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.
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...
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-...
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