles.

They are searching the house of the people they arrested right now, per HLN.

If anyone finds a live link to the presser can you post?  TIA, Lovinlife

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6101247/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-found-alive-18-years-after-being-kidnapped-from-Lake-Tahoe.html

Jaycee Lee Dugard 'found alive 18 years after being kidnapped from Lake Tahoe'
A woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, the 11-year-old kidnapped outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, walked in to a California police station on Wednesday.


Published: 7:06PM BST 27 Aug 2009

"We're 99 percent sure it's her," said Lt Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department. He said DNA tests were being conducted.

"Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging" a meeting, said Mr Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. "We are very confident at this point in time that it is her."

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Jaycee and abducted her while her stepfather, Carl Probyn, was watching on June 10, 1991, the sheriff's department said in a news release on Thursday.

"I had personally given up hope," Mr Probyn told ABCNews.com. "I had just hoped for a recovery" and to find the kidnappers.

Instead, he said, "I've actually won the lotto."

Mr Lovell said two people are in custody in connection with the case.

The sheriff's department scheduled a news conference to discuss the case later Thursday.

http://sfist.com/2009/08/27/kidnapped_girls_alleged_abductor_wi.php

Has a photo of the possible abductor.

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=65909
Suspect Identified in Dugard Kidnapping Case
 Tina Tedesco     32 mins ago

EL DORADO COUNTY, CA - We now know the name of one of the two people in custody for the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Phillip Garrido is a 58-year-old man whose last known address is in Contra Costa County in the town of Antioch.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's office is confirming that kidnap victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, had been located in good health in the Bay Area.

Jaycee was abducted on June 10, 1991 from South Lake Tahoe. At that time, it was reported that a vehicle with two people inside, drove up to her and grabbed her.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department and FBI are planning to hold a news conference Thursday at 3 p.m. to discuss the missing person case of Jaycee Dugard.

News10 will live stream the presser as it happens on News10.net.

Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn told News10 last night that family members believe authorities found the now 29-year-old girl alive.

"It's an absolute miracle if it is her...can you imagine this after 18 years?," Probyn said in a telephone interview.

The amazing news of Dugard's return came after a Concord police officer confirmed to News10 that local agencies were investigating the claims of a woman who allegedly walked into a Contra Costa County law enforcement office Wednesday and said she was kidnapped 18 years ago.
KXTV/News10
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Phillip Garrido is a fifty-eight year old man whose last known address is in Contra Costa county in the town of Antioch

If I am around and see it I will.  HLN said a bit ago that it was scheduled for 6pm EST but seems it should be sooner.

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-dugard-sexoffender0827,0,4385503.story
Home With Matching Address To Sex Offender Being Searched In Solved 1991 Kidnapping Case

By: Matthew Keys FOX40 News

August 27, 2009
NTIOCH - FOX40 News has learned the address of the home being searched by Antioch police in connection with a 1991 kidnapping cold case solved today matches that of a registered sex offender.

Two suspects have been taken into custody after a woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard walked into a Concord police station 18 years after Dugard was kidnapped from her South Lake Tahoe home.

The home's address being searched in Antioch matches that of registered sex offender Phillip Garrido. FOX40 News has not confirmed that Garrido is one of the two suspects taken into custody by authorities.

FOX40 News and FOX40.com will deliver additional information as it becomes available.

Copyright © 2009, KTXL-TV
Video at link.

http://claycord.blogspot.com/2009/08/suspect-in-jaycee-dugard-kidnapping.html

Following link above this new one - this is looking bad after all - this dude is a SO and has been allegedly charged with rape and on a million bond.........

Thanks ANJ.
(be sure and eat)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543640,00.html?test=latestnews

 ::MonkeyCheer4:: ::MonkeyCheer3:: ::MonkeyCheer2::

Dang football practice  ::MonkeyMad::
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The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department and FBI are planning to hold a news conference Thursday at 3 p.m (PST). to discuss the missing person case of Jaycee Dugard.

News10 will live stream the presser as it happens on News10.net.

Family prepares to meet daughter missing since 1991
August 27, 2009 By McClatchy Newspapers

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted from her South Lake Tahoe home as an 11-year-old in 1991, is being reunited with family Thursday after surfacing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office Thursday morning confirmed the identity of the woman who walked into a Bay Area police station claiming to be Dugard.

    Carl Probyn, Jaycee’s stepfather, said his wife and daughter were flying to Northern California to meet Dugard, now 29, who disappeared on June 10, 1991.

    Probyn told The Sacramento Bee Thursday morning that his wife, Terry, spoke with the young woman by phone Wednesday night.


    The Probyns, who are separated, live in Southern California, Carl in Orange County and Terry in Riverside. Terry Probyn and their daughter, Shayna, 19, boarded a 6 a.m. flight to the Bay Area to meet with Dugard, Carl Probyn said.

    Probyn said he is elated.

    “I’m just pleased that she is alive and well,” said Probyn, a 60-year-old Orange County wallpaper contractor.


    Probyn, who has yet to speak with his stepdaughter, said he believes suspects who might have been involved with the abduction are in custody.


    The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department has scheduled a 3 p.m.news conference to discuss the case. The news conference will be at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. James Byers wrote in a news release said.

Dugard’s disappearance prompted a massive search, nationwide publicity and one of the largest police investigations in the region.


    Dugard was on her way to school when authorities said she was pulled into a stranger’s car just a block away from her South Lake Tahoe home.


    Probyn said he heard her scream and saw a man and a woman drive his stepdaughter away in a gray two-tone sedan.


    Despite several false sightings, Dugard was never seen again.


    One person in the car was described as a 30-year-old woman with long, dark hair. Jaycee was last seen dressed in a pink windbreaker, white T-shirt and pink stretch pants.


    The stepfather said Shayna Probyn called Wednesday about 4 p.m. and said, “Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?”

    His wife told him: “They found Jaycee. She is alive.”

    The couple then cried for about 10 minutes as they spoke to each other. Probyn said agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called his wife at work and told her that they had Jaycee. Thinking it was a joke, she told the caller she did not appreciate what she thought was a ruse.

    The FBI then put the young woman on the telephone.

    “My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything,” Carl Probyn said. “My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip.”

    He said he followed media accounts of a young woman walking into an Antioch, Calif., police station and then was taken to the Concord Police station.

    Probyn was the last person to see Jaycee on the day she disappeared. He took four lie detector tests and endured suspicion of involvement in the abduction for nearly two decades.

    “The FBI put me through the wringer, being questioned and having people say the stepdad did something,” he said. “I have been kind of the villain these past 18 years.”

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/family-prepares-to-meet-daughter-missing-since-1991-1.1398920

Cops believe 1991 kidnap victim found alive
August 27, 2009 14:40 EDT


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Sheriff's officials in California say they're "99 percent sure" that a woman who says she was kidnapped 18 years ago when she was 11 years old is telling the truth.

In 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted in front of her South Lake Tahoe home as she headed to a school bus stop. Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her.

Now, she has apparently turned up. Police say they've done an investigation, and have tentatively identified the woman who recently walked into a police station as Dugard.

Her family has been contacted, and they are in the process of arranging a meeting.

Two people are in custody, but police aren't elaborating.

Dugard's stepfather, meanwhile, says the news is like winning the lottery. He says getting her back alive, with her remembering things from the past, and having people in custody, is a "triple win."

http://www.kgan.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/26bfed8a-www.kgan.com.shtml

Cops believe 1991 kidnap victim found alive
  By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer Juliet Williams, Associated Press Writer   – 9 mins ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sheriff's officials said Thursday they believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991 outside her South Lake Tahoe home. Two people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.

The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago, said sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department.
"We're 99 percent sure it's her," Lovell said. He said DNA tests were being conducted. The woman was in good health. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.

Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and he received a call Wednesday from investigators who had tentatively identified her as Dugard.

Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging a meeting, said Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. "We are very confident at this point in time that it is her."

Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, said FBI and El Dorado sheriff's deputies arrested two suspects Wednesday night. They were being held in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez.

Lee said the two were being held for investigation of several charges, including kidnapping, but he could not elaborate.

Law enforcement sources said authorities were also searching a home in Antioch.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said the news was like winning the lottery.

"To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win," he told The Sacramento Bee.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather was watching on June 10, 1991, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release Thursday.
In media reports at the time, the girl's stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and screamed at neighbors to call 911.

The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn said his wife, Terry, had spoken with Dugard by phone on Wednesday. He said the mother and their 19-year-old daughter were flying from their Southern California home to meet with Dugard in Northern California.

Investigators first visited with his wife about three weeks ago, he said.

Probyn said he endured years of suspicion from FBI agents who believed he may have been involved in the abduction. He eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

"Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending," Probyn said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since she was abducted and new leads had surfaced over time.

"You bet it's a surprise. This is not the normal resolution to a kidnapping," he said.

I cannot even fathom what this poor girl endured for 19 years with this SOB (http://sfist.com/2009/08/27/kidnapped_girls_alleged_abductor_wi.php) .  Thank god she's free and can begin the healing process.

Map: The Jaycee Lee Dugard case

Published: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 11:42 am
Key locations in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and today's developments.

Source: Bee research, Bee files
http://www.sacbee.com/links/story/2143813.html

(again - already? )

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181
StreAMING LIVE COVERAGE

Missing girl Jaycee Lee Dugard walks into police station, 18 years on

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girl was 11 years old when she was abducted from outside her home near Lake Tahoe in California. She was never seen again.

After almost two decades, the only hope her parents had left was that, one day, her body would be found.

But tonight that same little girl, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was being reunited with her family as a 29-year-old woman, after walking into a police station and revealing her identity to the officer on duty.

After interviews and DNA tests, it thought that Jaycee’s story has now been confirmed, bringing an extraordinary end to a missing persons case that in 1991 attracted the same kind of media frenzy that Madeleine McCann’s disappearance generated two years ago.

Meanwhile, two suspects in the kidnapping have been taken into custody.

“After 18 years, you do give up hope - this is a miracle,” said the girl’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, 60, in an interview with a local television station, KTVU.

Mr Probyn was standing in his family driveway on June 10, 1991, when he saw a grey car pull up beside the bus stop where his step-daughter was waiting, on her way to school.

Then someone reached out, grabbed her, and sped off. On the FBI’s 'wanted’ poster still active on the agency’s web page as of today, the suspects are described as a man and a woman.

But in spite of a massive search operation, several witnesses, and the fact that Miss Dugard was wearing a distinctive pink jacket and pink trousers, no arrests were made, and Jaycee was never found. Police never gave up on the case, and as recently as 2002, a former priest’s home was raided in connection with the little girl’s disappearance, although no evidence was found.

The Probyn’s marriage suffered after their daughter's abduction, and they eventually separated. Carl Probyn now lives in Orange County, while the girl’s mother, Terry Probyn, lives in the LA suburb of Riverside. The couple now have another daughter, Shayna, who is 19 years old.

Mr Probyn today told local reporters that he’d received a phone call from his daughter at about 4pm yesterday. “Mum has something to say to you,” she said. “Are you sitting down?” Then his wife came on the line and said, through tears, “They found Jaycee. She’s alive.”

According to Mr Probyn, his wife had been told the news by an FBI agent who called her at work. At first, she thought it was a prank call. Then the agent put Jaycee on the phone.

“My wife talked with her and is convinced she is Jaycee,” said Mr Probyn. “Jaycee remembers everything.”

Jaycee’s mother and half-sister took a 6am flight today to the town of Concord, near where Jaycee reappeared, so they could be reunited. Concord is about 170 miles southwest - a three hour car journey from South Lake Tahoe.

Because Mr Probyn, a Vietnam veteran, was the last person to see Jaycee before her disappearance, he immediately fell under police suspicion during the missing persons investigation. He took four lie tests and remained a suspect in the case for nearly two decades. “The FBI put me through the wringer, being questioned and having people say the step-dad did something,” he told the Sacramento Bee newspaper. “I have been kind of the villain these past 18 years. [But] I’ve never spent a day in my life in jail. My last speeding ticket was in 1977.”

He said he eventually gave up all hope of finding Jaycee alive, but prayed that her body would be recovered, “so there’s an ending”.

“To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win,” he said. “It’s like winning the Lotto.”

Although he has yet to speak to Jaycee, Mr Probyn said that from what his wife told me, “she is doing okay”. “I don’t know if she is married,” he said. “I don’t know if a cult took her, or if a couple who didn’t have kids took her. I’ll find out all these answers today.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6812831.ece

So close and yet so very far away.  :-((

What Trimm said!  Eat small snacks, healthy snacks, fruit, veggies, nuts, etc.

Jaycee Lee Dugard (Photo) Found Alive 18 Years After Abduction
by Jim Brogan

Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted from her family 18 years ago and was believed to be dead - but a woman has come forward claiming to be the kidnapped little girl.

A 1991 kidnapping mystery in California may finally be solved 18 years after the tragic event that ripped a young girl from her family and home at the age of 11.

A 29-year-old woman has come forward claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard - and her stepfather Carl Probyn has revealed that he believes the woman is his daughter:

"I had personally given up hope," he tells ABC. "I had just hoped for a recovery," but says that instead, "I've actually won the lotto."

Jaycee's captors, Philllip and Nancy Garrido, are now in police custody on charges of kidnapping to commit rape. Their bond was set to $1 million.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212253650.shtml

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HLN says there are charges of rape,lewd and lascivious behavior ,and I missed the rest.Sorry.  ::MonkeyCool::

Headline news saying wife is second person.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL

I almost typed that too - but I went for the source of the Dan Simon reporter!~  WIFE CHARGED TO - what creeps

I caught some of it.  She has lived through horrendous events by the sounds of it. 

I'll go find Sunny too.   ::MonkeyBike::

Phillip Garrido blog - be warned creepy ...........http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

I got chills when I heard that little bit.
Why would they allow bond?     ::MonkeyNoNo::

What a shame.  I was hoping it was a crazy couple who wanted a child to raise and that she wouldn't have suffered sexual assault.

 ::MonkeyShocked::  You are right.

Nooooooooooooooo now there are three???????   I will get an apple and a bologna sandwich..............  but I can't read his blog and be expected to eat - so you three are assigned it! LOL 

Girl missing since 1991 found alive; two arrested

CNN) -- A girl abducted in 1991 as an 11-year-old has been found alive in California, the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.

Jaycee Dugard is in good health, the office said in a statement, but provided no details.

Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, confirmed that a man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the case but could provide no other details. CNN affiliates have reported that Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have been charged.

Phillip Garrido is a registered sex offender and listed on the Department of Justice's Megan's Law page because of a previous forcible rape charge.

An officer at the Contra Costa County Jail in Marinez, California, told CNN that the two had been at the jail and both were ordered held on $1 million bail. The officer said the pair was no longer in the jail but that Phillip Garrido had been booked on charges of kidnapping, rape, lewd behavior, sexual penetration and conspiracy. Nancy Garrido was booked on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy.
Earlier Thursday, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, told CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, on Wednesday afternoon to tell her that Dugard had been found.

The girl was last seen walking to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991, according to the FBI.

At the time, "it was reported that a vehicle occupied by two individuals drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her in view of her stepfather," the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.

Despite extensive investigations, no sign of her or her possible abductors was ever found, authorities said.

Probyn said Dugard walked into a police station in Northern California earlier Wednesday. He said the FBI agent told his wife that authorities had "Jaycee and the people who she was with."

He said no further details were provided, and that the conversation with the FBI agent was brief.

"It was short and sweet, and 'Can you fly up here?'" he said.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's office has scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET) to discuss the case.

Probyn said his wife, who is flying Thursday from Southern California to meet with Dugard, spoke to her on Wednesday.

"Jaycee remembers everything," he said. "They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife's questions."

He said, "I'm feeling great! ... It's like winning the lotto."

Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said the reappearance of Dugard is "absolutely huge."

"One of the things that we preach to searching families all the time ... is that even in these long-term cases there's hope," he said.

"Even in these long-term cases ... it's important that we not let the world forget."

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/index.html?eref=edition_us

Bologna on brown with lettuce and a glass of milk or juice would go nice with that.

Wow.. I just read that "a neighbor" says more girls have lived there, and one about 11 is currently there.   Not verified, maybe just publicity seeking person, but the police are all over the house and setting up tents.

Chi-M

Currently a discussion of this case is on channel 10.

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

OT - NR  --- on Rye!  But a diet Rite pure zero cherry! 

But this live feed is hard to leave to:  http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181    Interesting yet we know more than them at times.  Like yes, she was profiled on America's Most Wanted. 

They even talked about Stockholm syndrome.

EL DORADO COUNTY, CA -- The San Francisco Chronicle has released the names of the two people in custody for the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Law-enforcement sources said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, were arrested in connection with the case. Phillip Garrido was being held in lieu of $1 million bail on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy.


Nancy Garrido was being held on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping. Her bail was also $1 million. Both were initially booked into the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, but have since been moved to an undisclosed site.


The couple were arrested after they walked into the police station with Dugard to ask a question, authorities said. They would not say what the question involved, but it apparently aroused the suspicions of a Concord police officer.


The officer ran a criminal history check of Phillip Garrido and found out he was a registered sex offender, authorities said. State records show that he has a conviction for rape by force, and federal records show him serving a stint in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in the 1980s.


It is still unclear how police learned that the woman who was with the Garridos was Dugard.


Jaycee was abducted on June 10, 1991 from South Lake Tahoe. At that time, it was reported that a vehicle with two people inside, drove up to her and grabbed her.


The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department and FBI are planning to hold a news conference Thursday at 3 p.m. to discuss the case of Jaycee Dugard.


RGJ.com will live stream the press conference live as it happens.


Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said last night that family members believe authorities found the now 29-year-old girl alive.


"It's an absolute miracle if it is her...can you imagine this after 18 years?," Probyn said in a telephone interview.


The news of Dugard's return came after a Concord police officer confirmed that local agencies were investigating the claims of a woman who allegedly walked into a Contra Costa County law enforcement office Wednesday and said she was kidnapped 18 years ago

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090827/NEWS/90827020/1321/NEWS

Timeline: Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping

Jaycee Lee Dugard’s kidnapping from her South Lake Tahoe bus stop 18 years ago quickly became one of the area’s most high profile crimes, the tragedy of which gripped the community as detectives searched for leads that remained scarce for nearly two decades. Here’s a timeline of the case:

June 11, 1991: Jaycee Lee is snatched just 1,500 feet from her home by a couple driving a gun-metal gray sedan. Her step-father Carl Probyn witnessed the kidnapping from his garage and attempted to chase the couple on his bicycle.


June 12, 1991: Clutching her daughter’s stuffed pink bunny rabbit, Jaycee Lee’s mother Terry Probyn goes before reporters and television cameras to plead for her daughter’s safe return. A car fitting the description of the suspect’s vehicle, with a young girl sleeping in the back seat, is spotted at Fallen Leaf Lake.


June 14, 1991: The case is profiled on America’s Most Wanted, resulting in hundreds of tips to police.


Aug. 10, 1991: More than 250 people hold a candlelight vigil to show support for Jaycee Lee and her family.


Aug. 24, 1991: The FBI questions two suspects in Ceres, Calif., just south of Modesto, but find no connection to the case.


Nov. 25, 1991: People Magazine profiles the kidnapping in a three-page spread.


Jan. 1992: A Gardnerville musician records a song “Jaycee Lee” to help raise money for the search.


June 10, 1992: A candlelight vigil is held to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Jaycee Lee’s disappearance. In the months since the kidnapping, her friends and family have mailed more than 1.2 million photos of Jaycee Lee across the country.


June 10, 2001: More than 100 people bearing pink ribbons in honor of Jaycee Lee’s favorite color march down U.S. Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe to mark the 10-year anniversary of her disappearance.


June 2002: Investigators dig up the yard of a Truckee priest accused of molesting three girls in the 1970s, searching for clues to Jaycee Lee’s disappearance and that of another girl who had gone missing in Northern California. No connection is found.


Aug. 26, 2009: A 29-year-old woman walks in to a Contra Costa County law enforcement office, claims she is Jaycee Lee and says she was kidnapped 18 years ago.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090827/NEWS/90827009/1321/NEWS

How many more people thought to be dead are actually alive ?

Natalee ?

There is always hope.

Jaycee Lee Dugard's teacher, principal look back on kidnapping


SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted June 10, 1991, and the event shook the South Shore community.

“It was the worst day of my 27 years (in the education profession) the morning Jaycee Lee was kidnapped,” said Karen Gillis-Tinlin, who was principal at Meyers Elementary School at the time.

Dugard was a fifth-grader at the school.

Now on Thursday morning, Dugard's reappearance has now become one of the most exciting times in Gillis-Tinlin's career.

“I'm still in shock,” Dugard's fifth-grade teacher Sue Bush said. “I'm so glad she's OK and happy.”

Bush, whose last name was Louis at the time, said Dugard was well-liked in her class.

“She was just a sweetie,” Bush said. “It scared the kids, and it scared them badly.”

All the students and staff members wore pink ribbons the week Dugard was kidnapped. They tied more to the fence by the kindergarten room, and put them up around the school. Pink was her favorite color, Bush said.

“We tied a pink ribbon to her chair, and kept her desk the way she left it,” Bush said.

Bush's class wrote letters to Dugard, made posters and wanted to talk about what happened.

“The kids needed to talk about it,” Bush said. “What an incredibly scary thing to have happen in a small town.”

This morning Gillis-Tinlin spoke with her son, Dan Tinlin, who was 4 years old when Dugard dissapeared. He told her that he and a friend had come up with a plan to find Dugard when she went missing.

“It affected all the children,” Gillis-Tinlin said. “There was an underlying fear because it could happen to anyone.”

A little garden was planted by the multipurpose room at the elementary school, Gillis-Tinlin said. A plaque was placed there in honor of Dugard.

Gillis-Tinlin didn't know if the garden was still there.

As the years went by, Gillis-Tinlin said thoughts of Dugard didn't leave the community. Whether it was a small lead, or the forming of the Fighting Chance Program, Dugard was still in conversations.

“She was always there with us,” Gillis-Tinlin said.

Bush never fully believed Dugard was dead. She thought Dugard might be living in a remote area, and would be found again.

Even after the trail had gone cold, law enforcement did not give up on the case, Bush said.

Gillis-Tinlin said she would be contacted periodically by new officers taking on Dugard's file.

“It never got dropped,” Gillis-Tinlin said. “It wasn't always at the forefront, but it was an ongoing case.”

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279992/1066&ParentProfile=1051

I sure Hope Natalee and Lindsey and so many others are still alive.  However, this is looking like this woman went thru hell. 
The tents - wonder if they will dig for potential remains.  Some Bill guy on the News 10 blog was saying they have a child with them now.  He claims he is a neighbor.

California Child Abduction Case Gives Hopes to Others
Wednesday, a young woman who said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard walked into a police station near Concord, Calif., and said she was the girl who had been kidnapped at a bus stop in 1991 at age 11. Police took two people into custody.

This kind of case must give thousands of families hope that their missing loved ones will turn up one day. What an opportunity to take a look at some of the cases in your area that could benefit from the public's attention.

TruTV breaks down the large number of missing persons cases reported each year:


An astounding 2,300 Americans are reported missing every day, including both adults and children.


But only a tiny fraction of those are stereotypical abductions or kidnappings by a stranger.

For example, the federal government counted 840,279 missing persons cases in 2001. All but about 50,000 were juveniles, classified as anyone younger than 18.

Significant portions of those missing adults are young men, have psychiatric, drug or alcohol problems or are elderly people suffering from dementia, according to TruTV. As for the juveniles:


About half of the roughly 800,000 missing juvenile cases in 2001 involved runaways, and another 200,000 were classified as family abductions related to domestic or custody disputes.

Only about 100 missing-child reports each year fit the profile of a stereotypical abduction by a stranger or vague acquaintance.

Two-thirds of those victims are ages 12 to 17, and among those eight out of 10 are white females, according to a Justice Department study. Nearly 90 percent of the abductors are men, and they sexually assault their victims in half of the cases.


http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=169163

Yes I saw though and got chills.  They have what seems to be an 11 year old girl and my mind immediately went to Amber.  I hope other families will be reunited and pray that anyone near these two can find some peace in the future as it will be a hard road for all.

Video of Step Father

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Wow, thanks for all the links and articles, I am glad I read all of this, at first glance I thought she after all these years came forward for whatever reason, I didn't realize she was still with this horrific couple. So happy for her family  ::MonkeyAngel:: I don't even want to think of how many other girls have been kidnapped from this couple.

ANTIOCH - FOX40 News has learned the address of a home being searched by Antioch police in connection with a 1991 kidnapping case solved Tuesday morning matches that of a registered sex offender.

Two suspects have been taken into custody after a woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard walked into a Concord police station 18 years after she was allegedly abducted from her South Lake Tahoe home. While authorities are certain the woman is Dugard, DNA tests are being conducted with results available as soon as noon Friday.

The address of the home being searched by authorities matches that of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender. CNN is reporting Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been arrested and named suspects in the kidnapping case; FOX40 News has not been able to confirm the names of the suspects.

Neighbors told FOX40's Darsha Phillips that while Garrido was frequently seen at the home, they didn't see any sign of a young girl in the time he's lived there.

A press conference is scheduled with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department at 3PM today. FOX40.com will stream the press conference live.

FOX40 News and FOX40.com will deliver additional information as it becomes available.

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-arrested-sexoffender0827,0,3765830.story

Principal, teacher recall Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping

Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted June 10, 1991, and the event shook the South Shore community.

“It was the worst day of my 27 years (in the education profession) the morning Jaycee Lee was kidnapped,” said Karen Gillis-Tinlin, who was principal at Meyers Elementary School at the time.

Dugard was a fifth-grader at the school.

Now on Thursday morning, Dugard's reappearance has now become one of the most exciting times in Gillis-Tinlin's career.

“I'm still in shock,” Dugard's fifth-grade teacher Sue Bush said. “I'm so glad she's OK and happy.”

Bush, whose last name was Louis at the time, said Dugard was well-liked in her class.

“She was just a sweetie,” Bush said. “It scared the kids, and it scared them badly.”

All the students and staff members wore pink ribbons the week Dugard was kidnapped. They tied more to the fence by the kindergarten room, and put them up around the school. Pink was her favorite color, Bush said.

“We tied a pink ribbon to her chair, and kept her desk the way she left it,” Bush said.

Bush's class wrote letters to Dugard, made posters and wanted to talk about what happened.

