JAYCEE DUGARD - 11 yo (1991) - Lake Tahoe CA

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: June 10, 1991 from South Lake Tahoe, California
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: May 3, 1980
Age: 11 years old
Height and Weight: 4'6, 80 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue
eyes. Dugard had a gap between her upper front teeth at the time of her
1991 disappearance. She has a chicken pox scar between her eyes, a
brown butterfly-shaped birthmark on her right arm below her elbow, and
moles on her back.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A pink windbreaker, pink stretch pants, a white t-shirt and white canvas sneakers.




Details of Disappearance

Dugard was last seen walking to her school bus stop on Washoan
Boulevard in her hometown of South Lake Tahoe, California on June 10,
1991. A gray two-tone 1980 mid-sized Ford or Mercury sedan, possibly a
Ford Grenada, Mercury Monarch or Mercury Zephyr, made a u-turn on the
street where Dugard was walking between 8:05 and 8:15 a.m. An
unidentified man and woman were inside the vehicle. The woman grabbed
Dugard and forced her inside the car, then the vehicle sped from the
scene. Dugard's stepfather heard her scream and witnessed the abduction
from inside their house and proceeded to chase the vehicle while riding
a bicycle, but the suspects were able to escape. Dugard has never been
seen or heard from again. She was only about 150 yards away from her
home when she was abducted.
Sketches of the female suspect in Dugard's abduction are posted below
this case summary, along with a sketch of the vehicle. The woman is
described as having long black hair and a dark complexion. The suspect
was approximately 32 years old in 1991 and stood five feet, five inches
tall.
Investigators believe Dugard may have been taken across the state line
into Nevada after her abduction. There was also a sighting of her in
Fallen Leaf, California, about three miles from where she was taken.
Dugard's biological father was quickly ruled out as a suspect; at the
time of her abduction, he did not even know where she was living.
James Anthony Daveggio has been considered as a possible suspect in
Dugard's abduction since the early 1990s. He and his former girlfriend,
Michelle Lyn Michaud, were charged with the 1997 abduction, rape and
murder of Vanessa Lei Swanson. Swanson's remains were discovered
approximately five miles from the site of Dugard's 1991 abduction.
Photos of Daveggio and Michaud are posted below this case summary. They
were also charged with additional counts of sexual assault in unrelated
cases in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Michaud and Daveggio were convicted of
Swanson's murder and sentenced to death. They are awaiting execution.
Michaud claims that she met Daveggio in 1996 and therefore was not
involved in Dugard's abduction. There are striking similarities between
Michaud and the female suspect in Dugard's case. However, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has created a timeline tracing Michaud
and Daveggio's whereabouts over the 1980s and 1990s and they say the
pair could not have abducted Dugard.
Daveggio is also considered a possible suspect in the disappearances of
Amber Swartz-Garcia, Michaela Garecht and Ilene Misheloff. Neither he
nor Michaud has been charged in connection with any of the
disappearances.
A defrocked priest named Stephen Kiesle became a suspect in Dugard's
abduction in mid-2002. He was suspected because has since been arrested
and charged with molesting three girls at the Santa Paula Catholic
Church in Fremont, where he worked from 1968 to 1971. Kiesle did not
know Dugard and denies any involvement in her case. Police searched his
yard three times, using cadaver-sniffing dogs, radar, and a backhoe.
They were looking not only for evidence in Dugard's disappearance but
also evidence in the 1989 kidnapping of Amber Swartz-Garcia. They found
no clues pertaining to either case and the searches concluded in July
2002.
Authorities have also investigated the possibility that Brian David
Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, abducted Dugard. Photographs of
Mitchell and Barzee are posted below this case summary. They are
charged with the abduction and sexual assault of fourteen-year-old
Elizabeth Smart of Salt Lake City, Utah. Smart was kidnapped from her
bedroom in June 2002 and held captive for nine months before being
rescued in March 2003. Mitchell, also known as David Emmanuel Isiah,
has bizarre religious beliefs and reportedly thought God told him to
make Smart his wife.
The police are investigating similarities between Smart's and Dugard's
cases. The two victims physically resemble each other, and Dugard's
stepfather says Barzee resembles the woman he saw abduct Dugard.
Mitchell and Barzee have not been charged in connection to Dugard's
abduction, however, and authorities are not certain if either was
involved.
Dugard remains missing. Pink was her favorite color at the time she disappeared.

An El Dorado County Sheriff's Department source confirmed late Wednesday that their detectives were actively pursuing a possible
lead into the disappearance of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was believed
abducted from outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991.
An FBI source in Concord also confirmed that agency's involvement in
the case Wednesday night, but would not comment on any details of the
investigation.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department was planning to
hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the case, according to El
Dorado County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Bryan Golmitz.

Age progressed to 24

Dugard 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.

Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn 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.

The stepfather of missing 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard told KCRA
Wednesday his wife is 90 percent sure that a woman in the Bay area will
be positively identified as Jaycee.Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted in Meyers near South Lake Tahoe in 1991.

FBI Jaycee Lee Dugard, 11, was abducted in Meyers near South Lake Tahoe in 1991.

Her father said he saw people in a car kidnap the girl as she walked to her school bus. She was never seen again.Officials said detectives in the case are following up on leads in the Bay area.KCRA
spoke via phone with Jaycee's stepfather, Carl Probyn, in the newsroom.
Probyn said his wife spoke with a woman who claims to be Dugard and
said his wife is 90 percent sure she will be positively identified.Jaycee's mother, Terry Probyn, who currently lives in southern California, is headed north to meet with investigators.
"I can't even sleep," Probyn said. "I'm anxious to find out where she's
been and what she's been doing. I'll get answers tomorrow."Probyn said he hopes that this is Jaycee."I'm just really thrilled this is coming to an end and excited to find who did this and solve this case," Probyn said.The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department will hold a news conference sometime Thursday to talk about the case.

