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

Jaycee Dugard found ... according to Jaycee Dugard: Kidnap victim walked into station, say cops





LOS ANGELES - A California girl snatched by kidnappers almost two decades ago miraculously has been found alive, cops said today.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was abducted from in front of her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, walked into a police station in suburban San Francisco Wednesday and identified herself.

The woman believed to be Dugard is now 29.

ABC News reported that Philllip and Nancy Garrido, of Concord, Calif., have been charged with kidnapping to commit rape. They are behind bars on $1 million bail, court records said.

Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department insisted no one had been charged in the case yet.

"Since the date of occurrence the investigation has been ongoing and today's events could bring it to resolution," Lt. Bryan Golmitz of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department said.

Elated mom Terry Probyn was en route from her Southern California home to meet with her daughter after speaking with her briefly on the phone.

"Jaycee remembers everything," Carl Probyn, her stepfather, told CNN. "They talked back and forth and she had the right answers to all my wife's questions."

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

Authorities are withholding further details until a press conference set for 3 p.m. today.

Dugard was snatched from in front of her home near the Nevada state line on June 10, 1991.

A vehicle with two people inside drove up to Jaycee Dugard as she waited for at a school bus stop.

They bundled her into the vehicle and drove off as her horrified stepfather watched.

The kidnapping terrified the small community and led to a massive manhunt.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/08/27/2009-08-27_jaycee_lee_dugard_found__according_to_jaycee_lee_dugard_kidnap_victim_walked_int.html

California cops believe 1991 kidnap victim found alive

12:12 PM CDT on Thursday, August 27, 2009

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sheriff's officials say they believe they've found a woman alive after she was kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991 outside her South Lake Tahoe home.

Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department says a woman came into the Concord police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, the victim of a 1991 abduction.

Lovell says deputies are 99 percent sure it's Dugard. He says DNA tests were being conducted.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather was watching.

Lovell says two people have been taken into custody.

The sheriff's department has scheduled a news conference to discuss the case later Thursday.
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Cops believe 1991 kidnap victim found alive
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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.

Timeline: Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090827/NEWS/90827009/1321/NEWS


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.

Kidnapped California child returns as woman
Update at 1:14 p.m. ET: The Sacramento Bee reports that authorities have confirmed that the woman who walked into a police station is Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 when she was 11. Authorities plan a news conference at 6 p.m. ET. "It's like winning the Lotto," said Dugard's stepfather, who said he remained under suspicion all these years.

A woman kidnapped 18 years ago from her California home has reportedly surfaced in Concord, Calif., the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Jaycee Dugard, who would be 29 today, apparently walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday, the Chronicle says. A news conference is scheduled for today.

Two people have been taken into custody, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says.

The blue-eyed, blond 11-year-old was last seen on June 10, 1991, as she walked to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. The Chronicle reports that her stepfather watched helplessly from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away when 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.

Dugard's mother was on her way from her Southern California home for a reunion with her daughter, the Chronicle reports. We'll keep an eye on this.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/08/kidnapped-california-child-returns-as-woman.html

Calif. Girl Kidnapped 18 Years Ago Found Alive
Jaycee Lee Dugard's Stepfather Says FBI Claims To Have People Responsible For Her Disapperance

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department says a little girl kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe in 1991 has been found alive and in good health. Yesterday, a woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard showed up at a police station in Contra Costa County. This morning, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department confirms a man and woman are in custody in relation to the case.

Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn is flying to Northern California from her home in Southern California to meet with Jaycee.

CBS station KOVR-TV in Sacramento spoke with Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn, who says the FBI facilitated a phone call between the woman in Concord and Dugard's mother Terry who now lives in Riverside County. According to Carl Probyn, this woman walked into a Bay Area police station identifying herself as Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11-years-old at the time of her disappearance.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department has announced they will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss the high-profile kidnapping case from 1991.

Dugard was kidnapped the morning of June 10, 1991, while walking from her home to a school bus stop in Meyers. Her stepfather said he watched a stranger pull up and yank Jaycee Lee into a two toned gray sedan as she kicked and screamed. Probyn believed a man and woman were in the vehicle. Although there were several false sightings, Dugard was never seen again.
KOVR-TV investigated the cold case in 2003 when there was renewed hope Dugard may be alive. There were several similarities to the Elizabeth Smart case out of Utah. Smart and Dugard resemble one another. Both girls were abducted in the month of June, 11 years apart. One of Smart's alleged captors, Wanda Barzee resembled the female captor in the composite sketch in Dugard's case. Dugard was kidnapped near Highway 50 which leads to Salt Lake City.

Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom on June 5, 2002 at the age of 14. She was found alive nine months later about 18 miles from her home. Smart's alleged captors, Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee have yet to go before a jury in the disappearance after being found incompetent to stand trial. Mitchell reportedly thought God told him Smart should be his second wife.

In May of 2003, shortly after Smart was reunited with her family, Dugard's mother Terry Probyn, neighbors, and investigators took a look at the possibility the cases were connected. Probyn told KOVR-TV she was praying her daughter was still alive, and questioned whether Dugard could've been kidnapped by religious cult members. Although El Dorado County Detectives reached out to the Salt Lake City investigators in the Smart case, the Dugard case remained cold.

South Lake Tahoe woman missing 18 years surfaces in Concord, two arrested

CONCORD — Jaycee Dugard, who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home for 18 years, has surfaced in Concord, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. Two people have been arrested in the case.

Jaycee Dugard, now 29, was abducted in Meyers, in El Dorado County, on June 10, 1991 as her stepfather watched helplessly. The case was cold for nearly 20 years as investigators struggled to make headway into what had happened to the girl. National talk shows like "Geraldo" intermittently brought attention back to the disappearance.