“The kids needed to talk about it,” Bush said. “What an incredibly scary thing to have happen in a small town.”

This morning Gillis-Tinlin spoke with her son, Dan Tinlin, who was 4 years old when Dugard dissapeared. He told her that he and a friend had come up with a plan to find Dugard when she went missing.

“It affected all the children,” Gillis-Tinlin said. “There was an underlying fear because it could happen to anyone.”

A little garden was planted by the multipurpose room at the elementary school, Gillis-Tinlin said. A plaque was placed there in honor of Dugard.

Gillis-Tinlin didn't know if the garden was still there.

As the years went by, Gillis-Tinlin said thoughts of Dugard didn't leave the community. Whether it was a small lead, or the forming of the Fighting Chance Program, Dugard was still in conversations.

“She was always there with us,” Gillis-Tinlin said.

Bush never fully believed Dugard was dead. She thought Dugard might be living in a remote area, and would be found again.

Even after the trail had gone cold, law enforcement did not give up on the case, Bush said.

Gillis-Tinlin said she would be contacted periodically by new officers taking on Dugard's file.

“It never got dropped,” Gillis-Tinlin said. “It wasn't always at the forefront, but it was an ongoing case.”

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279981/1070&ParentProfile=1058

Interactive: See where kidnappings most often occur


Published: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 12:14 pm
Last Modified: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 12:36 pm

Children are rarely abducted by strangers, but it happens a lot more often in some places than in others. During the last 10 years, Sacramento County parents, for instance, reported 39 kidnappings by strangers, or about 12 abductions per 100,000 children, according to the California Department of Justice. By contrast, San Diego parents reported 23 kidnappings in that time period, or three abductions per 100,000 children. (Kidnappings in El Dorado County have been rare since Jaycee Dugard's abduction in 1991.) This map shows the rate of kidnappings reported, by county, between 1999 and 2008.

http://www.sacbee.com/1098/story/2143885.html

The local ABC is claiming Jaycee has two children.

Officer Following His Gut Brings Jaycee Dugard Home


SACRAMENTO, CA -- News10 has learned new details about how investigators uncovered the fact that Jaycee Dougard was alive and well nearly 20 years after she was kidnapped.

El Dorado County Lt. Bryan Gomitz and Undersheriff Fred Kollar told News10 they received a call Wednesday from a detective in the Bay Area who said "I've got Jaycee Dugard sitting across the table from me."

According to investigators, Jaycee Duggard came into a police station in Contra Costa County with a couple on an unrelated matter.

The officer at the front desk was suspicious of the man and ran his name, which came back as a registered sex offender.

Sources told News10 Phillip Garrido, 58, was in the South Lake Tahoe area the day Jaycee disappeared.

More information about the investigation is expected to be released at a press conference on the investigation will take place at 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, ABC News has learned that Jaycee Dugard is the mother of two children.

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=65918

Headlines and front pages from the Tahoe Daily Tribune in 1991, the year Jaycee Lee Dugard went missing

http://tahoedailytribune.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=824025&CategoryID=46130

'If it's Jaycee Lee, this is a miracle"

For Douglas County Sheriff Ron Pierini, the news Thursday that Jaycee Lee Dugard may be alive 18 years after she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop was nothing short of a miracle.

“It's pretty awesome,” Pierini said. “Statistics-wise, it's very unusual that a person would still be alive this many years later. Usually, there is a 72-hour window after an abduction. In those first few minutes, it's so critical to find the victim.”

“Quite frankly, most of us thought the chances of her being alive were negligible at best,” Pierini said.

Dugard, now 29, reportedly walked into a Concord, Calif., police station on Wednesday, identified herself, and asked for help.

“This is really positive news. It made my day. I am really happy for the family and especially for the victim," Pierini said.

Bernie Curtis was Douglas County undersheriff when the 10-year-old Dugard disappeared June 10, 1991.

She was abducted while walking to the bus stop on Washoan Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe on her way to school.

“I remember when she disappeared,” said Curtis, now chief of Nevada's Department of Parole and Probation.

“Ron (Pierini) was my captain at the Lake. I remember the searches done on the California side. The FBI took over the case pretty quickly.”

The kidnapping drew national attention but was never solved.

Even though the disappearance was outside Douglas County's jurisdiction, the sheriff's office was involved in the search.

Curtis said family members and friends were investigated and every lead checked out.

“There was conjecture that she'd been sold into white slavery or sent to the Middle East. I can still see her picture in my mind. It was just one of those mysteries you couldn't figure out. There was no evidence of any kind,” he said.

“If this is true, and Jaycee Lee is alive, this is a miracle,” Curtis said.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office has scheduled a 3 p.m. news conference to update the case. Two people reportedly are in custody related to Dugard's disappearance.

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279989/1007/NONE&parentprofile=1056

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I get the NYSE  ::MonkeyConfused::

Oh my, with the man who kidnapped her?

(08-27) 12:34 PDT CONCORD --

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The reappearance of Jaycee Dugard stunned family members, who had all but lost hope that she was still alive 18 years after she was kidnapped on her way to catch a school bus as her stepfather watched helplessly.

Law-enforcement sources said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, who live in an unincorporated area near Antioch, were arrested in connection with the case. Phillip Garrido was being held in lieu of $1 million bail on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy.

Nancy Garrido was being held on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping. Her bail was also $1 million. Both were initially booked into the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, but have since been moved to an undisclosed site.

Authorities were searching the Garridos' home today. Neighbors and other acquaintances described strange behavior by Phillip Garrido, who conducted religious revivals in a tent, and said several young girls lived with the couple in the house.

The Garridos were arrested after they walked into the police station with Dugard to ask a question, authorities said. They would not say what the question involved, but it apparently aroused the suspicions of a Concord police officer.

The officer ran a criminal history check of Phillip Garrido and found out he was a registered sex offender, authorities said. State records show that he has a conviction for rape by force, and federal records show him with a separate kidnapping conviction in 1980.

It is still unclear how police learned that the woman who was with the Garridos was Dugard, but her relatives are beside themselves with joy.

"I gave up hope for 18 years, just went into recovery mode," said her stepfather, Carl Probyn, a wallpaper contractor. "I thought it would be nice just to recover her and capture the people and find out why they did this.

"Now, I just won the lotto. It's just unbelievable. This is going to be a great day today."

Probyn, 60, who now lives in Orange (Orange County), said his wife, Terry, called him at about 4 p.m. Wednesday with the news.

"She basically said, 'Are you sitting down?' I said, 'Yes.' And she said, 'They found Jaycee - she's alive.' "

The two, who are separated, cried for about two minutes on the phone.

Terry Probyn was able to speak on the phone with her daughter. "She sounds normal. She told my wife she remembers everything," Carl Probyn said.

Terry Probyn, who also now lives in Southern California, was on her way to the Bay Area to reunite with her daughter.

Dugard was last seen June 10, 1991, as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. The blond, blue-eyed 11-year-old, wearing a pink top and pink pants, was going to catch the bus to her school near South Lake Tahoe. She never made it.

As Carl Probyn watched from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away, a two-tone gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked the girl into the car and sped off. Even though officers responded within minutes, no trace of the car or girl was ever found - until Wednesday.

Neighbors of the Garridos on Walnut Avenue considered Phillip Garrido an oddball, saying he believed he could talk to God and kept girls in the house.

With its security bars on the windows and doors, the Garridos' gray, one-story home stands out from the others in the semi-rural neighborhood.

Haydee Perry, 35, who lives next door, said that when Phillip Garrido helped her jump-start her car a month ago, he had a pre-adolescent girl clinging to him in a manner that struck her as strange.

The girl told Perry that Garrido was her father and that she had older sisters, including one who was 28 - which is one year younger than Jaycee Dugard is believed to be now.

"She stayed close to him at all times," Perry said of the girl. "It wasn't normal behavior. She had a blank stare on her face. Now it seems like a cry out for help."

Perry said Garrido told her he homeschooled girls in his house and that they didn't cuss or watch TV.

"I just thought he was weird," Perry said. "You have children and they're never outside, and you have bars on your windows."

A Web site containing statements apparently from Garrido and others indicates that he gave a demonstration in Pittsburg last month to prove "the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world."

Garrido also had a printing business, some acquaintances said. Tiffany Tran, who runs Furniture Gallery in Brentwood, said she had seen and done business with "Phil the printer" for six years, as recently as last week.

She recalled Garrido as being "a little different" and said he constantly talked about religion and showed her a device that he claimed could control sound.

"Some people have a story behind their smile, some don't - he did," Tran said. "He was happy-go-lucky, but you knew there was a story behind it."

She said he was very religious and talked about how God had been his salvation.

"He loved God. He said God was amazing," Tran said. "He talked about how much God had changed him, that he had been corrupted with womanizing and with this and that," Tran said.

She said he dressed as if he was not well off and often brought along a girl and a woman he said were his daughters.

The younger girl was about 14, the older one was in her 20s, she said. "They were very nice, very polite children," she said.

Police have declined to comment on the case, referring inquiries to the El Dorado County sheriff's office. A news conference is scheduled for this afternoon in Placerville.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL

I had the seach and now I have the same  ::MonkeyMad::

I can't see it either. When I read on the last page that a neighbor said there was a girl about 11 living there, my first thought was Lindsey. But maybe it is one of Jaycee's children.

That is my guess, hon. Read the article I just posted.

CDCR Parole Agents Help Uncover 18-year-old Mystery Concerning Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard

SACRAMENTO - The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Division of Adult Parole Operations helped to uncover a nearly 18-year-old mystery concerning the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was last seen as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991.

On August 26, 2009, a CDCR parole agent brought in parolee Phillip Garrido for questioning.  The day before, suspicious activity had been reported when Garrido, a registered sex offender, was seen with two small children at U.C. Berkeley.

CDCR involved the Concord Police Department to assist in determining the identity of the two children and an adult female who accompanied Garrido to CDCR's parole office in Concord.  The diligent questioning and follow up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female. It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard and that the children were his.

Garrido and his wife were arrested and transported to the Concord Jail.  The FBI with the full cooperation of CDCR and local law enforcement officials are conducting a full investigation surrounding Garrido and further information is pending those investigations. 

On June 8, 1999, Garrido was paroled from a Nevada state prison. Garrido, 58, served time in federal custody and in Nevada for sexual assault. Garrido's prior arrest history consists of possession of marijuana.  While on parole supervision in California, Garrido was subject to: anti narcotic testing, to refrain from alcohol, and global positioning system (GPS) monitoring.

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Adult Parole Operations will be holding a briefing to answer questions on the matter today.

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/2009_Press_Releases/Aug_27.html

I know, makes you wonder how many more of these freaks are out there, holding young women hostages for their own twisted pleasure.  

Follow Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping news conference live

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — North Lake Tahoe Bonanza News Service Reporter F.T. Norton will be attending the 3 p.m. Thursday press conference regarding the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case.

Norton will using CoverItLive to report the news at it happens from Thursday's press conference; be sure to visit www.tahoebonanza.com to follow the news conference.

According to numerous reports, the two people in custody in connection with the Dugard case are Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55.

Phillip Garrido is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy, the newspaper is reporting.

According to meganslaw.ca.gov, the California state Web site that tracks sex offenders, a Phillip Craig Garrido is a registered sex offender in Antioch for the crime of forcible rape.

His profile can be viewed here:

http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/cgi/prosoma.dll?searchby=offender&;;id=14299162D0546.

Federal records show him serving a stint in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in the 1980s.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that Jaycee Lee Dugard, abducted June 10, 1991 from South Lake Tahoe when she was 11, walked into a Concord-area police station Wednesday afternoon.

"1991 kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has been located in good health in the greater Bay Area of California.

"At the time of incident it was reported that a vehicle occupied by two individuals drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her in view of her stepfather," states a news release from El Dorado Lt. Bryan Gomitz. "Since the date of occurrence the investigation has been ongoing and today's events could bring it to a resolution."

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, spoke with Jaycee and is en route to Northern California from her Riverside County home.

Jaycee was abducted while walking to the bus stop on Washoan Boulevard. The kidnapping drew national attention but never was solved.

A man and woman have been arrested in connection with the case and booked into County Jail in Martinez, Jimmy Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office told the Conta Costa Times.

He deferred further comment to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279961/1061&ParentProfile=1050

The article I posted said he claimed to be the father of the children.  I am sick. 
Going to make some fresh pasta so I can beat on it  a while, while kneading.

There is another 1:30 press release according to News 10.  The two small children he said were hers and his at the police station.  They are trying to get a live signal for it. 
She was taken 91 then he was in prison - so where was she when he was in prison???

Federal records show him serving a stint in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in the 1980s.

Hmmmm, interesting!

This story is becoming more and more disturbing - these people better fry.

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/2009_Press_Releases/Aug_27.html

Look at my last link.........wonder where she was when he was in jail - guess the wife.
He also told cops that Jaycee was his wife and the two children were theirs -  :smt089 :smt089 :smt089

Dept of Corrections press conference in two minutes on News10.net

I'm sick, too.    Totally disgusting.   ::MonkeyNoNo::
Didn't she ever try to escape or anything?

Good for the Parole Agent that interrogated this POS and found out the truth.

CNN HLN is covering the story right now.

I'm with you.  ::MonkeyCool::

I don't know.Maybe they brainwashed her.

She screamed and the step father saw it and tried to follow on a bike.  Many accused him for years.

Brainwashing is the only answer I can come up with.   She was 29....   I wonder why she didn't try to come forward sooner and tell someone who she was.    I wonder if she ever went to school.    So many questions.   

I am here!! ::MonkeyJnBox:: ::MonkeyJnBox::

This FUXX has already been charged with kidnapping and rape...and was paroled!  Damn, when will we stop letting these pieces of CHIT go!!   They all need to be Lorena Bobbit-ed and shipped off to some island in the middle of the ocean...let them abuse each other!!

South Shore never forgot Jaycee Lee Dugard

The kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard as she headed to a South Shore bus stop 18 years ago sent reverberations through the community that are still felt today, an investigator who worked on the case said.

Since Dugard's abduction on June 10, 1991, parents have no longer felt it's safe to let their children walk to school or the bus stop alone, said El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell, one of the detectives who investigated Dugard's disappearance.

And even years after the adbuction, investigators have always been on the lookout for new information in the case — even if that news was potentially grim.

“Every time we had a citizen bring in a bone — a bear or a deer or whatever — we always thought, this is our crime scene. But it never panned out,” Lovell said.

Thursday's news that Dugard is alive and well was unexpected and exciting, Lovell said.

“Historically, these things don't end well,” Lovell said.

Dugard walked into a Concord-area police station Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

“We're convinced it's her,” said Lovell, adding that Dugard had spoken with her mother and shared information that only the two of them would have known.

Despite the happy ending, Lovell said Dugard's disappearance and the 18 years of disruption to family members' lives remained a tragedy.

Law enforcement will release further details of the investigation at a 3 p.m. press conference today.

Meanwhile, South Shore resident Missy Odlin is asking residents to decorate their homes, cars or even themselves with pink ribbons as a way to celebrate Dugard's reappearance.

Odlin's son was 6 and in kindergarten at Dugard's school in Meyers when the girl disappeared. At the time, classmates started a pink ribbon campaign to show their hope for her safe return.

“She'll know we've been thinking about her every day,” Odlin said of the pink-ribbon idea.
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279987/1007/NONE&parentprofile=1056

I agree. So this horrific man is saying that Jaycee and him are married, and the two kids are theirs  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Amen!  I would like to add a flaming Orange tattoo across their faces so if they make it out in public everyone knows what they did after the FIRST offence.

I agree.    ::MonkeyMad::

News conference just ended.  Tuesday campus police saw the SO on campus with two small children. Campus officer notified parole agent.  Wed Parole agent took him into the police station and that is when they found out it was Jaycee and her two children with him.  Another Conference schedule with FBI at 3:00pm PST.

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

I wonder why he was at UC Berkley?

I wonder how the police officer knew he was an RSO?  ::MonkeyConfused::

Meet Phillip Craig Garrido

The 58-year-old registered sex offender arrested in connection with the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard is named Phillip Craig Garrido. Garrido, fortunately for those of us who want to see what crazy really looks like, had a blog:

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/.

He was also planning to start a website: GodsDesire.net. In case you doubt the blog belongs to Garrido (who gave the GodsDesire URL in the blog), here is the registration address for the owner of GodsDesire.net:

Administrative Contact:

Garrido, Phillip phillip.garrido@sbcglobal.net
God's Desire
1554 Walnut Ave
Antioch, California 94509
United States
(925) 754-XXXX Fax --

According to court records a search warrant was issued for the address for God's Desire, 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, CA, on Wednesday. Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have been arrested and are being held on $1 million bond.

CNN reports that Garrido has been charged with "kidnapping, rape, lewd behavior, sexual 
​penetration and conspiracy." Nancy Garrido faces charges of "kidnapping and conspiracy."

Long before Jaycee Dugard disappeared, her alleged kidnapper was an experienced predator.

Public records show that Phillip Garrido was born in Contra Costa, CA on April 5, 1951. Carson City, Nevada records indicate a marriage between Garrido and Christine Perreira in March, 1973. The marriage lasted just 7 years, and the couple's divorce was final in October, 1980.

It may be remarkable that the union lasted that long, for in 1977, Phillip Garrido was convicted of kidnapping a woman on November 23, 1976. From the Reno Evening Gazette, February 12, 1977:

Garrido was convicted of abducting the woman at a South Lake Tahoe grocery store parking lot then driving her to Reno, where she was kept for several hours in a mini-warehouse.

[Garrido] faces Washoe County charges of possession of a controlled substance, rape and sex perversion.
Garrido was 25 and working as a musician in Reno when he abducted the 25-year-old victim, who was a casino worker. A November 1976 account of the crime in the Nevada State Journal told of Garrido knocking on the window of the victim's car, claiming his own vehicle was disabled. He asked for a ride.

They had only driven a short distance when the woman said Garrido grabbed her. He slapped on handcuffs and taped her mouth. They drove to Reno and the storage unit where Garrido assaulted her.

It appeared to investigating officers that Garrido had turned the unit into a residence, even though his address was elsewhere in the city. Detectives found a regular 70s-era sexual predator's bachelor pad - rugs on the floors and walls, porno mags, a projector, "marital aids," wine, hot water and oddly, a spotlight.

Chillingly, another woman in the area reported after Garrido's arrest that he had tried to kidnap her before he succeeded with the casino worker.

This 1976 abduction marked Garrido's first interaction with the FBI, which is also investigating what happened to Jaycee Dugard. The feds became involved because the abduction crossed the NV/CA state line.

Just as I was finishing this post, a reader sent an e-mail regarding this case. The tipster reported that Jaycee Dugard may be the mother of two children.

I've linked to Garrido's crazy blog already, but it is such a marvel of nuttiness that it was worth it to preserve the page. A copy of the blog is embedded at the bottom of this post.

http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/08/meet_phillip_craig_garrido.php

Press release

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Here is the not invisible press relelase.  Sorry.

Holy FBI agents searching the house!

http://www.youtube.com/v/hcVYYzM3oIg&hl=en&fs=1&

And I've been wondering both of these two questions.

Sex offender, wife arrested for girl's 1991 abduction
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A 58-year-old convicted rapist and registered sex offender and his wife have been arrested in connection with the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, who surfaced alive in the Bay Area on Wednesday after disappearing for 18 years.

Authorities were swarming the neighborhood on Walnut Avenue in Antioch where Phillip Craig Garrido, a 6-foot, 4-inch, 196-pound registered sex offender lived with his wife, Nancy Garrido, is listed on the state's Megan's Law sex offender Web site as being convicted of rape.

State parole officials said Garrido came to their attention after someone reported suspicious activity because he was seen near UC-Berekley with two small children.

On Wednesday, parole agents and Concord police brought Garrido in for questioning, along with the two children and an adult female. During questioning, authorities said, Garrido confesse that he had abducted Dugard and the adult woman in his company revealed that she was Dugard.

Garrido had served time in a federal prison in Nevada for sexual assault.

Garrido's next-door neighbor said people in the area had known for years that Garrido was a registered sex offender and that at one point someone called authorities because they were concerned that there were children living in the home.

Haydee Perry, 32, said her boyfriend has a 7-year-old daughter and that he was concerned about Garrido living next door. She said a friend of her boyfriend had called police a few years ago because there were children living in the Garrido home and other people were living in the yard in tents.

Neighbors also noted that Garrido had a penchant for wandering the neighborhood distributing religious tracts and quoting Bible verse, she said. Perry added that nothing came of the call to police.

Perry said she talked to a young girl at the home recently who she estimated was 11 and that the girl had indicated she had two older sisters, one a young teen and the other 28, about the same age as Dugard today.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office this morning confirmed the identity of the 29-year-old woman who walked into a Bay Area police station claiming to be Dugard.

Further, in an extraordinary sequence of events today, federal and local law agencies renewed their focus on the 18-year-old mystery of what happened to the blond, blue-eyed girl who was abducted while walking to school June 10, 1991.

El Dorado County sheriff's officials were preparing to release details on the case at a 3 p.m. press conference, but the girl's stepfather confirmed to The Bee early today that Jaycee had resurfaced and was being reunited with her mother.

Carl Probyn, Jaycee's stepfather, said his wife and daughter were flying to Northern California to meet Dugard and that his wife, Terry, spoke with the young woman by phone Wednesday night.

The Probyns, who are separated, live in Southern California, Carl in Orange County and Terry in Riverside. Terry Probyn and their daughter, Shayna, 19, boarded a 6 a.m. flight to the Bay Area to meet with Dugard, Carl Probyn said.

Probyn said he is elated.

"I'm just pleased that she is alive and well," said Probyn, a 60-year-old Orange County wallpaper contractor.

Probyn, who has yet to speak with his stepdaughter, said he believes suspects who might have been involved with the abduction are in custody.

Dugard's disappearance prompted a massive search, nationwide publicity and one of the largest police investigations in the region.

Dugard was on her way to school when authorities said she was pulled into a stranger's car just a block away from her South Lake Tahoe home.

Probyn said he heard her scream and saw a man and a woman drive his stepdaughter away in a gray two-tone sedan.

Despite several false sightings, Dugard was never seen again.

One person in the car was described as a 30-year-old woman with long, dark hair. Jaycee was last seen dressed in a pink windbreaker, white T-shirt and pink stretch pants.

The stepfather said Shayna Probyn called Wednesday about 4 p.m. and said, "Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?"

http://www.sacbee.com/1310/story/2143666.html

Thanks for all the articles. Unbelievable

It is quite apparent we have a, what seems to me a serious issue in this country with these types of crimes and it is getting worse.....WTH do we do about it - something needs to be done!  These predators cannot be allowed to roam free in society - I don't care if they are being monitored or not it isn't working!!!!!! ::MonkeyMad::

Tahoe Kidnapping Drama Began On UC-Berkeley Campus
Posted: 7:20 am PDT August 27, 2009
Updated: 2:02 pm PDT August 27, 2009

CONCORD, Calif. -- A registered sex offender, being held Thursday for the 1991 kidnapping of a South Lake Tahoe girl, was captured after UC Berkeley police saw him accompanying two young girls on campus and called his parole officer, authorities have revealed.

State prison official Scott Kernan said a parole officer was contacted by UC Berkeley campus police after Phillip Garrido was seen on campus.

Garrido was called in by the unidentified state parole officer for questioning and was accompanied by “two women and two juveniles.”

The officer thought something was suspicious and during questioning Garrido admitted to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe school bus stop in 1991.

Garrido, 58, of Antioch, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 54, were taken into custody by the Concord police who were called in by the parole officer to assist in the case.

Both were being held on $1 million bail.

Phillip Garrido was being held on charges including committing lewd acts with a minor, rape and kidnapping. Nancy Garrido was being held on charges that included kidnapping and a conspiracy to commit robbery or rape. Dugard’s stepfather -- Carl Probyn – told KTVU that the girl’s mother got a stunning phone call at work Wednesday from the FBI.

“She got a call from the FBI, they said they had found JC and she was alive,” he said in a phone interview from the couple’s Riverside County home. “They put her (the woman) on the phone. My wife talked with her and is convinced she is Jaycee. Jaycee remembers everything.”

Terry Probyn then called her former husband.

“My wife called me about 4 and asked me if I was sitting down,” said Probyn, whose marriage broke up in the wake of the abduction. “They found Jaycee They found her alive.”

He added that the FBI also said they had the “people responsible” for the abduction. Authorities said they have two people in custody in relation to the case.

Terry Probyn traveled to the Bay Area early Thursday with her 19-year-old daughter. A family member told KTVU that mother and missing daughter have been reunited in person.

The call ended an 18-year nightmare for Dugard.

"After 18 years you do give up hope, this is a miracle," he told KTVU.

On the morning of June 10, 1991, Jaycee was dressed in a pink top and pink pants when she left her family’s South Lake Tahoe home to catch her school bus.

As Carl Probyn looked on from the family’s driveway two blocks away, a gray sedan pulled up and a woman yanked Jaycee into the car and sped off.

Even though the local police were quick to respond and there were witnesses, Jaycee was never found.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20581022/detail.html

I am seathing that the police were called several times by neighbours that there were small children around this sicko and nothing happened.  Had they followed up Jaycee would have been found earlier.  Who was living on his property in tents.  Sounds Jim Jones'ish to me.

Source: 1991 Kidnap Victim Was Sex Slave, Bore Children With Sex Offender

ANTIOCH - FOX40 News has learned exclusive new details in the 1991 kidnapping case of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Authorities tell FOX40 News that Dugard bore several children for sex offender Phillip Garrido, who kept her in a backyard device -- possibly a shed -- as a sex slave for both Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido.

Both Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arrested as suspects in the kidnapping case. Their Antioch home was searched for evidence Thursday morning.

Authorities with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Adult Parolee Operations report a parolee agent helped crack the 18-year-old kidnapping case while following up on a tip that Garrido was seen with two small children on the campus of UC Berkeley. The diligent questioning of the parolee officer led Garrido to reveal the kidnapping of Dugard. Further questioning revealed Dugard and Garrido were the parents of the two children.

Neighbors told FOX40's Darsha Phillips that while Garrido was frequently seen at the home, they didn't see any sign that Dugard lived there.

Dugard was abducted in 1991 from a bus stop near her Meyers home. Authorities are conducting DNA tests on Dugard, but say they are certain they have found the missing 29-year-old.

A press conference is scheduled with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department at 3PM today. FOX40.com will stream the press conference live.