A young woman surfaced claiming to be
a missing girl who was kidnapped 18 years ago from a school bus stop,
and police in Concord, Calif., say they're "very confident" that her
story is true.
Authorities have two people in custody and are reportedly searching the home of a
registered sex offender after a woman came forward identifying herself
as Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991.
Jaycee was taken from a bus stop when she was 11 years old, minutes after she left her South Lake Tahoe home.
"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. The woman
is in good health, but it was not immediately clear when she came in to
the station.
Lovell said two people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
A home being searched by Antioch, Calif., police as part of the investigation has the same address as that of
registered sex offender Phillip Garrido. Garrido has not been confirmed
to be one of the two in custody, according to the station.
Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and
he received a call Wednesday from investigators who 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.
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.
Jaycee left for school the morning of June 10, 1991, dressed all in pink and stood
at the bus stop two blocks from her house. As her stepfather watched
from the driveway, a gray car with two people inside pulled up, grabbed
the child and sped away, according to witnesses.
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
shouted at neighbors to call the police.
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, spoke with Dugard by phone on Wednesday.
"She got a call from the FBI, they said they had found Jaycee and she was
alive," Probyn told KTVU. "My wife talked with her and is convinced she
is Jaycee. Jaycee remembers everything."
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 again.
"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.
The sheriff's department scheduled a news conference to discuss the case later Thursday.
"After 18 years, you do give up hope," Probyn told KTVU. "This is a miracle."

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.
After speaking with police hours earlier on an unrelated matter, Jaycee Dugard walked
into the office of the Concord, Calif., Police Department on Wednesday,
about 200 miles from where she was abducted, Lt. Les Lovell of the
El Dorado County Sheriff's Department told The Times.

[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.

This is amazing...After hearing this,it gives me hope that the other missing children will be found alive...

thanks tom.

Bringing Jaycee Dugard Home: Parents Struggle With Horror of Kidnapping



Stepfather Says Jaycee Feels 'Guilty' for Bonding with Husband and Wife Captors


Still reeling from the news that their kidnapped daughter is alive after 18 years and now has two children of her own, the parents of Jaycee Lee Dugard are horrified at the brutal conditions she suffered allegedly at the hands of the husband and wife team accused of taking her


Carl Probyn, who had long since given up hope of finding his stepdaughter alive, told "Good Morning America" today that getting reacquainted is going to be a challenge for everyone. Jaycee, now 29, is largely uneducated, having spent the majority of her life relegated to a series of backyard sheds in Antioch, Calif.
"It's pretty sick," 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."
Jaycee's two daughters with her accused kidnapper, 11 and 15, have never been to school or seen a doctor.

Registered sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy have been arrested in connection with the case and charged with kidnapping and rape. Garrido had previously been convicted of kidnapping and rape.
Jaycee, 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," Probyn said. "She looks very young. She doesn't look 29 at all."
"Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this man," Probyn said. "There's really a guilt trip here."

Jaycee Feels Guilt


Jaycee was snatched off the street 18 years ago as she waited for the school bus. Probyn heard her scream and saw her get pulled into a grey Ford with a man and a woman. He even chased them down on his bike, but couldn't catch them.
A massive search effort was launched, and Probyn even came under scrutiny. The Probyns' lives were shattered -- the couple moved from their home and their marriage broke up, though they are still legally married.

Though Garrido was monitored by authorities because of his sex offender status and neighbors knew he was spending time around children, it took 18 years for him to make a mistake -- taking Jaycee's daughters to hand out religious material at a local college, where they caught the eye of a police officer.
"He's ruined our lives," Probyn said of 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."
Garrido has already begun speaking out, trying to tell his story. In a jailhouse interview with a local television station, he said his story was not one of torture, but of redemption.
"Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house. You are going to be completely impressed," Garrido 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."
Garrido said that having children with Jaycee changed his life and that "they slept in my arms every single night since birth. I never touched them."
His online blog is full of ramblings and notes that he can speak in tongues and control sounds with his mind.
Garrido's brother told ABC News that he used LSD as a teen and met his wife while in prison

Jaycee Dugard, Children Kept in 'Complete Isolation'


El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said in a news conference Thursday that Jaycee had been held captive at a house in Antioch, Calif., since the day she was abducted and that none of their neighbors ever knew.
He described the location as a "hidden back yard" within a larger yard that was arranged in such a way "to isolate the victims from outside contact."
Entrance to the secret yard was guarded by a 6-foot-tall fence, tall trees and a tarp, he said.
Kollar said Jaycee and the two children lived in a series of sheds, including one that was soundproofed and that could only be opened from the outside. In addition, there were two tents in the yard.


None of the children had ever gone to school, they had never gone to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation."
When asked about Jaycee's condition, the undersheriff said, "She is in good health, but living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll."

There is nothing to indicate this was anything other than a stranger abduction," Kollar said. "No connection to the family. They literally snatched her off the streets."
Helen Boyer, the Garridos' neighbor for more than 10 years, said she would be completely shocked if it turned out they really were involved with Jaycee's kidnapping.
"There was no girl living next door, as far as I knew," she said.
Boyer said the couple were caregivers to Phillip Garrido's bedridden mother. They would sometimes have three young blonde girls -- friends of the family, she said -- come visit.
"They were real good neighbors," she said. "Real nice people."

Jaycee Dugard's Rescue Gives Hope to Others Whose Children Are Missing


Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told ABCNews.com today that while remarkable, the possible discovery of Jaycee reinforces data that shows kidnappers who are not related to the child typically aren't child killers.
"The Jaycee Dugard case is huge," he said. "There are some people who assume that when a child disappears, there is no hope.
"This provides hope," he said, "for so many searching families."

Many children abducted in the same manner as Jaycee do not have such a happy ending.
Though the country rejoiced when Elizabeth Smart was found alive months after the 14-year-old was snatched, many abducted kids are never heard from again.
One of the most famous missing children cases is that of Etan Patz, the Manhattan boy who disappeared while walking to a school bus in Manhattan in 1979. Despite 30 years of investigations and theories, no trace of the boy has been found.
In June, it appeared that a boy who disappeared in 1955 had turned up alive. John Barnes of Michigan was convinced that he was actually Stephen Damman, snatched from his stroller when he was 2 years old and living on Long Island, N.Y.

Stephen Damman's 78-year-old father, Jerry Damman, became hopeful that he was finally being reunited with his son, but DNA tests dashed his dream.
"It's disappointing and it's too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end," Damman said after the results of the tests were revealed.
Steven Stayner also was a prominent case of a kidnapped boy. He was a California boy who was snatched at the age of 7 in 1972. Nine years later, he went into a police station after his captor had grabbed another boy.
"I know my first name is Steven," he told police.
Stayner's story later became a television movie.
More recently, in 2007, Shawn Hornbeck, and a second missing boy were found in a Kirkwood, Mo., after Hornbeck allegedly had been held prisoner for four years after vanishing from a St. Louis suburb at age 11.

