1991 Kidnap Victim Found Alive

Wow, that's crazy. I couldn't imagine being held captive that long, I wouldn't even know what to say as a parent getting their kid back 18 years later.

Police: Sex offender kept victim, kids in shed
By JULIET WILLIAMS and SAMANTHA YOUNG, AP

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said.

The details about her time in captivity emerged after Jaycee Lee Dugard surfaced at a police station in Northern California, nearly two decades after she vanished outside her home.

Police said Phillip Garrido, 58, held her the entire time as a virtual slave, sheltered from the outside world in tents, sheds and outbuildings in his backyard in suburban Antioch.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will."

There was electricity from electrical cords, rudimentary outhouse, rudimentary shower, "as if you were camping," he said.

Prison officials said Garrido later 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 has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1999, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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.

Dugard's stepfather, the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her.

"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

California corrections officials said they called in Garrido for questioning Wednesday after receiving a report that he was seen with two small children at the University of California, Berkeley.

"The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female," the department said in a statement. "It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, and that the children were his."

A house in the city of Antioch was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.

"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather watched on June 10, 1991.

Probyn said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy. I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!" he recalled.

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

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 eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I have a million questions, but I'm just delighted," he said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since the abduction 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 Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

This story has taken over all the local news channels today. Crazy shit.

I saw this on CNN earlier. That's some fucking shit huh?

I have a kid. Someone takes my kid and I swear to god I'll fucking kill them.

Wow, not quite as crazy as the dude who kept his own daughter in his basement and had like 5 kids with her but fucking crazy nonetheless. Makes you wonder how many other girls there are out there right this very moment who have been kidnapped for a decade or longer and are still alive.

Crazy.

Have you seen him?!?! He was last seen at a Home Town Buffett!

that perv had a wife. how did she not help the victim? throw them both in the human meat grinder

Definitely a crazy and epic story

guess the race.

Incredible the lack of empathy and selfishness of some individuals who only see someone as property to steal and keep for themselves.

good find , get it?

one of my models was telling me about how she has a twin and when they were born a nurse stole her and sold her.. then walking down the street one day they saw eac hother.

i asked if i could fuck them both at the same time but she said her sister was lame, but the 3way with the mom is an option

That's some pretty crazy stuff. But awesome.

That's too bad. Kept as a sex slave, eh. Very unfortunate.

That poor girl,what a horrible ordeal

Wow. How awful.

whoah this guy is a whacko. heres his blog i think

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

This document is to affirm that 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. by using a sound generator to provide the sound, and a headphone amplification system, ( a device to focuc your hearing so as to increase the sensitivity of what one is listening to) I have produced a set of voices by effectively controlling the sound to pronounce words through my own mental powers

then he hired a private investigator to affirm that people affirmed he was legit. including references..

i love this part on the end of his affidavit.

"Concerning the state of Phillips' mindfulness and his freedom to conduct himself appropriately: I will confirm that out of the many years I have interacted with him, business or otherwise, he has always acted mature and intelligent. He has had a steady personality throughout the many years I have known him and is fully capable of handling himself respectfully regardless of the possible out come of any given event. He has never displayed an unsuitable, incoherent or improper cognitive behavior all the years I have known him, nor has he ever mentioned the subject of him hearing voices to my staff or me

Sign and date this line X_________________________________________

The following documents illustrate that a power has been kept hidden from us for the direct purpose of opening our eyes at the proper time. It preserved an intelligently prepared plan that is hidden in the scriptures designed to inner act with our minds as a developing tool that will motivate and control a means necessary to inspire all humanity.

The human mind is so powerfully capable that within its structure is a complex processing center that has been waiting for mankind to reach a beginning stage of maturity that would allow us the proper type of growth in order to interconnect the human race to a protective means of monitoring, gathering and maintaining mankind?s knowledge in a single collective body of wisdom.

hpoefully she writes a book, makes a shitload of cash, she deserves it

white thats a long ass camping trip

its cases like this that make me disagree with the cruel & unusual punishments thingy in the bill of rights. This Gallardo & his wife deserve a stoning.

Or at least they should have cut his nuts off after his first rape.