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Jaycee Dugard

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Jaycee Dugard

Real Name: Jaycee Lee Dugard
Nicknames: None known
Location: South Lake Tahoe, California
Date: June 10, 1991

Bio

Occupation: Student
Date of Birth: May 3, 1980
Height: 4'6"
Weight: 80 pounds
Marital Status: Single
Characteristics: Caucasian female with Blond hair and blue eyes. Jaycee had a gap between her upper front teeth at the time of her disappearance. She has a chicken pox scar between her eyes, a brown butterfly-shaped birthmark on her right arm below her elbow, and moles on her back.

Case

Details: On June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard left her South Lake Tahoe home to go to her bus stop when she was abducted by a then unidentified couple. According to Carl Probyn, her stepfather, a woman grabbed her, pushed her into her car, and drove away. Carl tried to catch up to the car by riding on his bicycle, but was unable to make it and she was never seen again until 2009. During the investigation, there were several suspects in the case and it was thought to possibly have been connected to the disappearances of Michaela Garecht, Amber Swartz, and Ilene Misheloff.

Over the years Terry, Jaycee's mom, and Carl, made appeals for the safe return of Jaycee. Jaycee's case was featured on America's Most Wanted, beginning in June 1991. In October 1991 Jaycee's abduction was featured on the TV Show Missing: Reward. Beginning December 1991 Jaycee's face was featured on Trading Cards created by America's Most Wanted Trading Cards Inc. to raise awareness of missing people and individuals on the run after committing crimes. Unfortunately, due to non-approval from those involved in the America's Most Wanted, only nine cards, including Jaycee's, were released rather than the planned 200. In January 1992 a local band called Perfect Circle recorded a song written by Larry Williams a Nevada DJ titled Jaycee Lee, which can still be purchased off iTunes. The song featured a spoken message from Terry Probyn to Jaycee. At Jaycee's 12th Birthday remembrance in South Lake Tahoe on May 3rd, 1992, a tree was planted in Jaycee's honor. In January 1993, the Probyn's appeared on the Geraldo Rivera Show to discuss Jaycee's abduction including the effects it was having on the family, particularly Carl and Terry's marriage. Terry commented that "it could destroy us if we let it", adding that it was important for the family to stay together for Jaycee's sake. 1995 brought a short film on Jaycee's case used as a pilot for a proposed show titled Stolen Lives. In June 1996, a shrine was erected at the spot where Jaycee was abducted to mark five years that Jaycee had been missing.
By this time, Terry and Carl separated, due to the tension and stress perpetuated by Jaycee's abduction, though they were still on good terms. In 1998 Terry Probyn moved to Riverside County in California and told Jaycee's story for a video titled A Child's Life hosted by Ken Bowers which taught children techniques to avoid being abducted. By June 10th, 2001, a decade since Jaycee's abduction, Terry Probyn had created a school program called A Fighting Chance which was designed to help kids be safe. The 10th anniversary was also marked by a march in South Lake Tahoe. In June 2002, well into the sex abuse scandal of the Catholic Church, ex-Priest Stephen Kiesel's yard was searched for evidence connected to Jaycee's case as well as that of Amber Swartz.
In October 2002, an article about Amber Alerts appeared in the paper in which Terry Probyn was interviewed.

Jaycee dugard adult

Jaycee Dugard as a adult

Suspects: The abductor vehicle was described as a late model 1980 gray Ford sedan. The female abductor was described as a 32-year-old woman, 5'5", with long black hair and a dark complexion. James Anthony Daveggio is considered a suspect in the abductions, along with Stephen Kiesle, Brian David, and Wanda Mitchell.
Extra Notes: This case was not profiled on Unsolved Mysteries. A missing poster of Jaycee was used in the February 9, 1993 episode during the segment on Jeanine Nicarico, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez. It was profiled on America’s Most Wanted and Missing: Reward during the investigation and later documented on Wicked Attraction, Dateline, and 20/20 after Jaycee was found.

Results: Solved. Amazingly, on August 26, 2009, Jaycee was located alive and well. She had been abducted by sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, and held captive in their backyard for 18 years. Initially, Jaycee was kept in one of the sheds, or storage units, the Garrido's had on the property in their backyard. Jaycee was provided a TV in the building she was held. However, she was only able to view QVC so she was unaware of the search for her that had been launched that June 10th, 1991, the day she was taken. Jaycee was forced to endure daily rapes by Phillip Garrido, beginning June 17th, 1991. In addition, Jaycee was forced to endure marathons of sexual abuse which would last for a full day or more beginning in July 1991. Jaycee recalls that if she resisted doing what Phillip wanted she was threatened with the stun gun which Phillip had used to stun her when he and Nancy abducted her, as well as being threated with being sold to people who would lock her in a cage. The "Runs" were also videotaped by Garrido on a number of occasions. In A Stolen Life, Jaycee refers to the "Runs" as "some of the most horrible moments of my life."

In January 1992 Jaycee was introduced to Phillip Garrido's wife Nancy who had been in the car the day of Jaycee's abduction and held her down on the car's floorboards. For Jaycee's 12th Birthday in May 1992, Nancy and Phillip first cruelly played a trick on Jaycee telling her that Nancy had a surprise for her. After Jaycee tried to find the surprise Nancy revealed that she wanted to show Jaycee her highlighted and shortened hair and that this was the surprise. Days later, Nancy gave Jaycee a Purple Plush bear, a Barbie doll as well Chocolate milk.