Girl grew up locked in backyard shed

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. Dugard's two children -- fathered by her abductor, police say -- were born in the shed and raised there

After being imprisoned as a sex slave for almost two decades and forced to
bear the children of her captor Jaycee Lee Dugard had one thing to say as
she was reunited with her family today: “I’m sorry”.

“She is very remorseful,” said her stepfather, Carl Probyn. “She feels really
guilty for bonding with this man. There’s really a guilt trip here.”

America was shocked by the abduction of Jaycee, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed
11-year-old girl wearing a pink top and pink trousers from a bus stop
outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991. But in spite of intense press
interest, the case went cold.

The next time anyone heard from her was on Wednesday this week, 18 years after
she was snatched, when she turned up at a parole office in the town of
Concord, California, under bizarre circumstances.Accompanying Jaycee was her suspected kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, 58, his
wife, Nancy, 55, and two children.

According to various witnesses, Jaycee was in good health but uneducated, and
looked barely older than when she disappeared. “She looks almost like when
she was kidnapped,” said Mr Probyn, whose wife and daughter were spending
their first full day with Jaycee today since her disappearance.

“She looks very young. She doesn’t look 29 at all.” Her good health comes in
spite of giving birth to two of her captor’s children in the back-garden
compound of outhouses and makeshift tents where she spent all her teenage
years and most of her twenties. The first child was born in 1994, when
Jaycee was only 14.

“I have babies,” was the first thing Jaycee told her mother, Terry Probyn,
when they were reunited.

It has emerged that Jaycee owes her freedom to an unnamed female campus
security officer at the University of California Berkeley who suspected
there was just something not quite right with Phillip Garrido, a former
business card printer who had given up his day job to found his own
“church”, named God’s Desire.

He was convinced he could control sound waves with his mind — a possible
side-effect of his experiments with LSD in the 1970's. His crazed blog
entries have since emerged, the most recent of which declared that, “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”.

Many of his former business card customers simply felt sorry for him,
describing his demeanor as “kind of nutty” but “happy-go-lucky”. His own
brother was less charitable, calling him “a fruitcake”.

But when Garrido went to the campus of UC Berkeley on Tuesday morning to
distribute propaganda for his church — he’d made the leaflets himself — he
was accompanied by two glazed-eyed girls, aged 11 and 15 respectively, and a
woman in her late twenties, supposedly named Allissa.

None of them seemed to have even rudimentary social skills.

Garrido’s decision to take the girls with him was a fateful one. Within 24
hours, it would lead to the extraordinary conclusion of a child abduction
case that had transfixed America almost 20 years ago, and expose a sex crime
of horrifying cruelty.

After the campus security officer confronted him, asked for his name and ID,
and ran a background check she quickly discovered that he was on parole.
What she didn’t know is that he was a registered sex offender, having
kidnapped a woman from South Lake Tahoe in 1976, driven her to a warehouse
in Reno, Nevada, and raped her.

The case was a big story at the time, because Garrido and his victim had been
found by chance when a patrol officer decided to knock on the warehouse door
after seeing a car parked outside at 2.30am. When Garrido answered, the
kidnap victim screamed, and the astonished officer walked inside to find
rugs on the floor and walls, pornographic magazines scattered around the
place, a movie projector, sex toys, a theatrical spotlight, wine, and a tub
of hot water.

Of course, the Berkeley security officer had no way of knowing all those
details, but she felt compelled to call Garrido’s parole officer —
especially when she recalled that his two girls had refused to make
eye-contact with her. They also seemed unkempt and uneducated.

The parole officer was surprised to hear that Garrido had been found on the
campus with two girls: in spite of repeated visits to Garrido’s home in the
town of Antioch, California, about an hour northeast of San Francisco, the
officer had never seen any evidence of children.

He ordered Garrido to report to his office in Concord, a short drive from
Antioch. It isn’t known if he was also ordered to bring the girls, but he
took them to the meeting the next day, along with Allissa and his wife,
Nancy, whom he’d met in prison. Mrs Garrido was the visiting niece of
another prisoner.

During questioning, the true identity of Allissa emerged. She was Jaycee Lee
Dugard, abducted as her stepfather watched helplessly from his driveway two
blocks away. Police believe that her visit to Berkeley was her fist time out
of captivity in 18 years.

Somehow, the authorities had never suspected that Garrido, who had kidnapped a
woman before from the same town, 15 years earlier might strike again. It is
now believed that he kept Jaycee as a slave in a hidden compound in his back
garden, concealed by rubbish bins, tall trees, and sheets of tarpaulin.

By the time she was was 14, he had impregnated her. She gave birth to another
child four years later.

Helping Garrido was the fact that he was living with his mother, who has
apparently been suffering from dementia for the past eight years. He also
appears to have had the help of his wife, Nancy, who was described by
Garrido’s brother today as “a robot” who would “do anything he asked her
to”.

A Northern California couple have
pleaded not guilty in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a girl who
was abducted when she was 11 years old and held captive for 18 years.Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arraigned Friday on 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.They both entered their pleas in El Dorado Superior Court, and a judge ordered them held without bail.Phillip
Garrido appeared stoic and unresponsive during the brief hearing. His
wife cried and put her head in her hands several times.Jaycee
Lee Dugard was snatched outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991.
Authorities say she gave birth to two children by Phillip Garrido while
she was held in a secret encampment in his Antioch backyard.
* * * *

Authorities are searching the home
where a man allegedly held a kidnapped girl captive for 18 years,
looking for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes.Contra
Costa Sheriff's Department Capt. Daniel Terry says police officers from
the nearby city of Pittsburg executed a search warrant Friday at
Phillip Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings.Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido worked during the 1990s.Garrido
and his wife, Nancy, were charged Friday with kidnapping 11-year-old
Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Authorities say they held her and two
children she had with Garrido as prisoners in a backyard encampment.
* * * *

The father of a man suspected of
kidnapping a girl 18 years ago and hiding her in his backyard says his
son is "absolutely out of his mind."Manuel
Garrido told The Associated Press Friday that his son Phillip Garrido
fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD.The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person.Speaking
by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido says he hasn't
seen his son in years and has never been to the house where Phillip
Garrido allegedly lived with the missing girl Jaycee Lee Dugard, their
two children and his wife, Nancy Garrido.Phillip
and Nancy Garrido are being held for investigation of kidnapping and
conspiracy. Phillip Garrido also has been accused of various sex crimes.
* * * *

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.

Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was abducted at the age of 11 in 1991,
was recently discovered living in a virtual prison in the back yard of
a couple's come in Antioch, Calif., as has been widely reported. She
had been there for 18 years, confined and horrifically abused, even
giving birth to her rapist's children. They were kept prisoner and
isolated, never having attended school or seen a doctor.

