The Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard

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What Happened to Jaycee Lee Dugard?

On June 10th, 1991, eleven year old Jaycee Lee Dugard was walking to her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California. She never made it there. Carl Probyn, Jaycee's step-father was in his garage and saw a car swerve over to Jaycee, open the door and pull her in. She screamed. Mr Probyn didn't have his car keys so he jumped on his mountain bike and gave chase. He couldn't catch up to them so he went back home and called 911. That was the last time anyone saw Jaycee for the next 18 years. We lived in South Lake Tahoe during that time and over the next several years we often heard about Jaycee Lee Dugard on the news. There would be at least 1500 leads that didn't pan out. It was if she had vanished into thin air.

First Picture of Grown-Up Jaycee Released 

Click on these links to see a picture of the 29 year old Jaycee

People magazine has taken the first picture of Jaycee Lee Dugard after her release from captivity. "Jaycee said in a statement released exclusively to People magazine: 'I'm so happy to be back with my family. Nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them.'"

Jaycee Lee Dugard: First picture of woman kidnapped 18 years ago
This is the first picture of Jaycee Lee Dugard taken as an adult after she was released from her 18-year kidnap ordeal.
The image has appeared on the cover of America's People magazine, and was published on the magazine's website earlier today.
It shows an adult Jaycee, now aged 29, smiling directly at the camera. Her hair is darker and waved, and her smile is slightly different - but the resemblance to her 11-year-old self is clear.
Behind the scenes at the photo shoot
On Wednesday, People magazine posted the smiling face of an adult Jaycee Lee Dugard on their Web site. The photo is the first seen publicly after Jaycee was safely reunited with her family from an 18-year ordeal, which started in 1991 when she was kidnapped from a school bus stop.

Where is Jaycee? 

Jaycee Lee Dugard
This is the photo of Jaycee that I most remember seeing on posters and t-shirts around South Lake Tahoe.

Carl Probyn gave a description of the car and of the female passenger in the car. We remember seeing posters with the drawing of the car and the woman. They knew it was a couple, which they said was unusual. Usually it is men who do kidnapping, not women and not a couple. The poster gave the impression that they knew who these people were because it mentioned that the man was a convicted sex offender. My husband and I remember standing outside of Raley's at the "Y" looking at the poster and wondering that since they knew he was a sex offender why couldn't they find him?

This FBI poster was seen all over town. 

Kidnapping ~ Jaycee Lee Dugard

FBI Poster Jaycee

Looking for Jaycee 

Carl Probyn (Step-Father) a Suspect for a long time.

JayceeThere were massive manhunts for Jaycee and her captors. Police went door to door asking questions of Tahoe residents in the area of the kidnapping. There was a hotline for people to call in tips. I once heard a psychic say that she saw Jaycee's body in a graveled area.
Carl Probyn, Jaycee's step-father, was a suspect and says his life was "Hell" for many years because many people thought he was guilty, including some of his family members. There were rumors that he sold Jaycee into slavery in Central America to pay off drug debts. Law enforcement dug up the yard of the Probyn's South Lake Tahoe home looking for Jaycee. He was the last one to see Jaycee before her disappearance. He took several lie detector tests. A lengthy police investigation turned up nothing and his name was cleared but suspicion remained. The long ordeal broke up his marriage.

Parents Become Cautious 

Children who knew Jaycee were fearful

Jaycee's kidnapping caused a shift in people's thinking in South Lake Tahoe. Parents did not let their children go to that bus stop any more. They didn't let the kids walk to school. Some of the children who knew Jaycee or went to school with her became fearful that they might be taken.

At that time our children were were ages one, two and four. Having this kidnapping happen in our own backyard caused us to be more protective as our children grew up than we might otherwise have been. Our house backed up to an elementary school and a few years after Jaycee's kidnapping there was an attempted abduction at this school. A lot of Tahoe children of that time grew up being on a very short leash.