FOX40 News and FOX40.com will deliver additional information as it becomes available.

http://www.fox43.com/health/ktxl-news-coldcase-sexslave0827,0,7723120.story

http://www.fox43.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=880401aa-d575-47b6-b084-ce01a3584d6d&src=front

FOX40 NEWS: Sex Offender's Home Being Searched In 1991 Kidnapping Case

Thanks NorthernRose

It would appear that the high risk areas are where most of the south of the border migrant farm workers live and work..


Although on that link for the map is a user comment that discounts the map as inaccurate..
That the numbers are much lower.

It really is difficult to get an accurate count of stranger abductions in the united states. In comparison Russia does not think anyone is missing..


What I hope to do is learn from this girl.. We can only help if we try to understand and learn from her experience and then go find everyone of these weirdo's and kick there asses..
or something like that.. ::MonkeyWink:: 

I know and by reading the last article that you posted, why would Garrido bring two women and children with him to be questioned? WTH

Edward I knew you would be interested in that map.  How many more of these sicko's have children locked up?  Where are Natalee, Amber and Lindsey?  I would like to do a tad bit more than kick their asses right now.  Waterboarding is too good for them.

ANTIOCH (KRON) -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has now been reunited with her mother 18 years after she was abducted from her El Dorado County home.

Dugard's mother wasoverjoyed to learn the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.

The victim was found after an investigation by state parole agents.

Investigators say they called Phillip Garrido in for questioning at their Concord office after U.C. Berkeley police officers  spotted the registered sex offender close to children on the campus. Parole spokesman Scott Kernan says two adult women and two children accompanied Garrido to the office. 

Parole officers called for help from Concord police when they couldn't identify one of the adult women.  Eventually during the course of the questioning, Garrido reportedly confessed that the woman was Dugard. 

Dugard and his wife Nancy were taken into custody.  They have since been moved to El Dorado County where the initial kidnapping took place 18 years ago.  It's unclear who now has custody of the children.

Parole officials say Dugard served time in federal prison in Lompoc on an earlier kidnapping charge then was transfered to a Nevada prison to serve time for rape.  He was released in 1999.  Officials did not provide details of the earlier crimes. 

One big question that remains is what happened to Dugard while Garrido was in prison.

Parole officials say they have been keeping track of Garrido since his 1999 prison release including GPS monitoring.  Authorities say he had no record of parole violations during that time.

Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies, parole officials and federal agents searched the Garrido home on Walnut Avenue near Antioch in connection with the case. 

Proseuctors say they're considering what charges can be brought in the case since the statute of limitations on kidnapping has long expired. 

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991.

She was last seen walking to a bus stop at 8:15 a.m. wearing a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants. As she walked, a gray, two-tone late-model sedan was seen making a U-turn on the street.

The car approached Jaycee and a woman described as about 30 years old with long, dark hair pulled her inside, according to the center. A man was also seen in the car.

Dugard's step-father says the child's mother has talked with the victim since the arrest.  He says she remembers the kidnapping and was able to answer detailed questions about her childhood.

Stay tuned to KRON 4 and KRON4.com for the latest on this developing story.  KRON4.com will live stream the news conference from El Dorado County starting at 3:00 p..m.

http://www.kron4.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2818/reftab/66/t/Kidnapping%20Victim%20Jaycee%20Lee%20Dugard%20Has%20Now%20Been%20Reunited%20with%20her%20Mother/Default.aspx

Prime News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZgwD36J2cg&feature=channel_page  Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9urbDnJ-aBs&feature=channel_page  Part 2

Sex offender's neighborhood searched as woman kidnapped 18 years ago emerges [updated]

A 29-year-old woman abducted from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as a child 18 years ago has been found, and a man and woman have been arrested in connection with the case, authorities said today.

[Updated, 12:30 p.m.: Authorities arrested Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, and his wife, Nancy Garrido of Antioch on Wednesday night in connection with the case, said Jimmy Lee, spokesperson for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department. 

Garrido, 58, is listed on the state's Megan's Law sex offender website as being convicted of rape.

Concord police officers first encountered Dugard at a nearby house on Wednesday while they were conducting a separate investigation, Lovell said. Police began to question the woman and something didn’t add up, he said.
 
"Based on really good police work, the Concord police smelled a rat," Lovell said. Police continued to press the woman, and she eventually revealed her name was Jaycee Dugard.
 
Officers asked her to come to the Police Department for further investigation and Dugard cooperated, Lovell said.

Police are awaiting the results of a DNA test to confirm Dugard's identity, he said.

Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, has been in contact with her daughter, Lovell said. "They have discussed things that only the two of them would know," Lovell said. "We are about 99% sure the woman is her."

Lovell was one of he original investigators assigned to the Dugard case. "It's a great feeling that she is alive," he said. "We followed up on hundreds, if not thousands, of leads. And out of the blue, this one came to us yesterday."]


Details about the last 18 years of Dugard's life are still unclear.

Dugard was 11 when she was abducted on June 10, 1991, as she walked to a school bus stop on a quiet cul-de-sac in Meyers, Calif., in El Dorado County, authorities said at the time.

As Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, watched from the family garage 200 yards away, a late-model gray car -- with a man and a second person, believed to be a woman, inside -- stopped abruptly in front of the girl. Jaycee was swept into the sedan, authorities said.

Probyn gave chase on a bicycle but the car sped off. "There was nothing I could do," he recalled.

Despite a massive search, local outrage and being featured on the "America's Most Wanted" television program, Dugard was not found. Investigators were unable to identify a suspect.
[Updated at 12:50 p.m.: Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, was calling friends with the news that his stepdaughter had been found, said Phillip Oster, a close friend of 15 years.

"This is a really big event in his life," Oster said. "A mutual friend called me and said that Carl was crying like a little baby. He was so happy."

Probyn, who owns his own wallpaper company, has been living in Orange. Oster said Probyn left him a message last night, sounding happy but serious about the news.

Oster said Probyn didn't always talk about his stepdaugher's abduction. "He didn't wear it on his sleeve but it was something that dented him," Oster said.]

(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a57d9afd970c-800wi)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/sex-offenders-neighborhood-searched-as-woman-kidnapped-18-years-ago-emerges.html

The only thing being "monitored" is their address.  There was a report made in this case of a child being in the home (see article above) and who dropped that dang ball?  The only solution is to lock em up for life.  Second choice involves removal of body parts and a city in hell for them to live the rest of their lives.  I am as sick of this as you missiontoconvict!  When I first heard the story break, i had such hopes that it was a couple who desperately wanted a child and loved her and took good care of her - not that that is right or okay in any way, but it seems to my feeble mind the best of the worst situation.  But no, again it is a SO................ ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyMad::

I would like the step dad to be quiet for the moment..

I can feel the stress of the real mom and dad with a child stolen from the dad on his watch and how that would eat them alive and effected there marriage..
How terrible that had to have been on them..

Forgiveness can now begin.

REGIONAL: UPDATE: SUSPECT IN JAYCEE DUGARD CASE HAD PREVIOUS KIDNAPPING CONVICTION

An Antioch man arrested Wednesday in the case of Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991 at age 11 in South Lake Tahoe, was on parole for a conviction in another kidnapping case at the time the girl was taken, according to a federal prison official.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, was convicted of kidnapping in U.S. District Court in Nevada, and in March 1977 was sentenced to 50 years in prison, said Brad Murray, a correctional systems officer at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.

Garrido was arrested Wednesday for the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted on the morning of June 10, 1991, as she walked to a bus stop near her South Lake Tahoe home, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.

Dugard reportedly turned up in Concord alive and in good health, but Concord police are not yet releasing details about the development and are referring inquiries to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.

Concord police on Wednesday arrested Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 55, who live at a home on Walnut Avenue in an unincorporated pocket of Antioch. The Garridos were booked into Contra Costa County jail in Martinez late Wednesday night, according to jail records.

Nancy Garrido was booked on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy, according to the records. Her husband was booked on charges including kidnapping, conspiracy, rape and committing lewd acts with a minor.

Both were being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Contra Costa County sheriff's Sgt. Jimmy Lee said the Garridos were picked up at about 11 a.m. today by El Dorado County authorities to be taken to that county.

Phillip Garrido's previous kidnapping conviction had sent him to Leavenworth, where he was an inmate until 1986 when he was transferred to a federal prison in Lompoc, Murray said.

He was paroled from Lompoc in January 1988, but was placed in a halfway house in San Francisco from August to December 1988 because of a minor parole violation, Murray said.

Garrido was not in federal custody at the time of Dugard's abduction, but was arrested again in April 1993 because of another parole violation, according to Murray.

After a month, Garrido was transferred to home supervision and was released from supervision in August 1993, Murray said.

Lee, the Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman, said that as a sex offender, Garrido is required to register annually with local law enforcement. He has registered with the Contra Costa sheriff's office each year on his birthday since 1999, Lee said.

Residents of Walnut Avenue today grappled with the news that their neighbors had been arrested for Dugard's kidnapping. The couple's gray, one-story home was cordoned off with police tape.

Betty Unpingco has lived on the street for 10 years and said the Garridos moved in after she did.

"We're all shocked, scared that it can happen just a few doors down," she said.

She said she saw Phillip Garrido more than his wife, and that she didn't know him well but that she had once bought business cards from him.

"He was social but he just had a mannerism about him that you didn't trust," Unpingco said.

Angela Crabaugh, whose son lives across the street from the Garridos, described Phillip Garrido as a religious fanatic who was trying to form his own church.

"I just always thought he was very bizarre," she said.

She said her son has seen Phillip Garrido more than once with three young children.

Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991, while walking to a bus stop near her South Lake Tahoe home wearing a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants.

As she walked, a gray late-model sedan made a U-turn, approached Jaycee and a woman described as about 30 years old with long, dark hair pulled her inside, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. A man was also seen in the car.

Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn, who now lives in Southern California, said today that Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, called him Wednesday afternoon and told him the FBI had contacted her to say they may have found her daughter.

"I'm running around the house like I've had six cups of coffee," Probyn said this morning.

Carl Probyn said Dugard's mother had spoken with the woman and that the family is "about 99 percent" certain that the woman is indeed Dugard.

"They were pretty confident when they called her, my wife actually got to talk to her on the telephone," Probyn said.

He said the conversation convinced Terry Probyn that she was talking to her daughter.

"It was kind of short and sweet but my wife did say that she remembers everything," he said. Carl Probyn said he and Terry Probyn are now separated but remain close. He said the mother was flying to the Bay Area.

They were still together in 1991 when Jaycee was kidnapped.

Sources at the FBI said that an evidence response team from the agency was searching through the Garridos' home on Walnut Avenue this morning.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is holding a news conference this afternoon to discuss the latest developments in the case.

The news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the El Dorado Fairgrounds, located at 100 Placerville Drive.

http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=JAYCEE-DUGARD-(UPDATE-ON-BCN19)-13-59

And didn't one of the previous articles say e got out of prison in 1999?  If so, sisn't they check his residence before putting him in jail..they would have found this girl then?  Also ..while he was in jail..did this girl just stay with his wife?

I agree ANJ remove their body parts and lock them up forever - they are complete wastes.  This epidemic is starting to become alarming. 

So true Edward - what a shame the pain they endured losing their daughter and their marriage.

Edward the child was kidnapped from the tep father and her bio mother..it was her step father that chased the abductors.  We haven't heard a thing from the bio Dad.

Live press conference starting now in this case:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543640,00.html

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/55458112.html

Jaycee Lee Dugard Press Conference

Another link for the press conference

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kron-special

Edward, I think the step dad was living with the mom at the time and was watching her to the bus stop. 

So, I think in a way, she had three parents at the time.  I might be understanding wrong, if so - please correct me.

KRON was breaking up on me.  This one is working for me:
http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

Oh sorry I must have mis read the article I thought it was the real dad who lost the daughter..

So did I  ::MonkeyConfused::

Her and the children living in sheds - oh dear me.

No worries - could be me, we can check after the conference.  The info has been fast and furious and some might have reported it differently as often happens when the news breaks fast like this.

The Reverend Sun myon Moon is back in business.. some of his people have been around selling things..
I have no doubt he is abducting and brainwashing people again..
This time Moon is located in Paraguay.

How many victims is that freak hiding ?? He has them all convinced he is God

Jim Jones all over again.
jmho

The reappearance of Jaycee Dugard stunned family members, who had all but lost hope that she was still alive 18 years after she was kidnapped on her way to catch a school bus as her stepfather watched helplessly.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL#ixzz0PQRy5wRY


My mistake so sorry I apologise..

Edward - seems to me as if these SO are infiltrating the churches as cover.  Cantu case and others recently and as you mention, Jim Jones.  Did you see the link I posted to this creeps blog?

Or making their own "churches"

I did look at that link... Thank You for posting it..
I am afraid of anyone representing themselves in this manner..

ALL of these people with there little strange churches and " I am God " NEED TO BE SHOT !!

Per press conference:   the structures in the back yard -   one was about 6 feet high and about 10X10.   How sad.    ::MonkeyMad::

  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Yes, with extension cords for electricity and STRAGICALLY placed so not to be seen.  One even sound proofed.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::  Awful,just awful.

I guess the statue of limitations might play into what charges can be filed.  I guess we will find out tomorrow.

Hi Monkeys I just got caught up here. This man sounds like that creepy Fritzl guy in Austria that kept his own daughter in the basement. Sorry for the interruption, I will go back and lurk.  ::MonkeyBike::

Female on campus officer is a hero!!!!!!!!!!   ::MonkeyCheer2:: ::MonkeyCheer2::

Something about that hinky meter, ain't there! 

But, so hard to be excited knowing the hell her and the two children have lived through.

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

Showing car they believed used in abduction.  Police taking tarp off and looking in trunk.  They are doing continuous coverage.

Jaycee Lee Dugard Missing for 18 Years Since June 1991 Found Alive … Walked into a Northern California Police Station

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/08/27/jaycee-lee-dugard-missing-for-18-years-since-june-1991-found-alive-walked-into-a-northern-california-police-station/


These animals should never be let out to re-offend.

Talk about never giving up hope ... 18 years later after her relatives had thought they would never see her. WOW.

No matter what, he violated the terms of his parole.

He will be going away. Personally, he should be taking a dirt nap.

Bitter sweet in so many ways.  I sure hope they can get around any statue of limitations issues.  I would think if she was still being held with the children in the shed (barf, this makes me so mad) it is still a current kidnapping.

And that would be too good for him, but the best we can do without sending him to Guantanamo first.

Thank you Mr Red.

They should never be let out to reoffend, I will be nice and not say what I think should happen to them. It isn't very nice.

Why would they keep the car they kidnapped her in?  ::MonkeyConfused::

I don't know, and if the children and Jaycee lived in a shed/sheds why would you take them out in public like he did?  ::MonkeyConfused:: I'm glad he did, that's for sure.

I hope the prison population can see the news on this..

Hi Red ::MonkeyDance::  this animal should have never been out on parole...he got 50 years....50 years!!   Had he served his time he would never have been able to snatch her!!  The abuse had to have been horrendous!  She had a child at age 14 and another at 18 from this monster!! ::MonkeyMad::

Makes you wonder why he was out with them in public. I didn't get to see the news conference this afternoon. Computer crapped out on me when I got home.

Her oldest child is 15? So she gave birth at 14...which means basically pregnant at 13. The freak was 40 years old when he took her.  OMG I am        puking ... Nothing shocks me anymore, but this crap still makes me sick  :smt099

Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapped, Impregnated, and Forced to Live in Shed, Say Police

NEW YORK (CBS) According to a Thursday press conference by California law enforcement officials, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped at the age of 11 in 1991, has been kept in a rudimentary shed in the backyard of her captors for the last 18 years and forced to bear two children at the hands of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender on lifetime federal parole.

According to El Dorado County Under Sherriff Fred Kollar, Nancy Garrido was with her husband, Philip Garrido, 58, when he kidnapped Dugard while the girl was waiting for a school bus in 1991.

Since then the girl has been forced to live in a "backyard within a backyard" that was accessible only through a series of tarps and sheds, which were erected to make Dugard and her children both unseen and unheard, said Kollar.

None of the structures were visible from neighbors’ houses, which were not more than a few feet away.

"All of the sheds had electricity by cords, rudimentary outhouse and shower, as if you were camping," he Kollar said.

Dugard never attempted to contact police or her own family throughout her nearly two-decade ordeal, said Kollar. She bore two daughters to Garrido, who are now ages 11 and 15. None of the children have ever been to school or a doctor, he added.

Since Dugard is now 29 years old, she apparently had her first child at 14 years of age.

According to Kollar's timeline, Garrido came to the attention of police on August 25 when he and the two girls were handing out flyers on the campus of U.C. Berkeley, advertising a religious speaking event. A campus officer felt Garrido's interaction with the two girls was suspicious. When she found out he was advertising an event, she ran a background check on him, which is common practice on the campus.

The background check turned up Phillip Garrido's past offenses: a rape and kidnapping conviction from 1971. He was on federal parole.

On August 26, Phillip Garrido brought his wife Nancy, Jaycee, who he had been calling Alissa, and the two children to a visit with his Concord parole officer.

After interviewing Phillip and Nancy Garrido and finding that the couple "had information only the kidnappers could have known," they were arrested, Kollar said.

Police are now looking into whether or not Phillip Garrido's two young children have been molested.

Jaycee and her family are in the process of being reunited, Kollar said.

District Attorney Vern Pierson said at the press conference that a criminal complaint will be filed by noon on Friday and Phillip Garrido will be arraigned the same day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/27/crimesider/entry5270224.shtml

He had three known parole violations after he got out prior to today.

Authorities say alleged kidnapper fathered 2 children with woman missing 18 years

PLACERVILLE, California - Authorities say an alleged kidnapper fathered two children with the woman who emerged 18 years after being snatched from a bus stop.

The new details came as authorities provided more information about the saga Jaycee Lee Dugard, who vanished when she was 11 years old and turned up at a police station in Northern California this week.

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar says the woman spent most of her time in sheds, tents and outbuildings to isolate her from the world. Police say her captor was Phillip Garrido. He is being held for investigation of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.

http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/world/article/294687--authorities-say-alleged-kidnapper-fathered-2-children-with-woman-missing-18-years

the people of California should be OUTRAGED!  Hell, I am and I don't live in CA!  Is rape and kidnapping of children becoming so common place that it no longer incites outrage!?!?!?! 

Don't go back to lurking JSM..I thought the same thing about the creepy guy in Austria and this case.

It makes me wonder why this guy's property was never searched by his arresting officers last time he was in jail..because getting out in 1999 for rape..would have meant this girl was in his home at the time of his arrest for rape.  When they arrest SO's..don't they search their homes and sheds and any storage rental spaces?  For goodness sake..if not there maybe more kidnapped people living under the nose of LE with SO's.  And didn't his parole officer ever come to his home and check things out?  I guess that would have been against the rights of the SO..yeah..like they should have any rights.

I think so too.   ::MonkeyCool::

Why are you lurking?   ::MonkeyHaHa::

Everyone in California has been convinced to let the professionals handle everything..
The professionals know absolutely nothing..
 California has produced a generation of spineless jellyfish.. and when I look around the United States I see ALL Americans have become spineless jellyfish..
Proof of that is Joran, still has legs..No matter what country he lives in..
Gary Hilton enjoys himself in jail and the people that used him to make movies are still out of jail..Yet many families are missing loved ones that he murdered..
We are living in a strange time in history that is for sure..
They used to hang horse thieves.. We are seeing far worse crimes today and this docile generation of stand still Americans are doing nothing..Nothing is a big word and reaches a lot of places in society.
My mom and her whole family is from Texas and they believe in justice.

Looks more like you are riding your monkey bike around the attic.

No, Edward, not ALL AMERICANS have become spineless jellyfish.  Look at SM.....I can't think of one of us who I would put in that category!  But I will admit that many have become immune to the horrors that happen daily.  We are too politically correct. The criminals have more rights that the victims. People are fearful of getting involved.  Having lived in Texas for many years I have to agree.  ::MonkeyDance::

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=65912&catid=2

Suspect in Jaycee Dugard Abduction has a Blog   ::MonkeyEek::


He calls it "Voices Revealed" and you can click here to read it.   http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

Jaycee Dugard Press Conference: Phillip Garrido and wife, Nancy Garrido in custody video

Today, at 6:00 p.m. ET, the El Dorado Sheriff’s Department held a live press conference to discuss the return of Jaycee Dugard. You may view the Jaycee Dugard Press Conference in the video player below. Jaycee was kidnapped by Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido when she was 11 years old. Since that fateful day, on June 10, 1991, Jaycee Dugard lived in a secret backyard area. Police have described her living arrangement as a ‘backyard within a backyard.’ There, she was held as a sex slave and bore two children with Phillip Garrido. Meanwhile, Garrido maintained a reputation as a highly eccentric, religious man who held ‘tent revivals’ from his backyard. Neighbors found him to be strange, while many expressed their shock; they acknowledged that his behavior had always been odd. For instance, the bars on his windows, and the two girls who never left the home: that is, never left their backyard dwellings.

Defense attorneys have stated that they wouldn’t touch this case with a ten-foot pole, specifically since Garrido has fathered the children, and if verified and proved through DNA testing, there will be no defense for Garrido. The children are all the evidence any prosecutor will need to seal his or her case. Additionally, Phillip Garrido’s wife, Nancy Garrido stood by her husband the entire time.

Today, authorities have searched the home on 1554 Walnut Ave in Antioch, California uncovering clues that will seal their case against Phillip and Nancy Garrido and help reveal the past that Jaycee Lee Dugard experienced.

One question that hangs over this case like a foreboding shadow is that Phillip Garrido was a sex offender. Not only was he a sex offender, but he was a registered one. Authorities knew where he was, knew where his home was, and had been to his home on several occasions. At no time, did they ever find anything out of the ordinary, such as a kidnapped child giving birth to two children who were continually in the presence of a registered sex offender.

Jaycee Lee Dugard has a long road ahead of her. She will need a tremendous amount of love, patience, support, and counseling to get past the ordeal she has endured. Her story is remarkably similar to that of Elizabeth Smart’s. Both girls were similar in physical appearance, kidnapped by men who operated under religious delusions, and both men had women supporting them in their abuse of young girls. However, Elizabeth Smart was freed from her captive long before Jaycee Lee Dugard was. At this point, it is imperative that the media and the public holds back any judgment on Jaycee, and recognizes that she is a victim. She was 11 years old when she was kidnapped. There is no time or place to ask why she didn’t come home sooner. Let’s just rejoice that she and her children are finally free, and pray for her complete healing and restoration to begin.

http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Jaycee-Dugard-Press-Conference-Phillip-Garrido-and-wife-Nancy-Garrido-in-custody

Reporter Reflects on Disappearance and Discovery of Jaycee Dugard

Editors note: Shannon Brinias was a reporter for KOLO at the time Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped. She is now the 11pm anchor for KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - I just finished watching the news conference held at the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office announcing the amazing news that Jaycee Dugard has been found. With all that they said, I found my mind racing back toward that time and my memories of covering her kidnapping. I also find myself imagining the horrors Jaycee must have faced in the years since. We may never know what she has gone through. But this case, this conclusion, has taught me, a television journalist for the past 23 years, that one can never make assumptions about anything.

In 1991, I was one of the reporters assigned by my boss at KOLO to cover this family’s frightening ordeal. Jaycee’s stepfather, Carl, described for me exactly how he had seen his 11-year-old stepdaughter go up the slight hill to where the school bus stop was, and then, the van with a man and a woman coming alongside Jaycee, and the woman grabbing and pulling her inside. He stood in the spot where he’d been, describing it for me, and telling how he’d given chase on a bicycle, only to see them speed away.

During this time period when I worked at KOLO (from 1988-1992), we had unfortunately covered other child disappearances. Those had tragic outcomes, with the poor children’s’ bodies being discovered much later. I believe the murders have remained unsolved. In a child disappearance, law enforcers will tell you that the longer the child is missing, the greater the odds that there will not be a positive outcome in the end. Jaycee’s case had become stuck in my head, as something I thought about whenever I visited South Tahoe, something I’d thought about when other kidnapped children had surfaced after being missing for years on end.

In the days afterward the kidnapping, I interviewed Jaycee’s parents repeatedly. I was always struck by how fiercely this family held onto their hope that their daughter was going to be found alive. Jaycee’s mom, Terry, especially clung to the faith that she would see her daughter again, and that she would be okay. I heard her optimism come through again and again in her conversations with the volunteers and relatives who came to help in the search efforts. At the time, I thought, “She must still be in shock.” How can anyone continue to carry that hope, even as the days, months, and then years, passed? (I left Reno & KOLO about 16 months after Jaycee’s disappearance)

Terry steadfastly supported her husband, Carl, who was the last to see Jaycee. At the time, Carl had to fend off questions, and suspicion by some, that he knew more than he was saying. I would talk to him, though, and his descriptions never varied, and neither did his demeanor. He seemed like a stand-up guy, who was torn apart by this tragedy that had befallen the family on his watch.

I was also struck by how the community of South Lake Tahoe came together to support this hurting family. Volunteers, from all walks of life, came to the home to distribute flyers, to tie pink ribbons; anything that they thought might help in the search for this young girl. But her disappearance had also changed the neighborhood, and parents were on edge. You’d still see bikes in driveways, kids out playing ball, but parents were more visible, keeping watch on these most vulnerable members of their community.

Years passed, and no word of any sighting of Jaycee. Until now.

Today, while preparing to go to work at KOLO’s sister station, KKTV in Colorado Springs, where I anchor the evening news, I glanced at the headlines online. There, a picture that made my heart stop a bit. It was a picture of Jaycee’s flyer, the flyer I never forgot. And next to it, words saying Jaycee had been found, alive, in California just a few hours’ drive from where she’d disappeared. Tears started welling up in my eyes. I’m sure other reporters who covered this kidnapping back then had similar reactions.

I couldn’t believe that this case, which I’d long feared would end in a tragic discovery, had instead ended with the surprise surfacing of the victim, Jaycee, now grown into a woman with two children of her own. But what of her life for the past 18 years? It likely is beyond our imagination.

I thought about her mother, Terry, who’d refused to give up faith and hope, and what she and the entire family must be going through. I hope and pray for strength for the family as they reunite—it will not be easy to overcome the vast divides between the paths their lives have taken.

