Garridos Confess to Kidnapping Jaycee Dugard

Kidnap victim deals frankly with ordeal in new memoir

(NEWSER) - After 18 years in Phillip Garrido's backyard hell, one might expect Jaycee Dugard to be joyless and withdrawn. But Diane Sawyer instead encounters a fiercely devoted 31-year-old mother, a rape survivor who confronts her ordeal unflinchingly, and a vibrant woman savoring each tiny freedom in her new life—like being to say her own name aloud, something Garrido had prohibited her from doing. Dugard gives her first television interview, airing this Sunday on ABC, ahead of the release of her candid memoir, A Stolen Life. More»

Alleged kidnappers finally indicted in Jaycee Dugard case

(NEWSER) - It took more than a year after their arrest, but Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been indicted in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard . Nancy Garrido’s lawyer says a grand jury handed up the indictment this week after secret proceedings. Now the couple can be arraigned on the charges as soon as Oct. 1, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “I had assumed they weren't going to” indict, the lawyer tells People . “I'm surprised they waited so long.” More»

(NEWSER) - Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard feels guilty about being snatched off the streets as a child and held captive for 18 years, her mother has told Jaycee's grandmother. She "feels guilty that she was kidnapped and for not having called her mom or dad or anyone—even though she was captive!" Jaycee's grandma Wilma Probyn tells Radar. “She was sorry for making her mommy and daddy worry. I cried when I heard that." More»

(NEWSER) - Police are looking more closely at Nancy Garrido’s role in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping, the Telegraph reports. She appears to have played a key part in the abduction, and she helped her husband, Phillip Garrido, throughout Dugard’s imprisonment. At one point, when Phillip was sent to prison for 4 months for a parole violation, Nancy Garrido kept Dugard locked up and hidden. More»

DA says she made up to 20 such videos for her husband

(NEWSER) - Authorities released more video today made by Phillip and Nancy Garrido that showed how they prowled for victims. In the latest, Nancy is shown luring a girl into their van and videotaping her doing the splits, reports AP . "That's it. Can you go all the way down?" says a sweet-sounding Nancy, and the girl complies. The video was made in 1993, two years after the couple kidnapped Jaycee Dugard, whom they kept for 18 years before getting arrested. More»