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South Lake Tahoe embraces Jaycee Lee Dugard 

Jaycee touched the heart of South Lake Tahoe

The Tahoe community came together and prayed and held vigils for Jaycee. There were many fundraisers and poster making sessions for Jaycee. Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mom, was very proactive in this. Jaycee's 5th grade classmates at Meyers Elementary School planted a garden for her and tied a pink ribbon on her chair. There was a $40,000 reward for her return. On the 10th anniversary of her abduction there was a "Pink Parade." Mrs. Probyn had moved to southern California by this time but she came back to Tahoe for the parade.
I always wondered why Jaycee didn't call home if she was alive. She was 11 and certainly old enough to call if she could get to a phone. On August 27, 2009 it became clear as to why she never called home. That was the day we heard that Jaycee had surfaced after 18 years.

Jaycee Is found 18 years later. 

Her captors - Phillip and Nancy Garrido

Phillip GarridoThe break in this case came when Philllip Garrido was on the campus of UC Berkely seeking permission to hand out informational materials. He had two young girls with him and the security officer thought there was something not quite right about him and the girls. She reported him and he was called in to a meeting with his parole officer. He took Jaycee and the two young girls to this meeting and Jaycee revealed her true identity.
Jaycee is now 29 years old and the two young girls are her daughters, fathered by her captor, Phillip Garrido. Jaycee's mother flew up from southern California and she, Jaycee, Jaycee's daughers and Jaycee's aunt were sequestered in a secret hotel room away from public scrutiny to get to know each other again. I read that they have now been moved to a secret house under guard by the FBI. The family wishes to keep Jaycee and her daughters out of the media spotlight for now.

Read more about Phillip Garrido 

Who is Phillip Garrido?

Three more lost girls linked to Phillip Garrido
Police searching 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, where Garrido held his 11-year-old victim and fathered her two daughters, say they are searching for evidence that may implicate him in the cases of Amanda Cambell, Ilene Misheloff and Michaela Garecht.
Phillip Garrido: God's Chosen Communicator or Plain Old Psycho?
Who is Phillip Garrido and what drove him to allegedly kidnap 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and keep her in an elaborate tented compound for nearly two decades, fathering two children with her along the way? Was he the quiet, mild mannered print shop owner that his clients knew or was he the fanatical mind control true-believer who kept a blog?
A casino croupier has told how she was kidnapped by Philip Garrido, the man accused of abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Garrido took Katie Callaway Hall from a casino parking lot in Lake Tahoe and dragged her to a warehouse in Reno, NV.
She has lived in fear ever since the attack and described her horror when she discovered that Garrido had been charged with abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard, holding her captive for 18 years and fathering two daughters by her.
Search of Garrido home gives hope to mom
Similar circumstances between Dugard's kidnapping and the abductions of Michaela in 1988 and of Ilene Misheloff in 1989 have prompted investigators on Tuesday to search the Garridos' home in Antioch for clues to those cases.
Garridos Used Stun Gun on Jaycee
Phillip and Nancy Garrido used a stun gun on 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard when they allegedly kidnapped her in 1991, according to a bail motion in the case.
Garridos appear in Placerville courtroom
The first woman terrorized by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido 32 years ago, saw him face-to-face in court on Thursday in El Dorado County. She was there for his appearance in the kidnapping case of a Lake Tahoe girl -- Jaycee Dugard.
Quantcast D.A. calls Phillip Garrido a 'master manipulator'
Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard, is a "master manipulator" who wants to "control" his victims, El Dorado County Dist. Atty. Vern Pierson said Friday.
Pierson made the written statement in response to three letters that Garrido sent from jail to Sacramento television station KCRA.

Jaycee Remembers Everything 

Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters are in good health

Jaycee's first words to her mother were, "Hi Mom. I have babies." Terry Probyn asked, "How many babies do you have." Jaycee remembers her family and her childhood and has spoken with her mother about things that only Jaycee could have known. The family doesn't think a DNA test is necessary.

Jaycee's daughters did not know that she was their mother. They thought she was their older sister. Nor did they know that their father, Phillip Garrido had kidnapped Jaycee and held her in captivity all those years. In fact, they were upset that their father had been put in jail. None of the girls had been to school or to a doctor, although all seemed to be in good health.

Garrido ran a printing business out of his home and apparently Jaycee helped a lot with that. She was the graphic designer and communicated with customers on the phone and via email. Customers who met with her thought she was Garrido's daughter named "Alissa."

