Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 when she was abducted from a street in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991. Now, 18 years later, she appeared in a San Francisco Bay area police station. Police are unraveling the ordeal that Dugard went through over the last two decades.
Back on June 10, 1991, a vehicle with two people drove up to Jaycee Lee Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather, Carl Probyn, was watching, according to witnesses. In media reports at the time, Probyn said he heard Jaycee scream. He 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.
Investigators say Jaycee Lee Dugard's abductor raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Dugard was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in a backyard compound behind Phillip and Nancy Garrido's home in Antioch, Calif., less than 200 miles from where Dugard was kidnapped.
The case broke after Phillip Garrido, shown here in this Aug. 27, 2009, mug shot photo, was spotted on Aug. 25, with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer.
Phillip Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Aug. 26, 2009, with his wife Nancy Garrido, shown in this mug shot photo, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who identified herself as "Allissa," and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted to kidnapping Dugard. This photo was provided Aug. 27, 2009, by the El Dorado County, Calif., Sheriff's office.
Carl Probyn, Jaycee Lee Dugard's stepfather, said the news of the case was like winning the lottery. Probyn said he endured years of suspicion from FBI agents who believed he may have been involved in the abduction. Probyn holds a picture of his stepdaughter in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2009.
Back in 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard's abduction 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. Despite many leads over the years, neither Dugard nor her abductors were found. Now, police say a married couple, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, are responsible. The pair are in custody.
Police say that Jaycee Lee Dugard had two daughters, ages 11 and 15, with her captor, Phillip Garrido. She was around 14 when she had the first child. The children have never been to school or a doctor and were kept in complete isolation in the Garrido's backyard compound, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department. This image is taken from a family video shot before Dugard was kidnapped in 1991.
Eighteen years before she re-appeared, Jaycee Lee Dugard was a blond-haired, playful little girl. Since her 1991 abduction, police say she was forced to bear two children with her captor, Phillip Garrido, and live with the children in a series of sheds and blue tarps behind the Antioch, Calif., house Phillip Garrido shared with his wife and mother.
The FBI conducted a search on Aug. 27, 2009, of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's home in Antioch, Calif. Phillip Garrido, 58, a registered sex offender, has been arrested for the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who apparently spent nearly two decades in the Garrido's backyard with two children she bore. They were hidden in a series of sheds and blue tarps or tents.
One of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's neighbors said she could see the blue tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone. This undated aerial photo shows the blue tents that police believe hid Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children.
Even a parole agent who visited 58-year-old Phillip Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, according to officials. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions. One official said due to the way the house and backyard was set up, "you could walk through the backyard, through the house, and never know."
Jaycee Lee Dugard was reunited Aug. 28, 2009 with her mother as her family learned that their blue-eyed, blonde-ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life in captivity. Police said they had no evidence that she had ever reached out to anyone beyond the walls of the Antioch, Calif., property in which she was imprisoned.
What does Jaycee Lee Dugard look like today, after 18 years in captivity? The public does not yet know. This photo is a graphic simulation from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children of what Dugard might have looked like at 25. She is around 29 today.