Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
| Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard | |
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Dugard in 1991
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| Date | June 10, 1991 – August 26, 2009 |
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| Victim | Jaycee Lee Dugard |
| Perpetrators | Phillip and Nancy Garrido |
| Phillip Greg Garrido | |
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April 5, 1951 Contra Costa County California |
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| Criminal charge | Kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Serving 431 years to life |
| Nancy Garrido | |
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Nancy Bocanegra July 18, 1955 Seguin, Texas |
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| Criminal charge | Kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Serving 36 years to life |
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Jaycee Dugard
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Jaycee Lee Dugard May 3, 1980 Arcadia, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Home town | Minden, Nevada |
| Children | Two, born 1994 and 1997 |
The kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard occurred on June 10, 1991, south of South Lake Tahoe, California. Dugard was 11 years old at the time and was abducted from a street while she was walking from home to a school bus stop. Searches began immediately after her disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated despite the fact that her stepfather, Carl Probyn, witnessed her kidnapping and chased the kidnappers on his mountain bike. Dugard remained missing until 2009, when a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido, visited the University of California campus in Berkeley accompanied by two young girls on August 24 and 25 that same year. The unusual behavior of the trio sparked an investigation that led Phillip's parole officer to order him to bring the two girls to a parole office in Concord, California, on August 26. He was accompanied by a woman who was successfully identified as Jaycee Dugard who was by then 29 years old.
Phillip, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, of Antioch, were arrested by police for kidnapping, imprisonment, and sexual assault. On April 28, 2011, they pleaded guilty to Dugard's kidnapping and sexual assault. Law enforcement officers believe Dugard was kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos in an area behind the Garridos' house in Antioch for almost 18 years. During this time, Dugard bore two daughters who were ages 11 and 15 at the time of her reappearance. On June 2, 2011, Phillip was sentenced to 431 years to life imprisonment; his wife, Nancy, received 36 years to life. Phillip is a person of interest in at least one other San Francisco Bay Area missing person case.
In 1979, Dugard's biological father Ken Slayton had a fling with Jaycee's mother Terry Dugard that resulted in a pregnancy that he was unaware of and had never met Jaycee; upon her resurfacing, Slayton wanted to be let into her life. Dugard decided not to allow that to happen. In 2010, the State of California awarded the Dugard family US$20 million. In 2011, Jaycee wrote a best-selling book on her experiences titled A Stolen Life. Her second book, Freedom: My Book of Firsts, was published in 2016. According to interviews, she remains single, focusing on herself, her children, and her family. Her exact whereabouts have not been made public.
In Jaycee Dugard’s biography Jaycee Dugard a Stolen Life, she goes on to tell her experiences with the Garridos. Jaycee also goes into depth about how she feels about her abduction today. In the first chapter stolen Jaycee reflects on the day she was abducted and how in the process she ended up falling and later crawling towards some bushes. Once by the bushes she touches a hard sticky object that later becomes very symbolic to her life. Jaycee later in the chapter states, “ A pinecone was the last thing I touched before I was taken away by Phillip. A hard and sticky pinecone was my last grip on freedom before eighteen years in captivity.”(Jaycee Dugard,12) Today Jaycee collects pinecones as a way of taking back her freedom from those who tried so hard to keep her contained.
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