jaycee lee dugard

Ten years ago, on August 26, 2009, Officer Todd Stroud reported to work at the Concord Police Department and, because of his experience as a school resource officer, was asked to look after a woman who was at the police station with her two young daughters.

That woman, he soon learned, was Jaycee Dugard who, 18 years before, had been kidnapped as she walked to a school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe one morning and had not been seen since.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was just 11 years old as she walked to the bus stop on the morning of June 10 in 1991 when she was abducted by two people. The Meyers and South Lake Tahoe community joined law enforcement in searching for the missing girls. As days turned into weeks, and then eventually years, parents searched for ways to teach their own children about safety and abduction.

Phillip Garrido is now eligible for release over 400 years early.

In the early morning hours of June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was walking to the school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe when Philip and Nancy Garrido abducted her and imprisoned her for 18 years in the back yard of their Antioch California home. The only clues came from the sole eye witness to the kidnapping, Carl Probyn – Jaycee’s step father, who provided information on the car and one of the occupants.

Long time residents of South Lake Tahoe remember the date June 10, 1991 very clearly. They remember what they were doing when they heard, and the national focus the community got in the following days. This was the day Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped as she walked up Washoan Blvd. on her way to her bus stop.

The community of South Lake Tahoe rejoiced along with the world 18 years later on August 26, 2009 when she was found and her kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arrested.

Terry Probyn, the mother of kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard told a Sonoma County victims' rights audience Tuesday that she carries “overwhelming sadness and incredible anger” over “18 hellish years” of separation from her daughter.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports how Probyn, 53, recounted her ordeal during the Sonoma County Crime Victim’s Rights Week event, telling of the separation from Dugard, who at age 11 was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido from a South Lake Tahoe street on June 10, 1991.

By Ben Schenkel, Sacramento Bee. Jaycee Lee Dugard's memoir, “A Stolen Life,” has been zipping off bookstore shelves since its release two Tuesdays ago. book Orders for new copies from Amazon....