My Hero - 2011
In Jaycee's memoir, A Stolen Life, she recounts in almost childlike terms how caring for stray animals -- and later her two children -- helped her keep her humanity and her sanity.
In Jaycee's memoir, A Stolen Life, she recounts in almost childlike terms how caring for stray animals -- and later her two children -- helped her keep her humanity and her sanity.
AP | Posted 10.17.2011
HAYWARD, Calif. -- Police have questioned the California couple convicted of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard about the high-profile abduction of a 9-year-old...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 10.03.2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A day after releasing disturbing footage videotaped by one of Jaycee Dugard's captors and a report highlighting law enforcement ...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 10.02.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Disturbing new video released Tuesday shows the wife of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido luring a young girl into ...
AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.12.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released videos recorded by the Northern California couple who held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years provide chillin...
AP | Posted 09.09.2011
SAN FRANCISCO -- Talking through tears, a California woman held captive for nearly two decades told of the pain and determination as she gave birth to...
AP | LISA LEFF and DON THOMPSON | Posted 08.03.2011
PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Through it all, the kidnapping, the repeated sexual assaults and the isolation of being hidden away for over 18 years, Jay...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 08.02.2011
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A woman who was kidnapped, raped and held captive for 18 years was so afraid of her abductors that she never tried to escape, a...
AP | By DON THOMPSON | Posted 06.28.2011
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A convicted sex offender and his wife pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was ...
AP | By LISA LEFF and DON THOMPSON | Posted 06.07.2011
PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- An expected guilty plea by a convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and raping a girl when she was 11 and holding her cap...
AP | By DON THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-- California lawmakers approved a $20 million settlement Thursday with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a gir...
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011
Most violent criminals are not mentally ill or psychotic at all. They are evil and should be held responsible for their actions.
New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 05.25.2011
A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...
Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011
Timing is everything when you are convicted of murder. Sentencing is all about timing. Guidelines change, and so do prison sentences.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
It is outrageously offensive to see the outpouring of support for Polanski from the world's elite artist-class. Are there two sets of laws according to these people?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Oh dear. On Labor Day, the Orange County Register published a column by Mark Whicker that I fear is the odds-on favorite to be the Worst Newspaper Co...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Even the most well-cared-for children can fall prey to sex trafficking and become global sexual commodities.
Patrick Boyle | Posted 11.17.2011
Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping story got me thinking about the day I got a call from a distraught child molester. I had gotten to know Carl well when he ...
Marina Cantacuzino | Posted 11.17.2011
A distinction must be made between evil acts and evil people and, hard as it is to acknowledge, somewhere amidst the tangle of Phillip Garrido's depraved thinking lies a flicker of humanity.
AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sund...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a great morbid curiosity about Jaycee Dugard and her imprisonment, but nobody is drawing any conclusions about what this might say about the American character.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ANTIOCH, Calif. — Revelations that Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly imprisoned for 18 years at a convicted sex offender's home have sparked cash-...
Posted 05.25.2011
Nancy Garrido, wife of Phillip Garrido, the man police accuse of kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and fathered two children with her, "lov...
Jane Devin | Posted 05.25.2011
The most unsettling thing about the Dugard case is the staggering number of times law enforcement failed in their duty to properly monitor a registered sex offender.
Diane Dimond | Posted 12.06.2011