Elderly Parole Program Could Shorten Kidnapper's Prison Sentence By 400 Years
Seven years after Jaycee Dugard was rescued from the hands of a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido is now eligible for release some 400 years early.
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Seven years after Jaycee Dugard was rescued from the hands of a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido is now eligible for release some 400 years early.
Kidnapped at the age of 11 as she walked to school in her South Lake Tahoe neighborhood in 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard was found 18 years later in 2009.
Police have questioned the California couple convicted of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard about the high-profile abduction of a 9-year-old girl in the San Francisco Bay area more than two decades ago, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Hayward police are not finished yet with Philip and Nancy Garrido. They believe the couple could be connected to another kidnapping investigation.
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Disturbing new video released Tuesday shows the wife of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido luring a young girl into the couple's van, asking her to do the splits and videotaping her, two years after the couple kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard.
The El Dorado County District Attorney said he has reached the "inescapable" conclusion that Phillip and Nancy Garrido targeted more children besides Jaycee Lee Dugard, the kidnapping victim who was held captive in their Antioch backyard for 18 years.
Jaycee Dugard's book has sold out in the Sacramento area in less than two hours. Today, new disturbing video taken by her captor, Phillip Garrido shows close-up shots of girls in skirts.
Federal parole agents failed to properly monitor convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido during the time he kidnapped, raped and held captive Jaycee Dugard, missing chances to stop his crimes, according to a confidential review made public Friday by the chief federal judge in San Francisco.
The woman who is now paying the price for the 18 years of hell Jaycee Dugard endured is asking for help.
The California man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years will have some notorious neighbors in prison.
The man accused of kidnapping, raping and holding Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years has been moved from the El Dorado County Jail to his new home in state prison.
The woman who helped kidnap and keep Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years has been moved to her new permanent home in state prison.
The end of a notorious kidnapping case involving a California woman who was abducted as a girl, repeatedly raped and hidden for 18 years has brought stiff sentences for her captors as well as horrifying new details about what Jaycee Dugard and her family endured.
The public defender who handled the high-profile case of Phillip Garrido said she believes the confessed kidnapper of Jaycee Lee Dugard received an excessive sentence, but said he acknowledged his guilt in the case since the first time she met him.
Authorities have released more than 130 pages of grand jury testimony in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case.
A serial sex offender was ordered Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison after the California woman he kidnapped, raped and held captive for 18 years said he and his wife-accomplice had stolen her life.
A group of media organizations wants a judge to unseal transcripts from the grand jury that indicted the Northern California couple who have pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido have pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years.
A California woman who was abducted as a girl in 1991 and held captive for 18 years must wait longer to see justice done after an expected plea deal was derailed Thursday by defense concerns that a grand jury might have been improperly selected and acted inappropriately.
Convicted rapist Phillip Garrido is expected to plead guilty Thursday to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for nearly two decades, but the county district attorney said nothing has been decided.
Phillip Garrido, the man who is accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 has agreed to a plea deal.
The talks of a possible plea deal for one of the most infamous criminal couples of all time may fall flat.
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