During the news conference, Undersheriff Fred Kollar talked about how Jaycee and her two children, allegedly fathered by her abuser, had been kept hidden in a secret backyard enclosure, their only shelter, two sheds and two tents. One of those sheds could only be unlocked from the outside. Within the same secret backyard, Kollar said there was the van which was the same one Carl Probyn had seen speed off with his stepdaughter. All these years, Jaycee lived alongside the evidence and memory of her traumatic kidnapping. What sense can Jaycee, or her family, make of the ordeal they’ve had to endure?

In all my years as a reporter, I’ve witnessed some amazing events, and events of great tragedy. Though I’m not there to personally report on this latest development, I think this will be the story that stays with me the longest, the one that has taught me about a family’s perseverance being rewarded.


Original Press Conference with Jaycee's Mom
http://ww2.KOLOTV.com/global/video/videoplayer.js?rnd=362892;hostDomain=ww2.KOLOTV.com;playerWidth=300;playerHeight=259;isShowIcon=true;clipId=4079284;playerType=MINI_EMBEDDEDscript

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/55515587.html

Jaycee Lee Dugard Press Conference

Police announced today that Jaycee Lee Dugard’s kidnapper, Philip Garrido, was a convicted sex offender.  Apparently Garrido and his wife snatched Jaycee at a Lake Tahoe bus stop years ago.  The case presents a fascinating PR problem for local authorities, and for the State of California, who are going to have to explain how the parole officer assigned to Garrido failed to notice that he had children living in his home.  Further investigation would have revealed that Jaycee was not Garrido’s biological child, which would clearly violate his parole.

Assume for a moment that Garrido and his wife were really good at covering their tracks – sex offender registries are pretty popular these days, and one might think that neighbors couldn’t possibly have not known that these people suddenly acquired an extra child.

That said, the State is going to have to explain how Garrido slipped through the crack.  We’re kind of at a loss for a solution to this one, its awfully hard to spin, but here’s my best shot: The Governor or the Attorney General needs to initiate an investigation, not to assign blame, but rather to figure out what went wrong.  The only way to get ahead of the curve here is to admit the mistake and try to show a willingness to take a look at the systemic failure that created the problem.

http://losangelespublicrelations.com/jaycee-lee-dugard-press-conference/362

Girl grew up locked away in backyard shed

CNN) -- From the time she was an 11-year-old, blue-eyed, freckle-faced blonde until she was a 28-year-old woman with two children, Jaycee Dugard was kept locked away in a shed by a couple police say abducted her.

She was more than 160 miles from home, and her family had no idea where she was.

Nobody else knew she was there except the couple that snatched her off the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991, and took her straight to the soundproof shed, police said.

Dugard's pocket of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's backyard in Antioch, California, was so overgrown no one even knew it existed.

The details about Dugard's time in captivity emerged Thursday after one of Northern California's most enduring mysteries was solved and the Garridos were arrested and accused of her kidnapping.

Anyone who came across the couple's backyard, littered with garbage cans and a dishwasher, would assume that it ended at a six-foot fence.

"You could walk through the backyard and never know there was another set of living circumstances," said Fred Kollar, undersheriff of El Dorado County. "There was nothing that would cause you to question it. You can't see it from either adjoining property. It was presumably well arranged."

But tucked away beyond the tangle of bushes, high grass and trees was a blue tarp that concealed the only world Dugard had known since her abduction.

The 10-foot-by-10-foot shed was equipped with a makeshift bathroom and shower, along with electricity supplied by an extension cord. Kollar compared the primitive conditions to camping.

Dugard lived for several years by herself in the shed, flanked by two tents. The shed was was locked from the outside.

She grew up and had her captor's children inside the shed, and raised them there. "None of them have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will."

The children, both girls, are now 15 and 11.
"They are all in good health," Kollar said in response to a question about how Dugard and her children are doing. "But living in a backyard for the last 18 years does take its toll."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.kidnap.shed/

Dear God I can't even begin to imagine the toll that Jaycee and her two children have had to endure.

She grew up and had her captor's children inside the shed, and raised them there. "None of them have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound


OMG... That worthless man has probably attacked these children also.

I can only think of a few things that would be fair for these 2..
 :smt067 :smt063 :smt075 :smt071 :smt070 Just a few..

Police: Kidnap suspect fathered victim's kids

(08-27) 17:24 PDT ANTIOCH -- A woman kidnapped as an 11-year-old girl nearly two decades ago near her South Lake Tahoe home was kept prisoner in a squalid backyard compound outside Antioch and had at least two children with one of her alleged abductors, authorities said today.

Jaycee Dugard, now 29, turned up alive Wednesday, 18 years after she was snatched off the street as she walked to a school bus stop.

Arrested in the case were Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, authorities said. Both were being held on $1 million bail.

Phillip Garrido was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy. His wife was booked on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping.

Neighbors in an unincorporated, semi-rural area outside Antioch described Phillip Garrido as a strange man. They and other acquaintances said he conducted religious revivals in a tent, claimed to hear the voices of angels and said he had developed a device through which he could control sound with his mind.

Dugard apparently was kept for much of the time in a shed, authorities said. She and her daughters were also housed in tents and outbuildings in a part of the Garridos' back yard not easily visible from outside the property on Walnut Drive, authorities said.

The daughters were 15 and 11, said El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar, whose agency is leading the investigation because Dugard was snatched from his county. Garrido fathered both girls, he said.

One of the sheds where the girls were living could only be opened from the outside, he said, and rudimentary toilets and electrical hookups were set up nearby.

That Dugard was found in such living conditions was appalling, he said, but more important was the fact that she was found at all.

"We're very happy to be in front of you under these circumstances - Jaycee Dugard was found alive in Antioch," Kollar declared at a news conference at the El Dorado County fairgrounds in Placerville.

He said the girls were now with Dugard in an undisclosed location.

The Garridos were arrested Wednesday after Phillip Garrido came to a state parole office in Concord, accompanied by his wife, a woman - who turned out to be Dugard - and Dugard's two daughters, officials said.

Garrido, a registered sex offender, was asked to come in because UC Berkeley police Officer Allison Jacobs had become suspicious after questioning him about handing out his religious materials on campus without getting clearance first, authorities said.

"Diligent questioning" and further investigation by state authorities and Concord police revealed that the woman was Dugard, state officials said.

Officials said Garrido served time in Nevada for a 1971 kidnapping and rape conviction and was paroled in June 1999. It was not immediately clear where Dugard may have been while Garrido was in custody.

Federal records also show that Garrido has a separate kidnapping conviction in 1980.

Dugard's mother and stepfather, who had given up ever seeing their daughter again, were joyful at the news she was alive.

"I gave up hope for 18 years, just went into recovery mode," said her stepfather, Carl Probyn, a wallpaper contractor. "I thought it would be nice just to recover her and capture the people and find out why they did this.

"Now, I just won the lotto. It's just unbelievable."

Probyn, 60, who now lives in Orange (Orange County), said his wife, Terry, called him at about 4 p.m. Wednesday with the news.

"She basically said, 'Are you sitting down?' I said, 'Yes.' And she said, 'They found Jaycee - she's alive.' "

The two, who are separated, cried for about two minutes on the phone.

Terry Probyn was able to speak on the phone with her daughter. "She sounds normal. She told my wife she remembers everything," Carl Probyn said.

Dugard was last seen June 10, 1991, as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. The blond, blue-eyed 11-year-old, wearing a pink top and pink pants, was going to catch the bus to her school near South Lake Tahoe. She never made it.

As Carl Probyn watched from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away, a two-tone gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked the girl into the car and sped off. Even though officers responded within minutes, no trace of the car or girl was ever found.

Neighbors of the Garridos on Walnut Avenue - and even some of his own family - considered Phillip Garrido an oddball, saying he believed he could talk to God.

With its security bars on the windows and doors, the Garridos' gray, one-story home stands out from the others in the semi-rural neighborhood.

Erika Pratt, 25, who lived next door two years ago, said she was continuously "freaked out" by Garrido's behavior, and that when she popped her head over the fence she saw his secret compound. She saw tents, sheds and pit bull dogs, and water hoses leading from her house next door to the compound.

"He told us to come on over and hear him talk about God, but he was really weird," Pratt said. "He had little girls and women living in that back yard, and they all looked kind of the same. They never talked, and they kept to themselves."

Pratt said people came and went from the property, but the core group consisted of two girls about 4 years old, one girl about 11, another girl about 15 and a young woman about 25. They were all blonde, she said.
Pratt added that she called police to investigate, but after officers went to Garrido's door, "they told me they couldn't go inside because they didn't have a warrant. So they just told him they'd keep an eye on him."

Haydee Perry, 35, who lives next door, said that when Phillip Garrido helped her jump-start her car a month ago, he had a pre-adolescent girl clinging to him in a manner that struck her as strange.

The girl told Perry that Garrido was her father and that she had older sisters, including one who was 28 - which is one year younger than Jaycee Dugard is believed to be now.

"She stayed close to him at all times," Perry said of the girl. "It wasn't normal behavior. She had a blank stare on her face. Now it seems like a cry out for help."

Perry said Garrido told her he homeschooled girls in his house and that they didn't cuss or watch TV.

"I just thought he was weird," Perry said. "You have children and they're never outside, and you have bars on your windows."

A Web site containing statements apparently from Garrido and others indicates that he gave a demonstration in Pittsburg last month to prove "the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world."

Garrido also had a printing business, some acquaintances said. Tiffany Tran, who runs Furniture Gallery in Brentwood, said she had seen and done business with "Phil the printer" for six years, as recently as last week.

She recalled Garrido as being "a little different" and said he constantly talked about religion and showed her a device through which he claimed could control sound with his mind.

"Some people have a story behind their smile, some don't - he did," Tran said. "He was happy-go-lucky, but you knew there was a story behind it."

She said he was very religious and talked about how God had been his salvation.

"He loved God. He said God was amazing," Tran said. "He talked about how much God had changed him, that he had been corrupted with womanizing and with this and that."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL

but the core group consisted of two girls about 4 years old, one girl about 11, another girl about 15 and a young woman about 25. They were all blonde, she said.



Who and where are the 4 year olds?  The 11, 15 and 25 (29 really) year old were found today...but where are the 4 year olds?

Bizarre Details Emerge In Kidnapping Case

CBS) - A kidnapping in northern California has come to a bizarre end after almost two decades.

Jaycee Lee Dugard hadn’t been seen or heard from in 18 long years. So, when she accompanied convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, his wife Nancy, and two children, to his parole meeting in Concord, California, authorities got suspicious.

During questioning, they discovered Jaycee, now 29 and called “Allissa," was the 11-year-old girl kidnapped back in 1991 near her home in South Lake Tahoe.

El Dorado Undersheriff Fred Kollar says Phillip Garrido had fathered the two children with Jaycee.

"None of the children had ever gone to school," he said. "They’d never been to a doctor. They were kept in complete isolation."

The two girls are 15 and 11, which means Jaycee got pregnant at age 13.

Authorities say the three lived in a secret area behind the Garrido’s home.

"The hidden backyard had sheds, tents, outbuildings where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their time," Kollar said.

Neighbors say they never saw Jaycee or the girls.

Jaycee’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, who saw the abduction, says he, too, is in shock and worries about her state of mind.

"Right now, thinking that she’s basically a 29-year-old in a, 11-year-old mentally," he said.

Police arrested both Phillip and Nancy Garrido on suspicion of kidnapping. He’s also held on suspicion of rape and lewd and lascivious acts with a minor.

Jaycee has had a supervised reunion with her mother and sister.

http://www.wibw.com/crime/headlines/55525897.html

I am not getting all of this...did Jaycee stay with the woman as Gypsy asked?? I need the time line all written out for me I guess...how long was this guy in jail after he took Jaycee? I have read the articles but I think that to me, some are confusing...like the father, stepfather, mother....at first I thought that the bio parents had split up because of this, but then, the step dad was the one who saw it happen..I have since figured that one out...what about the bio dad?
what a horrible life this girl and her children have had!

No one knows right now. The assumption is the wife kept her locked up as she had been for the previous  years.

Mom was a single mom when step-dad married her.  Not heard a word from bio dad.

I normally just lurk and read, but this case has me so engrossed. There are so many un-answered questions that hopefully will be answered in the next few days.

Kidnap suspect avoided cops' prying eyes

Phillip Garrido had several contacts with the law in recent years, but until this week he kept authorities from finding the backyard compound near Antioch where he allegedly held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive.

Garrido's luck held in July of last year, when a multiagency task force in Contra Costa County searched his home as part of a sexual offender compliance check, officials said. He had a string of offenses dating back to 1971 and was a registered sex offender on parole in California.

Authorities found only evidence that Garrido, 58, his wife, Nancy, 55, and his mother were living in the home on Walnut Drive, said Sgt. Diane Aguinaga of the Antioch police.

The team looked in the back, but saw only a screened-in porch and a back fence, she said.

Behind that fence, authorities now believe, was a hidden backyard with sheds and outbuildings. There, Garrido was housing Dugard and two daughters she allegedly had by him, officials said.

"There were zero signs of kids living there," Aguinaga said. "Only him, his wife and mom."

Electrical cords turned out to be leading to the hidden compound, and there was what authorities described as a rudimentary outhouse and shower.

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said barriers had been built to "inhibit outside viewing and prevent the victims from contact with the outside world."

The walls were even soundproofed.

Police, however, had been told about the backyard lair before, according to a former neighbor.

Erika Pratt said that two years ago, she called police after seeing what looked like a living compound with tents and sheds.

Sheriff's deputies came to ask questions, Pratt said, but told her that because they didn't have a warrant, they couldn't search the house. "I always wished someone could do something about it," Pratt said. "It was like he was charging people to live there."

Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee confirmed that his agency had dealt with Garrido before but was not able to provide details.

"We need to investigate it further to determine what that contact was," Lee said.

At the time of the sex offender task force's check last year, Garrido was already the subject of a criminal probe that began in 2008 and had nothing to do with sex crimes.

Aguinaga said Garrido was suspected of bilking an elderly neighbor out of his life savings. A complaint was lodged on the man's behalf when he moved to Friendship Residential Care in Antioch, Aguinaga said.

The elder care home relayed allegations that from late 2007 to March 2008, Garrido swindled Dilbert "Jack" Medieros, now 79, of nearly $18,000. In the end, prosecutors cited insufficient evidence in declining to file charges this past April.

Garrido explained to police that Medieros had given him money to help start a church. He also told investigators that he had known Medieros for years and took him places such as the zoo.

"He said Jack never wanted him to pay him back," Aguinaga said. "He said he did not ask for the money. Jack gave it to him anyway."


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA0Q19EMR7.DTL

Please jump in Myview.  I am stunned that they checked his house in July of last year and found nothing.  Now we also find out he stole the life savings of a senior as well.   ::MonkeyMad::

That's what I've been sitting here wondering  ::MonkeyEek::

And his mother lived there as well, wonder what she all knew?  ::MonkeyEek::

I am now gonna throw up......

Garrido called KCRA TV anchor Walt Gray today, and KCRA has posted audio of their conversation.  Listen to audio here: http://www.kcra.com/download/2009/0828/20591132.mp3


"Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house," Gallido told Gray. "You are going to be completely impressed."

Gallido insisted he had turned his life around.

"If you take this a step at a time you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story," he said in the interview.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, blue-eyed and blond, was abducted while walking to school June 10, 1991, near her home in Meyers, south of South Lake Tahoe.

Carl Probyn, Jaycee's stepfather, said today that his wife and daughter flew to Northern California to meet Dugard and that his wife, Terry, spoke with the young woman by phone Wednesday night.

The Probyns, who are separated, live in Southern California, Carl in Orange County and Terry in Riverside. Terry Probyn and their daughter, Shayna, 19, boarded a 6 a.m. flight to the Bay Area to meet with Dugard, Carl Probyn said.

"I'm just pleased that she is alive and well," said Probyn, a 60-year-old Orange County wallpaper contractor.

Dugard's disappearance prompted a massive search, nationwide publicity and one of the largest police investigations in the region.

Dugard was on her way to school when authorities said she was pulled into a stranger's car just a block from her home.

Probyn said he heard her scream and saw a man and a woman drive his stepdaughter away in a gray two-tone sedan.

Dugard was never seen again.

Authorities say she was hidden in "a backyard within a backyard" in an Antioch home on Walnut Avenue the entire time, shielded from view by tents, sheds and, apparently, the same vehicle that had been used to abduct her.

Neighbors told The Bee today that they had called police about two years ago to report that there were tents on Garrido's property and children at the home. They knew Garrido was a sex offender required to register on the state's Megan's Law Web site. However, they said nothing ever came of the call.

California parole officials called a press conference today to explain that their Bay Area agent was central to the discovery of "Allissa's" real identity.

CDCR Undersecretary of Operations Scott Kernan said Garrido had been under the supervision of state parole agents for 10 years and had been subject to home and office visits and had to wear a GPS ankle monitoring device.

He had transferred his parole from Nevada to California in 1999, but El Dorado sheriff's officials said they believe Garrido had been in Antioch since the abduction.

"He had no parole violations," Kernan said. "He was compliant with his conditions of parole."

From time to time, Dugard's case would be revisited by reporters, but her family had no idea what had happened to her until about 4 p.m. Wednesday, when Shayna Probyn called Carl Probyn and said, "Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?"

His wife told him: "They found Jaycee. She is alive."

The couple cried for about 10 minutes as they spoke to each other.

Probyn said FBI agents had called his wife at work and told her they had Jaycee. Thinking it was a joke, she told the caller she did not appreciate what she thought was a ruse.

The FBI then put the young woman on the telephone.

"My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything," Carl Probyn said. "My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip."


http://www.kcra.com/download/2009/0828/20591132.mp3

thanks No Rose...I am watching Anderson Cooper right now who is talking about it..

slowly getting the gist of all of this... ::MonkeyNoNo::

can you imagine how scared Jaycee must have been? an 11 yr old girl in a shed all by herself..probably not much light, no tv...locked up? it chills me to my core to even think about how scared she was...
thank God she is found and hopefully she and her daughters can have a happier life now..
I would bet that her daughters were also molested by this creeep!!!!! they had a jail house statement from this nut case on Anderson Cooper...he is a real nutter!

I just posted the link to the full interview from jail.  He needs to be put in front of a speeding semi with no breaks.

Here is the audio of the creep's interview this afternoon

http://www.kcra.com/download/2009/0828/20591132.mp3

yes, we must have been posting around the same time...you are quicker than me!
thank you for all your articles...I have read everyone of them on here and one gets creepier than the last one!

Phillip Garrido's Backyard of Horrors

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This here's the California backyard where Phillip Garrido, who's living residence is to the right, kept Jaycee Dugard prisoner for 18 years. He obviously gave a hoot about building codes.

The New York Times report on the home describes the backyard as...

A collection of ragged tents and sheds secreted behind the Garridos' home, a ranch-style house in a ramshackle neighborhood in an unincorporated area outside Antioch, a Bay Area suburb of 100,000.

They forgot to include "shit hole."

http://gawker.com/5347379/phillip-garridos-backyard-of-horrors

Agree that it gets worse as more info comes out.  I am really concerned about the fwo four years olds mentioned as well as the mental state of all three girls.

Jaycee's Return: A Community's Prayers Answered

The day after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in June of 1991, a broken Terri Probyn looked into television cameras, pleading to her kidnappers for her safety and hoping her words were reaching her daughter.

"Jaycee, if you're out there, you know I love you and I want you to come home soon."

The anguish on Terri Probyn's face that day 18 years ago spoke not only to her missing daughter and those who had taken her, but spoke to the fears of every parent.

Jaycee Dugard was by all accounts a happy, well adjusted 11 year old in 1991 living in South Lake Tahoe with her mother, stepfather and young sister.

She disappeared in broad daylight walking down this street to her school bus stop. As her stepfather watched horrified, a car turned around, stopped. A woman jumped out grabbed her. The car sped off.

The kidnapping launched a massive search for the woman and the vehicle . But they had vanished.

A day later, investigators could only guess at her fate or the kidnappers motive. Terri Probyn could only hope they heard her plea.

"Please don't hurt her. She's a good girl ," she asked holding back tears. "Bring her back home to me."

The kidnapping also brought an outpouring of support for her family and for efforts to find her. Candlelight vigils, marches, church services. Thousands of fliers were distributed.Local musicians wrote and recorded a song. It's lyrics putting everyone's hope to music...."the love we have will shelter you wherever you may be....."

It was all about keeping the case and hope alive, but weeks and months turned into years. Even the most hopeful, the most committed it's likely, long ago, surrendered to the certainty that Jaycee was not coming home.

If today's news was unimagined everyone who stood with her family 18 years ago could rightly claim prayers are sometimes answered and miracles do happen.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/55532467.html

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do we have a puke monkey? we need one after hearing this story!

Yeah..well I'd be happy to give this guy a heart warming story of my own for him..about 220 volts on bare wire inserted in his who-who.

I'd also like to know when the local parole office was doing their home field check on this freak and saw the fence with a gate in the backyard.. why didn't they didn't friggin open the gate and walk through since they couldn't see over the fence...just to see what was on the other side.  Doesn't even sound like they left the house..just looked from the porch.  Yeah..make sure they all get nice pay raises while we're at it.

I can't listen to the interview right now with the station..but I guess we will hear the Holy Spirit moved him to  have sex with Jaycee and her children and who knows how many others.   I am so sick of these religious zealots doing such horrid things in the name of our Lord.  Yeah..I hope those angels are talking to yu now buddy.

And like you NorthernRose..I am wondering about these 4 year olds..possibly twins of one of the girls or Jaycee?  Just speculating on that.  Lord have mercy on this man's soul ..because I sure don't.

 ::MonkeyMad::  ::MonkeyMad::  ::MonkeyMad::

I was thinking the same thing.  BTW Love yur ew avi!

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Sheriff: Kidnap victim, children kept in backyard compound

(CNN) -- An 11-year-old California girl snatched from the street in front of her house in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and was forced along with the children to live in backyard sheds, police said Thursday.

"From what they have both said, he fathered both of those children with Jaycee," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar told reporters.

The girls, now 11 and 15, had been living with their mother, now 29, in a series of sheds behind Garrido's house in Antioch, California, until they were discovered on Wednesday, Kollar said.

"None of the children had ever gone to school, they had never been to a doctor, they were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will, at the rear of the house," he said. "They were born there."

In a rambling telephone interview from jail, Garrido told CNN affiliate KCRA of Sacramento he was relieved at being caught.

"I feel much better now," he said. "This is a process that needed to take place." 

Kollar said Garrido's wife, Nancy, was with her husband when Dugard was abducted from the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe. Dugard was already a registered sex offender at the time.

"There was nothing then nor is there anything now to indicate that this was anything other than a stranger abduction of an 11-year-old," Kollar said.

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 attempted 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.

A police officer "thought the interaction between the older male and the two young females was rather suspicious," so she 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.

A school spokesman identified the officers as Allison Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, and said the two became suspicious of "subtle behavior" Garrido exhibited.

They passed on the information to Garrido's parole officer, who requested that the 58-year-old man appear Wednesday at the parole office.

Garrido did just that, accompanied by his wife Nancy "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.

DNA confirmation is being sought to confirm her identity, but Dugard revealed information during an interview that only she could have known, Kollar said.

"The two minor children turned out to be children of Jaycee and the male suspect, Garrido," he said.

Scott Kernan, undersecretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told reporters that Garrido admitted to having abducted Dugard.

El Dorado County Sheriff's Office online records showed that Phillip and Nancy Garrido were both in the county jail, held on suspicion of offenses including conspiracy to commit a crime and kidnapping with the intent to commit robbery and rape.

Dugard had been living behind Garrido's home since she was kidnapped, Kollar said.

But their presence there apparently went unnoticed by others in the residential neighborhood, where homes on one-fourth to one-half-acre lots typically sell for less than $200,000, said Kathy Russo, whose father has lived two houses away from the Garridos for 33 years.

"My dad said he never saw a young woman," said Russo, who added that her father -- 94-year-old Dante Confetti -- considered Garrido to be a "kind of strange, reclusive, kind of an angry kind of guy."

She said the one-story house's backyard was obscured by trees and ringed by an wooden fence.

Her family's last contact with Garrido occurred last fall, she said. "He was burning something in the back yard and my home health aide called the fire department," Russo said.

"He was really pissed off," she said. "Came over to the house and started yelling."

Garrido told KCRA that he left documents three days ago with the FBI in San Francisco that would shed light on the case and urged him to obtain them. "They're going to be a part of the trial," he said.

A call from CNN the FBI's San Francisco bureau was not immediately returned.

Garrido said he could not go into detail about why he chose to abduct Dugard. "I haven't talked to a lawyer yet, so I can't do that," he said.

But Garrido said he had "completely turned my life around" in the past several years. "You're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim," he promised. "If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backward and in the end you're going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story."

He added, "Wait til you hear the story of what took place at this house. You're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around."

Describing the two daughters, he said, "Those two girls slept in my arms every single night from birth; I never kissed them."

But in a later comment, he said that, from the time the youngest was born, "everything turned around."

Asked about the fact that they had not seen doctors, he said, "We just didn't have the finances and so forth."

Kollar said a search of Garrido's property "revealed a hidden backyard within a backyard," he said. It included several sheds no higher than 6 feet tall, two tents and several outbuildings "where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their lives."

The "secondary" backyard was inside the first and was "screened from view." One of the sheds was soundproof, he said.

"The way the backyard is set up you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house and never know that there was another set of living circumstances in that backyard."

At the end of the backyard is a 6-foot fence lined with shrubs, tall trees, garbage bags and a tarp, all of which obscured views of what was there, he said.

Extension cords provided electricity to the sheds and tents, and an outhouse and rudimentary shower "as if you were camping" were there, too, he said.

Dugard "was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said. He described her as "relatively cooperative, relatively forthcoming" in discussions with detectives. But he said Dugard was "in relatively good condition," neither obviously abused nor malnourished. He added, "There are no known attempts by her to outreach to anybody."

The mother and her two daughters were staying at a motel in the area, he said. "Family reunification has begun and will be a long and ongoing process," he said, presumably referring to Dugard's parents.

Earlier Thursday, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, told CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, on Wednesday afternoon to tell her that Dugard had been found.

"Jaycee remembers everything," he said. "They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife's questions."

He said, "I'm feeling great! ... It's like winning the Lotto."

