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A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe and held in Antioch by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officers liable for failing to supervise her captor. The ruling was made seven years to the day she was rescued - on Aug. 26, 2009. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled on this case in March, but Friday's decision was an expanded version of their original opinion. Friday's opinion now becomes a legal precedent. Dugard had argued, unsuccessfully, that federal parole officers failed to...

In a handwritten jailhouse letter full of misspellings, accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido expressed concern for his alleged victim, Jaycee Dugard, saying he believes her "civil rights have been clearly violated." Accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido wrote in a jailhouse letter that Jaycee Dugard's civil rights have been violated. In it, Garrido wrote that Dugard's "free speach [sic] rights are being violated, also she has been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning." Garrido urged Gray to "take this to a privet [sic] attorney who will look this matter over for her best interest."

Jaycee Lee Dugard Abductor Phillip Garrido 'Wanted Cute Blond Girl' Phillip Garrido selected the pretty blond girl with the gap-toothed grin as his prey during a "child shopping" trip because she looked "cute" , his wife Nancy has told investigators in California. Philip Sherwell in Antioch 12 Sep 2009 But the couple decided not to try and snatch 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard that day in June 1991 because she was walking through South Lake Tahoe with a bunch of school friends. Instead, they apparently trailed her to her home before returning the next morning to complete their horrific mission. Mrs Garrido...

ANTIOCH, California (BNO NEWS) -- The bone fragment found in the backyard of Phillip Garrido's neighbor is likely human, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Phillip Garrido and his wife are both suspected of the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, before she was freed more than 18 years later. Officials had earlier said they had found a bone fragment on the property of Garrido's neighbor, but were not immediately able to say if it was human or animal. Police began searching the property of his neighbor because Phillip once lived on the property when he worked as...

Aunt Tells Of Dugard Family Joy Tina Dugard says the two young girls are educated and bright The first details have emerged of how the Dugard family is faring since the release of Jaycee Lee, who was abducted and held for 18 years in California. Aunt Tina Dugard told the Orange County Register there was a lot of laughing, crying, holding hands and reconnecting. She said Jaycee Lee's two girls "know what's going on" but had not been allowed to watch coverage of the case.

Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 and imprisoning her in a shed for nearly two years, may have started his spree of sexual crimes as far back as 1972, police said. Garrido, then 21, gave a 14-year-old girl drugs and then sexually assaulted her multiple times, Antioch Police Lt. Leonard Orman told NBC's The Today Show on Thursday. The victim refused to testify about the incident, and the charges against Garrido were dropped, Orman said. Officials believe this is the third victim that Garrido has raped in the last 37 years -- and they're looking for...

When Phillip Craig Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1977 for kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe woman so he could rape her in a Reno storage unit, the prosecutor who put him away figured that was one sexual predator who was gone for good. Under sentencing guidelines now in place, Garrido would have been behind bars for more than two decades - and wouldn't have been free in 1991 when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street in South Lake Tahoe, not far from where Garrido kidnapped Katie Callaway Hall in 1976. But under 1970s-era...

Nancy Garrido, the wife of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnapper, has a serious legal problem in her defense: She apparently kept the girl prisoner for a five month period while her husband Phillip Garrido went to prison for violating his parole, her lawyer acknowledged today. SNIP One of the many legal dilemmas Nancy Garrido faces is what she did during five months when Phillip was serving a prison sentence for violating his parole in 1993, just two years after Dugard was snatched off a school bus stop. Dugard was still only 13 when Phillip Garrido was returned to prison. But Nancy...

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 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...

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,...

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...

September 1, 2009 Unassuming Nancy — the woman and wife behind the rapist Philip Garrido Mike Harvey in Antioch To the outside world she was plain, modest Nancy, the other half of Phil the printer. Neighbours knew her as a full-time carer for Phillip Garrido’s ageing mother and a part-time accountant for his printing business. In reality Nancy Garrido provided the cover that helped her husband, a convicted sex attacker, to keep the authorities at bay. When neighbours spotted children at the house they reasoned that it must be OK because he lived with his wife. But Mrs Garrido, 55,...

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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...

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...

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...

At the heart of this inquiry lies the nature of the community where Garrido chose to make his home after serving just 11 years of a 50-year sentence for a previous sex attack. For contrary to initial reports, this is far from being mainstream, middle-class, suburban America. Together with his new wife, Nancy, whom he had met while she was visiting her uncle in jail, Garrido settled in a crime-ridden backwater where nobody pries into anyone else's business - unless they are willing to pay the price. 'The people here are like hillbillies,' says one local film-maker. 'They are all...