Jaycee Dugard found ALIVE...Kidnap victim walked into station, say cops

Gawd, this is just so unreal. I hurt so badly for the mothers hoping news from Jaycee's recovery would bring their babies home. Maybe it will bring information, just not what they wanted to hear.

As gruesome as this discovery is, Iam thankful that LE is throughly searching the property.Garrido & his wife need to be held accountable for everything they have done.
Hopefully Jaycee will tell LE or Counselers any information about what went on while she was being held there.Maybe she has told them something....might be why they are searching.

Even though the other missing girls were abducted before Jaycee, she may have information.There is also the possibility that JC had other children.

Michelle, I have wondered the same thing about Jaycee having other children. And with the reports of random poured slabs, I think turning these over and going under the sheds as well is very crucial. I'm glad they are going over both properties with a fine tooth comb. It's very chilling to hear of bones being found.

What's also haunting are the reports from neighbors years ago about seeing 5 blonde girls in the backyard.

I've been wondering, since first hearing that Jaycee had two girls, whether or not she could have had "male" children and if so, what would the monster have done with them??? Surely he wouldn't want the to grow up. Just curious.

It is hard to tell who he had in that yard. Jaycee could have had more children, male or female. It is also possible that he had those other two missing girls at one time.

It just amazes me that this could go on for 18 years without anyone knowing anything. Also, I think it's horrid that the wife could possibly get less charges that the monster himself, considering that she had to have kept Jaycee while he was in prison. On HLN, I heard them talking about how the wife was in a great position to get immunity or at the very least, lesser charges, if she just talks to LE. OMG, IMO, this woman deserves just as much as the monster himself.

The wife should not be given immunity. You are right about her keeping Jaycee while he was in prison, and she is the one who got out of the car and grabbed Jaycee.

I don't think the wife should have a reduced sentence just for information.LE can get the information from Jaycee.She knows what has been done to her.I think she should be questioned gently by a child psychologist or a really good psychiatrist.
One of the articles I read about Jaycee said police haven't questioned her.Iam sure they had to have questioned her when they first found her.I will find the link.

Sunday September 20,2009
By Mike Parker in Los Angeles

AS details of sex slave Jaycee Dugard’s ordeal began to emerge yesterday, publishers and Hollywood studios began a multi-million dollar bidding war for the rights to her ­horrifying life story.


PRISONER: Jaycee Dugard was reduced to eating bugs and worms

It has been revealed that in the early days of her captivity, the terrified schoolgirl was so hungry she ate bugs and worms in the rambling back garden where she was held in tents and lock-up sheds.

She had to use a garden hose to shower outside, even in the depths of winter, say detectives guarding her and her two daughters, fathered by kidnapper Phillip Garrido.

But the public are desperate for the full story of how Jaycee, now 29, survived after being snatched on her way to a school bus stop when she was only 11.

A New York literary agent, who estimates the book and film rights to be worth up to $12million, said: “You couldn’t dream up a script like this. Americans can’t wait to hear the story from the girl who lived it.”

A Hollywood studio producer said last night: “Everyone is in the market for this story. Poor Jaycee’s life may have been hell for 18 years but she’ll never want for anything for the rest of it.”


PRiSON: The ramshackle backyard where Jaycee had to live in squalor for 18 years

Offers from around the world are being pitched through Jaycee’s ­stepfather Carl Probyn, who says he and her mother Terry divorced over the “unbearable strain” caused by her disappearance.

Police Lieutenant Kurt Von Savoy, who is leading the investigation, will say no more than Jaycee is still being “debriefed” at a “safe house” in the San Francisco Bay area.

But a source close to the case revealed: “I’ve seen two officers crying after spending time with her. Some details, ­especially of the sexual attacks on her, will come out eventually in court but they are unprintable, unpalatable and ­unimaginable.”

A psychiatrist who has spent at least 150 hours with Jaycee is ­convinced she is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, a psychological state sometimes seen in hostages, in which the victim shows loyalty, even affection towards the captor.

