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Girl grew up locked away in backyard sheds (WTF)
- Aug 28, 2009 at 8:17 PM
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vote me popular please!has anyone else been watching this story unfold?
Freakin' crazy guy needs to have his YOU KNOWHAT cut off.......
and then to find out that the police screwed up and his parole officer did not bother to check......
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(CNN) -- From the time she was an 11-year-old, blue-eyed, freckle-faced blonde until she was a 29-year-old woman with two children, Jaycee Dugard was kept locked away in a backyard compound of sheds and tarps by a couple who police say abducted her.
Jaycee Dugard was locked in a shed tucked under a blue tarp in her alleged captor's backyard.
She was more than 160 miles from home, and her family had no idea where she was.
Nobody else knew she was there except the couple who snatched her off the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991, and took her straight to the soundproof shed, police said.
Dugard's pocket of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's backyard in Antioch, California, was so overgrown no one even knew it existed.
The details about Dugard's time in captivity emerged Thursday after one of Northern California's most enduring mysteries was solved and the Garridos were arrested and accused of her kidnapping.
Anyone who came across the couple's backyard, littered with garbage cans and a dishwasher, would assume that it ended at a 6-foot fence. 
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"You could walk through the backyard and never know there was another set of living circumstances," said Fred Kollar, undersheriff of El Dorado County. "There was nothing that would cause you to question it. You can't see it from either adjoining property. It was presumably well arranged."
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But tucked away beyond the tangle of bushes, high grass and trees was a blue tarp that concealed the only world Dugard had known since her abduction.
Kollar said the property had "a hidden backyard within a backyard." It included several sheds no taller than 6 feet, two tents and several outbuildings, "where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their lives."
It also held a vehicle that matched the description of the car used in Dugard's kidnapping, Kollar said.
The "secondary" backyard was inside the first and was "screened from view." One of the sheds was soundproof, he said.
In it were sheds and tarps, a makeshift bathroom and shower, along with electricity supplied by extension cords. Kollar compared the primitive conditions to camping.
Dugard lived for several years there by herself. The sheds were locked from the outside.
She grew up and had her captor's children there, and raised them there.
"None of them have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will, at the rear of the house," he said. "They were born there."
The children, both girls, are now 15 and 11.
"They are all in good health," Kollar said in response to a question about how Dugard and her children are doing. "But living in a backyard for the last 18 years does take its toll."
Dugard's presence behind Garrido's home apparently went unnoticed by many in the neighborhood, where homes on one-fourth to one-half-acre lots typically sell for less than $200,000.
"My dad said he never saw a young woman," said Kathy Russo, whose father has lived two houses away from the Garridos for 33 years.
She said the one-story house's backyard was obscured by trees and ringed by a wooden fence. Her 94-year-old father considered Garrido to be a "kind of strange, reclusive, kind of an angry kind of guy," Russo said.
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that poor little girl can you imagine when she was little and what went through that poor baby's mind. And then after all those years she probably had "Stockholm" syndrome. she has a lot of catching up to do. wonder what she does and doesn't know we take for granted.
Oh and I can't say on here what should happen to him.....cause well it ain't good.....and I try to talk nice and not say such stuff......but did you hear him say "it really is a heartwarming story".......sick
This girl was kept captive about 20 minutes from where I live. I can't believe the cops didn't figure this out, especially since the suspect was on parole. Crazy!!
not to mention that the neighboor called the po po 3 years ago..
jaycee lee has been on my mind since i was a little girl growing up in south lake tahoe. the month before i and 2 friends were walking home from the bus stop. a van stopped a man said could u help me find my puppy/ wallett it happened twice. my friends mom could see the stop and yelled hey get away from those girls. cops were called and that was it. the next month jaycee lee was kidnapped and the FBI was at my house. when hubby woke me yesterday saying babe that girl from tahoe was found i started to cry. she has always been in my thoughts and prayers and i will continue to pray for her and her family . PLEASE VOTE POPLUAR. jaycee lee dugard we are all so very happy that u are home. god bless and many prayers
wow................that gave me the shivers....could have been you...thanks for sharing this story with us...
i have been watching it. it is sick. i hope they can still charge the couple with kidnapping with the rest of the charges they are facing. i mean come on...she was only 11 yrs old. fuck the time limit on something like this.
this story gave me the goose bumps. What kind of psycho does this to someone? He needs more than jail time. I know he didn't kill her or anything but he deserves the death penalty because he took her whole life away from her. I am glad she is home and that her and her daughters can live their lives happily after all that has happened.
Actually they still should be able to charge with kidnapping...he still had her kidnapped. He never took her back or anything. As far as I am concerned the kidnapping isn't just from the moment you take the person but until you release them. But who knows how their laws work!
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