He witnessed the abduction of the blonde, blue-eyed girl, who was wearing a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants as she walked to her bus stop on June 10, 1991.  Watch the stepfather describe finding out Jaycee is alive »

At the time, "it was reported that a vehicle occupied by two individuals drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her in view of her stepfather," the El Dorado County Sheriff's office said Thursday.

Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said the reappearance of Dugard is "absolutely huge."

"One of the things that we preach to searching families all the time ... is that even in these long-term cases there's hope," he said.

"Even in these long-term cases ... it's important that we not let the world forget."

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/?imw=Y

Bumping this article from Northern Rose.

Now if this freak was kidnapping , raping and holding a woman in a storage shed in 1975..wouldn't that be the first place yuo'd look in his yard..esppecially if neighbors complained to local LE about the young girls and the old arrangement of sheds and tents? 

Resolution to 18-year mystery rocks Dugard's hometown

MEYERS, Calif -- MEYERS, Calif. - The news that Jaycee Lee Dugard was alive brought her former teacher back to the fifth-grade classroom of 1991 where scared children faithfully maintained the desk, books and pencils of a kidnapped girl and wrote letters to her - wherever she might have been.

On Wednesday, at a California parole office, Dugard revealed her identity - and her tortuous story: The 29-year-old woman was the shy 11-year-old who once sat near the front of Sue Bush's classroom at Meyers Elementary School near South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

She was the girl, abducted on the way to school in 1991, whose disappearance traumatized a community. She was the girl who left people wondering in sadness so many years later what might have happened to her.

By Thursday, she was the source of joy - and more wonder - for those who knew young Jaycee or came to know her story. Most weren't aware of the circumstances of her alleged captivity with a sex offender with whom she had two children.

"It's absolutely astonishing, unbelievable, surreal," Bush said. "I'm still trying to process it. It was hard to process when she was gone. Now it's hard to process that she is back."

The news that Jaycee was alive returned Jessica Brambila back to frightening, confusing events when Brambila was a 7-year-old second-grader at the same elementary school as Dugard.

"I just remember my parents asking me if I knew her, and I remember them insisting on walking me to the school bus every day after that," said Brambila, 26, who now lives across the street from the former school site. "I didn't really know what was going on."

She recalls wild rumors that later spread through the small town at the entryway to Lake Tahoe. She remembers one from a former family friend, who insisted that a man stopped at a gas station the day Jaycee was taken and remarked, "We found a virgin to sacrifice." She says no one knew what to believe.

Only a year ago, Brambila said she got a flier in the mail for the missing girl.

"I wondered if she was alive," she said. "People talk about it all the time. A lot of people assumed she died. When I went to the Raley's (supermarket) this morning, people were saying, 'Did you hear? Did you hear?' I think it's amazing. I could never imagine having my daughter kidnapped and 20 years later finding out that she was alive. I can't imagine what her parents must be feeling."

Meyers Elementary School was shuttered some years ago and reopened as the Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School. But a well-tended "memory garden" remains. An accompanying pastel blue wall is painted with butterflies for Jaycee and Krystal Dawn Steadman, a 9-year-old from the school who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000, and for two other students who died in accidents.

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go," reads an inscription on a large rock in the garden. "Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

Former Meyers Elementary principal Karen Tinlin, now at Tahoe's Bijou Community School, still remembers frenzied schoolchildren stepping off the bus that Jaycee normally rode, "knowing that she had been grabbed up into a car" before getting to the bus stop.

"I had kids in my office within a few hours, asking, 'Can we pray for Jaycee?' " Tinlin said. "Kids were very, very worried. They walk to the bus every day. It was a common thing - and then it went awry."

Bush, known as Sue Long when she was Jaycee's teacher, remembers how her class - in the closing days of the school year - became a group counseling session for a teacher and kids who refused to accept that Jaycee was gone forever.

"I'm so happy she is OK," said Bush, now retired in Nevada's Washoe Valley. "It must have taken great courage for her to step forward. I never actually believed she was dead - even though that seemed like the logical conclusion."

Aimee Rice, a fifth-grade teacher at the magnet school, didn't know Jaycee but said the 11-year-old's abduction never faded from memory. Each year, fifth-graders are shown her "missing" poster in a public safety program called "A Fighting Chance," that uses her case to trigger discussion on what to do if approached by strangers.

"Every fifth-grader in this town has seen Jaycee's picture," Rice said. "And then, today, I'm watching CNN and, suddenly, 'Wow! She's alive.' "

The magnet school's secretary, Monique Truszewski, who was working at the Heavenly ski resort when Jaycee was taken, said she "got chills" at the news.

"It's thrilling. I got tears in my eyes," Truszewski said. "We're a tight community. We all remember. It's going to be very interesting what comes out of this. What happened to this child? Did (the abductors) brainwash her? Did they scare her? Or did she, maybe, come to accept them?

"As a parent, I've wondered over the years: What would I have done? I can't imagine watching your kid at a bus stop getting taken."

http://www.bnd.com/living/home/story/899760.html

There is a statute of limitations on kidnapping?  Pfft.  That is disgusting.  She was the mother of two kids, I bet she never reached out for help because he blackmailed her by using her children.  She already knew he is a sick psycho, she probably thought it was the only way to protect her children.  They need to change that statute of limitations law, almost makes you want to go complete vigilante.  I'm so upset over all of the suffering my mind is bouncing to all kinds of places.

Oh pretty please can we have a PUKE MONKEY!!! Please, please I will be a good monkey, I swear!! LOL  ::MonkeyKiss::

I was completely elated to hear the news that JC was found after all this time. For the moment  I just want to celebrate that she was found. I pray every night that a missing child comes home and finally I feel like a prayer may have been answered for so many.

Maybe in a few days I will be able to focus on the terrible things that happened to this beautiful child/young lady.

But for now since this is truly a "rare" occurrence and given all the bad news this past year, it is so nice to finally hear some good news.

Kidnap suspect had criminal past, brother says
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Ron Garrido said he always knew his younger brother was deeply troubled.

There was, he recalled Thursday, Phillip Garrido's damaging use of LSD as a teenager in Brentwood and his talk of sexual compulsion. There was the escape from fellow drug dealers after high school, the federal conviction for rape and kidnapping and his prison marriage.

Still, the latest news - accusations that his 58-year-old brother had snatched a child off a street, held her in his backyard for 18 years and fathered two of her children - was a shock for Ron Garrido.

He said in an interview with The Chronicle that he was surprised at his only sibling's alleged crimes - but he didn't doubt the story.

"It just seems so bizarre, but I can believe it," said the 65-year-old Brentwood resident. "I know my brother, and I can believe he did that. ... He's a fruitcake.

"My thoughts are with the poor little girl," Ron Garrido said of Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, who was abducted in 1991 near her family's South Lake Tahoe home. "She was held prisoner there. She had two children with this idiot. Now she's got to start a life."

Ron Garrido said his brother's wife, Nancy Garrido, who was also arrested, was "a robot" under her husband's control.

"She would do anything he asked her to," said Ron Garrido, a former electrician and retired supervisor at the East Contra Costa Irrigation District. "I told my wife, 'It's no different from Manson and those girls.' She was under his control."

The brothers grew up in Brentwood with their parents, Manuel and Pat Garrido. Their childhood was relatively unremarkable, he said, until Phillip Garrido began acting out, using LSD and dealing drugs.

Phillip Garrido graduated from Liberty High School in 1969. When he was about 20, he fled to Reno after learning that fellow drug dealers "had a contract out on him," Ron Garrido said.

In 1971, Phillip Garrido was convicted of rape and kidnapping after taking a woman prisoner in Reno and assaulting her somewhere else in the Tahoe area, the brother said.

It was at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., that Phillip Garrido met his wife, the visiting niece of another prisoner.

The couple communicated through letters and then married in a ceremony held behind prison walls, Ron Garrido said.

After his release in the late 1980s, Phillip Garrido moved in with his mother, who lived just outside Antioch in a modest home with a large backyard. His parents had divorced in 1971, and his mother had later married Herschel Franzen, who left the home to his wife when he died in the early 1990s.

Their mother still lives at the home but has suffered major dementia for about eight years, according to her son. On Thursday, she was at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez.

Ron Garrido said his brother, over the subsequent years, spoke of plans to get rich and start a church. But he never spoke of Dugard.

There was one suspicious incident. In 2007, Ron Garrido said, an aunt told him that Phillip Garrido had visited her in Brentwood and brought along two young girls. He said they were neighbors' children and that he was babysitting.

"My aunt told me, 'I swear that oldest girl is his daughter. She's got his eyes,' " Ron Garrido remembered.

Ron Garrido said he never went into the home's backyard, where police say Phillip Garrido had set up a crude compound for his captives.

"My brother could do no wrong in my mother's eyes. I'm sure he told her some story and she bought the whole thing," the older brother said.

He said he last saw his brother at a relative's funeral a few weeks ago, and Phillip Garrido was acting strangely and pacing back and forth to his car.

But that was Phillip, the brother said, and Phillip was a strange man.

"Crazy, crazy, crazy," Ron Garrido said. "There's no word to describe this. It's just out there."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/MNHQ19EU4O.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/MNHQ19EU4O.DTL)

Huge write up here and many photos
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_kidnap28.413b5cc.html

I will take some time over the weekend to see if any of these 'missing' could be linked. Focus on 'blondes'
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=usMapSearch&missState=CA&searchLang=en_US

This one sticks out like a sore thumb...I'll have to look more closely to see if things line up, but look at her picture..... 'his type', no?
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=717172&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

Hi Nut, what about this girl http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=604481&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

Was the dude in prison in 1985?

Thanks Nutt.   ::MonkeyCool::

Today Jaycee Lee Dugard 8/28/09 Part 1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB5YAP13xkQ&feature=channel_page

Today Jaycee Lee Dugard 8/28/09 Part 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FcnddfjHZ8&feature=channel_page

Thanks Nutt and Trimm  ::MonkeyAngel::

I need time to study it and I don't have that time right now. The girl you posted above was 3 at the time she went missing. I was/will look at older girls...not toddlers.

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Yeah I noticed that after I posted it. Sorry.

Stepfather of kidnapped girl says she feels `remorseful,' `guilty' about captivity

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Just hours after El Dorado County authorities described abductee Jaycee Lee Dugard's 18 years in captivity in Antioch, her stepfather said the now 29-year-old woman seems remarkably well considering her ordeal.

In a telephone interview with KXTV, Carl Probyn said Dugard reunited with her mother, Terry, on Thursday - and said despite the lonely years away, her daughter appeared much as her family remembered her.

“She looks healthy. She looks good,” Probyn said.

But Probyn said Terry confirmed some signs of Jaycee's long confinement were present.

“She is very remorseful. She's very guilty that she bonded with these people,” Probyn said.

Dugard lived nearly two decades as a prisoner in the secluded backyard of an Antioch home, raising two children by her alleged abductor with little to no outside contact, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Deparment.

At a Placerville news conference Thursday, El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said even though the 11-year-old girl abducted in 1991 lived in a makeshift set of sheds and tents for 18 years with her daughters, the now 29-year-old Dugard was in surprisingly good shape after her identity was discovered Wednesday.

“Living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll, but she was in good health,” Kollar said. “Jaycee has been there ever since. The children were born there.”

Kollar said Dugard's 15-year-old and 11-year-old daughters were fathered by her captor, Phillip Garrido. Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy Wednesday.

“He fathered both children with Jaycee,” Kollar said.

Formal criminal complaints against the Garridos were expected to be filed in El Dorado County Superior Court by noon Friday, according to El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson.

Kollar said the break in the 18-year search for the missing South Lake Tahoe girl began Tuesday when Garrido, accompanied by Dugard's two daughters, attempted to hand out religious literature on the UC Berkeley campus.

The interaction between Garrido and the two girls prompted the attention of a UC Berkeley police officer, who ran a background check on Garrido.

When it was discovered that Garrido was on parole following a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, Kollar said officers alerted the state parole office.

The call led to a meeting called by Garrido's parole officer, Kollar said. Along with Garrido was his wife Nancy, the two girls and a young woman Garrido called Allissa.

Kollar said the parole officer had never seen “Allissa” or the two girls during any home visits to Garrido's Antioch home. That suspicion prompted a call to Concord Police. From there, detectives unraveled Garrido's house of cards -- and it wasn't long before it seemed clear that Allissa was actually Jaycee Dugard.

“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 Thursday.

“Without (parole) assistance, we probably never would have found this out,” Kollar said.

Kollar said Dugard was cooperative and forthcoming with detectives. “She wasn't evasive at all,” Kollar said.

Co-workers of the parole officer, who works out of the State Parole Office in Fairfield, called the officer identified only as Santos a hero.

“He did an awesome job. He went well beyond the call of duty with this case,” said Santos' supervisor Dwayne Cooks. “He went with his gut feeling and it paid off for him.”

Officers in Antioch who searched the Garridos' home found a secluded, blocked-off backyard area, a series of tents and sheds in a secret area hidden behind a 6-foot fence under a tarp.

Kollar said it was in the soundproofed shed and two outdoor tents that Dugard and the girls lived for 18 years.

“None of the children have ever been to school. They've never been to a doctor,” Kollar said. “They were kept in complete isolation in this compound.”

There was electricity from electrical cords, rudimentary outhouse, rudimentary shower, “as if you were camping,” he said. Also found in the backyard was a car, believed to be the vehicle used in Dugard's abduction. That grey sedan was taken away by authorities late Thursday night.

The house was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department Thursday. A small barn belonging to a next-door neighbor was also searched. Officials said investigators would once again be collecting evidence at the home Friday.


Kollar said Dugard was reunited with her mother and step-sister Thursday. Dugard retains custody of her children and was staying at a Bay area motel.

Carl Probyn said his wife Terry reported Dugard's girls also seemed well cared for.

“The two girls look healthy,” Probyn said. “They haven't been educated, but they're happy, they're smiling.”

Phillip Garrido is also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.

The Garridos were being held at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville awaiting arraignment.

Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

He was also convicted of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman whom he snatched from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed, tied down and held in a mini-warehouse in Reno, according to a November 1976 story in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

A detective at the time said he found the woman with Garrido in a warehouse that had rugs on the floor and walls, pornographic magazines, a movie projector, a spotlight, wine and hot water.

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.

“In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him,” said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade.

Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two “cute little blond girls” in tow, he said.


In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

“He rambled. It made no sense,” he said.

Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido's criminal record.

“We never thought anything bad about the guy,” Allen said. “He was just kind of nutty.”

Pittsburg wrecking yard owner Chevonne Molino said she contracted with Garrido, who printed business cards from his home.

Molino remembered Garrido as a religious man who handed out water to her customers while preaching the gospel. She said she also got to know Garrido's two young daughters at a recent birthday party.

“(The girls) said this was their first time really being out,” Molino said. “They (said) they were homeschooled and they were having church in their basement. They had a congregation of five.”

Dugard was just 11 years old when she was last seen just 150 yards away from her home as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe around 8:05 a.m. on June 10, 1991.

Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, said from inside his home, he saw a man and a woman in a two-tone gray, late-model sedan make a U-turn on Washeon Boulevard, then saw the woman in the car grab the girl and pull her inside.

Investigators at the time believed Dugard may have been taken across state lines into Nevada after her abduction. Despite at least one alleged sighting immediately following her disappearance, Dugard was not seen again - until Wednesday.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090828/NEWS/908280322/1069/YOURUPSTATE01

Phillip Garrido Prison,
Parole History
Updated: Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 9:13 AM CDT
Published : Friday, 28 Aug 2009, 9:12 AM CDT

By FRANK CARNEVALE
(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Phillip Garrido,58, was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard Wednesday. Dugard is the California girl who was kidnapped in 1991 and has spent the last 18 years living in tents and sheds behind the home of Garrido, according to police.

Garrido's wife, Nancy, 54, was also arrested and prosecutors said the couple will likely to be charged on Friday.

This case brings to light Garrido's criminal past. Garrido was arrested in Reno on Nov. 23, 1976 on charges of kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe, Calif., woman. He was a 25-year-old musician at the time, when he knocked on the car window of a casino worker and asked for a ride, he then grabbed her, taped her up and drove her to a storage unit in Reno, Nev. Police happened upon the car at the storage unit and when approached and knocked, heard the woman scream.

According to the Reno Gazette-Journal , the officer said the unit had rugs on the floor and walls, pornographic magazines, a movie projector, marital aids, a spotlight, wine and hot water.

In 1977 Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for kidnapping and five years to life on a state charge of sexual assault for crimes in Nevada. He started his federal prison term on June 30, 1977 and then was transferred to Nevada authorities on Jan. 22, 1988 to serve state time. He was then paroled in Nevada on Aug. 26, 1988 and then later paroled to California.

Mercury News.com reported that a violation landed him back in prison from April to August 1993. The San Franciso Chronicle reported that police and authorities made several visits to Garrido's home, but never found evidence of anyone living there except for he and his wife.

Eleven-year-old Dugard was abducted off a South Lake Tahoe street while walking to a bus stop near her home on June 10, 1991.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Phillip_Garrido_Prison_Parole_History_fc_20090828_3213263

Dugard Kidnap Suspects Headed To Court

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- An Antioch husband and wife accused of kidnapping Meyers resident Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago were expected to appear in a Placerville court Friday.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, is suspected of abducting Dugard when she was just 11 years old, confining her to an Antioch back yard and fathering two children with her.

Dugard lived with her children -- now ages 11 and 15 -- in a series of tents and sheds in what authorities call a back yard within a back yard.

Dugard, who turned 29 on Thursday, surfaced this week, was said to be in good health and has reunited with her family.

Phillip Garrido and his 55-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, were being held in jail in Placerville early Friday.

Phillip Garrido was booked on charges including kidnapping, conspiracy, rape and committing lewd acts with a minor, according to the records. Nancy Garrido is accused of kidnapping and conspiracy. Both are being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

In an interview Thursday with KCRA 3, Phillip Garrido said his life "has been straightened out" and implored people to wait until they hear the whole story of what happened at a Bay Area home

"You are going to be completely impressed," he said. "It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there."

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. Dugard also accompanied the Garridos to the meeting with the parole officer.

http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/20598191/detail.html

NEW INFORMATION: Dugard Suspect's Parole Status




SACRAMENTO, CA - We are learning new information this morning about the federal parole status of Philip Garrido. Garrido is expected to be in court Friday in connection with the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.

Friday morning, News10 spoke with Tom Hutchinson, chief of staff for the U.S. Parole Commission. He pulled up Garrido's file and told us the file is archived.

Hutchinson says that indicates to him Garrido completed all legal obligations for his federal parole. Hutchinson also told News10 it would be highly unusual, if not impossible, for someone to be paroled in 1988 to still be on the parole. News10 will be speaking with local and state officials today to learn more about Garrido's status.

Sources have told News10 that Garrido was in the South Lake Tahoe area the day Jaycee disappeared.


http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=65955&catid=2

Friend Remembers Jaycee


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http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?mid=1230155863&provider=topVideo

Family adjusting to news of 18-year captivity
August 28, 2009 10:34 EDT


PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a woman who police say was held captive by her kidnapper for 18 years is sorting through some mixed feelings.

Jaycee Dugard was reunited with her mother and other relatives yesterday. Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, spoke to his wife afterward and says everyone is "doing great."

Appearing on several morning news shows, Probyn said the most surprising thing to his wife was that her daughter, now 29, looks very young, almost like she did when she taken at age 11.

But he says Dugard feels terribly guilty for bonding with her captor, and her family is troubled by learning the facts of how she was forced to live.

Police say her abductor kept Dugard hidden behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in his backyard, and fathered two children with her. The children, now 11 and 15, were also kept there.

The stepfather had long been considered a suspect. And he blames the kidnapping, which he witnessed, for ruining his marriage. He and Dugard's mother are separated.

A convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in connection with the case.

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Reminds me of "The Mutha of the Year" statement someone  ::MonkeyRoll:: made ::MonkeyMad::

Stepfather in shock over kidnap victim's 18-year ordeal

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ORANGE, California (CNN) -- He witnessed the 1991 abduction of his 11-year-old stepdaughter outside his home in California, and now Carl Probyn says he's still in shock that Jaycee Lee Dugard is alive.

 
Phillip Garrido is a registered sex offender, listed as having been convicted of forcible rape.

 1 of 2  But the circumstances of her captivity that police say was at the hands of a registered sex offender have left him in disbelief.

"It's kind of a shocker," Carl Probyn told CNN's "American Morning." Her "youngest child is the same age as Jaycee when she was taken." He said he is still in disbelief.

Probyn said Thursday that he had witnessed the abduction of the blond, blue-eyed girl, who was wearing a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants as she walked to her bus stop on June 10, 1991.

"When it first happened, I was thinking, 'If I had my car keys, I would have chased him and done this and this,'" Probyn said. "But lately, toward the last few years, I just wanted an ending to this."

Dugard's abductor, Phillip Garrido, fathered two daughters with her during her 18 years in captivity police said Thursday. 

The girls, now 11 and 15, had been living with their mother, now 29, isolated in sheds behind Garrido's house in Antioch, California, until they were discovered on Wednesday, according to El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar.

Police say Garrido's wife, Nancy, was with him when Dugard was snatched from the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe. Garrido was a registered sex offender at the time. Both are in police custody.

The compound where Garrido kept Dugard and her children was carefully screened from view.

"None of the children had ever gone to school, they had never been to a doctor, they were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will, at the rear of the house," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar told reporters. "They were born there."

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/california.missing.girl/#cnnSTCVideo

Stepdad: Girl held 18 years enjoys 'happy' reunion
By JULIET WILLIAMS and SAMANTHA YOUNG (AP) – 11 minutes ago

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman's family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her alleged abductor.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was kept behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspected abductor's children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home.

Dugard's stepfather told CBS' "Early Show" Friday morning that he spoke to his wife late Thursday after she reunited with Dugard and everyone was "doing great."

"I think they're pretty happy," Carl Probyn said, noting six people were at the reunion — Jaycee Dugard, her two daughters, her sister, mother and another relative.

He said the most surprising thing to his wife was that Dugard looks almost like she did when she was taken.

"She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said. "She told me that Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip."

Phillip Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

Dugard was taken directly to the house and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday. Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the Antioch 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."

Even a parole agent who visited Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, Kollar said. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions.

"The way the house is set up, the way the backyard is set up, you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house, and never know," Kollar said.

But neighbors said there were clues even before a parole agent on Wednesday noticed Dugard, now 29, who accompanied Garrido, his wife and the children to a parole office.

Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.

"I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?'" she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"

Dugard's stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing everything he could to help find her.

"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," a tearful Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif. He said her family felt troubled by learning the facts of how she was forced to live for 18 years.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, who identified herself as "Allissa," his wife, and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted to kidnapping Dugard.

Investigators said he did not yet have an attorney.

Police said they had no evidence that Dugard had ever reached out to anyone beyond the compound walls.

"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.

The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.

Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his daughters, but they are investigating.

Garrido's compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170 miles from the Dugard family home in South Lake Tahoe.

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.

"In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburg, Calif., who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade.

Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.

In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according to the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.

In a blog that appears to have been maintained by Garrido, he wrote that he had hired a private investigator to verify his ability to speak to people using only his mind. In an "affadavit" posted there, he said he had the ability to "control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena."

Garrido gave a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview to KCRA-TV from the El Dorado County jail Thursday in which he said he had not admitted to a kidnapping and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago.

"I tell you here's the story of what took place at this house, and you're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life completely around," he said.

In addition to kidnapping allegations, court records showed both Garridos were being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and kidnapping someone under 14 with intent to rape. Phillip Garrido also faces allegations of sexual penetration.

The AP, as a matter of policy, avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

Garrido has a long rap sheet dating to the 1970s.

He was convicted of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman whom he snatched from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed, tied down and held in a mini-warehouse in Reno, according to a November 1976 story in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

He also has a conviction for rape by force or fear stemming from the same incident, and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake Tahoe in a Ford Granada when he snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Jaycee Lee Dugard has retained custody of her children and was staying at a Bay area motel, authorities said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBbUgkRg4gaNB7YROg0ym3XaAc7wD9ABUR480

Madeleine McCann: Parents inspired by Jaycee return

The reunion between Jaycee Lee Dugard and her family 18 years after she was kidnapped has given the parents of Madeline McCann new hope in the search for their daughter.

Before this week, Ms Dugard, now 29, had not been seen by her family since she was bundled into a car outside their home in Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991.

Kate and Gerry McCann have not seen Madeleine since she disappeared from their villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, more than two years ago aged three.

They said today's case had made them "more determined" to find their daughter.

"Once again this shows that children can sometimes disappear off the radar only to be found years later alive," the McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said.

"It emphasises that we should never assume that someone is not alive without any evidence to support this. We should never give up."

Mr and Mrs McCann added: "She is out there somewhere and somebody knows where."

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/news/world/international-affairs/madeleine-mccann-parents-inspired-by-jaycee-return-$1322113.htm

Thanks to all the monkeys for keeping this thread up to date. The more I read the sicker I become....the bile rises right up to my mouth at times......this sick bastard! How in the hell did something like this happen!!  I nearly lost it when I read that Jaycee feels guilty...OHMYGAWD!!!

http://www.wesh.com/news/20598941/detail.html
Stepdad: Girl Held 18 Years Enjoys 'Happy' Reunion
Family Meets Woman's Kids Fathered By Kidnapping Suspect
JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writers

POSTED: 9:55 am EDT August 28, 2009
UPDATED: 10:52 am EDT August 28, 2009
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman's family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her alleged abductor.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was kept behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspected abductor's children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home.

Dugard's stepfather told CBS' "Early Show" Friday morning that he spoke to his wife late Thursday after she reunited with Dugard and everyone was "doing great."

"I think they're pretty happy," Carl Probyn said, noting six people were at the reunion -- Jaycee Dugard, her two daughters, her sister, mother and another relative.

He said the most surprising thing to his wife was that Dugard looks almost like she did when she was taken.

"She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said. "She told me that Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip."
Phillip Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

Dugard was taken directly to the house and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday. Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the Antioch 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."

Even a parole agent who visited Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, Kollar said. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions.

"The way the house is set up, the way the backyard is set up, you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house, and never know," Kollar said.
But neighbors said there were clues even before a parole agent on Wednesday noticed Dugard, now 29, who accompanied Garrido, his wife and the children to a parole office.

Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.
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Phillip Garrido: God's Chosen Communicator or Plain Old Psycho?