One therapy being suggested is for Jaycee to write a letter to Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, who last week entered not guilty pleas to 29 charges of kidnapping, rape and false ­imprisonment.

Garrido, a registered sex offender, has been linked to six child abductions and murders stretching back years within a 400-mile radius of the ramshackle home in Antioch, California, where Jaycee was held.

Talking about the letter therapy, a source said: “She has been told that she need not mail it to them but it’s being seen as one small way of helping her understand her feelings .”

Even if Jaycee does not write, her stepfather Mr Probyn, 61, yesterday said that he intends to write regularly to Garrido and his wife .

“I will be telling them how well our family is doing and how wonderful things are outside prison, where I pray he and his wife rot until the day they die,” he said.

“I’ll be letting him know we’re at Disneyland, or out having a meal, laughing and enjoying ourselves.

“There is no way this monster can ever pay for what he and his wife did but I will do everything in my power for the rest of my life to add to the misery of theirs.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/128566

$12 million doesn't even begin to cover what Jaycee has been through. She probably is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and I hope she gets all the psychiatric help she needs to get better.

Iam glad Jaycee is getting to speak with a pyschiatrist.She probably does have mixed feelings about her captors....I assume it would be just like having mixed feelings about a parent who raised you but did a horrible job.

ABC7 News Video Update

Photo: Ralph Hernandez was hired as a private investigator by Phillip Garrido.

NEW YORK (CBS) A 33-year law enforcement veteran who sat in Phillip Garrido’s living room and may have met Jaycee Lee Dugard, said the man accused of kidnapping and holding Dugard captive for 18 years, was "normal in every which way." And he had spoken with Garrido only two weeks before his arrest.

If Ralph Hernandez, who has held nearly every position from patrol officer to acting chief in three different law enforcement agencies, didn't see anything suspicious, who would have?

"I’ve been through a lot of homes... I’ve also encountered a lot of people who needed help," Hernandez said. "And this was not the situation that existed there."

Early in 2008, Garrido hired Hernandez, who works in California as a private investigator, to verify six declarations from local businesspeople stating that a black box Garrido created allowed him to communicate without speaking. Garrido did not allow Hernandez to view the device view for fear of him becoming biased, Hernandez said.

On February 1, 2008, Garrido invited Hernandez to his Antioch, Calif., home where the two sat in the living room and went over documents related to Garrido's invention. Hernandez says Garrido was "excited" about the discovery, but did not seem psychologically unstable.

While Hernandez was there, he met Garrido's wife Nancy, and "a young lady who may have been Jaycee or her oldest daughter." Hernandez said Garrido either introduced the woman as his own daughter or the daughter of a friend. He does not specifically recall.

"He was not unusual acting, he was not dressed wrong, was not exhibiting emotional problems nor was his wife or the young lady," Hernandez said.

Garrido brazenly told the ex-police officer that he was on parole, but instead of sharing the chilling story of his first rape-kidnap in 1976, he merely told Hernandez that he had assaulted someone and "taken something from them."

The truth is that in 1976, Garrido, after allegedly ingesting four doses of LSD, kidnapped a young woman and raped her for about eight hours in a storage unit which appeared to have been set up for that purpose.

When Crimesider asked Hernandez whether he would have been suspicious of Garrido had he known of his violent record against young women, he replied "hell yes."

Hernandez added that the Garrido home when he saw it bore little resemblance to the wreck shown in recent photos. He noted that when conducting searches, law enforcement often "trashes the place" and said that that may be why the house was in a state of disarray.

In the end, Hernandez never saw anything suspicious, but, he noted, he was there to oversee paperwork, not to investigate a crime.

"If the young lady had said something, I would have done something immediately," he said. "But this was not the case, unfortunately."

He added, "In hindsight, I wish she would’ve said something because I sure as heck would have done something."

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 when she was only 11 years old. Phillip and Nancy Garrido are charged with taking the young girl, raping her, and imprisoning her, and the two children she alleged sired with Phillip Garrido, in their backyard for 18 years.