Amazingly, a Reno psychic is now claiming the case proves the accuracy of her abilities.

Dayle Schear, who was paid by Jaycee's parents to help locate their
daughter, says she told Jaycee's mother not to give up searching for
her daughter: "I looked her in the eyes and I said... eventually she'll
walk through the door, you're going to see her again."

Schear also claims that she correctly described the general area
where Jaycee was being held. The psychic's "information" is typical of
what happens when missing persons are eventually found, dead or alive.
Psychics come forward years later after the person was found to make
retroactive claims about how they "knew" certain pieces of information.

Yet the psychics conveniently ignore the fact that their information was either wrong or so general
and vague that it was useless. If Shear's psychic powers told her that
this poor girl was being kept in the most horrific conditions — being
subjected to continual sexual and physical abuse for nearly two decades
— then it's puzzling that Jaycee was not found 18 years ago.

What police and searchers need is not general, vague "I told you so"
information after the missing person has been recovered through police
work, but accurate, useful information that leads police to the victim.

One common trick psychics use to make themselves appear accurate is
to give very vague information open to later interpretation (most
missing persons are likely to be found "near water," even if it's a
lake, puddle, river, drain, etc.). When bodies are found it is always
through accident or police work.
Despite repeated claims to the contrary, there is not a single
documented case of a missing person being found or recovered due solely
to psychic information. In February 2004, Court TV launched a series
about psychic detectives investigating cold cases "Haunting Evidence."
The show was cancelled after three seasons, without having solved a
single case.

The fact of the matter is that right now — as you are reading these
words — it is virtually certain that somewhere in the world, one or
more children are being held in exactly the same unimaginable
conditions as Jaycee. Some may die in captivity and be disposed of like
trash; others will eventually be freed after untold physical and
psychological damage.

Yet there are thousands of self-proclaimed psychics and psychic
detectives in the world who claim to be able to find missing persons.
Some are rich and famous, such as Sylvia Browne, Allison DuBois
(inspiration for the NBC show "Medium"), Noreen Renier, and Carla
Baron; others are known only locally. If they have the powers they
claim, perhaps they should take a break from their TV appearances and
lucrative lecture circuits to actually help find these and other
desperate missing persons.

When
14-year-old Victoria Gardner emotionally collapsed after being abducted
and raped in 1968, the only remedy doctors in San Jose offered was a
series of electro-shock treatments to help her forget her horrible
experience. She turned them down.Four decades later, Jaycee
Dugard, the Antioch woman abducted 18 years ago and freed this week,
will have more psychological help to deal with her trauma, thanks to
significant advances in the therapy field known as "recovery and
reunification.''Already, a Bay Area counselor who works with the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been tapped to
help Dugard and her family through the first few days of the unexpected
and long-delayed reunion.But experts — and families with similar
experiences — say it will take many years of crucial professional
support to cope with victims' issues, from anger at parents for failing
to keep them safe to ambivalence about their abductors. Often there's
even guilt for being too paralyzed with fear to run away.
Stages of recovery
"Today,
there's a lot more help, but still, the fears and nightmares will
come,'' said Gardner, who remains troubled — 41 years later — about her
ordeal at the hands of a physician inside a San Jose hospital over a
three-day period. Dugard was gone for nearly two decades, and experts say she can look forward to the first stage of her recovery/reunification
— which is likely to be euphoria. "There's
a honeymoon period, a sense of wild joy, like your best dream has come
true,'' said Georgia Hilgeman-Hammond, who founded the Vanished
Children's Alliance in San Jose in 1976 after her 13-month-old daughter
was abducted. Her daughter was found four years later."But it's
not 'happily ever after,' '' she said. "You find out they're not the
same person. There's confusion, loyalty issues, like 'why didn't mom or
dad find me sooner.' "Dugard was 11 when she was snatched near
her home near South Lake Tahoe in 1991. Thursday, she surfaced with the
convicted sex offender who police say took her all those years ago, and
forced her to live in a shed and tents in Antioch and bear him two
daughters.Even though Dugard is 29 now, with the two girls, 11
and 15, fathered by her abductor, Philip Garrido, her emotional age is
likely to be much younger because she has been utterly powerless for so
long, experts say. The sudden freedom can be overwhelming,
according to research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Families should not expect their rescued children to be able to cope
with socializing right away, including everything from welcome home
celebrations to big family reunions.
'Brainwashing'
Recovered
victims are more likely to act withdrawn or hostile, probably because
they're scared of being re-abducted. Parents also are urged not to
criticize abductors in front of victims because the victims often bond
with their captors and are ambivalent about them."They've been
through kind of a brainwashing,'' said Ernie Allen, president of the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "They've been
brutalized and told they would be killed and their families would be
killed. The human instinct is to do whatever it takes to prevent
getting killed, including not trying to run away.''Gardner said she understands that self-preservation instinct. "No one understands what Jaycee is going through unless they've been a victim," she said. "The fear is so immobilizing.''In
1968 when a doctor kidnapped and raped her, she said, incidents like
that were rarely discussed publicly. "There was no mental health for
kids then,'' she said.Experts know so much more about the
psychology of these kinds of crimes because so many American children
are abducted — which the government defines as taken against their will
through physical force or threat for at least an hour. About 258,000
children are abducted in the United States every year, according to the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The vast
majority — about 200,000, are parental abductions. Most of the
remaining 58,000 abductions are resolved within 24 hours. Then
there are the so-called "stereotypical kidnappings'' like Jaycee's, in
which children are taken more than 50 miles away or taken overnight or
held for ransom or taken with the intent to keep permanently or kill.
There are only 115 of those a year. As expected, the recovery period is
not short. Abductees and their families can get help from state victim
compensation funds with considerable expense of long-term treatment."We preach patience,'' Allen said. "You don't take a shot or pill to get over this.''