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Who is Phillip Garrido and what drove him to allegedly kidnap 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and keep her in an elaborate tented compound for nearly two decades, fathering two children with her along the way? Was he the quiet, mild mannered print shop owner that his clients knew or was he the fanatical mind control true-believer who kept a blog?

Photos: Jaycee Lee Durgard Found Alive

People who knew Garrido said that he had only recently become a religious fanatic, claiming that god spoke to him through a box and sometimes breaking out into song. Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburg, Calif., who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business, told the AP that "in the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him."

In the blog Voices Revealed, that appears to be maintained by Garrido under the username 'themanwhospokewithhismind," he declares that God has enabled him to speak to people through their minds. He even hired a private investigator to verify this ability by getting clients of his print shop to sign an affidavit declaring that they had witnessed him "controlling a voice or set of voices that are unearthly in nature" first hand.

They also had to agree that he "always acted mature and intelligent. He has had a steady personality throughout the many years I have known him and is fully capable of handling himself respectfully regardless of the possible outcome of any given event."

Garrido also registered a corporation called God's Desire in April 2008, according to the California Secretary of State.

It's still not clear when this religious fanaticism arose in Garrido or if indeed it had anything to do with his alleged decision to kidnap Jaycee Lee Dugard, but if the blog can be any kind of guide, the first post echoes what he told KCRA-TV in a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview:

"This freedom has not come about due to something great about myself, instead this ability is to open doors that will honor the creator and his eternal purpose for mankind."

"This all began by god removing a problem from my shoulders that behavioral scientist believe is not possible to remove. Since then my life has seen major improvements allowing me to stand here today a free man."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/crimesider/entry5271257.shtml

Jaycee Dugard's Stepfather Had "No Idea...We'd Find Her Alive"

NEW YORK (CBS) Eighteen years ago Carl Probyn waved goodbye to his step-daughter as she walked down the road. Moments later, a car with two people, a man and a woman, drove up to Jaycee and whisked her out of sight. Jaycee screamed and Carl Probyn jumped on his mountain bike and went after them. He couldn't catch up. His stepdaughter vanished.

Now, nearly two decades later, Jaycee has been found and Carl Probyn, who was always a suspect, can’t wait to meet her.

"To me it’s a miracle I never thought after 18 years that we’d get her back alive," he told CBS' The Early Show on Friday.

When his wife, Terry Probyn, called Carl Probyn said she first told him they had found Jaycee. "Then she paused for a few seconds and said 'she's alive,'" he told CBS reporter Maggie Rodriguez.

"So we basically cried for five minutes, just lost it. Unbelievable. I had no idea after this long that we’d find her alive," he said.

Carl Probyn says he had always hoped Jaycee would be found alive, but not like this. He said he is most upset about "the way she was kept in the backyard."

Jaycee was living in Phillip and Nancy Garrido’s backyard in an elaborate series of tarps and sheds intended to isolate and soundproof Jaycee and her two daughters, according to police.

Phillip Garrido fathered the two girls, ages 11 and 15, with Jaycee.

"I was hoping for a better scenario where maybe a couple took her because they couldn’t have their own children or something; that she had been in school, that she had been raised by a couple. I wasn’t expecting this ending," Carl Probyn said.

The FBI and other authorities questioned Carl Probyn numerous times and conducted lie detector tests when Jaycee first went missing in 1991. Despite the ordeal, Carl Probyn says they were just doing their job. "I knew the FBI was going to put me through the wringer, and that was OK."

Carl Probyn is also relieved to find out his original description of the kidnappers and their car was right all along. "I told them it was a man and a woman; it was a man and a woman. I said it was an ’85 Ford Monarch gray four-door and it turned out they had the car in the backyard."

"I was I was curious for years like how close was I. Was I a help to the case? Did I get the car right? And it turned out I get everything right."

Getting "it right" may be little comfort to Carl Probyn, who lost his marriage as well as his stepdaughter. Carl and Terry Probyn are currently separated.

"Losing Jaycee ended the marriage," he said. "It wasn’t between us. We’ve never had a fight. We’re best of friends right now. Just losing Jaycee just changed her life."

In an interview with CBS affiliate KCBS/KCAL, he said that every summer Terry Probyn would break down as she relived the season during which her daughter vanished. “Every year in May she was going crazy, and June, for two weeks she would just sit in her room,” he said.

Terry has seen a psychologist, says Carl Probyn, and that helped her deal with the trauma and find peace with the tragedy. "Within the last eight years she’s finally had a closure where she went to a psychologist and the psychologist basically said you have to close this out. You have to end this. It just drives you crazy," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/crimesider/entry5271399.shtml

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Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.

Diane should have went with her intuition and reported this...imo....women's intuition is usually right on!

If Jaycee bonded with this creep, it is probably because that is all that she had, or at least that is how it seemed to her at the time...She was only  11 . She has nothing to feel guilty about..she was the innocent in all of this.
I hope that she appears on some of the morning shows..I would love to see her. I pray that she and her kids can enjoy the rest of their lives in happiness and love! I hope that she writes a book and has a movie deal and makes lots of money and lives happily ever after....I am feeling much joy for her being found...sadness behind that, but much joy for her and her family!

Accused child kidnapper's blog boasts of sound control

ANTIOCH, California (CNN) -- The man accused of abducting an 11-year-old girl in 1991 apparently maintained a blog in which he claimed to control sound with his mind.

The blog now has profanity-laced responses from people outraged over Phillip Garrido's alleged actions.

Police say Garrido confessed to abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard at age 11 and fathering two children with her. Police say Dugard and the children, now 11 and 15, were kept in several enclosures hidden behind his home in Antioch, California.

Garrido and his wife are in police custody.

Garrido's blog entries are posted by "THEMANWHOSPOKEWITHHISMIND." He refers to "God's Desire," which is a church based out of his home in Antioch, according to CNN affiliate KCRA of Sacramento.

In a post on August 14, he writes that during a "powerful demonstration" in July in Pittsburg, California, "the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world."

"You too can witness what the world believe's [sic] is impossible to produce!" he writes, providing an e-mail address. "DON'T MISS OUT!"

Several news outlets, including The New York Times, have reported on the blog since the case started making international headlines Thursday.

In an interview from jail with KCRA, Garrido repeatedly asks the interviewer to retrieve legal documents he said he recently gave to the FBI, specifically for the news media, that he said will reveal "the most powerful, heartwarming story."

After listening to the excerpt of that interview, forensic psychiatrist Helen Morrison said Garrido's "grandiose" statement sounds similar.

"It sounds like so much like so many people that we hear about who have changed their lives because they've been visited by something to make them see the ways that they were bad in the past and now they're perfect," she told CNN's "American Morning."

It may be what he told his alleged victim in an effort to brainwash her, Morron said said. And that could make it difficult to prosecute him on criminal charges.

"If she's led to believe that this is suddenly become a caring, wonderful, lifesaver, when they have her on a witness stand, they're going to have to be prepared for some very difficult defense cross-examination," she said.

In another blog posting last year, Garrido claims to have a "new insight that has the potential of helping people who hear voices to possibly stop and reexamine their thinking before committing a violent act on themselves and/or others."

This technique, he writes, could help prevent tragedies, such as the woman who threw her three children into the San Francisco Bay in 2006 and later claimed to have been following directions from the "voice of God."

"This tragic act could have been avoided if my findings were made public before she found herself being led by a powerful internal and external [hearing] process that places the human mind under a hypnotic siege that in time leads a person to build a delusional belief system that drives them to whatever course of action they take," he writes.

He also posted several "declarations of affirmation" from 2006 allegedly signed by six witnesses "to affirm that I Phillip Garrido have clearly demonstrated the ability to control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena."

Timothy Allen, one of the six people identified as a witness, said Garrido forged his signature on the "declaration."

Allen -- who owns a glass shop in Pittsburg, California -- said Garrido printed business cards and letterhead for his company for 10 years.

"I had no personal contact with this guy outside of the front counter of my business," Allen told CNN. "He's got a lot of weird stuff going on, that guy ... I would have never in a million years thought it was anything dangerous or bad."

Allen said Garrido would come into the office with two young girls when he would drop off printing orders.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/california.missing.girl.blog/

The one article that hit me the hardest was the one mentioning that Jaycee has a daughter the same age that she was when she was kidnapped. 

I have to say that the Angels were speaking to this nutter, not in the way he proclaimed though.  I am glad he became this religious zealot..which led him to be handing out these religious papers on campus.  Without that..and the wise eye of the cops on campus, Jaycee would have never been found.

So..here's one for the angels that spoke to this man and lead him into the arms of the police.  They were speaking..he just didn't get the right message.

Abducted girl 'looks like she did when she was taken'

An update to the unbelievable story of the girl held captive for 18 years who turned up with the man suspected of kidnapping her (see all our blog posts below).

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted, was reunited with her family. The reunion included her two children fathered by her alleged abductor, Phillip Garrido, 58.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, told CBS' Early Show this morning that everyone was "doing great."
He said the most surprising thing to his wife was that Dugard looks almost as she did when she was taken.

 “She looks very young, she looks very healthy,” Probyn said. “She told me that Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip.”

Garrido is set to be arraigned this afternoon.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/08/abducted-girl-looks-like-she-did-when-she-was-taken.html

Calif. kidnapping has similarities to Smart case in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY -- A woman who was kidnapped at the age of 11 is safe, if not completely sound, after 18 years with her abductors. It's a story with eerie similarities to Utah's Elizabeth Smart, who was found nine months after she was kidnapped.

Elizabeth's father, Ed Smart, says this was his nightmare -- his daughter, gone, then suddenly found in the clutches of a madman.

"There are so many similarities: Touting that ‘God has allowed me to do this.' And that is no excuse for being incompetent, or just being an extremist," he said.

Smart talked to KSL Newsradio Friday morning. He says his daughter Elizabeth was thrilled to hear that Jaycee Dugard is now out of her nightmare. He says victims can just turn into sheer survival mode to get through their ordeal, and he thinks Dugard might now be struggling with feelings of guilt.

"But I think (she should) realize you can move forward with your life. Her life is not over. She can have a life for herself and her two children, and try and find some new normalcy -- the new normal for her," he said.

Smart says it's time to change what happens in society. He works now with Radkids and the Pride program, which he says empower children and parents to keep this from happening to them.

To hear the entire interview with Ed Smart, play the audio on this page.

Elizabeth told CNN Friday that her first reaction to being found after she was kidnapped in 2002 was immense relief. She says she wishes Jaycee Dugard the best.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=7713204

Jaycee had no choice but to bond with this idiot.  She was only 11 and totally reliant on this fool for everyone of her needs..food, clothing, shelter....she should not feel guilty..she should feel proud that she was smart enough to keep herself and her daughter's alive and healthy throughout this horrid experience.

I am sure he brainwashed her and got her to the point odf submission.  It will probbly take quite a while for herself and her daughters to adjust to the outside world.  I just can't imagine how afraid she must have been as a child living in that backyard..when the thunderstorms came, if she heard strange dogs barking, bugs, insects, rodents...just so sad.

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Garrido couple set for 1 p.m. arraignment in Placerville

Phillip Craig Garrido and Nancy Garrido, suspected of snatching an 11-year-old in 1991 and holding her ever since, are scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. today in El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville.

The couple, suspected in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, are in El Dorado County Jail on rape, kidnapping, conspiracy and other charges. Both are being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Both suspects today declined to be interviewed by The Bee.

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2145782.html

I'm not a violent or cruel person, but I could throw the switch on this guy. When I think of what this child went through, from plucking her from her family and the trauma that would accompany just that to the rapes and God knows what else, yep, I could throw the switch on this guy and I could watch him fry.

I'll bet his children were also sexually abused.

It's going to take a long time and lots of help for Jaycee to be able to move beyond this long ordeal, and she'll have to work hard to ever be able to move past it. Part of the process will be a stage of real anger. I want them to restrain him and turn her and her Mother loose on him when that stage comes. Arm them with whatever they want and just turn them loose. Maybe they are more forgiving than I could manage, but that's what I would want. AFTER that, I could work on forgiveness for my own sake and my own healing.

I can tell you, I'd leave this SOB singing soprano.

http://www.wesh.com/news/20598941/detail.html
Stepdad: Girl Held 18 Years Enjoys 'Happy' Reunion
Family Meets Woman's Kids Fathered By Kidnapping Suspect
JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writers

POSTED: 9:55 am EDT August 28, 2009
UPDATED: 10:52 am EDT August 28, 2009
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman's family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her alleged abductor.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was kept behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspected abductor's children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home.

Dugard's stepfather told CBS' "Early Show" Friday morning that he spoke to his wife late Thursday after she reunited with Dugard and everyone was "doing great."
"I think they're pretty happy," Carl Probyn said, noting six people were at the reunion -- Jaycee Dugard, her two daughters, her sister, mother and another relative.

He said the most surprising thing to his wife was that Dugard looks almost like she did when she was taken.

"She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said. "She told me that Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip."

Phillip Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

Dugard was taken directly to the house and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday. Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the Antioch home.
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I'm with you CBB. 

A 11 year old who's life stopped as she knew it.  No first date, no homecoming, no school, dreams, or feeling special in that perfect outfit

A 15 year old who has never had a normal life.  No friends, no school, no reading or writing, skinning her knee while learning to ride a bike.

A 11 year old who has never had a normal life.  No friends, puppy to love, special tea party with stuffies, learing to swing, giggling late at night while being tickled.

A step-father who was accused of this and harboured his own guilt for 18 years, a ruined marriage.

A mother who broke down every year at the anniversary of Jaycee's kidnapping and birthday.

A sister who never knew her big sister, could only look at the room that was left as a shrine.

I think nothing you could do to this guy and his wife could come close to what he has caused for many for the last 18 years and for years to come.  Seriously the death penalty is too good for this guy.  Something long slow and painful would seem appropriate.

That doesn't even cover the suspicions surrounding the step father! There are so many victims at the hand of this SOB!

I just heard on Fox that this property had actually been searched in connection with the case but the secret backyard wasn't found.

Geez............

Family, Community Rejoices As Dugard Turns Up Safe

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Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, who now lives in Southern California, said Thursday that Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, called him Wednesday afternoon and told him the FBI had contacted her to say they may have found her daughter.

"I'm running around the house like I've had six cups of coffee," Probyn said Thursday morning.

At the time of the abduction, Dugard's family reported that a vehicle occupied by two people drove up to the girl and abducted her in view of her stepfather.

The girl was seen walking to a bus stop. As she walked, a gray, two-tone, late-model sedan was seen making a U-turn on the street.

The car approached the child and a woman described as about 30 years old with long, dark hair pulled her inside, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. A man was also seen in the car.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!"

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I don't know if she was brainwashed, I don't know if she was walking around on the street, I don't know if she was locked up under key for 18 years, I have no idea."

The mother and daughter met Thursday morning at an area hotel. Dugard retains custody of her children, authorities said. A DNA test is being conducted to confirm her identity.

At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by police.

"Oh my God," murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.

Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing searches.

"Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years," she said, her eyes moist with tears.

http://www.ksbw.com/news/20600767/detail.html

Kidnap victim, children go to hotel to begin new life

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ANTIOCH, California (CNN) -- A woman who was kidnapped at age 11 and then spent 18 years living in her abductor's backyard was beginning the long process Friday of reuniting with her family.

A psychiatrist envisioned a slow and overwhelming adjustment for Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped as her stepfather watched, helpless, in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Dugard lived for the next 18 years in a shed and other outbuildings behind her abductor's house, where she gave birth to two girls that he fathered; the girls are now aged 11 and 15, police said.

Investigators accused a registered sex offender with kidnapping her and abusing her after police discovered Dugard on Wednesday, ending a mystery that had agonized Dugard's family.

"The last 18 years have been rough, but the last two days have been pretty good," her stepfather, Carl Probyn, told CNN's "American Morning" on Friday.

Authorities have jailed Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, 54-year-old Nancy Garrido, on numerous charges. An arraignment for the couple is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET) in Placerville Superior Court in Placerville, California.

Dugard and her two children apparently rarely ventured out of their compound, hidden in the sex offender's backyard, investigators said. The children didn't go to school or to the doctor's office. Now they and their mother are being thrust into a strange new world.

"It would be a little like being a time traveler, of being introduced to a world you have no concept of," a forensic psychiatrist, Helen Morrison, told CNN. "You're going to be absolutely overwhelmed."

Dugard faces a change of identity -- she apparently was known as "Alissa" while living behind her captor's house -- and "has no idea what's out there," Morrison said. She may actually miss her captors because they apparently have been the center of her world for so long, she said.

"The only reality she has is the life that she's lived," Morrison said. "In her parent's mind," however, "she's still the 11-year-old girl."

Dugard's stepfather, Probyn, said witnessed her abduction of his 11-year-old stepdaughter in 1991 and told CNN on Friday that he's in shock that she's alive.

"It's kind of a shocker," he said. Her "youngest child is the same age as Jaycee when she was taken."

Probyn witnessed her abduction of his 11-year-old stepdaughter in 1991. He told CNN that he's in shock that she's alive.

"I did lose hope, but I'm coping," he said.

Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, spoke with their daughter on Thursday, Carl Probyn said, and learned for that she had two daughters of her own. Probyn told CNN that he expects Dugard and her two children to come back to Southern California since "that's where we all live," but it was not immediately clear whether and when that would happen.

Probyn said he's angry at Phillip Garrido, the registered sex offender that police have charged, along with his wife, in the case.

"It's just sick," he said. "It benefited him but destroyed everybody else. That's pretty sick."

Garrido apparently maintained a blog in which he claimed to control sound with his mind. The blog now has numerous profanity-laced responses from people outraged over his alleged actions.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/california.missing.girl/

I had such a fear that perhaps Jaycee might not bond with her mom and might feel anger towards her, when I read that wasn't the case at all, I just got so happy.  ::MonkeyAngel:: I'm sure Jaycee's mom doesn't ever want her and the two grandchildren to ever be out of her sight.

excellent points !
I had not thought about Jaycee being the very age when she was taken as her youngest daughter until you said it! Gosh...what a forehead slapper that was to me! never even thought of that!

also, I think that Gypsy said something about Jaycee being in that tent or building all by herself and hearing thunder and noises and being scared..I thought those same thoughts as well..this poor child..I only wish her much happiness and her family as well..Perhaps her mom and step dad will get back together now? I just saw a clip where the mom and the step dad were on Geraldo around 1993 I think.,.the mother is very beautiful...she never gave up hope on her daughter...Jaycee can look at all the articles and the news clips and see that her parents never gave up on her and I hope that gives her some comfort....also, Geraldo danced around the fact that he also had thought that the step dad was guilty....I suppose a natural response ..but the step dad had to live with this for all these years..being under suspicion...

Jaycee Lee Dugard 'looks like she did when she was snatched', says mother

The parents of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago and found alive in the US yesterday, said today that their daughter looks very similar to the day she was snatched aged 11.

Phillip Garrido, 58, a convicted rapist and sex offender, is being held on kidnapping and sex charges relating to the disappearance of Ms Dugard, who was snatched from a bus stop in 1991. His wife, Nancy Garrido, 54, was also arrested, and authorities have alleged that she was with Mr Garrido when Ms Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe.

Ms Dugard, now 29, is also feeling guilty about bonding with her alleged kidnapper, according to Carl Probyn, her stepfather.

Mr Probyn, who witnessed the kidnap and was a long-term suspect in the case, had given up hope of ever finding Ms Dugard alive. He told Good Morning America today that becoming reaquainted was going to be challenging for all involved.


Ms Dugard has received no formal education since her kidnap and her two daughters, aged 11 and 15, fathered by her suspected abductor, have never been to school or visited the doctor. They have spent their lives in sheds in Antioch California.

"It's pretty sick," Mr Probyn said. "I feel sorry for Jaycee going through this. The way he's had her locked up in the backyard for basically 18 years."

The reappearance of Ms Dugard stunned America when the news broke yesterday – her kidnapping had caused a national media frenzy – but the elation soon turned to anguish when the horrific details of the abuse she has suffered became clear. Mr Garrido holds a previous conviction for kidnapping and rape but probabtion officers did not suspect he was keeping a hostage in his back garden.

Ms Dugard, who had been renamed Allissa, and her two daughters are now with her mother, Terry Probyn, in Northern California.

"My wife says that Jaycee looks good. She looks almost like when she was kidnapped," Mr Probyn said. "She looks very young. She doesn't look 29 at all. She feels really guilty for bonding with this man. There's really a guilt trip here."

Mr Garrido allegedly raped Ms Dugard and fathered two children with her, the first when his victim was about 14. After the abduction the Probyns' lives were devastated - the couple moved house and they were estranged.

"He's ruined our lives," Mr Probyn, 60, said of Mr Garrido. "Maybe changed his life but it sure screwed ours up. I have no compassion for this guy. He's just out in left field." He added that he hoped Mr Garrido spent the rest of his life behind bars.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6813972.ece

How Could Neighbors and Cops Not Know Jaycee Was a Prisoner?
Jaycee Dugard's Sister Says Family Reunion 'Going Well'

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As Jaycee Dugard gets to know her family again after 18 years in depraved captivity, new information is raising questions of how her ordeal went undetected for so long, despite at least two visits to the house of horror by law enforcement authorities in recent years.

Dugard, who is now 29 and the mother to two children fathered by her abductor, has been reunited with the mother she hasn't seen since she was snatched off a California street at the age of 11. Also at the reunion is her 19-year-old stepsister Shayna, who was 1 when Jaycee disappeared.

"As of this moment we are just reuniting and everything is going well," Shayna wrote in response to a question from ABC News on her MySpace page.

"Shes only 29. She has the rest of her life to live and I have a lot of love to share with my sister and new nieces. In due time my mom will make statements and so will I if needed, but you have to understand this time is critical and the media attention would just add stress to something so delicate."

The message ends with, "Thanks, Shayna."

Aerial photos show that the alleged kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garridos had neighbors on either side of them and directly behind them. Nevertheless, the secret lives contained in that jumbled back yard of tents, sheds, an abandoned car and appliances remained hidden for nearly two decades.

Police twice knocked at the Garrido's door in the last two years, but didn't notice the secret lair of tents and sheds that allegedly held Jaycee – and later her two daughters – for 18 years.

Contra Costa County Capt. Daniel Terry told ABCNews.com today that authorities from the county's multi-agency task force had visited Garrido as part of routine compliance check, but did not offer any details regarding frequency or how thoroughly the property was checked.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the task force visited the Garrido's Antioch home last summer.

"There were zero signs of kids living there," Antioch Police St. Diane Aguinaga told the Chronicle, adding that authorities looked in the back but saw only a porch and shed.

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar on Thursday confirmed that a parole officer had looked in the back, but said the secret yard was hidden by a six foot fence and tall trees. The entrance was concealed by a tarp that had to be pulled aside. If a person didn't know the yard existed, Kollar said, there would be no way to know there was an entrance.

"The way the house is set up, the way the back yard is set up, you could walk through the back yard, walk through the house and never know that there was another set of living circumstances in that back yard," the sheriff said.

And the view by neighbors was also screened. "The tents and outbuildings were strategically placed to inhibit outside viewing," Kollar said.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8431843

So scumbag and Mrs scumbag are being arraigned at 1:00 today.  One of the articles from this morning stated that scumbag had not found a lawyer yet.  Will this delay the arraignment or will the judge go ahead?

Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn tells News 10's Cristina Mendosa that Jaycee and her daughters appear in good shape.

http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?aid=80950

Wow!  just wow!

Phillip Garrido had a long history of drug use and mental problems, his father says
August 28, 2009 |  9:45 am
The father of Phillip Garrido, suspected of kidnapping an 11-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago, said today his son had a long history of drug use and mental problems.

"They are treating him like he knew what he was doing, but he didn’t know what he was doing," Manuel Garrido, 88, said in a telephone interview from his home in Brentwood in Northern California. "The man is out of it. He is a sick man. He should be treated that way. He should be punished but he should be treated like a crazy person."

Garrido, a 58-year-old registered sex offender, and his wife, Nancy, were arrested Wednesday in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard and are suspected of holding her captive in the backyard of their Antioch home ever since. Garrido is believed to have fathered two daughters with Dugard, who is now 29. The girls are 11 and 15.     

Manuel Garrido said it had been more than five years since he last saw his son. He said Phillip was a sweet kid, friendly and always making jokes.

Phillip played electric guitar and had a band, and was always willing to help his parents around the house, Garrido said. "Everyone loved him."

He said Phillip started getting into trouble in high school and began using LSD.

Garrido said he tried to tried to talk to his son and get him on the right path, but by the time Phillip graduated from high school it was too late.

"After he got the LSD pills, he was gone,” Garrido said. “It ruined his life. He did a lot of crazy things after that."


Dugard disappeared on June 10, 1991, as she walked from her family’s South Lake Tahoe home to a bus stop.

Despite a massive search and being featured on the “America’s Most Wanted” television program, Jaycee was not found. Investigators were unable to identify a suspect.

Authorities got their break in the case Tuesday when Phillip Garrido was seen with two small children near UC Berkeley. After an encounter with campus police, he was reported to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Scott Kernan, the department's undersecretary of adult operations.

On Wednesday, Garrido was taken in for questioning at the department’s parole office in Concord, near Berkeley, Kernan said. He was accompanied by two children and two women, later identified as Dugard and his wife.

After being questioned by parole officers, Garrido revealed that he had kidnapped a female, now an adult, who was later identified as Dugard, authorities said.

Garrido had been convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1971 in Nevada, was incarcerated in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. He was later paroled to California.

In a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview with Sacramento TV station KCRA on Thursday, Garrido said he had not admitted to a kidnapping, and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago.

“I tell you here’s the story of what took place at this house and you’re going to be absolutely impressed. It’s a disgusting thing that took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life completely around,” he said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/garridos-father-said-his-son-had-a-long-history-of-drug-use-and-mental-problems-.html

Psychiatrist on Jaycee Dugard: Bonding With Captors Is Mind's Way of Safeguarding Itself

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted as an 11-year-old girl, held captive for 18 years and recently admitted to her mother she felt guilty for bonding with her captors, likely suffered from Stockholm syndrome, said one psychiatrist.

“An 11-year-old who is abducted and held against her will has little alternative but to bond with her captors,” said Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and FOX News contributor. “To maintain one’s desperation and grief and rage for many years, would be too damaging to the human mind – so the human mind tells itself a story about safety and contentment to safeguard itself – that’s the essence of Stockholm syndrome.”