In April 1993, Nancy Garrido became Jaycee's sole imprisoner after Philip was sent back to prison for a month after failing a drug test. Jaycee recalls watching the movie The Unborn from 1991 during this month alone with Nancy. On Jaycee's 13th birthday, Jaycee began writing a journal dedicated to Eclipse, one of the many cats the Garrido's gave her as part of their manipulation. When Jaycee signed the first page of the journal with her name, Phillip Garrido lectured her causing her to rip the corners of the page where she signed her name out and not writing her name again for sixteen years.

On Easter 1994, Phillip and Nancy told Jaycee that they thought she was pregnant and in August,1994 Jaycee gave birth to her first daughter named "A". Following the birth of "A" Phillip purchased a computer and began a business called Printing for Less, which made Business Cards. Jaycee helped with the design of the cards. Following the birth of her second daughter, named "G", in November 1997, Phillip's sexual sexual assaults on Jaycee ended. Eventually, Jaycee was forced to pick a new name going by the name Alissa after Alyssa Milano, an actress she liked off of Who's the Boss? As well Jaycee was told to identify herself to her daughters as merely their sister in order to not make Nancy jealous.

Jaycee and her daughters lived in tents which were in the Garrido's backyard. Jaycee also recalls being given a new tent as a birthday gift on a number of occasions during her captivity. Beginning in the late 1990's, Jaycee, her daughters and the Garrido's went on outings such as the Brentwood Cornfest in 1999 and trips to the Beach or Trick or Treating. Jaycee also went on outings solely with Nancy on occasion such as Wal-Mart or getting their nails done. As her daughters grew older, Jaycee, desiring her girls to be educated, taught her daughters everything she knew from Elementary School using worksheets she printed from the internet. Jaycee also used the computer to type up stories on Microsoft Word. Beginning in 1998 until 2007, Jaycee kept a secret journal detailing her thoughts and feelings, her days as a captive, her likes and dislikes, as well as her wishes for the future. She also wrote in her journal of seeing a News preview speculating whether the killer of Polly Klaas, Richard Allen Davis, had murdered Jaycee as well. By 2009, Phillip Garrido's mother Pat who lived with the Garrido's in the house, had dementia and Jaycee and Nancy were her care givers.

On August 25, 2009, Jaycee's daughters went with Phillip to the University of Berkley where he handed out religious literature and met with Campus Cops, Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, giving them a self-written 'book' on Schizophrenia and asking to host an event. The actions of Phillip of the girls were noted as suspicious by Campbell and Jacobs and they called Phillip's Parole Agent. Upon hearing the mention of the two girls and being unaware of Phillip having daughters the Parole Officer requested Phillip to come in. The next day, the Garrido's, Jaycee's daughters and Jaycee herself went to the Parole Office. After hours of interrogation in which Jaycee, due to fear, stuck to the story Phillip had trained her to tell, Phillip confessed he kidnapped Jaycee, though he identified her as Alissa. Upon being informed of this confession, Jaycee was coaxed into writing her name down on piece of paper as well as her birthday and her mother's name. Jaycee would later describe it as "breaking an evil spell."

Jaycee and her daughters were reunited with the Dugard family including Terry Probyn and Jaycee's half-sister Shayna. Carl Probyn who witnessed the abduction, was not reunited with Jaycee, and believes that he never will be saying that Terry Probyn's family felt Carl was mean to Jaycee. Phillip and Nancy were arrested in 2009. In 2010 Jaycee testified to a Grand Jury about her ordeal. The Grand Jury Testimony was made public with details of the sexual abuse redacted. Amongst the evidence used to convict Phillip were the videotapes he made of the "Runs" which though partially destroyed were still on the property in a black garbage bag and were able to be partially reassembled to be used as evidence. According to the Grand Jury Testimony transcript, face shots of Phillip and Jaycee in the "Run" tapes were provided to NCMEC (National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children) in order to investigate whether the tapes had been posted online. No such evidence of the "Run" tapes being posted online was found. Jaycee was also asked to look at the tapes as part of the investigation which she was described as being "painful". Some of the footage found on the tapes was made public to the media. The footage made public was that of a Parole Visit to the Garrido home, Nancy filming children at a park while pretending to film Phillip singing, as well as footage of Nancy convincing a young girl to perform a gymnastics move for her while secretly taping the girl in the back of the Garrido's van. Phillip pled guilty to several charges related to the abduction and rape of Jaycee, and was given a 431 year sentence; Nancy got 31 years to life for her part in the case.

In July 2011 Jaycee released a memoir on her ordeal and reunion titled A Stolen Life, authored exclusively by her. To coincide with the books launch Jaycee did a interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News in which Jaycee spoke of her ordeal (details of the sexual abuse were limited at her discretion) and her and her mother, Terry Probyn, spoke of their reunion and their feelings about the Garrido's. Jaycee also spoke of the foundation she has created with the help of her therapist Dr. Rebecca Bailey known as the "JAYC Foundation" which seeks to "help families in reunification after trauma". In 2016 Jaycee released a second book Freedom: My Book of Firsts in which Jaycee discussed the experiences she had during her first seven years of freedom including being present at her sister Shayna's wedding, the experience of being interviewed by Diane Sawyer, her first trip to New York City, and adventures with her best friend from childhood, Jesse. As of 2016, Jaycee's daughters were attending College. Jaycee continues to live with her Mom in an undisclosed location and working with the "JAYC Foundation".

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Phillip and Nancy Garrido


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