Prison camp: A child's deckchair stands with two adult chairs in a
dusty yard beside a collection of pot plants. Empty cans, a vase and an
old saucepan lie discarded in front of a decrepit tent. Inside the tent
is evidence of a cat lover - a row of books about cats, several cat
toys and a 1,000-piece jigsaw entitled Cats



No place like home: A hand-made 'Welcome' sign hangs from a tree at the
rear of secret backyard where Jaycee Dugard and her daughters lived in
sheds, tents and outbuildings. The innocence of the scene is underlined
by three decorations, apparently a bell, a butterfly and a dove, under
the sign. The trees and shrubs helped to conceal the backyard from
neighbours


Chilling: One of the most ominous sights in the earth-floored compound
is an 8ft by 4ft wire cage, half draped with a tarpaulin. It is not
clear what use the cage might have been put to. Next to it is a crudely
built hut with white sliding doors with two black metal clasps which
suggest that it could be opened only from the outside. The hut was
largely empty

Chaos: The scene inside one of the dingy sheds. On the left is a
microwave oven, catfood in a plastic container and two hanging
vegetable baskets. The rest of the area seems to have been used as an
office. There are three old swivel chairs and a reading lamp on a small
table strewn with papers. The floor and shelves are covered in files,
boxes and bric-a-brac

Some knew her, others only knew of her. But they will never forget the day 18 years ago when the blonde, blue-eyed 11-year-old was snatched in broad daylight on her way to a bus stop.
Her scream. A frantic sprint on a mountain bike by her stepfather up the twisted mountain road as he tried to catch up to the Ford Granada and the unknown man and woman who had just ripped his family's lives to shreds before his eyes.
A world renown tourist destination, South Lake Tahoe on the Nevada-California line is dominated in summer by gamblers, boaters and beach goers. In winter, by gamblers, skiers and snowboarders.
But beneath the facade of a tourist town, where workers come and go with each passing season, is a tight-knit community that never forgot Jaycee Lee Dugard, a little girl who loved the color pink.
Her mother, Terry Probyn, and stepfather, Carl, were relative newcomers to the Tahoe community.
"They were brand new to the district," Sue Bush, Jaycee's fifth grade teacher, said Friday. "I met them at parent-teacher conference twice."
But the community shared their nightmare and embraced them, holding fundraisers, putting up fliers and adorning the town in pink ribbons to keep Jaycee in their hearts after she was kidnapped June 10, 1991.
In 2001, 10 years later, more than 100 people marched on U.S. 50, the main `highway through town, in a pink ribbon parade to remember the little girl and raise awareness of child safety and Jaycees' unsolved kidnapping.
Terry Probyn, who left Tahoe in 1998 and moved to Southern California, returned for the anniversary.
"Someone out there knows what happened," she said at the time. "We need peace. Give us that gift."
It arrived, out of the blue, Wednesday night when she received a call from investigators, saying her daughter had been found alive. Nearly two decades of questions, what ifs, and suspicions against Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, were replaced by tears of joy.
Phillip Garrido, 58, and his 54-year-old wife, Nancy, were arrested last week on suspicion of abducting Dugard. They pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.
Investigators said Dugard was taken to a house in Antioch, where she was kept hidden from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, where she lived in a shed compound.
In South Lake Tahoe, the shy girl last seen in a pink jacket and pink stretch pants is in everyone's hearts again, this time as a grown woman, now 29, and the mother of two children fathered by her alleged abductor.
Joy that she was alive was mixed with anxiety about her physical and emotional well-being, and sadness over the loss of youth and innocence.
"I used to drive by that bus stop all the time," Sue Pritchett, a retired South Lake Tahoe middle school teacher, said while talking with a friend in Dugard's old neighborhood.
"I'm absolutely ecstatic that she's been found," Pritchett said. "But I hope she's OK."
On Friday, Sue Bush, Jaycee's fifth-grade teacher at Meyers Elementary School, recalled the nightmare that day when one of her students didn't show up.
"We got the call just before class started," she told The Associated Press. "Some of the kids already knew about it because they had witnessed it at the bus stop. The kids were very agitated and upset.
"We brought in counselors, and during the week we wrote letters to Jaycee and her mom. We kept her chair and desk set up."
The school, now called Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School, has a memory garden out front, that started as Jaycee's Garden, said former Principal Karen Gillis-Tinlin.
Butterflies painted on the walls symbolize students who have died. There are four; one was for Jaycee.
James Tarwater, school district superintendent, said news of Dugard's reappearance was shocking and disturbing at the same time.
"I think about all the students I've had and watched grow during the last 18 years," he said. "You think of their potential."
Potential denied Jaycee.
Bush, her former teacher, agreed.
"We're all happy she's back. But it's a life ruined," she said sadly.
"I hope in a few weeks, months, whatever it takes, I'll actually be able to talk to Jaycee and Terry," she said. "Terry never gave up hope."
Gillis-Tinlin said Dugard's rescue "is a wonderful ending," but more importantly, "a beginning of the next segment of her life."
South Lake Tahoe, she said, will again bloom in pink bows and ribbons — this time in celebration of a life renewed

For kidnap victims like Jaycee Lee Dugard, recovery is rare.

A full portion of her life -- her entire teens and 20s -- was poisoned by her abduction at age 11 and the 18 years of brutal captivity and deprivation that followed. So uncommon are situations like hers that mental health experts have few examples to guide them.

They can turn to the case of Natascha Kampusch of Vienna, kidnapped at age 10 on her way to school in 1998 and held for 8 1/2 years before escaping. After an apparent recovery that included her own television talk show and celebrity dating, she retreated into her apartment and rarely leaves it now.

Or they can look to Elisabeth Fritzl of Amstetten, Austria, dragged into a dungeon by her father at 18 and held for 24 years as she gave birth to seven children. Despite extensive rehabilitation, media reports indicate she is not doing well.

Even psychologists and psychiatrists skilled at confronting the worst of human nature find it hard to fathom how Dugard can put the pieces back together and live some semblance of a normal existence.

Things could well be worse for Dugard's two daughters, who were born into captivity in a ramshackle Antioch compound and have known only lives of deprivation. They have never attended school or visited a doctor, and their father, Phillip Garrido, is now in El Dorado County Jail facing charges of rape, kidnapping and other criminal offenses.

Authorities searching Garrido's Antioch house Saturday expanded the crime scene to include the neighboring home of Damon Robinson, according to the Associated Press. Robinson told The Times on Friday that Garrido had taken care of the house before he moved in three years ago, and that Robinson found "all the locks on my home were backward. You could lock people in" but not out.

For Dugard and her daughters, adjusting to freedom will be a long, arduous process.

Dugard's top priority, experts said, should be to get reacquainted with her mother -- though not too fast -- and begin intensive psychological and psychiatric treatment.

She is at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder now that her ordeal is over. But if proper steps are taken early, the chances of her developing that and other problems, such as depression, can be minimized.

Still, the psychological scars from her experience will probably affect her day-to-day life for the foreseeable future and may make it impossible for her to ever live on her own, hold a job or form lasting romantic relationships.

