Jaycee Lee Dugard found after 18 years
Posted August 28th, 2009 by minortopics | via www.telegraph.co.ukLike a scene straight out of a made-for-Lifetime movie, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped at 11-years-old back in 1991, walked into a police station yesterday and identified herself.
“I had personally given up hope,” her stepfather Carl Probyn told ABC News. “I had just hoped for a recovery [of a body]… I’ve actually won the lotto.”
He added: “She sounds like she’s okay. She had a conversation with my wife and she remembers things. I hope she’s been well treated this entire 18 years.”
Her mother Terry Probyn and 19-year-old half-sister Shayna were flying from their home in southern California to be reunited with the woman who California authorities say is their long-lost relative.
Although the details of Miss Dugard’s re-emergence are not yet clear, it is understood that Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 55, are now in custody. Police were also said to be searching a home in Antioch, a suburb of San Francisco.
