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"The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard took place on June 10, 1991. Jaycee was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe at the age of 11 and was missing for over 18 years. On August 26, 2009 Dugard appeared in the office of her alleged kidnapper's parole officer in California and on August 27 she was confirmed to be Jaycee Lee,[1][2] with a DNA test pending.
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Abduction
On June 10, 1991 Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn saw two people in a gray sedan (possibly a Mercury Monarch or Mercury Zephyr)[3] make a U-turn at the school bus stop where she was waiting and drag her into the car, screaming. After a lengthy investigation police uncovered no further information about the kidnapping.[1] Her stepfather was a suspect in her disappearance and took several lie-detector tests.[4] The case drew nation-wide attention and was featured many times on the crime-stopping television show America's Most Wanted.[5]
In 2002 police searched the vacation property of a defrocked priest who lived in the area but found nothing.[6]
[edit]Time as a captive
Law enforcement officers believe Jaycee Lee Dugard was kept in an outdoor shed in a hidden area behind Phillip Garrido's house where she was abused as a sex slave by Garrido and his wife Nancy. The hidden area of the yard also included sheds, two tents and what has been described as a "rudimentary’ camping-style shower and toilet." Electricity was supplied by an extension cord that extended into the hidden area.[7] Dugard became pregnant at age 14 and was pregnant several more times during her captivity, bearing at least two daughters, who reportedly told a neighbor she was their older sister.[8] Dugard was said to be in good physical health but neither she nor her daughters had been to school or had seen a doctor in the years since she was abducted.[9][10][11]
Throughout Dugard's long captivity Garrido was under lifetime parole supervision for an earlier rape and was reportedly wearing a GPS tracking bracelet for at least some of the time that he and his wife allegedly held Dugard captive behind their home.[8]
[edit]Reappearance
On August 25, 2009 Phillip Garrido brought two girls, ages 11 and 15, to UC Berkeley where he began distributing religious literature. A campus officer spotted them, became wary of the girls' behaviour towards him and ran a background check. After learning of Garrido's 1971 rape conviction she contacted his parole officer.
Garrido brought the two girls to a parole meeting the next day, along with a woman named "Allissa." After being separated from Garrido for a further interview, the three were found to be Jaycee and the two children she had borne in captivity. Garrido and his wife were then arrested by local police. An FBI agent put Jaycee on the telephone with her mother Terry Probyn, who at first thought it was a prank call.[12][13]
Dugard was reported to be "largely uneducated" after 18 years in captivity. "My wife says that Jaycee looks good," Carl Probyn told a journalist. "She looks almost like when she was kidnapped. She looks very young. She doesn't look 29 at all." However, Probyn also said, "Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this man. There's really a guilt trip here." Probyn said Garrido, one of the alleged kidnappers, had "ruined our lives. Maybe changed his life but it sure screwed ours up."[14]
[edit]Alleged abductors
Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 55, of Antioch, California[15] were arrested in connection with Dugard's abduction. Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender[16] who had spent time in Leavenworth Penitentiary following a 1971 conviction for rape.[17][18] His brother reportedly said that as a teenager, Garrido had taken LSD and had met his wife Nancy in prison.[14]
KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California interviewed Garrido in his jail cell by telephone. During the interview Garrido said that, "In the end, this is going to be a powerful, heartwarming story." He also repeatedly told the reporter that he had "filed documents" with the FBI that, when they were revealed, would cause people to "fall over backwards" and that he could not reveal more because he "had to protect law enforcement" and that "what happened" [...] was "something that humans have not understood well." [19]
"My life has been straightened out.” [...] “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 at the beginning, but I turned my life completely around."[20]
Garrido also kept an internet blog associated with God’s Desire church. In the blog he said that he had the power to control sound with his mind:
“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” [...] “I have produced a set of voices by effectively controlling the sound to pronounce words through my own mental powers.” [20]
Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Jaycee's reappearance could support data which has shown kidnappers who are not family members "typically aren't child killers." Allen was quoted as saying, "This provides hope for so many searching families."
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