"The adjustment to the outside world is going to be very brutal," said psychologist Naftali Berrill, director of the New York Center for Neuropsychology and Forensic Behavioral Science. "How do you undo years of abuse, years of being held captive?"

Studies of children who have suffered abuse and neglect have found the victims have a high risk of suicide, depression and sexual acting-out.

And a 2000 study of 24 kidnap victims from Italy found that 46% suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and 38% were diagnosed with major depression after their release. More than two-thirds reported "intrusive recollections," maintained a state of hyper-vigilance and said they had a sense of a "foreshortened future." The average length of captivity among these people was only 99 days.

"The picture is not rosy," said psychologist John Lutzker, an expert on child maltreatment who teaches at Georgia State University.

In the first weeks and months after a kidnap victim is freed, he or she is likely to experience anxiety, tension, sleep disturbances, loneliness, headaches and intestinal problems, among other symptoms.

In Europe, kidnap victims are placed in residential treatment centers to give them time to adjust to their changed circumstances, but there are no equivalents in the United States, said Katherine van Wormer of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, who has studied the behavior of kidnapping victims. Both Kampusch and Fritzl were treated in such facilities.

A key issue for Dugard, now 29, will be how she re-establishes her relationship with her mother, Terry Probyn, who lives in Riverside County.

Mother and daughter should resist the urge to try to pick up their lives where they left off in June 1991, when Dugard was abducted in her South Lake Tahoe neighborhood as she walked to a bus stop. Dugard "needs to be in intensive therapy and slowly come back so that her emotional feelings can be transferred back to her mother," van Wormer said.

And though it may seem cathartic to recount 18 years' worth of horrific details, this might make matters worse.


Mental health experts say Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters face tremendous challenges in moving on to any semblance of a normal existence. Comparable cases are rare, and victims haven't fared well.



"It runs the risk of really overwhelming Jaycee with the entirety of what she's going through instead of helping her very, very gradually face the new day-to-day issues of creating a life in this larger world," said Dr. Jim McCracken, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

Discussing details of the ordeal in public is especially discouraged.

The parents of Shawn Hornbeck were roundly criticized when they appeared with their 15-year-old son on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2007, less than a week after he was rescued from the suburban St. Louis apartment of kidnapper Michael Devlin. The 11-year-old had been bicycling near his Richwoods, Mo., home when Devlin snatched him.

Hornbeck's parents told the national TV audience that their son suffered sexual abuse during his 4 1/2 years of captivity. Media critics and mental health experts were appalled.

Therapy is not just for the victim. Probyn may also need counseling to help her deal with feelings of abandonment and adjust to the fact that her daughter is no longer a little girl, experts said. She may struggle with things Dugard might say that seem infuriating, such as expressing sympathy or affection for her captors.

Such feelings are not uncommon among those who have been kidnapped: Kampusch, whose captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, committed suicide after her escape, mourned his death and purchased the house in which she was held for those 8 1/2 years.

Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, said his wife told him that Dugard "feels guilty about bonding with" Garrido. (The Probyns are separated.)

"I think he had total control," Carl Probyn said. "Maybe she felt guilty because she didn't fight him off."

Ed Smart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was abducted in June 2002 from her Salt Lake City bedroom and held for nine months by a pair of drifters, said the family saw a psychiatrist for some time.

But they did not ask her to relive or explain the experience to them. She was encouraged to return to activities she had enjoyed before the abduction and has focused on not dwelling on what happened.

Smart said the biggest hurdle is helping the victim know she has nothing to feel guilty about. Society, he said, may ask: "Why didn't you run away?"

"But this is not her fault," he said.

Dugard's two daughters, 11 and 15, will certainly affect their mother's recovery. They "are constant traumatic reminders," McCracken said. "At every moment, they would tend to evoke memories, feelings, even flashbacks of the traumatic experience."

But the girls may have helped her cope with captivity, and the relationships she has with them could now make it easier for her to form attachments with others, van Wormer said.

"It's better that she had the children," she said. "She wasn't alone."

In many ways, the task of building a normal life will be harder for the daughters.

If they haven't already learned basic skills like reading and writing, it's not too late for them to do so -- though it will be more difficult because of their deprivation. And though they will need intensive therapy, they have one advantage of youth: adaptability.

But unlike Dugard, who according to her stepfather recalls a lot about her life before the kidnapping, they don't have any memory of a well-adjusted childhood to draw on.

All they have known is the bizarre dominion Garrido had in his Antioch home.

"These children have missed normal developmental stages for their entire lives," said psychologist Frederic Bemak of George Mason University, an expert in human trafficking. "It's almost like they are from another planet."

An Antioch resident whose backyard shares a fence with the Garrido property once spoke to a little girl through that fence, he said Friday.
She told him her name was Jaycee.
Patrick McQuaid, 27, was a child when he saw a blonde girl through the chicken wire fence that used to separate his Bown Lane backyard from the Garridos' yard. He said he believes it was around the summer of 1991, not long after Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop.
"I thought she was pretty," McQuaid said.
After he learned Jaycee's name, McQuaid, who had never seen any children through the fence before, asked whether she lived there or was just visiting. He said she told him she was living there, but before he could ask more questions Phillip Garrido came out and took her into the house.
"I didn't think anything of it. I was young," McQuaid said.
Soon after, Garrido built the eight-foot privacy fence that now separates the two yards. McQuaid said he never saw the girl again. The next time he saw children near the Garrido house was this summer, when he saw two young girls riding in Garrido's car.
Though the two children Dugard allegedly bore with Garrido are 15 and 11, McQuaid said the children he saw in Garrido's car looked younger — closer to 8 and 10 years old. He took note of it, he said, because he knew Garrido was a registered sex offender.
But Garrido had always had a reputation in the neighborhood for being weird, McQuaid said, and a nickname to reflect that.

"To all the kids in the neighborhood he was 'Creepy Phil,' " he said.

Poster's Note: Thanks to tears4caylee for bringing this possible connected case to our attention; You will find a duplicate post with a separate topic in the Long Term Cases Forum

Follow this link to this little girl who had the same possible fate as
Jaycee Dugard. It is possible that Garrido and his wife were the
kidnappers. Police looking for a link. Her age progression even looks
like Jaycee. I know it's morbid, but I find this fascinating....