In a press conference with Jaycee Dugard's aunt, Tina Dugard, it was learned that Jaycee taught her daughters to read and write using the internet. One daughter is named Angel and it is unclear exactly what the other girl's name is. I've read in varying places that it is Star, Starlet, Starlit, or Starlight.


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Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters were kept hidden 

A backyard within a back yard.

Nancy GarridoIt was learned that Phillip and Nancy Garrido kept Jaycee hidden in a series of run down shacks and tents in a fenced back yard within a back yard where large trees hid the compound from view. Electricity was provided with an extension cord that ran out from the house. There was a camp toilet and a rudimentary shower for sanitation. Trash and debris were piled everywhere. Also found in the back yard was the car matching the description that Carl Probyn had given to the police 18 years ago.

More about Nancy Garrido 

Complicit in Jaycee's imprisonment

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?
They say she would have done anything he asked her to. Nancy Garrido, the woman some say is the "real monster," faces the same 29 charges and life imprisonment as her husband Phillip Garrido in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Jaycee's Biological Father? 

Someone new enters the equation

Jaycee Lee Dugard is begged to take paternity test by man who claims to be biological father
Kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard is being asked to take a paternity test by the man believed to be her natural father.
Ken Slayton says he has not heard from Jaycee or her representatives since she was freed from the secret backyard compound where Phillip Garrido held her for 18 years.
Mr Slayton's lawyer, Gloria Allred, announced at a Los Angeles press conference her client wants Jaycee to take tests that will prove if she is his daughter.

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Timeline of the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping Case 

From the Nevada Appeal, Carson City

June 10, 1991: Jaycee Lee Dugard, 11, was abducted at 8:10 a.m. at her bus stop on the corner of Pioneer Trail and Washoan Boulevard. Her stepfather, William Carl Probyn, watched the kidnapping from the house, but could not get to the car fast enough. California Highway Patrol set up road blocks to question drivers as they left the basin.

June 11, 1991: Terri Probyn, Dugard's mother, held a press conference to plead with the kidnappers. El Dorado County Secret Witness offered $5,000 for information leading to Dugard's return, and the family was offering $5,000 for her safe return.

June 12, 1991: A reported sighting at Fallen Leaf Lake of a girl matching Dugard's description kept investigators busy. Child Quest International arrives in South Lake Tahoe to help with the search.

June 14, 1991: Approximately 100 law enforcement officials continue to work on the case.

June 15, 1991: "America's Most Wanted" airs a segment about Dugard's abduction.

June 19, 1991: More than 50,000 posters had been distributed, along with 5,000 in Spanish.

June 27, 1991: Weekly Wednesday gatherings begin at the South Lake Tahoe Library to mail out posters to gas stations, and other establishments around the country. More than 100 volunteers gathered at the first meeting.

June 28, 1991: The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office came under criticism for not closing all the roads leaving the Lake Tahoe Basin on June 10, 1991.

July 2, 1991: Pink Ribbon Day is held in honor of Dugard.

July 10, 1991: One month later, Dugard's mother Probyn said "crying time is over." About 10 deputies and agents are still working on the case.

Aug. 13, 1991: Camera crews arrive to film a reenactment of Dugard's kidnapping for "Missing Reward," hosted by Stacy Keach.

June 10, 1992: For the anniversary of Dugard's kidnapping, a prayer service and candlelight march were held.

June 10, 2001: A Pink Ribbon Parade was held in Dugard's honor. Her mother and sister Shayna Probyn, 11, came to participate in the event.

Aug. 26, 2009: Dugard was found at a Concord, Calif.,-area police station.

Timeline from the Nevada Appeal

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Much more reading about the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case. 

Many more relevant articles about Jaycee.

In the interest of keeping this page G-rated I will refer you to other links about this case. There are so many articles out there that I decided not to reinvent the wheel but to direct you to relevant articles. Throughout this page you will find links to articles about Phillip Garrido, Nancy Garrido, the circumstances of Jaycee's kidnapping and captivity, and also about celebrations of her homecoming.

