Jaycee Dugard is emerging from obscurity after police say she spent 18 years as a captive in a sex offender's yard, releasing the first photos of herself as an adult and her first statement. A picture on the cover of People magazine, which hit newsstands on Oct. 14, 2009, shows Dugard smiling brightly, her light brown hair loosely falling on her shoulders.
Jaycee Dugard, shown here at age three, was 11-years-old when she was abducted from a street in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991. Eighteen years later, she appeared in a San Francisco Bay area police station. Police are still unraveling the ordeal that Dugard went through over the last two decades.
Back on June 10, 1991, a vehicle with two people drove up to Jaycee Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather, Carl Probyn, was watching, according to witnesses. In media reports at the time, Probyn said he heard Jaycee scream. He then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and screamed at neighbors to call 911.
An El Dorado County sheriff's deputy holds a photograph of Jaycee Dugard, shortly after her kidnapping, in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991. Eighteen years later, Dugard was found living in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, Calif.
Investigators say Jaycee Dugard's abductor raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Dugard was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in a backyard compound behind Phillip and Nancy Garrido's home in Antioch, Calif., less than 200 miles from where Dugard was kidnapped.
Terry Probyn, left, fights back tears before cutting a cake on June 10, 1991, on her daughter, Jaycee Dugard's birthday. This was just days after Jaycee was kidnapped in front of her stepfather, Carl Probyn, near their home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Jaycee Dugard, now 29, had been living with convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, in a sectioned-off area of their Antioch, Calif. backyard. Her home for the past 18 years had been an elaborate series of sheds and tents, designed to shroud her from view.
Carl Probyn, Jaycee Dugard's stepfather, said the news of the case was like winning the lottery. Probyn said he endured years of suspicion from FBI agents who believed he may have been involved in the abduction. Probyn holds a picture of his stepdaughter in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2009.
This photo of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was posted on countless missing posters after she was abducted by a man and woman in a gray sedan in 1991. Dugard, now 29, was recently found living with Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, as well as two daughters she gave birth to while in captivity.
Terry Probyn watches an episode of "America's Most Wanted," about her daughter's kidnapping in 1991. Jaycee Dugard was found in August 2009, when Phillip Garrido, a sex offender, brought her with him to a meeting with his parole officer. Authorities say he and his wife, Nancy, confessed to kidnapping Dugard in 1991.
Jaycee Dugard was reunited Aug. 28, 2009 with her mother as her family learned that their blue-eyed, blonde-haired little girl had spent most of her life in captivity. Police said they had no evidence that she had ever reached out to anyone beyond the walls of the Antioch, Calif., property in which she was imprisoned.
Back in 1991, Jaycee Dugard's abduction attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car. Despite many leads over the years, neither Dugard nor her abductors were found.
This is one of the last pictures taken of Jaycee Dugard, 11, before her abduction. A convicted rapist kidnapped the youngster, fathered her two daughters, and kept her hidden away in a soundproof shed and tents in his Antioch backyard, according to officials.
Police say that Jaycee Dugard had two daughters, ages 11 and 15, with her captor, Phillip Garrido. She was around 14 when she had the first child. The children have never been to school or a doctor and were kept in complete isolation in the Garrido's backyard compound, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department. This image is taken from a family video shot before Dugard was kidnapped in 1991.
Eighteen years before she re-appeared, Jaycee Dugard was a blond-haired, playful little girl. Since her 1991 abduction, police say she was forced to bear two children with her captor, Phillip Garrido, and live with the children in a series of sheds and blue tarps behind the Antioch, Calif., house Phillip Garrido shared with his wife and mother.
The case broke after Phillip Garrido, shown here with his wife, Nancy, in this Aug. 27, 2009, mug shot photo, was spotted on Aug. 25, with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. They have pleaded not guilty to a total of 29 counts associated with Dugard's kidnapping.
An undated Google Map aerial view of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's Antioch, Calif., home clearly shows the series of blue tarps that police say housed Jaycee Dugard and her two children. Now, armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, officers are combing the backyard and the one next door for evidence of other crimes.
Police say this is the tent in which Jaycee Dugard lived. Kidnapped at age 11, Dugard was snatched on her way to school and was hidden for nearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her alleged abductor Phillip Garrido's children in this suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home.
Inside Jaycee Dugard's tent there are signs of both normalcy and sorrow: a cartoon sheet, black and white photos and blue-starred necklaces. But police say Dugard was forced to live in this tent with her two daughters who were fathered by her abductor, Phillip Garrido.
Jaycee Dugard has released her first personal statement to People magazine, along with photos of herself as an adult. The cover of People magazine, which hit newsstands October 14, 2009, shows Dugard, now 29, smiling brightly, almost identical to the graphic simulation from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children of Dugard at age 25.