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/garecht_michaela.html

MICHAELA GARECHT
Age Progressed

Among the cold cases police may reopen is the disappearance of
nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was kidnapped from a car park in
Hawyard,
about an hour's drive from the Garridos' home. The schoolgirl was
pulled into a car in November 1988, three months after Garrido was
released from jail for rape.
Two other girls also went missing in the area around the time Jaycee was snatched.

VERY STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS MISSING WITHIN A 148 MILE RADIUS BETWEEN 1979-1991

tears4caylee Today at 9:37 pm



I POSTED THIS LINK IT IS A GOOGLE MAP FOR THESE MISSING GIRLS.\\

STARTING WITH:
JAYCE DUGARD WAS KIDNAPPED FROM LAKE TAHOE CA WHICH IS A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH, BUT THE REST OF THESE GIRLS ARE ALL IN THE SAME AREA...

A: AMBER SWARTZ - PINOLE CALIFORNIA MISSING JUNE 1988
B: MICHAELA JOY GARECHT - HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA NOV 1988
C: ANGELA BUGAY - ANTIOCH CALIFORNIA NOV. 1983
D: TARA COSSEY - SAN PABLO CALIFORNIA JUNE 1978
E: EILEEN MISHELOFF DUBLIN, CA JAN. 1989
F: NICKI CAMPBELL FAIRFIELD, CA 1991

AND LET US NOT FORGET THAT JAYCEE DUGARD WAS FOUND IN ANTIOCH...CALIF. SAME PLACE THAT ANGELA BUGAY WENT MISSING..

[/size][/i][/b]WHAT IS STRANGE IS THAT THEY ARE ALL ON THE SAME ROUTE. COULD PHILIP GARIDO BE THE ONE THAT COMMITTED ALL THESE ABDUCTIONS? I HOPE SOMEONE LOOKS INTO THIS.


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WEDNESDAY MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP


An extensive search of the house of suspected kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido does not appear to have yielded any evidence to connect the couple to several unsolved murders in Pittsburg in the late 1990s, Pittsburg police Lt. Brian Addington said Tuesday.
Several items, including a bone fragment that may or may not be human, will require further forensic examination before they can be completely discounted, Addington said.
Pittsburg police, along with Antioch police, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI, searched the Garridos' house and an adjacent property on Walnut Avenue in unincorporated Contra Costa County just outside of Antioch for four days.
Among other things, they were looking for evidence that could connect the couple to the unsolved murders of Lisa Norrell, 15, Jessica Frederick, 24, and Rachel Cruise, 32, Addington said.
Antioch police and the sheriff's office were also looking for evidence that would connect the Garridos to crimes in their jurisdictions.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in June 1991 from in front of her South Lake Tahoe home and holding her captive for the past 18 years in their home.
The couple has been charged in El Dorado County Superior Court with a total of 29 felonies, including kidnapping, forcible rape and false imprisonment. They pleaded not guilty to the charges on Friday, according to the district attorney's office.
Pittsburg police are continuing to investigate the unsolved murder cases and are hoping that the extensive media coverage of the search will renew the public's interest in the cases and bring fresh leads to the investigation.
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The state parole agent who helped solve the 18-year-old kidnapping case of Jaycee Dugard had been Phillip Garrido's parole supervisor for the past nine months, but never saw Dugard or the two children she had with Garrido, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Gordon Hinkle said Tuesday.
Over the years, Garrido, the registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping Dugard 18 years ago, has had several different parole agents and the CDCR is examining their supervision of him to see what they could have done to have discovered the victims earlier, Hinkle said.
The parole officer supervising Garrido when he was arrested last Wednesday had met with Garrido two to three times a month and made unannounced visits to his house, but never saw any evidence to lead him to believe that Dugard and her two daughters, ages 11 and 15, were being kept in the backyard, Hinkle said.
Garrido was on parole after being convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman near Lake Tahoe in 1976. He was sentenced in 1977 to 50 years in prison, according to Nevada Department of Corrections spokeswoman Suzanne Pardee.
He served nine years in federal and state prisons, but was paroled to California in 1988, according to Pardee.
Garrido was out on parole in 1991 when Dugard was kidnapped, and, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's office, is believed to have been living at the home on Walnut Avenue with his wife when they took her.
Garrido was sent back to prison for a month in 1993 for violating his parole, according to Brad Murray, a correctional systems officer at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Jaycee Lee Dugard prior to her abduction in 1991. (AP)

A pink ribbon parade is planned for Jaycee Lee Dugard Sunday to celebrate her reappearance after 18 years of captivity.
Jaycee was kidnapped in 1991 from a school bus stop when she was only 11-years-old.
The celebration is being organized by Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. According to the Tahoe Daily Tribune, the parade will begin at the El Dorado County branch library on Rufus Allen Blvd. and proceed along Hwy. 50 to South Tahoe Middle School.
The route is the reverse of that walked on the 10th anniversary of Jaycee’s disappearance in 2001, according to Kathay Lovell, a South Lake Tahoe City Council member.
The theme of the parade is pink because that was Jaycee’s favorite color and her classmates at the time of her disappearance had started a pink ribbon campaign hoping for her safe return home

For the complete story click here: http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Pink-ribbon-parade-for-Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-to-take-place-on-Sunday

Terry Probyn took a brush to her daughter's blond hair and slowly combed
through it — a tender ritual she had not performed in 18 years, when
her girl, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was just 11. Reunited with Jaycee last week in Northern California, Probyn
got to play mother again to the girl who was snatched away from her —
touching her hair, kissing her face, delighting at the sound of her
voice.
Tina Dugard, Terry's sister and Jaycee's aunt, sat and watched — disbelief mingled with joy.

"I remember thinking, 'Wow, she's French-braiding Jaycee's hair for the first time in 18 years,' " Tina Dugard said.

The reunification of Terry Probyn with her daughter — and her
interactions, for the first time, with Jaycee's two daughters, 11 and
15 — played out in private as the chilling tale of Jaycee's alleged
abductor, Phillip Craig Garrido, seized headlines worldwide.
In an exclusive interview with the Orange County Register, Tina
Dugard spoke for the first time publicly about how the reunified family
is doing. She spent five days with Probyn, Jaycee and the two girls.
"There's a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness.
. . . Jaycee and her girls are happy," said Tina Dugard, who was 13
when Jaycee was born and very close to her.
Terry Probyn lived with her sister for 10 years before recently moving out.

"People probably want to think that it's been this horrible, scary thing for all of us,"

Tina Dugard said of the past several days as the family sought to reconnect
in cloistered rooms, with law enforcement officials and counselors
hovering — and media from around the world trying to interview them.
"(But) the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago, and
continued to happen for the last 18 years. The darkness and despair
(has lifted.)"
Dugard pointed to a Barbie doll, still in its box, sitting on a table in her living room.