I don't think Hernandez would have suspected anything even if he was familiar with Jaycee's case. It wouldn't occur to most people that a normal looking young lady showing no signs of distress was a kidnap victim from eighteen years ago.

First pictures of Jaycee Dugard published


LOS ANGELES — The first photograph of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard since she was found after her 18-year captivity was published by People magazine on its website Wednesday.

Dugard was at the center of a worldwide media frenzy in August when she was found alive nearly two decades after she was abducted outside her home by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido in South Lake Tahoe in 1991.

Now 29, Dugard has spent the past two months in seclusion with her mother, Terry Probyn, 50, and the two daughters aged 15 and 11 who were fathered by her alleged kidnapper Garrido.

In a photo for the cover of People magazine's latest issue due out on Friday, a smiling Dugard appears above the headline: "I'm so happy to be back."

In a brief story accompanying the photo, People reported that Dugard has begun a slow process of recovery and has spend her time riding horses, cooking meals and is considering working on a book.

"I'm so happy to be back with my family," Dugard was quoted as saying.

Terry Probyn's stepmother Joan Curry meanwhile revealed: "They live a surprisingly normal life, considering the circumstances."

Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy are accused of abducting Dugard and holding her prisoner in a secret compound hidden behind their home in the town of Antioch, east of San Francisco.

The couple have pleaded not guilty to a 29-count indictment that includes charges of kidnapping and rape.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/10/14/first-pictures-of-jaycee-dugard-published.aspx

I'm so happy for Jaycee and her family...God Bless them!

What an absolutely beautiful smile on her face! She is "beaming", don't you think? I'm so happy for her. I'm sure she has lots of therapy to go through but that smile says it all.

Jaycee looks amazing. I'm glad she seems to be doing well. She must be so happy to have her freedom and be able to spend her time riding horses and catching up on lost time with her mother.

By Sara Nelson
Last updated at 3:48 PM on 20th October 2009



Riding a horse as her proud mother looks on, it’s hard to believe this young woman is recovering from an 18 year ordeal which saw her abducted and bear two children to her rapist keeper.

But as this picture reveals, Jaycee Lee Dugard is determined to lead a normal existence - and that includes going back to school.

Jaycee, who was snatched at the age of 11, was reunited with her relatives two months ago.

She had spent 18 years living in captivity in squalid conditions, being raped and giving birth to two children when she was scarcely an adult herself.

Now that the trio has been rescued, her most pressing concern is to ensure both her and her daughters receive the education that was denied to them.

Jaycee received no tutoring after being kidnapped but tried to educate her daughters as best she could.

Recent tests showed that the girls have high levels of intelligence, equivalent to those of school-educated children.

The 29-year-old mother of two plans to spend the proceeds from a forthcoming book about her ordeal on an educational trust for herself and her daughters.

She is also said to be trying to pluck up the courage to rejoin mainstream education.

Although Jaycee is likely to need a personal tutor to prepare herself for college, her daughters could be ready to take up places in a private school next year, the Times reported.

A family friend said: ‘Meeting her, if you didn’t know what happened you would never in a million years.

‘She’s friendly, she jokes, she’s a sweet girl and very kind. She also has a real innocence in her eyes.’

Jaycee is making up for lost time with her mother, Terry Probyn and her half-sister Shayna, 19, who was just a toddler when she went missing.

‘I’m so happy to be back with my family,’ she said.

Family lawer McGregor Scott added: ‘She is very upbeat, giddy that she’s with her family. She smiles a lot.’

Jaycee’s daughters Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11, are also adjusting to their new surroundings. They had been brought up to believe that Jaycee was their big sister.

‘The girls have accepted that Jaycee is their mother,’ a source told Hello!

‘Because of the unconditional, protective love she showed them when they thought she was their big sister, it’s more a case of switching titles – the love is still there.’

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are accused of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1221721/I-want-to-school-Kidnap-victim-Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-continue-education-18-years-abduction.html#ixzz0UVlRAfbu

Oh My...Isn't she just absolutely beautiful? I hope that she gets to do anything she wants with the rest of her life. She has so much to look forward to.