Jaycee Dugard found 18 years later!!

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Jaycee Dugard found 18 years later!!
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Thu, 08-27-2009 - 4:07pm

I live near SLT. Her pictures are still around, because her family never stopped looking for her. I remember that her dad had to chase after the kidnappers on his bike, because his car was up on a jack......he couldn't catch up, he was always held suspect by some....how heartbreaking that must have been for him.


Now it appears she has been found. A happy ending, in that she is alive, but what has been lost to her and her family can never be returned.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_kidnapped_girl_found


By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer Juliet Williams, Associated Press Writer – 19 mins ago


SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Police say a convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in the kidnapping of an 11-year-old in 1991 who recently walked into a Northern California police station.


Police say 58-year-old Phillip Garrido and his 54-year-old wife Nancy Garrido were arrested in the kidnapping case Wednesday. The Megan's Law database says Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear.


The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago.


The woman was in good health. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.


THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.


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. Two people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.


The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago, said sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


In media reports at the time, the girl's stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and screamed at neighbors to call 911.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 8:37am

Stockholm syndrome


Much more at link.........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome


The Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological shift that occurs in captives when they are threatened gravely but shown acts of kindness by their captors. Captives who exhibit the syndrome tend to sympathize with and think highly of their captors, at times believing that the captors are showing them favor stemming from inherent kindness. Such captives fail to recognize that their captors' choices are essentially self-serving. When subjected to prolonged captivity, these captives can develop a strong bond with their captors, in some cases including a sexual interest.


Crime Info 101: Jaycee Dugard and Stockholm syndrome, what is it? Part 2


As word of the incredible discovery of Jaycee Dugard and her two children has swept across the country, many people want to know why she didn’t take advantage of previous opportunities to escape. The answer to Jaycee Dugard’s plight, as well as many other victims, can be found in the Stockholm syndrome. Though some view the Stockholm syndrome as an urban myth, police and the FBI are trained to identify the syndrome and often expect it in cases of kidnapping or other long term hostage situations


More.....


http://www.examiner.com/x-7403-Tampa-Crime-Examiner~y2009m8d31-Crime-Info-101-Jaycee-Dugard-and-Stockholm-syndrome-what-is-it-Part-2

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Registered: 08-24-2009
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 10:31am

The fact that she came forward now is the real mystery to me. Why now? What made her to walk into that police station?


That was the original story that I read....


Turns out she went with the whole family to his parole meeting.

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Registered: 05-12-2003
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 12:26pm
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Registered: 08-15-2009
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 2:25pm

I didn’t see any reports that said the girl walked into the police station herself.

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Registered: 05-23-2008
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 2:37pm

When child molesters do harm do children, they should be put away for life.

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Registered: 05-12-2003
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 3:05pm

Depends where one lives, and the news source.


Here are some earlier headlines which have since been updated --


Eighteen years after vanishing, woman walks into police station ...


Kidnapped Girl Jaycee Dugard Walks Into Police Station


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Registered: 08-15-2009
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 9:01pm

I live in the United States, and national news is national news.

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Registered: 05-12-2003
Mon, 08-31-2009 - 11:52pm

True. Maybe one of the other posters who also got this impression can explain this to you.


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Registered: 08-30-2002
Wed, 09-02-2009 - 12:29pm

His wife Nancy kept Jaycee while the husband was in prison for a parole violation, thought of them as a family and "misses the girls." What a friggin sick puppy she is. She met and married this guy in prison, she is the one that pulled Jaycee into the car, she participated in her sexual assault and now she is going to play the victim card.


Fry her.


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8468178



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Registered: 01-29-2008
Thu, 09-03-2009 - 8:13am

I didn;t have time to read every message so i don't know if anyone else wrote it on here but in the paper yesterday it said that in 2006 a neighbor called his probation officer and told them that two young girls were living in his backyard and the probation officer never checked it out.

This is exactly the reason why sex offenders should never see daylight again. This woman lost 18 years of her life because the government refused to deal with a rapist the way they should be dealt with. Bullets cost a whole lot less than prisons and payroll for probation officers.