In 1991, an 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street as her horrified step-father watched in disbelief. For 18 years she was held captive in a crap-hole tent compound in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, CA. This past August the whole disturbing situation came to light after UC Berkeley campus police got the heebie-jeebies from Phillip Garrido. In the months since Jaycee Dugard’s rescue – and the... 

This is a happy story in the sense that an 18 year nightmare is over and a kidnapping case solved – but what happened over those 18 years is just stomach-churnningly horrendous and almost beyond belief. On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, age 11, was kidnapped by two strangers in a car, right in front of her stepfather, Carl Probyn. “As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver’s door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried...