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Appears to be Jaycee's captor driving down the road on Google Earth's street view. Creepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs9pKEDbo4

It would seem like more than two girls could bear: The man they called "daddy" turns out to be a registered sex offender thrown in jail, and now they've been told the woman they thought was their big sister is really their mother. This is what Angel, 11, and Starlit, 15, have faced since the arrest last week of Phillip Garrido, charged with the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, now 29. "They thought Jaycee was their sister," Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, tells PEOPLE. "People have to realize this will take years of therapy." Still, there have been encouraging signs the...

The investigation into Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple accused of kidnapping and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard for 18 years, has widened and authorities are now looking for links between Garrido and other missing children in the area. "We are taking very seriously the possibility that he could be connected to some others," San Francisco FBI Special Agent Joseph Schadler told ABCNews.com today. The revelation that Garrido is being investigated for other missing children is in addition to probes by detectives who say that Garrido is a person of interest in a string of prostitute murders. Rod Garecht told ABC News...

The Monster charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive in his backyard for 18 years had sick "sexual fantasies" about little girls for decades. Phillip Garrido admitted that starting in 1968 he hung around schools and pleasured himself while "watching young females." "I have done it by the side of schools, grammar schools and high schools, in my own car," Garrido said in court testimony obtained Tuesday by The Daily News. Asked how old these girls were, Garrido replied, "From 7 to 10." Dugard was just 11 when prosecutors say Garrido and his wife, Nancy, abducted her...

Experts, Families of Past Victims Stress Need for Therapy, Unconditional Love and SupportJaycee Dugard is back with her family 18 years after being kidnapped by Phillip Garrido at the age of 11. Now Dugard and her two daughters face a long road ahead as they try to adapt to a normal life. As we begin to learn more about the way Jaycee Dugard and her children lived -- in a series of ramshackle tents and sheds amid squalor -- one can only imagine how Dugard will be able to re-integrate back into society. "It's been suggested that there's been...

Since 1999, when he was placed under California parole supervision for a 1976 rape in Nevada, Phillip Garrido, 58, was subject to drug testing, required to wear a GPS device and subject to twice-monthly visits by his state parole officer. In 2006, a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report that children were living in Garrido's backyard in squalor, but the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department failed to search the registered sex offender's premises. Last month, UC Berkeley Police Officer Allison Jacobs became suspicious of Garrido, figured out that he was a registered sex offender who was accompanied by two adolescent girls,...

How could four individuals, two of them captors and one of them an abducted little girl, come to live together as a family unit for eighteen years? If police have it right, not only did Phillip Garrido, Nancy Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard and Garrido's mother live as a family unit, but Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard also had two daughters together (now 11 and 15 years old). As a forensic psychiatrist, I am interested in how this can happen and what each of them must have been thinking over all those years. Although I have examined none of these...

hey say she would have done anything he asked her to. Nancy Garrido, the woman some say is the "real monster," faces the same 29 charges and life imprisonment as her husband Phillip Garrido in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard. Photos: Inside Dugard's Terror Tent Photos: Jaycee Lee Dugard Found Alive Nancy seemed to have been a key player in keeping 11-year-old Jaycee in secret captivity for nearly two decades, standing by as Phillip raped and even fathered the little girl's two girls. Phillip's brother, Ron Garrido, claims Nancy was like "a robot," according to an interview...

Phillip Garrido had a story to tell -- about how God helped him overcome the evil inside him. Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, was arraigned in California on Friday. The campus at the University of California at Berkeley was his pulpit, and he hoped his neighbors and customers of his printing business would become his flock. He wanted to share his story with anyone who would listen, including law enforcement. Just days before he was arrested and an 18-year-old kidnap mystery was solved, Garrido walked into an FBI office in San Francisco, California, with a stack of documents. The...

Late Monday, investigators say they found a bone fragment on the property next door to kidnapping and murder suspect Phillip Garrido. They had been searching the property since Saturday searching for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area. Few details on the bone were released, but NBC Bay Area's Jodi Hernandez reported that cadaver dogs were brought to the property in the afternoon. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. They allegedly kept her captive in a backyard encampment of tents and sheds. They have pleaded not guilty. Garrido ran...

It’s an incredibly moving saga, the abduction and amazing emancipation of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was held captive for 18 years. The story throws the spotlight on something our post-modern culture has all but abandoned, to the detriment of our criminal justice system; that is, the existence of good and evil. Jaycee was only 11 years old when in 1991 she was abducted near her home in South Lake Tahoe, 170 miles from Antioch, which was where Phillip Garrido lived. Jaycee and her children, now aged 11 and 15, were kept in abysmal conditions in a hidden soundproof shed-and-tent compound...

What shocked you most about Jaycee Lee Dugard's story? Was it the fact that she was abducted in plain sight, waking to a bus stop when she was 11 years old? Or the fact that she was still alive when discovered this past week, 18 years after disappearing? Was it the fact that for most of those 18 years, she was forced to live in a backyard of a couple's home in California, surrounded by fences, tents and sheds? Or the fact that nobody noticed? Was it the fact that she was allegedly raped repeatedly by her abductor, even though...

These extraordinary pictures are the first glimpse inside the squalid back garden compound where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kept captive for 18 years. A hand-painted 'Welcome' sign leads the way to a rundown world of tattered tents and outbuildings amid overgrown trees and bushes.The first words Jaycee said to her mother when the pair were tearfully reunited were: 'Hi Mom, I have babies,' it has emerged. The 29-year-old's stepfather also claims that she had developed a powerful emotional bond with her abductor, Phillip Garrido.

Here is video of Anderson Cooper speaking with a panel about mistakes that law enforcement made in the Dugard case. Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped when she was 11, and had been missing for 18 years. (Watch Video)

Here is a CBS News report on how Jaycee Dugard was held captive in a backyard for 18 years. The report talks about the fact a neighbor called police three years ago and said there were "people living in tents" in the backyard. The police went to the home, but never looked in the backyard. The report shows animation of what the backyard looked like, and how she was kept hidden there. Dugard was kidnapped from a bus stop at age 11, and now reportedly has two children by the kidnapper, Phillip Garrido. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Jaycee Lee Dugard: Inside the secret world where she was kept captive for 18 years For 18 years, this was the chilling secret world where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive and gave birth to two daughters - fathered by her abductor. Philip Sherwell 29 Aug 2009 Chilling message hung on a tree Photo: NICK STERN / [Pic in URL] But the ramshackle sheds and tents dotted around the compound behind the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in the middle of a working-class Californian district are now yielding their squalid secrets. Extraordinary pictures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph allow...

'I asked her 'what happened to your eye?' and she just, without missing a beat, said 'It's a birth defect, it's inoperable and I'll have it for the rest of my life'. 'The way she responded to that, it was rehearsed and it caught me off guard. I really think my mother's intuition kicked in at that point. 'I wanted to basically ascertain if these girls were ok. Not from a cop standpoint, from a mother's standpoint. 'It was like a wall, like talking to a robot almost. It was more like they were programmed. 'The older one almost had...

I know this has been posted before, but we have had so much bad news lately, dealing with corrupt politicians and criminals it's good to hear there are real heroes out there. This is officer Ally Jacobs, the woman who saved 3 young girls from further torture. Let's find out where she works and bombard their switchboard with thanks.

Elizabeth Smart knows what Jaycee Dugard — the 29-year-old woman who surfaced after being abducted 18 years ago by a sex offender — is going through. "I would tell her to just relax and enjoy your family and spend some time reconnecting," Smart, 21, told Anderson Cooper on "AC 360" Thursday. Smart, who was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002 and held captive for almost a year, says one of the best things Dugard can do is to move forward and "not [let] this horrible event take over and consume the rest of your life." Story continues...

August 29, 2009 Sex slave Jaycee Lee Dugard ‘sorry for bonding with Phillip Garrido’ Jaycee Lee Dugard: was taken from a bus stop in 1991 After being imprisoned as a sex slave for almost two decades and forced to bear the children of her captor, Jaycee Lee Dugard had one thing to say as she was reunited with her family yesterday: “I’m sorry.” “She is very remorseful,” said her stepfather, Carl Probyn. “She feels really guilty for bonding with this man. There’s really a guilt trip here.” America was shocked by the abduction of Jaycee, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed 11-year-old in...