It was a Christmas present for Jaycee the year she disappeared, 1991 — a present Dugard never was able to give her niece.

Jaycee was kidnapped earlier that year after her family moved to South Lake Tahoe.

"I kept thinking, 'Tomorrow. They'll find her tomorrow,' " Dugard recalled. "Then it was, 'For sure by the weekend.'

"Then it was, 'By Thanksgiving. I know it won't pass.' And then, 'For sure it will be Christmas.' "

Instead of ripping open the box containing her Happy Holidays
Christmas Barbie, Jaycee was thrown into her own airtight container:
the squalid Antioch-area backyard of a convicted rapist and registered
sex offender who would go on to father Jaycee's daughters, according to
authorities.
Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week
and charged in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard.
The couple has pleaded not guilty.
Tina Dugard would not comment on aspects of the ongoing
investigation, such as how Jaycee and her daughters were treated by the
Garridos.
She said Jaycee's daughters "know what's been going on," but
they have not been allowed to watch television or read any coverage of
the Garrido story.
She said she has not pressed Jaycee and her daughters to discuss life in the cluttered backyard collection of tents and shacks.

"Right now, it's about reconnecting," she said.

She wouldn't say whether the two girls, as some media outlets have reported, believed Jaycee was their older sister.

"I have heard them call my sister 'Mom,' " Dugard said. " (They say) 'Where's Mom?'"

While in captivity, Jaycee was able to teach her girls to read
and write. Dugard said she's not sure how, although photos of the
compound show the three had access to books.
"They are educated and bright," she said of Jaycee's children,
whose names have been reported as Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11. Dugard
would not comment on whether those names are accurate.
"It's clear they've been on the Internet and know a lot of
things," Dugard said. "It's clear that Jaycee did a great job with the
limited resources she had and her limited education."
During her five-day visit, Dugard recalled staring up at the
sky on a starry night with one of Jaycee's daughters, who proceeded to
point out the names of constellations.
Another daughter happened upon a plant.

"That's a nasturtium!" she blurted out. "It's edible. Do you want to eat it?"

Dugard, 42, was making a dinner salad when she got a call from a
sheriff's investigator in El Dorado County last Wednesday. He was
looking for Terry Probyn.
She then received a call from Terry's other daughter, 19-year-old Shayna, who told her Jaycee had been found.

"I don't know what I felt ... I just said, 'What?' I'm sure I
repeated that word several times . . . we both started crying
hysterically."
Dugard's heart raced and her stomach churned all night.

She finally fell asleep for an hour, almost missing the
early-morning flight from Ontario Airport with Terry Probyn and Shayna
to reunite with Jaycee and meet her daughters.
FBI officials met the three at an undisclosed location.

Probyn, 50, was the first to meet Jaycee and the girls — separately, in a room.

Then it was Tina Dugard's turn.

Jaycee Dugard threw open her arms.

"Auntie Tina!"

The two instantly recognized each other.

"I looked at her and I knew right away. After 18 years, you have a sense of, 'Could this possibly be true?'"

Jaycee instantly recognized her, she said.

"She absolutely knew who I was," Tina said. "She remembered me right away. . . . It was one of the happiest moments of my life."

Tina can't remember what she told Jaycee.

"I went forward and cried and hugged her and held her as tight as I possibly could. It was surreal, and it was fabulous."

Tina said Jaycee and the girls looked healthy — although she
declined to detail their appearances, saying she wanted to respect
their privacy.
"She does seem like a 29-year-old woman," she said of Jaycee. "She's fabulous, and she's beautiful."

The girls have their mother's blond hair and bright blue eyes and big smile, she said.

Shayna told her sister, Jaycee, that she was so happy to meet
her — a girl she had known until then only through old photographs and
family movies, and media accounts of her abduction.
There was an "instant connection . . . it was almost a genetic
connection . . . an instant sense of family, for all of us," Tina said.
During the next several days, the six — Tina and Terry, Jaycee and her daughters, and Shayna — did "normal" family things.

"(There was) laughing and crying and sitting quietly and holding hands," Dugard said.

"All three are very tight. There was a lot of sitting next (to each other). Holding hands.

She recalled the youngest daughter sitting next to her sister on
a love seat and throwing her legs over her — just like a sister would
do.
One night, they played the board game "Apples to Apples."

Tina and Jaycee watched the movie "Enchanted" on DVD, on another night.

They talked about recent movies, and Jaycee said she wanted to see the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy, "The Proposal."

Jaycee read a lot.

"She likes mysteries," Tina said.

Tina drew pictures with Jaycee's girls.

They also played Nintendo DS. One of the girls loves the "Zelda" games, and both love "Super Mario Smash Brothers."

One day, Tina and one of Jaycee's daughters lay on the grass.

They stared at the clouds and saw fluffy cotton shapes.

"It was a beautiful day," Tina Dugard said.

The girls talked of their love of animals, and climbing trees.

Dugard, a teacher for 18 years who now teaches third-graders,
would touch Jaycee and her girls a lot — as if to say, "you're real —
you're really here."
Dugard declined to speculate on how Jaycee and her daughters
will fare during the coming weeks, months and years — though she said
counseling will play a part.
She is optimistic about the girls.

"I'm a teacher. I know kids. And I can tell you that they are a normal 11- and 15-year-old."

For now, the family is focusing on the moment — and getting to know each other.

"It's all about strengthening those bonds that really didn't weaken, but needed to be brought back together," Dugard said.

"We are all so overjoyed. My sister has spontaneous moments of joy.

We'll be talking, and she'll just suddenly burst into happy tears, with a big smile on her face . . .

"The fact that (Jaycee) is home sinks in in little pieces . . .
she's there, and we know she's there, but sometimes you're just taken
aback by the joy, and it bursts out.
"I've had a lot of happy things happen in my life, but it's a different kind of happy, because it's a happy you don't expect."

For now, Dugard doesn't want to dwell on the dark, horrible things that authorities believe happened in Garrido's backyard.

"I may never know what happened (to Jaycee)," she said. "But she's home."

Jaycee Lee Dugard’s father wants to kill sex offender Phillip Garrido
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The biological father of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl who was kidnapped and held captive for 18 years, said he wants to kill her abductor, Phillip Garrido. Kenneth Slayton told the Mirror that if he ever met Garrido, the convicted sex offender would... Read more »