• 2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido are apprehended.

Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard


Childhood photo of Dugard

Location
Kidnapping: Meyers, California
Confinement: 1554 Walnut Avenue, Antioch, California
Reappearance: University of California, Berkeley
Date: June 10, 1991 – August 26, 2009
Attack type: Child abduction, false imprisonment, child rape
Victim: Jaycee Lee Dugard
Perpetrators: Phillip Craig Garrido, Nancy Garrido
Motive: Sexual gratification
Verdict Pleaded guilty
Convictions
Kidnappingrape by force
Sentences:
Phillip:
Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole
Nancy:
36 years to life in prison
Litigation:
Lawsuit against the state of California settled for $20 million
Lawsuit against the Federal government of the United States dismissed

On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard, an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States. Searches began immediately after Dugard's disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated, even though several people witnessed the kidnapping. Dugard remained missing for over 18 years until 2009, when a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido, visited the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, accompanied by two adolescent girls, who were discovered to be the biological daughters of Garrido and Dugard, on August 24 and 25 of that year. The unusual behavior of the trio sparked an investigation that led Garrido's parole officer, Edward Santos Jr. to order Garrido to take the two girls to a parole office in Concord, California, on August 26. Garrido was accompanied by a woman who was eventually identified as Dugard.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested after Dugard's reappearance. On April 28, 2011, they pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard. Investigators revealed that Dugard had been kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos in an area behind the Garridos' house at 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, California, where Phillip repeatedly raped Dugard during the first six years of her captivity. During her confinement, Dugard gave birth to two daughters, who were aged eleven and fifteen at the time of Dugard's reappearance. On June 2, 2011, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life imprisonment; his wife, Nancy, was sentenced to 36 years to life. Garrido is a person of interest in at least one other missing persons case in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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