Dugard was allegedly kidnapped by Nancy and Phillip Garrido in 1991 and kept in a series of tents and sheds in couple’s backyard in Antioch, Calif. Police say Phillip Garrido repeatedly raped Dugard, 29, and she gave birth to his two children, ages 11 and 15.

Stockholm syndrome occurs when a person is held by powerful captors, Ablow said. They ally themselves with their captors because they fear death, and one defense mechanism is for the person held hostage to imagine that their captor is on their side.

Undersheriff Fred Kollar of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office in California said Thursday during a news conference that Dugard and her two children were healthy, “but living in a backyard for 18 years takes its toll.”

Dugard was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive.

Ablow, who has not treated Dugard, said it was likely Dugard did not speak disparagingly about Phillip Garrido to her children.

“Jaycee’s first sexual experience was almost certainly with this man,” Ablow said. “She depended upon him for cleanliness, food and shelter. This complete dependence would preclude her from telling her children that this man was the devil.”

Going forward, Dugard might tell the children that “their father is a sick man, but they are now safe and very well cared for,” Ablow said.

Ablow said treating Dugard and her children will be like “walking a psychological tightrope” – they have been with the Garridos for so long, they inevitably will feel a sense of loss, yet all three need to learn to become independent.

"She is at risk for the most severe post-traumatic symptoms, including flashbacks, but she is also at risk for severe depression and for substance abuse to deal with the feelings likely to surface now that she is safe,” Ablow said. “Regarding Jaycee's children: They know nothing but the life they have lived and will need teams of healing professionals to encourage them to share their thoughts and feelings in order to have any hope of escaping severe mental disorders.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544020,00.html

Andrew Cohen: Statute of Limitations Non Issue in Prosecuting Jaycee Dugard's Alleged Captors

CBS News Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen blogs about the statute of limitations in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case.

NEW YORK (CBS) There may be some valid legal defense for the man and woman who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago. But the argument that the statute of limitations has run out on any prosecution won’t be one of them.

Whether Nancy and Phillip Garrido are charged with kidnapping, or rape, or child molestation, or some combination of both, prosecutors won’t be barred from proceeding to trial just because the initial crimes may have occurred way back in 1991. In California, and most other states, the limitations for these sorts of crimes are triggered when the victim is found and tells the police of the abuse.

The police and prosecutors have one year from the time they learn of the crimes to bring charges. In this case, it looks like the Garrido’s are going to be arraigned just days after Dugard was located.

Moreover, it appears as though Garrido was on some sort of federal parole for prior sex crimes, which means that he won’t be entitled to all of the presumptions of innocence guaranteed in our Constitution to those not convicted. In other words, Garrido begins his criminal case in far worse legal shape than most defendants.

Judging from the bizarre, rambling comments Garrido offered after his arrest, Messianic phrases that practically scream cultist, I suspect we’ll see at some point some sort of insanity defense. Or maybe defense lawyers will claim that Dugard is not mentally competent to stand trial (just like what happened with one of the defendants in the Elizabeth Smart case). And obviously Dugard’s testimony will be crucial for prosecutors as they piece together a case.

Do we have a case of Stockholm syndrome, which sometimes occurs between the kidnapped and kidnappers? Or will Dugard’s first-hand account of her decades with Garrido incriminate both him and his wife. We’ll know soon.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/crimesider/entry5271527.shtml

Kidnap suspect: This will be 'heart-warming story'


ANTIOCH – Phillip Craig Garrido - the man accused of fathering two girls with a former Orange County girl he kidnapped 18 years ago - said in a phone interview with a Sacramento TV station that he has turned his life around.

"Wait till you hear the story of what took place at this house and you are going to be absolutely impressed," Garrido said in the interview with KCRA TV. "It's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning. But I turned my life completely around."

Garrido repeatedly said he wanted to tell more about his story, but he hadn't consulted a lawyer.

"The last several years, I completely turned my life around and you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim," he said. "If you take a step at a time, you will fall over backwards and in the end you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story revealing something that used to be understood."

Garrido cried when he mentioned the "two children that are Jaycee Lee Dugard's two children that we had."

"Those two girls, they slept in my arms every single night from birth," Garrido said, choking up. "I never touched them … ."

Garrido, 58, who was on parole after serving prison time for kidnapping and rape, and his wife, Nancy, 55, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of kidnapping. They are being held in lieu of $1 million bail each. For details on how Garrido came to authorities' attention and how Dugard was found, click here.


According to law enforcement officials, Dugard, who spent her early years in Orange County, was relegated to a secret compound behind the Garridos' home – including a soundproofed shed that could be opened only from the outside. She had no contact with the outside world, said El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar.

The Garridos are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in Placerville.

Dugard gave birth to a little girl when she was just 14, the result of being raped by Garrido, authorities said. Garrido fathered a second child with Dugard two years later, authorities said.

The two girls lived with their mother in the compound, masked by tall trees and a blue tarp that had to be pushed aside to get to the compound. Garbage cans and a dishwasher completed the charade, hiding the Garridos' secret from parole officer visits.

What the Garridos' neighbors in Antioch don't understand was how this could be kept hidden for so long.

"How the hell couldn't we know this was going on in our neighborhood?" said Betty Unpingco, who has 10 children ranging in age from 12 to 33 and who has lived on Walnut Avenue, a few doors down from the Garridos, for 10 years.

Walnut Avenue is a collection of modest homes on a street with no sidewalks and dusty soil - where chickens roam in front yards with no fences, and some people drive golf carts instead of cars.

The neighborhood, home to many elderly people and not many children, is in unincorporated Antioch on land that used to be a vineyard.

"This just blows my mind," Unpingco said.

Phillip Garrido has lived since around 1991 in the light-green, single-story house reportedly owned for years by his mother, Unpingo said.

Neighbors say they mostly saw only him in the neighborhood – never Jaycee Dugard or her children.

Garrido frequently would stroll down the street late at night, when it was quiet, they said. Sometimes they saw his wife, Nancy.

Phillip Garrido made an impression at a party the Unpingcos held a few years ago for a son graduating from high school.

Garrido, dressed in his usually scruffy clothes of jeans and T-shirt, dropped off some speakers and lingered at the luau, helping himself to roast pig.

"He was calling a lot of the teenage girls over to him to talk to them separately,'' said DenaAnn Unpingco, 17. "He was making a lot of them feel uncomfortable."

A caretaker who tends daily to a 94-year-old man who lives two houses down from the Garridos said she feels terrible guilt at not noticing anything odd going on at the house where the convicted child molester lived.

The caretaker, Jay Smith, recalled hearing the scream of young girls - screams of discomfort - a couple of years ago, but thought they were coming from another house down the street at the home of someone she knows.

She figured her friend was disciplining her children.

Now, she wonders if the screams were coming from Garrido's backyard.

"I adore children, and to think that they were suffering right over there … ," she said, her voice trailing off. "I can't stand suffering. I'm a caretaker."

As she spoke, Smith clutched a chain-link fence through which she had a clear view of the fence that runs alongside the compound where Dugard and her children allegedly were kept like animals in a zoo.

Almond trees, Monterey pines and mimosa trees shield most of the compound, which has some concessions to childhood: a swing set. A trampoline. Broken-down toys. The backyard appears to be a series of tarps and shanties with junk strewn about.

"I can't fathom how something like this could have been happening, day after day, night after night, and nobody caught a whiff of it," Smith said.

"I could probably spit a watermelon seed over there, and I didn't even know anything was going on.

"It makes me feel sick."

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/garrido-years-children-2544283-girls-going

"After he got the LSD pills, he was gone,” Garrido said. “It ruined his life. He did a lot of crazy things after that."             (  I am well aware the effects of this drug and what it can do to an individual, but please let's not even go there, what is the wife's excuse, she also had some bad trips?  I just wish all the happiness for this family  ::MonkeyAngel:: Not only Jaycee is back, but two girls as well too love.)

Jaycee Lee Dugard Abduction Ends Happily -- or Does It?

Missing Girl Found After 18 Years in Shed Has Challenges Ahead
Wednesday's news seemed surreal. Jaycee Lee Dugard had walked into a police station the day before with her two children and 58-year-old Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender who had done hard time for rape. In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted by two people in view of her step-father. Over the years, the case
became cold and Dugard was presumed dead- an outcome that occurs frequently with stranger abductions. Tuesday's events surprised even the most cynical investigators.

But Jaycee Lee Dugard's happy ending will be fraught with heartache ahead as the now 29-year-old woman and her family deal with the realities of what happened to her. Dugard had been abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and locked in a series of sheds in their overgrown backyard. Although details are still sketchy, it is clear that Phillip Garrido raped Dugard repeatedly and she bore him two children, one when she was 14 and one at 18. Her children lived with her in the shed and are now 15 and 11. Neither Dugard nor her children attended school or were allowed off of the property.

The Dugard case is eerily reminiscent of the 2008 discovery of Elisabeth Fritzl, imprisoned in her father's basement in Austria for 24 years. Joseph Fritzl sexually assaulted his daughter and she bore him 8 children, one of whom died shortly after birth. She was locked in the basement with 3 of the children until the crime was discovered during a hospital visit.

Jaycee Dugard will have many psychological issues to work through as she reunites with her family and deals with the reality of the origins of her children. Dugard has had little socialization for the past 18 years and little in the way of adult interaction. Becoming a mother at the age of 14 with presumably no outside assistance or support effectively ended her childhood altogether. Her children were raised by a child herself and, without public interaction or schooling, may face a long road to integrating with society.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are currently imprisoned and awaiting arraignment.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2115077/jaycee_lee_dugard_abduction_ends_happily.html?cat=9

It's safe to say a very happy ending with many problems to deal with. But this looks like a lovely family, and with their love and support I pray Jaycee and her children will be able to adjust as much as humanly possible. So many things for them to experience and enjoy.

You know we could save the US and state of CA a lot of time and money.  Ship him up to me and I will introduce him to a "bad trip".  The bears up here may get heartburn, but they would enjoy the the hunt.

Dugard Suspects To Face Kidnap, Rape Charges
Pair May Get Life In Prison If Convicted

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- An Antioch husband and wife accused of abducting Meyers resident Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago will both face charges of kidnapping, rape and other counts that could send them to prison for life if convicted, KCRA 3 has learned.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his 55-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, were scheduled to appear in court on Friday afternoon. They will both face at least 29 charges, and more may be added later.

Phillip Garrido is suspected of abducting Dugard when she was just 11 years old, confining her to an Antioch back yard and fathering two children with her.

The Garridos will also face charges of kidnapping with intent to rape, child molestation and false imprisonment.

Prosecutors will also seek special enhancements that would make the Garridos eligible for life sentences if convicted.

The El Dorado County district attorney has yet to file a complaint in the case.

Dugard, who turned 29 on Thursday, surfaced this week. She was said to be in good health and was reunited with her family.

http://www.kcra.com/news/20601828/detail.html

Antioch Man Surprised At Colleague's Kidnap Arrest
 More Local News
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ―  A woman who was snatched from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in an Antioch backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said.

As the details about Jaycee Lee Dugard's time in captivity emerged, those who knew her alleged captor Phillip Garrido were surpised about his virtual enslavement of the now 29-year-old woman.

Deepal Karunaratne, an Antioch real estate agent, said he worked with Phillip Garrido for a decade. He said Garrido printed business cards and signs for his business.

Karunaratne said he also frequently worked directly with a woman who called herself "Alyssa" and claimed to be Garrido's daughter. It turns out that "Alyssa" was actually Dugard, authorities said.

When shown a photo of Dugard at age 11 when she was abducted, Karunaratne reacted by saying: "That's her."

"I mean she's changed now. But I know the smile, the featrures, the eyes," he explained.

"Everytime I talked to her she seemed to be very happy and smiling all the time," Karunaratne said, noting that Lake Tahoe is only a few hours drive away.

"If she was kidnapped, I was wondering, why doesn't she get on a bus and go there?" Karunaratne shook his head and acknowledged the possibility that she had been brainwashed.

Karunaratne claimed "Alyssa" did the design work for Garrido's small printing company. He said he was often over at the Garrido house and interacted with Garrido's wife Nancy as well as the other kids.

He said he always thought it was a bit strange that "Alyssa" never called Garrido "Dad."

Karunaratne noted that Garrido had been acting strangely lately, constantly claiming that he talks to angels.

"The Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world," Garrido wrote in one of the many posts on his blog that were reviewed by CBS 5.

Garrido recently showed Karunaratne a strange device that Garrido claimed was some kind of machine that controls sounds with the human mind.

Karunaratne said he listened, heard some sounds, and signed an affidavit at Garrido's request.

Garrido later claimed on his Web site that Karunaratne's affidavit signature was proof that the machine works.

http://cbs13.com/crime/jaycee.lee.dugard.2.1149713.html

More Sanity-Estranged Ramblings from Dugard Abductor Phillip Garrido

As details of the kidnapping case still unfold, a lot of people are asking why Jaycee Lee Dugard didn't manage to escape during her 18 years of captivity in an Antioch backyard. Why didn't she scream for help? Alert a neighbor? Jump the fence?

SFist reader Tendernob brought to our attention this quote, spewed forth by Dugard's admitted kidnapper Phillip Garrido during an interview with CNN from his jail cell.

Garrido said he had "completely turned my life around" in the past several years. "You're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim," he promised. "If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backward and in the end you're going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story." He added, "Wait till you hear the story of what took place at this house. You're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around."
Describing his two daughters, he said, "Those two girls slept in my arms every single night from birth; I never kissed them."


Speaking of completely turning his life around, Garrido's blog, Voices Revealed, would suggest otherwise. (Side note: comments on his site jumped from 1 to over 250 overnight. And, some of the recently posted comments have been "removed by author." Strange. Wonder who's manning his site while he's in the clink.)

http://sfist.com/2009/08/28/more_sanity-estranged_ramblings_fro.php

Just checked and there are still being posts deleted today from scumbag's blog.  Wonder who is doing it?

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?postID=8123069408507170406&blogID=4751151745311616135&isPopup=false&page=2

Fox just had video on taken from the neighbour's yard.  Here are screen shots of what it looked like.  Neighbour is to be on Fox in a few minutes with more video of the tents and shacks that Jaycee and her children lived in.

One more

As I read this horror story, I think....

where was I in June, 1991......
how old was I....
where did I live....
what was my house like....
how old were my children.....
could I have had them alone in a shed.....


where was I in 1994.....
Jaycee was 14
she was having her first child
somewhere in a sex offender's back yard
perhaps locked in a shed


where was I in 1998.....
Jaycee was 17
she was having her second child
somewhere in a sex offender's back yard
perhaps locked in a shed


the questions keep coming.....
what did they wear....
what did they eat.....
did they have beds.....
how cold does it get.....
how hot......
how do you count time....
what do you read....
how do you teach your children....
do you know that it is Christmas....
or your birthday.....


there is so much to think about
when the world goes out of alignment
and a sex offender kidnaps and keeps a child.

Kidnapper's Brother: 'He's a Fruitcake'
Abduction a shock, but Philip Garrido's problems go way back

Newser Summary) – Ron Garrido was shocked when he discovered his little brother had kidnapped an 11-year-old girl, held her captive in his backyard, and fathered two children by her, but believed it immediately. “I know my brother,” the 65-year-old tells the San Francisco Chronicle. “He’s a fruitcake.” Phillip Garrido had always been troubled, he said, citing incidents from teenage LSD abuse to a federal conviction for rape and kidnapping.

Phillip met his wife, Nancy, in prison, and Ron describes her as “a robot” willing to do whatever his brother told her. “I told my wife, ‘It’s no different from Manson and those girls.’ She was under his control.” Phillip and Nancy then moved in with his mother. “My brother could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes,” says Ron. “I’m sure he told her some story and she bought the whole thing.” The mother, who suffers from dementia,  was still living in the house when Jaycee Lee Dugard was discovered Wednesday.

http://www.newser.com/story/68019/kidnappers-brother-hes-a-fruitcake.html

Thanks for the photos NR.   ::MonkeyAngel::

More images from Fox.  They are at the neighbours house right now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544020,00.html
Psychiatrist on Jaycee Dugard: Bonding With Captors Is Mind's Way of Safeguarding Itself

Friday, August 28, 2009
By Jessica Ryen Doyle
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted as an 11-year-old girl, held captive for 18 years and recently admitted to her mother she felt guilty for bonding with her captors, likely suffered from Stockholm syndrome, said one psychiatrist.
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Cops Searched Kidnapper's House, Found Nothing
Garrido kept his dark secret despite multiple brushes with the law


Newser Summary) – Phillip Garrido had several brushes with the law during the 18 years that police say he held Jaycee Lee Dugard and their two children captive in his backyard, but managed to keep his ugly secret, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Last July, a multi-agency police task force searched Garrido's home as part of a routine check on the registered sex offender. But the search apparently stopped at his back fence, which separated the Dugard compound from the rest of the house.

The task force was unaware of a complaint made earlier about the tents and sheds in Garrido’s backyard, made by a neighbor who suspected he was illegally renting space to tenants. Sheriff’s deputies questioned Garrido at the time, but they informed the neighbor that without a warrant, they couldn’t search the entire premises. Garrido was also suspected of bilking another neighbor out of his $18,000 life savings.

http://www.newser.com/story/67986/cops-searched-kidnappers-house-found-nothing.html

NR and all others,  thank you for all of the articles, photos and links......Mere

Okay......yes. He wasn't released until 1988.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, girl found after 18 years, 'bonded' with accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido

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The California girl who was rescued after 18 years in captivity "bonded" with her kidnapper to survive, her stepdad said Friday.

Jaycee Lee Dugard "didn't try to get away," Carl Probyn said on NBC's Today show. "And it probably kept her alive. If she would have been really spunky and fight and tried to escape, maybe she would have been killed."

Jaycee, who was kidnapped from in front of her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, had two kids with her accused abductor, a religious fanatic and convicted sex offender named Phillip Garrido.

Probyn said his step-daughter, whom he described as a "mellow girl" when she was kidnapped at age 11, appears to be physically fine.

"My wife said she looks almost like she was when she was kidnapped," he said.

But Jaycee, who is now 29, has been damaged by the ordeal.

"My wife says that Jaycee is really feeling guilty for bonding with this guy," Probyn said. "So she's really having a problem with that."

Ed Smart, whose daughter Elizabeth was rescued in 2002 after nine months in the clutches of yet another religious nut, said he doesn't believe Jaycee bonded with Garrido.

He conceded, however, that Jaycee's giving birth to two daughters by Garrido "complicates it more because certainly she had concern for her children."

"I think that in many cases, these children do try to escape, and after numerous attempts they feel it's hopeless, and so they try to survive," Smart said on CBS's The Early Show. "And that's not necessarily bonding with these monsters."

Jaycee was reunited with her parents on Thursday night after cops arrested Garrido, 58. They said the convicted rapist kept Jaycee hidden in a "secret backyard" and that one of the two children he fathered was the same age as the victim was when she vanished.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were being held on $1 million bail each. He was expected to be officially charged Friday with rape and kidnapping. She faces conspiracy charges.

Cops say Nancy Garrido was with her husband when they snatched Jaycee on June 10, 1991, as she was walking to her school bus stop.

In their first conversation Wednesday night, Jayce gave her mother a double jolt, Probyn said.

"I have something to tell you. I have babies," Jaycee told Terry Probyn, 50, who asked how many.

"Two," she replied.

"I gave up hope for 18 years, just went into recovery mode," said Carl Probyn, who witnessed the abduction but was too far away to stop it. "Now, I just won the lotto. It's just unbelievable."

Probyn said his estranged wife called him soon after getting word from the FBI that Jaycee was safe and healthy.
"She said, 'They found Jaycee. She's alive,'" said Carl Probyn, 60, who now lives in Riverside in Southern California. "We cried for about two minutes."


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/08/28/2009-08-28_jaycee_lee_dugard_girl_found_after_18_years_bonded_with_accused_kidnapper_philli.html

This is so sad and not over by a long shot.  I wish I did not have to get thanked for posting on this sicko and what he did, but it is better than posting articles about  the remains of Jaycee being found.

JAYCEE DUGARD'S PRISON FOR THE LAST 18YRS

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6UrU7wMTQxY/SpgHyxPeKsI/AAAAAAAAVDM/jS5YKpXfe2s/s400/crazy.jpg)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6UrU7wMTQxY/SpgHzWcC_SI/AAAAAAAAVDU/eBxVgeO9Vz4/s400/crazy1.)

Here's a look at the backyard of 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch.

This is the place where kidnapping and rape victim Jaycee Dugard lived and was tortured for the last 18-years, along with the two girls she was forced to have with the monster we now know as Phillip Garrido.

Thanks to "Radar" for a look at the backyard with your great photography!

http://claycord.blogspot.com/2009/08/jaycee-dugards-prison-for-last-18yrs.html

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CoCo County Sheriff: We missed an opportunity in 1996 to bring this case to a close. Apologizes to family.

Girl's 18-year captivity raises prison early-release questions

Word that Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive by a parolee for 18 years in an Antioch back yard sparked new concern today over the state's proposal to reduce its inmate population by more than 27,000 prisoners, in part by releasing prisoners and relying more heavily on parole.

"This demonstrates the problems that we're going to have if we release thousands of prisoners into our local communities," said state Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach.

"Here was a prisoner who was a very great danger to the community. The parole people knew it, he was supposedly being checked three times a month, and still he was able to perpetrate this crime that lasted over 18 years."

Harman, who has criticized Schwarzenegger administration plans to reduce its inmate population, said the Dugard case demonstrates the danger of relying on GPS or parole to protect the public.

State corrections officials were still unable today to pinpoint the last time suspect Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender on lifetime parole, was visited at home by his parole agent.

They also could not explain how Garrido was able to allegedly conceal Dugard, who was kidnapped at the age of 11 in 1991, in his back yard for 18 years without parole agents noticing.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were scheduled to be arraigned in El Dorado Superior Court today at 1 p.m. on kidnapping, rape and conspiracy charges.

They were arrested after a search of their Antioch home Wednesday, and after Dugard was found to be alive and now the mother of two of Garrido's children she bore in captivity, the case exploded into international headlines. News outlets from the BBC to Al Jazeera have sought interviews with reporters covering the case and others involved.

"I've talked to the BBC four times in the last 15 hours," said former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who is helping El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson deal with the crush of media.

Readers have filled news Web sites with angry questions about how Dugard could have gone unnoticed for so long, and Contra Costa sheriff's officials were expected to hold a news conference today on what contacts they have had with the Garridos.

Neighbors told The Bee on Thursday that they had called 911 two years ago to report that children were living at the home and that people appeared to be living in tents. But, they said, deputies never entered the house.

Dugard was reunited with her mother Thursday, but both remained out of sight while they deal with the trauma of her abduction from her El dorado County home and its aftermath.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2146017.html

Nut - that is just eerie. 

Contra Costa Authorities Admit Slipping Up In 1991 Kidnapping Case

MARTINEZ - Contra Costa authorities are admitting they missed an opportunity to crack the 1991 kidnapping case of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 2006 after receiving a tip from a neighbor that suspect and convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido.

"The caller said Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction," Sheriff Warren Rupf told reporters Friday afternoon. "I'm first in line to offer organizational criticism and to offer my apologies to the victims and accept responsibility for having missed an earlier opportunity."

Sheriff Rupf said an officer with their department did investigate the claim made by the caller, but did not realize Garrido was a sex offender and did not investigate a claim of a living space in Garrido's backyard.

"No one should have failed to recognize a sexual registrant, including law enforcement," Rupf admitted. "We have a responsibility to report people living in a backyard."

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted near her Meyers home in 1991, was found Thursday afternoon after Garrido's parole officer received a tip from UC Berkeley police that Garrido was spotted with Dugard on the college campus handing out religious literature. Garrido is said to have fathered two children with Dugard, whom he kept locked in a backyard compound made of sheds and forced the now-29-year-old to act as a sex slave.

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-contracosta0828,0,4499296.story

JayCee has nothing to be ashamed of

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered person syndrome, rape cases, child abuse cases and bride kidnapping. The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.

(more)

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome


And that was only after 5-6 days in captivity, not 18 years.

Another link the the CoCo SHerriff's news conference going on right now

http://news.bnonews.com/xh2m

Contra Costa Co. Sheriff: "We Missed an Opportunity"


CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA -- The Contra Costa County Sheriff admitted, "On November 30, 2006 we missed an opportunity to bring an earlier closure to this situation."

Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said in a news conference Friday that a call was made to 911 from an anonymous source that young children were living in tents in a backyard of Phillip Garrido's home in Antioch.

Garrido has been arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard who has been missing since 1991.

Authorities say Garrido and his wife Nancy grabbed Dugard as she walked to her school bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe.

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=65974&catid=2

Sheriff: We 'missed an opportunity' to find Jaycee Dugard

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ANTIOCH, California (CNN) -- Law-enforcement officers "missed an opportunity" in November 2006 to find a woman who had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old girl and held since 1991, a California sheriff said.

Someone called 911 on November 30, 2006, to say that a woman and young children were living in tents in the backyard of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, Sheriff Warren E. Rupf of Contra Costa County, California said Friday.

The responding officer left without going into the back yard, the sheriff said.

"This is not an acceptable outcome," he said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/california.missing.girl/?imw=Y

Dugard Suspects to be Arraigned at 1 p.m.

PLACERVILLE, CA - The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office says suspects Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido are facing at least 20 charges in the abduction and captivity of Jaycee Dugard.

McGregor Scott, a former U.S. attorney assisting the district attorney's office in the case, said the two principal chages will likely be kidnapping with the purpose of rape, and rape.

A major difficulty, said Scott, is what other charges the Garridos may face because of the statute of limitations. He said the law has changed multiple times in the 18 years since Jaycee Dugard disappeared. In addition, Scott said the potential sentences have also changed.

As for if the three strikes law would apply to Phillip Garrido, Scott said, "It's my understanding, as a matter of public record, this gentleman has a forcible rape conviction in the state of Nevada as well as a federal kidnapping conviction. Both of those would apply as strikes under California three strikes law.

Scott said it was too early to tell of the El Dorado County district atorney would offer a plea deal to Nacy Corrido for her cooperation in the case.

How Jaycee Dugard is Coping

Thursday, just hours after El Dorado County authorities described abductee Jaycee Lee Dugard's 18 years in captivity in Antioch, her stepfather reported to News10 that Jaycee seemed remarkably well considering her ordeal.

