Child abducted 18 years ago turns up alive
Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted from South Lake Tahoe, California in June 1991, reappeared at a California Police Station on August 26, 2009. She was isolated from the world for the past 18 years in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender. UPI/El Dorado Police Handout
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SACRAMENTO, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- California corrections officials are being sued for refusing to release information on a man accused of holding a girl hostage for 18 years, authorities said.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A man accused of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old, and holding her captive for 18 years, has issued an apology, a TV station says.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Jaycee Dugard, kidnapped from a California school bus stop and allegedly imprisoned for 18 years, showed loyalty to her captors, a state report said.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard could have been found sooner if California parole officials had properly monitored her abductor, a state watchdog says.
PLACERVILLE, Calif., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A California judge postponed a hearing Thursday for Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple who allegedly imprisoned Jaycee Dugard for 18 years.
MARTINEZ, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Police in a California county acknowledge they got a tip on the whereabouts of Jaycee Dugard a year after she was kidnapped -- 17 years before she was found.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Jaycee Lee Dugard, who spent 18 years hidden by the California man who allegedly kidnapped her as a child, will probably testify against him, her lawyer said.
ANTIOCH, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A woman held hostage for 18 years told police in Antioch, Calif., her accused captor did not molest her two daughters, a law enforcement source said.
ANTIOCH, Calif., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Bone-sniffing dogs will be used to search for possible human remains at the California property of suspected kidnapper Phillip Craig Garrido, authorities say.
ANTIOCH, Calif., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Investigators searched Phillip Garrido's California property Tuesday for clues in the abductions of two girls in the San Francisco area 20 years ago.