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Four videos about Jaycee Lee Dugard's abduction 

Four Videos about Jaycee Lee Dugard
There is a commercial at the front of the video and one a little farther in but these are videos of how this abduction affected South Lake Tahoe, an interview with Carl Probyn when Jaycee was found and a couple of other ones.

 

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South Lake Tahoe Residents Remember the time of Jaycee's Kidnapping 

Looking back to Jaycee's abduction

South Lake Tahoe residents remember frantic time of Jaycee Lee Dugard's abduction
At the pine-studded Lake Tahoe neighborhood where Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched while walking to school, Thursday was much like the sunny summer day when the crime occurred 18 years ago.
But this time, talk among neighbors was laced not with horror but joy and surprise over an unexpected turn of events. No one really thought this story would end this way.
"To have someone disappear like that and then be found, it's just awesome," said Debbie Tuttle, 45.
Tuttle well remembers how the kidnapping affected residents of the South Lake Tahoe area. There was fear, the frantic searching, prayers and candlelight vigils for the little girl in pink.
"It had this town in an uproar," Tuttle said.
Jaycee Lee Dugard's teacher, principal look back on kidnapping
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted June 10, 1991, and the event shook the South Shore community.

"It was the worst day of my 27 years (in the education profession) the morning Jaycee Lee was kidnapped," said Karen Gillis-Tinlin, who was principal at Meyers Elementary School at the time.

Dugard was a fifth-grader at the school.

"She was just a sweetie," Bush said. "It scared the kids, and it scared them badly."

All the students and staff members wore pink ribbons the week Dugard was kidnapped. They tied more to the fence by the kindergarten room, and put them up around the school. Pink was her favorite color, Bush said.

"We tied a pink ribbon to her chair, and kept her desk the way she left it," Bush said.

South Lake Tahoe Celebrates Jaycee's Return 

From NBC Bay Area

"Some knew her, others only knew of her. But they will never forget the day 18 years ago when the blonde, blue-eyed 11-year-old was snatched in broad daylight on her way to a bus stop.

Her scream. A frantic sprint on a mountain bike by her stepfather up the twisted mountain road as he tried to catch up to the Ford Granada and the unknown man and woman who had just ripped his family's lives to shreds before his eyes.

A world renown tourist destination, South Lake Tahoe on the Nevada-California line is dominated in summer by gamblers, boaters and beach goers. In winter, by gamblers, skiers and snowboarders.

But beneath the facade of a tourist town, where workers come and go with each passing season, is a tight-knit community that never forgot Jaycee Lee Dugard, a little girl who loved the color pink..."

Read the rest of the story HERE.

 

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South Lake Tahoe is very happy that Jaycee has been found 

Welcome Back Jaycee

Pink ribbon parade Sunday for Jaycee Lee Dugard
A sea of pink will flow through the South Lake Tahoe town of Myers this Sunday for the Pink Ribbon Parade.

That was Jaycee's favorite color, and while some in the town may have feared Jaycee would never be seen again, they always remembered the smiling girl who loved pink.
Meyers' Pink Ribbons Celebrate Jaycee's Return
MEYERS, CA - When 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted back in 1991, her schoolmates lined the fence of the then Meyers Elementary School with pink ribbons -- all in hopes that she would soon be found.

Saturday, 18 years later, the same school was marking the route from her home to the campus with the same pink ribbons -- all to celebrate Jaycee's unexpected return.
Pink Ribbon Parade Planned for Jaycee Lee Dugard
NEW YORK (AP) A "pink ribbon" parade is planned Sunday to celebrate the return of Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years after she was kidnapped at the age of 11.
The 11 a.m. parade will reverse the route walked on the 10th anniversary of Dugard's disappearance, South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Kathy Lovell said Wednesday.
Participants were asked to wear pink because that was Dugard's favorite color. Her classmates at Meyers Elementary School started a pink ribbon campaign at the time of her abduction to show their hope for her safe return.
Jaycee Dugard Parade: South Lake Tahoe
The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sunday while she remained secluded with her family in Northern California.
Fundraisers in Tahoe for Jaycee and her family
A "Freedom Party" in honor of the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard will be from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20 outside the Tudor Pub.
Three bands will perform at the free event - Lavish Green, the Cash Only Band and the Dave Medina Band.
"The Freedom Party will be an annual event for the Slow Rollers," said organizer Mark Cutright.
More than 20 raffle prizes will be offered, including a new, pink Electra Beach Cruiser. Funds raised at the event will be given to Dugard's family.
Everyone who attends the Freedom Party will be asked to sign an open letter to Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was kidnapped on her way to a South Shore bus stop in 1991. She was discovered alive last month in Antioch, Calif.