In a telephone interview with News10's Cristina Mendonsa, Carl Probyn said the girl's mother Terry reunited with her now 29-year-old daughter Jaycee Thursday -- and said despite the lonely years away, her daughter appeared much as her family remembered her.

"She looks healthy. She looks good," Probyn said.

But Probyn said Terry confirmed some signs of Jaycee's long confinement were present. "She is very remorseful. She's very guilty that she bonded with these people," Probyn said.

Jaycee Dugard lived nearly two decades as a prisoner in the secluded backyard on an Antioch home, raising two children by her alleged abductor with little to no outside contact, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Deparment.

At a Placerville news conference Thursday, El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said even though the 11-year-old girl abducted in 1991 lived in a makeshift set of sheds and tents for 18 years with her daughters, Jaycee today was in surprisingly good shape after her identity was discovered Wednesday.

"Living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll, but she was in good health," Kollar said. "Jaycee has been there ever since. The children were born there."

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=65924&catid=2

Word that Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive by a parolee for 18 years in an Antioch back yard sparked new concern today over the state's proposal to reduce its inmate population by more than 27,000 prisoners, in part by releasing prisoners and relying more heavily on parole.

"This demonstrates the problems that we're going to have if we release thousands of prisoners into our local communities," said state Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach.
( no kidding, but they will do it anyway  ::MonkeyNoNo::)

  ::MonkeyEek:: wow

I was surprised and happy when the CoCo Sherriff said at the onset of questioning that all SO's should be chipped to track them.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

Scary isn't it? 

Forensic Psych: Does Phillip Garrido Really Believe His Kids Cured Him of Pedophilia?

ATLANTA (CBS) How could four individuals, two of them captors and one of them an abducted little girl, come to live together as a family unit for eighteen years? If police have it right, not only did Phillip Garrido, Nancy Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard and Garrido's mother live as a family unit, but Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard also had two daughters together (now 11 and 15 years old).

As a forensic psychiatrist, I am interested in how this can happen and what each of them must have been thinking over all those years. Although I have examined none of these individuals, the information in the public domain provides a fascinating glimpse into an extraordinary life.

Let?s start with Phillip Garrido. Paroled as a convicted rapist in 1988. He allegedly abducted 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard with the assistance of his wife, Nancy, in 1991. He then used Jaycee as his sex slave and impregnated her for the first time when she was 14 years old.

Typically, in order to rape and kidnap, someone has to think about the victim as an object and not as a human being. This makes it easier. The perpetrator thinks only about his or her own feelings, wishes, and needs. They cannot think about what the victim may be thinking or feeling. They either have no capacity to empathize (e.g., a psychopath) or force themselves not to in order to commit the crimes.

Somewhere along the way, Phillip Garrido says that he changed.

In a jailhouse interview he said that change came after the birth of his second daughter with Dugard. People that worked with him stated that "in the last couple of years, he started to get into this strange religious stuff."

He blogged in 2007 that ?THIS ALL BEGAN BY GOD REMOVING A PROBLEM FROM MY SHOULDERS THAT BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST BELIEVE IS NOT POSSIBLE TO REMOVE. SINCE THEN MY LIFE HAS SEEN MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS ALLOWING ME TO STAND HERE TODAY A FREE MAN."

Does he believe that the birth of his second daughter "cured" him of pedophilia?

Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard spent years together. Behavioral scientists have long discussed how someone in captivity will start to identify with their captor, may come to like them, and even feel sorry for them when they are caught (i.e., the Stockholm Syndrome).

Did that also happen in reverse in this case? Did the Garridos come to think about Dugard as a person and start to actually care for her? It is certainly possible that the births of his own daughters changed his perspective on women and sex. Only those behavioral scientists that examine him and Dugard may ever know.

In a CBS' The Early Show interview, Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said his little girl, now a woman, felt guilty.

It would be hard to know if Dugard?s reported feelings of guilt are related to feeling sorry for her biological parents who lost her or her "adoptive" parents who are now under arrest "because of her."

Nancy Garrido and Phillip?s mother, both of whom lived in the house with Phillip Garrido, are more mysterious from a psychiatric perspective. Nancy was either a cold-hearted willing accomplice or an amazingly compliant individual. Some people are so complaint as to never question the requests or commands of an authority figure.

Phillip Garrido?s mother may have not known any truths about Dugan or could have been under the psychological control of her son, Phillip. She reportedly suffers from dementia. We don't know what role that might have played.

Based on his jailhouse interview, Garrido needs a psychiatric evaluation. Based on other victims similar to her, Dugard will need extensive help unraveling her feelings about all of this. Her daughters are in a class unto themselves. Their plight is so rare that we can barely speculate as their road ahead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/crimesider/entry5271608.shtml

ElDo DA files 28 felony counts against the Garridos in Jaycee Dugard case. Read the complaint on CBS13.com

http://ow.ly/n3mC

FOX just reporting FBI declared ANOTHER crime scene in backyard a few minutes ago.  OMG.

OMG  FOX saying a NEW crime scene.  Can it get worse?

No info why house has just been sealed off again with crime tape.  Police from at least 2 jurisdictions are there right now.  No idea why/what was found that  had caused the police to now declare it as another crime scene.  I am praying that has nothing to do with the the two 4 year olds that a neighbour mentioned in an article yesterday.

WTH  ::MonkeyEek::

I heard.OMG.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Live Now: Awaiting First Look at Dugard Suspects from El Dorado County Jail

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

I heard that as well...how in the hell can a backyard not be found?  This makes no sense to me at all. ::MonkeyConfused::

Well, that's what I would like to know, since neighbors could see the secret backyard.   ::MonkeyConfused::

Not working for me.  Hear them break in with something but then goes quiet.  Working for anyone else?

Nope.  Having same issues, looking for another link right now.

NR..... :smt056  as you say it is much better than posting articles that she is dead. And as horrifying this is...there is joy that she and her daughters have been found. All 3 now have a chance at a GOOD life. A life filled with love and normalcy.

For police to be back with new crime scene tape - anyone think maybe Jaycee had more children who died and are buried there?  Or of course, other missing children?  This is the most horrendous case.  I can hardly even type on it.  It drains me with darkness.

HLN showed clip of them arriving at courthouse.  Maybe they will cover it???

News 10 - we are overhearing there are cameras in the courtroom but they can't bring it live. 

Deputy’s Blunder Prolonged Abducted Woman’s Horrors

MARTINEZ, Calif. -- A November 2006 911 call could have ended the horrors for an abducted woman held captive in a hidden backyard compound, but a sheriff’s deputy did not properly investigate the matter, authorities said Friday.

Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren Rupf apologized for the handling of the November 30, 2006 call that sent a deputy to the Antioch home of Phillip Garrido.

Hidden in Garrido’s backyard was a tarp-covered compound where Jaycee Dupard and her two children were being held captive in horrendous conditions.

The existence of the compound was dramatically brought to the authorities attention on Wednesday when Garrido confessed to the 1991 kidnapping of the now 29-year-old Dupard as she waited for a school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe.

Dupard was imprisoned in the compound for 18 years, according to authorities, where she allegedly was repeatedly raped by Garrido and had two children with him. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were formally charged Friday with several crimes and were being held on $1 million bail in the El Dorado County jail.

The November 2006 call came to light as details of the case began to unfold. A female neighbor made the call.

“A caller to our 911 dispatch offered that there were tents in their neighbor’s backyard, that people were living in them and that there were young children,” Rupf told reporters. “The caller also said that Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction.”

A deputy was dispatched to the house and talked with Garrido in the front yard. He never searched the home or the backyard.

“We made contact with Mr. Garrido in the front yard of his home,” Rupf said. “The responding deputy determined that there was not any criminal misbehavior. He warned Mr. Garrido that there were code restrictions in regards to living outside in a residential neighborhood. He did not enter or request to enter the backyard.”

Rupf said the deputy’s actions led to “an acceptable outcome.“

“Organizationally, we should have been more inquisitive, more curious and turned over a rock or two,” he said. “We missed an opportunity to have intervened earlier…No one knows if we could have found Jaycee or the children on that day in November 2006 and I cannot change the course of events. But we are beating ourselves up over this and will continue to do so.”

Then Rupf apologized to Jaycee and her family.

“I offer my apologies to the victims and have accepted responsibility for having missed an earlier opportunity to rescue Jaycee,” he said.

Rupf added that the department had also missed the fact Garrido was a sex offender.

El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar detailed the horrors Dugard endured at a Wednesday news conference,

He said Dugard went by the name "Allissa" and had two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido, Kollar said. She is now 29 years old; her daughters are 11 and 15.

The three lived in a series of tents and sheds set up in a "secret" area of the backyard that was hidden by a 6-foot fence covered with a tarp.

Two of the outbuildings had electricity supplied by an extension cord, and one shed was soundproof and could only be opened from the outside. The backyard contained a rudimentary outhouse and shower, Kollar said.

Dugard's daughters have apparently never been to school and never visited a doctor, Kollar said.

"They were in complete isolation," Kollar said.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20604242/detail.html

I want to smack the cameras with my DSL!

The smack helped!  We are on live!

http://www.news10.net/news/liveonline/default-on.aspx?menuid=181

Sometimes you read something...one word that sets your blood boiling.....this in red did mine...GENTLEMAN?? GENTLEMAN??  how in the hell could the word gentleman ever come out of his mouth when referring to this animal!!    I think I need a sedative about now!!  This politically correct crap needs to stop...call this animal an animal....not a gentleman!!

The court appearance was short and sweet and they wanted the news cameras off, but I managed to capture these for the few minutes we did have video. 

Sheds were house of horror

San Francisco - Their life was a tale of bleak isolation carefully hidden from neighbours' view in a few ramshackle sheds and tents that kept the outside world oblivious and left them to face persistent abuse.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, was finally identified on Wednesday after she accompanied Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender and rapist, to a meeting with his parole officer.

She was 11 when she was snatched from her bus stop.

Dugard faced sexual abuse by her alleged kidnapper and bore him two daughters when she was about 14 and 18.

That as her alleged kidnapper and abuser - and his wife - tended to his elderly bedridden mother and kept a shocking secret life in his back yard.
In his secret garden of abuse, the children did not go to school.

The girls Dugard gave birth to never saw another home but these few walls.

Doctor

They did not go to doctors or a dentist.

Their bleak and insular world was as small as a clutch of sheds, outfitted with a makeshift shower and toillet.

Electricity was brought in on an extension cord, local media said.

A neighbour told USA Today newspaper that she believed only the couple and elderly woman lived in the home for the 15 years she had known them.
She said Garrido told her the girls she occasionally saw were the children of friends.

Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn, told ABC television "he had them hidden right.

"It's pretty sick. I feel sorry the way Jaycee has gone through this. How he had her locked up for basically 18 years. No school. No doctor. No dentist. The children have never been to a doctor or dentist. No life.

"You know, it's going to be a long road to change things around."

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/a3887a25cb2447e8bff215678282918b/28-08-2009-10-14/Sheds_were_house_of_horror

Thanks Northern.

  I don;t see anything. Did I miss it?

Link sought between Garrido and series of killings

Law enforcement officials are looking for a link between Phillip Craig Garrido, accused of abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her for 18 years, and series of prostitute killings in the early 1990s.

"Pittsburg police this morning have sealed off the house in Antioch to investigate potential connection between a series of murders of prostitutes in the Bay Area in the early 1990," Contra Costa County Sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry told The Sacramento Bee.

Several bodies were found in an industrial location where Phillip Garrido supposedly worked, Terry said.

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2146268.html

From the chat:  Sharon Ito, News10 "The bodies of the murdered women were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido worked during the 1990s."

Details
    2009-08-28 8:41 PM

3;00 news conference with UC Berkly guard who first started all this.

You are welcome.  It was very short and they kept telling the media to turn the cameras off.

The appointed attorneys put in not guilty pleas - but judge cut cameras and ordered everyone out of the room when bail was discussed??????????????

Yes Sunny it is over.  Only managed to get a few screen shots before the bailiff forced them to turn off their live feed.

HOLY CRAP!!!

Warrants served for murderes of several prostitutes...per HLN just now   ::MonkeyShocked:: 

thanks I just saw the screen shots. Damn why in the hell did they have to turn the live feed off!

I heard them say not guilty, and the prosecutor asking for no bail, then the bailiff was telling all the media to shut off the live feeds.   ::MonkeyMad::

From chat again:  Sharon Ito, News10 "Other agencies are looking into other unsolved cases to see if there are any possible links to Garrido."

-----------------me, maybe judge cut it off if he was just informed of the new search?  IE: new information coming in and did a cut of cameras to be briefed on that?  I have a feeling this could grow to huge proportions - fast.

Correction - warrants were served for evidence of the murders.

I agree.  I think alot of families will get some closure for their missing loved ones.  This guy is a serious wack-job!

Can someone throw up a map of where Pittsburg Ca is compared to where his house is and where Jaycee was kidnapped from?  I need to get some pizza dough started so we can have dinner or would do it myself.

NOT GUILTY?????  NOT GUILTY?????  He has already admitted he kidnapped her!!  OHMYGAWD!!!  the judge is an asshole!! ::MonkeyMad::

Thanks ANJ ::MonkeyKiss::

For the horrific blunders that this state has made, I hope Jaycee's family sues and sues big time, I'm disgusted, and Arnold and gang want to release prisoners onto our streets, more hell will just be released  ::MonkeyMad::

NR, I would gladly if I knew how....

I have never heard of Pittsburg Ca before  ::MonkeyConfused::

nrcg......I would be throwing a hissy fit if I lived in CA.  When this country gets back to having some sense and stop all this crap.....no one is safe. I firmly believe that a prisoner should do the time he gets.....I wish to hell more LE would act and think like Sheriff Joe Arpaio and stop babying the damn criminals!!  We. need some tough law enforcement in our country.  JMO

From News10 chat reporter Sharon:
Sharon Ito, News10 "There is no bail for Phillip or Nancy Garridos. They'll be represented by public defenders."

They are showing aerial shots right now if anyone wants to grab some.

http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&rlz=1T4ADBS_enUS310US312&q=pittsburg+ca&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=qUSYSolTlYIxqdu8twU&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1     

Since I can't read a map to save my life, it doesn't appear to be that terribly far from Antioch.  ::MonkeyConfused::

I am, I'm completely disgusted. I keep waiting for a petition to recall Arnold.

13 minute drive between Antioch and Pittsburg.

BACK IN THE COURT ROOM NOW!!!!

Sharon Ito, News10 "Sept. 14 -- at 8am is the next court proceeding."


This is me:
They are now playing the entire hearing.  They did hold bail.  I imagine this will be posted soon, if not already there.

ooppssss it was a replay....but  I heard no bail for him....but OVER 22 MILLION dollars bail for her before the cameras were cut.

Thank-you  ::MonkeyCool::

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/lisa/case.html

This link is being posted in room - it looks like the prostitute and children cases they might be looking at - or some in connection with this creep.  Have not looked at it more than a brief scan. 

Thanks, you can just feel this is going to be much bigger  ::MonkeyNoNo::

hoLY shitake mushrooms - look at all the unsolved on this link.  I think I am going to be sick.

You're welcome!

 :sad: They need to  :smt068 the freaks away.  No trial no nothing....they do not deserve the air they breathe.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Thank you Jen.

Here is a map with the three places, Jaycee's house in 1991, Antioch and Pittsburg CA.

Radar Online has pictures now of the house:

http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image/18227/2009/08/views-philip-garridos-home

Do we know if the suspects have always lived in the same home since the time of Jaycees abduction? If this couple are serial kidnappers/ killers they have a wide circle of pattern . I see he was paroled in 1988, where did that crime take place?

  ::MonkeyShocked:: What a pig sty

Couple deny California abduction

A man and his wife have denied abducting California woman Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was a child and holding her in their home for 18 years.

Phillip Garrido, 58, and his spouse Nancy, 54, denied 28 charges when they appeared briefly in court in Placerville, El Dorado County.

Ms Dugard was bundled into a car in the county in 1991 on her way to school.

Police are also searching the Garrido home in Antioch for clues to several prostitute murders in the 1990s.

Several bodies in the unsolved murders were dumped near an industrial park where Mr Garrido worked.

Ms Dugard and two children she bore in captivity in Antioch, 200 miles (320km) away from where she was abducted, were freed this week.

They are staying at a motel near San Francisco after being reunited with Ms Dugard's mother.

http://ow.ly/15MR6K

Now they are denying this  ::MonkeyNoNo:: Well, I guess all that religion didn't change a thing.

mere....you summed it up in a nut shell...all the questions that I had as well...so sad!

nosy person that I am, I think that I would have been looking through that fence trying to see what was going on over there..especially if I heard little children, knowing that my neighbor was a sex offender..but perhaps some folks just turn a blind eye to things that don't concern them? dunno....

Police to search Phillip Garrido's house for links to prostitute slayings

Police in Pittsburg, Calif., have obtained a warrant to search Phillip Garrido's house for evidence of possible links to a series of slayings of prostitutes in the 1990s, authorities said today.

Several bodies were found near an industrial site where Garrido allegedly worked, said Capt. Daniel Terry, member of a special investigative unit of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. Pittsburg police want to see if there is any connection between Garrido and the killings of the prostitutes, he said.

Garrido, a 58-year-old registered sex offender, and his wife, Nancy, were arrested Wednesday in the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard and are suspected of holding her captive in the backyard of their Antioch home ever since. Garrido is believed to have fathered two daughters with Dugard, who is now 29. The girls are 11 and 15.

Garrido served time in federal and Nevada prisons from 1977 to 1988 for a kidnapping and sexual assault he committed in November 1976, according to Suzanne Pardee, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Garrido was originally sentenced to 50 years in the case, Pardee said. He entered a federal prison in June, 1977, and was transferred to a Nevada state prison in Carson City in January 1988. He was paroled to California on Aug. 26, 1988.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/police-to-search-garridos-house-for-any-links-to-series-of-prositute-killings.html

Me too Cookie, I'm nosy and I would be looking and questioning. Some people just don't get involved for various reasons. But that one neighbor did, and the police came, and well nothing was done.

HIS home looked pretty tidy...new roof on the home, grass cut...but where Jaycee and her children lived, another community which was a pig sty! I notice that there was a trampoline and a swimming pool back where Jaycee lived..wonder if they had a television?

Phillip Garrido Speaks To Walt Gray

An Antioch husband and wife accused of abducting Meyers resident Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago are facing charges of kidnapping, rape and other counts that could send them to prison for life if convicted, KCRA 3 has learned.

KCRA 3's Walt Gray spoke with Phillip Garrido by phone on Thursday.

Walt Gray: OK, thank you for getting in touch with us.

Garrido: Hey.

Gray: So how are you doing? Can you tell me what happened? Are doing OK? Are you doing fine?

Garrido: Yes, I am doing fine. Am I speaking with Mr. Walt?

Gray: Yes.

Garrido: In the end, this is going to be (not audible) this is going to be a wonderful wonderful story. One that you are going to be really impressed. It's going to hit world news. The first thing I would like to tell you, and the only thing that I would like to tell you right now, just because for some reason I didn't get to speak with you today. And I asked to speak with you is this, contact go to the Federal Bureau Investigation, 13th floor in San Francisco and ask for a copy of the documents that I left with them 3 days ago. This is for you… the news media it was left in your hands, this is something … powerful coming down. Once you get those documents they are going to have an investigation in them with witnesses. Concerning my situation. I would like to stop right there so that we can sit across from each other and then you will have that in your hands. Because what you are going to have in your hands will hit world news immediately.

Gray: Phil, we are recording this, I hope you do not mind.

Garrido: Oh no sir, I do not.

Gray: OK, can you tell us the circumstances surrounding what happened back in 1991, the whole deal that leads us to today.

Garrido: I can't tell you what ... I have not talked to my lawyer yet so I can't do that. But I can tell you that the circumstances will begin to come to life as soon as you get those documents. That is why they are sitting in the Federal government's hands.

Gray: OK, Does this have to do with your place of business?

Garrido: No.

Gray: OK.

Garrido: Place of business?

Gray: Well, I just in terms of the listing of your home…It's got something?

Garrido: That's a ... that's the church.

Gray: Does this all fall under that, Philip?

Garrido: Uh yes, it does.

Gray: OK.

Garrido: That's why I opened a… That's the reason why it is in a government center. It will state right in the front of it. They accepted it very very happily.

Gray: OK, So let me ask you this back in 1991. Why was it that you selected this girl?

Garrido: Uh, I'm so sorry, let me help you as soon as I can sit down and do this directly. I have no desire to hold back these things, in fact when this takes place, you are really going to be surprised what happened was a powerful heart warming story, if you would just cooperate with me. You can make the decisions as you get the information. I am so sorry I don't mean to disappoint you. I just know that I have to do this in the orderly fashion.

Gray: No, I completely understand, I do appreciate speaking with you at this time. So what situation do you think that you are in right now?

Garrido: Well, I'm in a very serious situation right now. What it is ... uh, I can't speak with you about it right now. I have to wait. But, I guarantee as each turn goes on you will get the pieces of the story. I'm a very powerful man. When you get these documents in your hands you are going to fall over.

Gray: When can I get these documents?

Garrido: Well, wait a minute, on the 13th floor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I gave them to one of the agents. So they have them at ... go to them tonight immediately. You ask them for a copy of those.

Gray: What when ... two days ago when you were in Berkley and you were contacted by some people in law enforcement. Can you tell me what you said to them? Did you feel somewhat relieved that they had found you? How did you feel about it?

Garrido: I feel much better now. It was the process that needed to take place. Please go and grab those documents. They are of dire importance to you. Like I said, they are going to be a part of the trial. Because this is going to turn into a major trial.

Gray: So what do you hope happens? Once the documents are out, once the trial begins or is over? What do you hope comes from this for you?

Garrido: Well let me tell you this, when I went to the San Francisco bureau, and I am not going to get in touch with them, I just want to make sure that you understand something. I was accompanied by 2 children, Uh Jaycee Dugard's two children that we had. We were also accompanied by (not audible) we went else were to Berkeley. The only places that I went were in the legal system. Just to start this off please come down. They will not disappoint you, they will absolutely tell you right away that you are going to be in control … to raise the attention.

Gray: So what, I know you have served some time in the 90s.

Garrido: Right.

Gray: What have you been doing all this time in terms of employment, I mean what have you been doing? What keeps you busy?

Garrido: What has kept me busy for the last several several years is that I have completely turned my life around. You are going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness and the victim. If you just take this a step at a time…and in the end you are going to find the most powerful heart warming story. And believe in something that needs to be understood. And that is about as far as I can go. I really want to help you but I need the media is also protected directly.

Gray: I understand that. Would we be getting most of this what you are saying? Would we be getting most of this from Jaycee?

Garrido: Jaycee will be handling that with her lawyer. Here is what we are going to do. We are going to coordinate this because I guess ... it's not against .. . I am absolutely for law enforcement. Wait till you read that document, my life has been stated. Wait until you hear the story! Of what took place at this house. You are going to be absolutely impressed with this disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning. I turned my life completely around. You have to understand that you have to start there, I am so sorry. I can help you further, but I also need to protect the sheriff's office here. And I need to protect the federal government and I need to protect the rights of Jaycee lee Dugard.

Gray: I understand. What have you. Can you at least share with me what you have told law enforcement?

Garrido: I have not told them anything. I will not speak with them until I have a ... what I shared with law enforcement is entitled in those documents. I did not tell them anything else but what is in those documents. You are going to be really impressed.

Gray: Did you, when they first met with you, did you recently tell them that you had a hand in taking Jaycee back in 1991?

Garrido: Oh no, no, no that was just the beginning as to what I am preparing. It's going to lead to what had actually happened. It is going to explain something that humans have not understood well.

Gray: In understand that phil. You mentioned that it is going to be a heart warming story. Can you give me an overview? Is it a love story? Is it a story about children?

Garrido: It's a constructive story about turning a person's life around. And having those two children, those two boys, they have slept in my arms very single night. I have never touched them. Just do what I asked you because it would make me so happy that you would do it. I kept warning that if it get's too far. Wait till you find out, I mean there are going to be people coming forward to this trial. And that is not all, I am going to be ... in a state of shock as how many hundreds of thousands of people are going to be coming to Woodland to start testifying about something. Do me a favor and follow the first part of what I asked you. You make your "understandments" from there. You will find out that this is not from me and is not a play. Or a way of me monopolizing anyone. It is a very very well constructed and powerful written disclosure. Please do that and we will work from there.

Gray: Let me ask you this before I go. Are the children OK?

Garrido: Yes, absolutely they are!

Gray: Is there anybody in the house?

Garrido: Absolutely they are, from when the youngest one was born, from that moment on everything has turned around. These people are going to testify to these things.

Gray: We are just somewhat concerned of the lack of ... perhaps some sound and medical attention.

Garrido: Absolutely we will, we just did not have the finances and so forth. We were way concerned about ... you have to get into the actually things ... the government. The federal government will actually be involved. There will be hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people that will be suing and ... just read the documents and we will go from there. Thank you sir and I thank you, God bless you for allowing me to call you.

Gray: Thank you for the phone call.

Garrido: I had a wanted to see you and didn't know what happened.

Gray: I did not know that you wanted to see me. I wish I had known early in the day.

Garrido: I just feel bad… I did ... I wanted but thank you so much for allowing me to talk to you.

Gray: We will work on that.

Garrido: OK, and I am not going to call another media. I am going to leave this with you because you are the first person I was able to talk to. I am going to stop right there.

Gray: Alright.

Garrido: Thank you sir.

Gray: You know what you are doing? This is the biggest phone interview I have had.

http://www.kcra.com/news/20604335/detail.html

I just read the transcript from the call Garrido made to the reporter again and have to say it is more whacked than CMA speak. 

Garrido: It's a constructive story about turning a person's life around. And having those two children, those two boys, ....

sorry if this is repost

Joplin woman may have ties to Phillip Garrido
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_240152816.html

Bet she could tell a tale or two  ::MonkeyEek::

It's whacked alright  ::MonkeyConfused:: That must be a misprint about the two boys  ::MonkeyConfused::

If there was a SO as my next door neighbor you can bet he would have wished he didn't live next to me!  I would have a big sing in my front yard with an arrow pointing to that damn house stating that a SO lived there.  And like you Cookie if I heard children you can bet your azz I would be having the police out there.  That not getting involved attitude has never been part of my make up...thank goodness!!

I just read it twice.  WHERE ARE THOSE CHILDREN?????  2 Little boys??