A husband and wife have been arrested in connection with the case and booked into County Jail in Martinez. Phillip Garrido, 58, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy, kidnapping, rape, lewd acts with a minor, and sexual penetration. His wife, Nancy, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping. Both are being held on $1 million bail.

Garrido is a registered sex offender stemming from a prior rape conviction. El Dorado sheriff's deputies and FBI agents served a search warrant this morning at the Garridos' home in Antioch.

Further details about the reappearance were expected from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department at a press conference on the case later today.

A woman claiming to be Dugard walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday afternoon. Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, spoke with the woman and is en route to
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Northern California from her Riverside County home.

Carl Probyn told Bay Area News Group this morning that he got a call from his wife shortly after the news of Dugard's reappearance.

"She said, 'They found Jaycee. She's alive,'" Carl Probyn said. "We cried for about two minutes."

After the woman appeared at the police station, an FBI agent called Terry Probyn and put her on the phone with Jaycee, Carl Probyn said. At first, Terry Probyn thought it was a joke, but then the two women had a conversation that convinced her that she was talking to her missing daughter, he said.

"She believes it was her," Carl Probyn said. "She said Jaycee remembers everything."

Carl Probyn had watched in 1991 as a man and a woman drove by and snatched up Dugard as she walked to a bus stop near their home. He said he is thrilled at the prospect of his stepdaughter being found alive.

"It's like winning the Lotto," Carl Probyn said. "You never dream after 18 years you'll get her back."

Check back later for updates to this story.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_13214483

This story is amazing! It makes HOPE again for the Aji's & Haleigh's of the world. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to wait 18 years for a family member to come home BUT SHE DID!

It took too long, but it is still amazing news. I hope we get a similar outcome with Haleigh Cummings, and I hope it doesn't take 18 years.

Sheriff: Kidnap victim found alive 18 years later
Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 when she was abducted near South Lake Tahoe



An undated screenshot shows an FBI flyer for Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in California in 1991. Dugard reappeared after 18 years and got in touch with the police in Concord in northern California.


SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman who was 11 years old when she was abducted in 1991 on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe has been located alive and in good health, sheriff's officials said Thursday.

Media reports said the woman walked into a police station in Antioch and then was taken to the Concord police station on Wednesday. She told police 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.

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Wowsers. What a feeling that must be for her mom.

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.

Photos: Jaycee Lee Durgard Found Alive

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.

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

Here is an aerial view of the backyard where Jaycee was held.

I heard on HLN that Jaycee also has two children with her kidnapper. Did I hear that correctly? Also that they all had to live in the back yard. No one went to school or to the doctor. How horrific!

OMG...thank you guys for this update. It's unbelievable she's been found alive. Yet, so horrific at what her life has been in these new breaking details. 18 years of abuse, having to bear this rapist's children and living as a captive. My heart breaks for her and the children. Thank God for the window out that she was somehow able to walk into that police station. Imagine the pain and suffering her mother has gone through all of these years, wondering. Now she can hold and hug her baby again, I wish them well.

I cant wait for more details. How did she get away? Were her kids with her at the station? Any pictures of her and her family now? Lets get rolling here!

I cannot even imagine the happiness her family feels right now!

Prison officials said Garrido admitted the kidnapping after meeting with his parole officer. He brought Dugard and the two children, ages 11 and 15, to the meeting.

Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said.

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.

Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison and served nearly 11 years in a federal prison for a federal kidnapping conviction, said Suzanne Pardee, a spokeswoman for Nevada state prisons.

He also served seven months in a Nevada prison for a conviction of rape by force or fear. Pardee said Garrido was paroled in August 1988.

Dugard was in good health when she came into a San Francisco Bay area station. She was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.

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Additional info I found on the above site. Hope it works for you.

This poor girl was living with the devil.......pure evil.

ooops..sorry.. trigger happy

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."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA0Q19EMR7.DTL#ixzz0PS9oBCS8

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
A sex offender accused of fathering two children with a girl he kidnapped in 1991 claims 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 over the past 18 years.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, is accused of taking Jaycee Lee Dugard from her home in the El Dorado County community of Meyers when she was 11 years old.

http://www.kcra.com/news/20591281/detail.html

If you go to the second link, you can listen to an interview with Garrido. He is obviously delusional.

FystyAngel wrote:I heard on HLN that Jaycee also has two children with her kidnapper. Did I hear that correctly? Also that they all had to live in the back yard. No one went to school or to the doctor. How horrific!

Hi, Fysty! Yes, you heard correctly. That poor woman has two children fathered by that pervert. Apparently, she & her children were kept in the back yard all that time. That monster should be castrated. This story is so incredible, and horrifying at the same time. I really cannot understand how this monster's wife could allow such a thing to happen? She needs to be locked up for the rest of her miserable life, along with her pig of a husband.

Morning show interviews with Jaycee Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn.

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I'm still trying to get this whole story straight in my mind. I wish more details would be released; like WHY would he have them out handing out flyers? Did he want to get caught?
I just saw a clip of Elizabeth Smart with her father on HLN and what a beautiful girl she is now. She seems to have "adjusted" to her tragedy.
Miracles do happen, as proven by this story. But can you imagine all the therapy, etc. it will take for these people to move on with their lives? These two children have never even been to school or to a doctor???
The children, fathered by the man who abducted this young beautiful girl, will forever be a reminder to Jaycee of what her life was like all these years. I pray they can all get the help they need and have productive lives.