 

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Jaycee Wants Her Pets Back 

18-year kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard wants her many pets back

5 Cats, 2 Dogs, 3 Cockatiels, a Pigeon and a Mouse

The woman who was held captive since being kidnapped 18 years ago wants her five cats, two dogs, three cockatiels, a pigeon and a mouse returned to her, said a Contra Costa County animal services official.

"We are going to do everything we can to help facilitate that," said Lt. Joe DeCosta, adding the animals are in good condition, and most have been placed in temporary homes until Dugard, 29, and her two daughters can reclaim them.

The animals have been in protective custody since they were found Aug. 27 after authorities began searching the Antioch property of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

Jaycee Wants To Go Back To School 

She wants her daughters to get an education as well

Jaycee wants an education for her and her daughters

Jaycee and her daughters did not go to school while they were held captive. Jaycee has only a 5th grade education. She did a remarkable job of educating her daughters, however, as they have tested above their grade levels. There is a book forthcoming and the Jaycee intends to use the proceeds for an educational trust fund for herself and her daughters.

Read more about Jaycee Lee Dugard 

Missing for 18 years

Details Emerge In Dugard's Kidnap Ordeal
A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman's family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her alleged abductor.
Neighbor spoke to Jaycee Lee Dugard through fence
An Antioch resident whose backyard shares a fence with the Garrido property once spoke to a little girl through that fence, he said Friday.
She told him her name was Jaycee.
Patrick McQuaid, 27, was a child when he saw a blonde girl through the chicken wire fence that used to separate his Bown Lane backyard from the Garridos' yard. He said he believes it was around the summer of 1991, not long after Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop.
Nineteen photos of Jaycee, her mom, stepfather, and Tahoe community
Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, has two daughters, 11 and 15. She has been reunited with her family and is receiving intensive therapy for the trauma connected to her kidnapping. Her kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido have pleaded not guilty to a total of 29 counts associated with Dugard's kidnapping.
26 Photos of the tents and shacks where Jaycee and her daughters were living.
Photos of the area where Jaycee and her daughters were living including some aerial views and views of inside the tents.
Jaycee sent emails from captivity
Detectives believe she regularly had access to an email account but had become so brainwashed by Philip Garrido that she never sent a message for help.
Instead, her emails were banal replies to requests for printing products at Garrido's business "Printing for Less". In one she asked a client whether he wanted glossy or matte advertising brochures.
Turmoil for Jaycee Dugard's children as police continue investigation
The two children of US abduction victim Jaycee Dugard fathered by the man accused of imprisoning her for 18 years are distraught at the arrest of their father and bewildered by the way their lives have been suddenly changed, it emerged today.
A Documentary about Jaycee
Channel 4 is to air a fast-turnaround documentary on the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the Californian woman freed in August after over 18 years in captivity.
The documentary features "the first full-length interview" with Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn, the prime suspect in the case since the 11-year-old Dugard's kidnap in 1991 until the arrest last month of her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido.
Jaycee Lee Dugard's aunt: Kidnapped niece 'remarkable young woman who raised 2 beautiful daughters'
"Jaycee is a remarkable young woman who raised two beautiful daughters," Tina Dugard said in Los Angeles. "They are clever, articulate, curious girls who have a bright future ahead of them."

 

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Do you remember the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard? 

A happy resolution for Jaycee

The 11 year old little girl who loved pink has now returned as a 29 year old mother of two. She and her daughters have led a sheltered life having not seen a doctor or attended school during their lives with the Garridos. Now the three of them will have to reintegrate into society. Jaycee has certainly been through an ordeal and so has her family. We rejoice with her family and friends that she is alive and reunited with the ones who love her.

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