Free Republic

She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in El Dorado County in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants. For 18 years, police say, the convicted rapist and his wife kept Jaycee Lee Dugard hidden in their Antioch backyard, living in a tent or shed away from the legions of law officers searching for her. Over the years, authorities say, her abductor -- 58-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido -- impregnated her twice and she gave birth to two girls, now 15 and 11. This is the horrifying ordeal law enforcement officials...

A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said. The details about her time in captivity emerged after Jaycee Lee Dugard surfaced at a police station in Northern California, nearly two decades after she vanished outside her home. Police said Phillip Garrido, 58, held her the entire time as a virtual slave, sheltered from the outside world in tents, sheds and outbuildings in his...

A Bay Area sex offender has admitted to the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was found safe in Concord on Wednesday, California corrections officials said. It has been 18 years since Dugard was kidnapped near Lake Tahoe. The break in the case came after a parole agent brought Phillip Garrido in for questioning after he was seen with two children on the U.C. Berkeley campus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Garrido brought two young children and an adult woman with him to the parole office. The meeting started as a routine meeting, but quickly changed....

A convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in the 1991 kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl — who had been kept as a sex slave and held in the backyard of the couple's Antioch, Calif. home. Jaycee Lee Dugard bore several children for sex offender, Phillip Garrido, 58, officers from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a news conference Thursday. The unnamed authorities also told the TV station that the victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, bore several childr

A woman girl who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home has surfaced in Concord, 18 years after she was kidnapped, and two people are apparently in custody, her stepfather said today. Jaycee Dugard, who would be 29 today, walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday, stunning police and family members who had all but lost hope that she was still alive.

Missing girl 'found 18 years on' Jaycee Lee Dugard was said to have been grabbed off the street A woman who walked into a US police station claiming she was kidnapped 18 years ago is likely to be telling the truth, police in California say. DNA tests were being carried out, local police said, with officers almost certain that the results will back up the woman's story. Jaycee Lee Dugard disappeared in 1991, aged 11, from outside her Lake Tahoe home, apparently taken by two men. Two men are reported to have been taken into custody, US reports say. Police...

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has been found in good health 18 years after her abduction, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office confirmed. Dugard, who turned 29 Thursday, was abducted from the El Dorado County community of Meyers on the morning of June 10, 1991, when she was only 11 years old, KCRA-TV in...

Just wondering where they are keeping the VP locked up during this run towards fascism? Shackled in the basement of the super secret VP bunker? Betty Ford Clinic? It's mysterious that we aren't hearing uncle Joe's thoughts on nationalized health care.

A Norwegian team is set to embark on an expedition to find the submerged wreck of a plane which carried Norway's great polar explorer Roald Amundsen.Amundsen was aboard a Latham 47 sea plane when the aircraft disappeared over the sea on its way to the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in 1928. Two ships will set sail from the Norwegian city of Tromso on Monday to begin the two-week expedition. The team will use an underwater robot to scan for the plane using sonar. Between 1910 and 1912, Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, reaching the target...

View of the fighter plane’s cockpit with human remains still resting inside. A group of divers, who found a downed WWII British fighter plane within relative shallow waters off the North African coast, can now confirm the existence of human remains inside the cockpit of the Curtis P40. The group are still seeking to discuss the find with the British Government and Ministry of Defence with the intention of arranging the recovery of the plane from the sea and the repatriation of the remains of the pilot who was presumably shot down during a mission. At a difficult time for...

The U.S. Special Forces soldier who fled after being convicted in a court-martial of kidnapping, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual assault has turned himself in to military authorities. Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart, 36, surrendered at the military police station at Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, at 10 p.m. Friday, according to Master Sgt. Gary Cryder, the provost sergeant for U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart. Stewart was then escorted by military police from Stuttgart to the Army confinement facility on Coleman Barracks in Mannheim. He arrived at Mannheim at 7:45 a.m. Saturday, according to Cryder. Cryder, who was not present...

PACOIMA -- Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 26 year old Pacoima woman who has been missing since Wednesday. Robin Sanderson was last seen at her grandmother's home in the 11000 block of Cayuga Avenue in Pacoima early Wednesday morning. She left a door to the house wide open, music playing on her computer and her cell phone behind, according to her mother and Los Angeles police. Sanderson, who may be in a depressed state, hasn't spoken to her family since then. Family members said it was uncharacteristic of her to be out of touch for...

BÖBLINGEN, Germany — Police have located the rental vehicle used by a Special Forces soldier to flee custody after he was convicted in a court-martial of kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault of a German woman. The soldier remains at large. The black Audi Q5 was parked on Waldburgstrasse, which runs parallel to the northern perimeter of Panzer Kaserne’s family housing. A manhunt for Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart, 36, began Thursday morning after he failed to show for the sentencing phase of his trial. Late on Wednesday, a court-martial panel in Vilseck found him guilty of several charges in...

Anyone else notice the Glenn beck show has had an awful lot of guest anchors this week?

#1) Ending the FDA's suppression of natural cures and safe, effective nutritional supplements. #2) Initiating a real investment in public education to teach people about how to prevent disease with nutrition. #3) Ending Big Pharma's monopoly on drug prices and drug patents (not to mention patents on human genes and animals). #4) Restoring the ability for local doctors to practice local medicine without being controlled from bureaucrats in Washington. #5) Cracking down on junk food advertising, soda advertising and pharmaceutical ads that convince people to purchase products that will only harm them. #6) Banning dangerous chemical ingredients that cause diseases...

LOS ANGELES — The woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase and tossed in an Orange County trash bin has been identified as a 28-year-old former swimsuit model who disappeared over the weekend. The victim, Jasmine Fiore, was last seen about 8:30 p.m. Friday at her home in Los Angeles and was reported missing Saturday evening by Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, a Canadian, who is now a "person of interest" in the case. Buena Park Police Lt. Gary Worrall said Tuesday that police want to speak with Jenkins, who reportedly took Fiore to a poker party in San...

MOSCOW - Russia's navy arrested eight men accused of hijacking the Arctic Sea freighter near Sweden and forcing the crew to sail to West Africa, the defense minister said Tuesday

The Highland Park parents of 28-year-old graduate student David Gimelfarb are searching their son after he disappeared while hiking in Costa Rica. The doctoral student who went to South America a week ago was last seen by a park ranger about 10 a.m. on August 11. Gimelfarb was reportedly driving a rented sport-utility vehicle the Parque National Rincon de la Vieja, friend Michael Kipnes told Chicago Breaking News. His parents, Roma and Luda Gimelfarb, have flown to Costa Rica to look for him. "He [Roma] was OK," Kipnis said about his conversation with David's parents. "She's not holding up very...

Russian news agencies quote the defense minister as saying a freighter that went missing nearly three weeks ago has been found near Cape Verde, and its crew is alive

Breaking News Russia Finds Missing Merchant Ship Near Cape Verde Islands Monday, August 17, 2009 ] MOSCOW — DEVELOPING: Russia has found a missing freighter near the Cape Verde islands and its crew members have been taken aboard a Russian vessel, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said... Developing