By inthenews.co.uk staff.
A woman kidnapped 18 years ago as an 11-year-old has turned up alive in San Francisco.
Police said they were certain the 29-year-old woman was Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched from outside her home in California in 1991.
The case, which has strong echoes with the Josef Fritzl story in Austria, was headline news in the US in 1991, with Ms Dugard's kidnapping featuring on America's Most Wanted.
A convicted paedophile and his wife have been arrested over her reappearance. It is thought Phillip Garrido (pictured right) kidnapped Ms Dugard, made her live in a series of sheds and tents in his backyard in complete isolation and fathered two children with her.
Ms Dugard and her daughters, now aged 15 and 11, are all apparently healthy despite never going to school or seeing a doctor.
Her mother and other family members were last night travelling from California to San Francisco to be reunited with Ms Dugard. Her stepfather Carl Probyn, a former suspect in the case, said it felt like he had won the lottery.
'To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win,' he said.
Mr Probyn was among the last people to see his stepdaughter before she was kidnapped, watching in horror as she was bundled into a car screaming as she walked to a bus stop outside her home in Lake Tahoe.
Ms Dugard re-emerged when Phillip Garrido and his wife (pictured right) turned up at a police station after he was spotted with children; something he is banned from doing after being convicted of child sex offences.
He is being held on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and conspiracy. Nancy Garrido is being held on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping.
A woman kidnapped 18 years ago as an 11-year-old has turned up alive in San Francisco.
Police said they were certain the 29-year-old woman was Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched from outside her home in California in 1991.
The case, which has strong echoes with the Josef Fritzl story in Austria, was headline news in the US in 1991, with Ms Dugard's kidnapping featuring on America's Most Wanted.
A convicted paedophile and his wife have been arrested over her reappearance. It is thought Phillip Garrido (pictured right) kidnapped Ms Dugard, made her live in a series of sheds and tents in his backyard in complete isolation and fathered two children with her.
Ms Dugard and her daughters, now aged 15 and 11, are all apparently healthy despite never going to school or seeing a doctor.
Her mother and other family members were last night travelling from California to San Francisco to be reunited with Ms Dugard. Her stepfather Carl Probyn, a former suspect in the case, said it felt like he had won the lottery.
'To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win,' he said.
Mr Probyn was among the last people to see his stepdaughter before she was kidnapped, watching in horror as she was bundled into a car screaming as she walked to a bus stop outside her home in Lake Tahoe.
Ms Dugard re-emerged when Phillip Garrido and his wife (pictured right) turned up at a police station after he was spotted with children; something he is banned from doing after being convicted of child sex offences.
He is being held on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and conspiracy. Nancy Garrido is being held on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping.
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