Kids, Jaycee Dugard | featured news

In the newly unsealed transcript of her grand jury testimony, Jaycee Lee Dugard recounts her abduction and captivity and explains why she never tried to escape. At times, the voice is young and terrified — an 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped during the last week of school, raped for years and kept in line under threat of pain.

Investigators found another bone on property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido on Friday, as they scoured the yard for possible clues to the abductions of two other girls about 20 years ago ...

The man accused of abducting and sexually abusing Jaycee Lee Dugard testified during a previous kidnapping and rape case that he prowled through residential neighborhoods as a Peeping Tom and had strong rape desires.

In many respects, Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters lived an unremarkable public life -- one that belied the circumstances that have since made front-page news. The 11-year-old went by the name Angel and the 15-year-old, Starlet. "They were polite. They were well-mannered," said a woman who saw the girls two weeks ago when they attended her daughter's birthday party.

The father of Phillip Garrido, suspected of kidnapping an 11-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago, said today his son had a long history of drug use and mental problems.