Rape victim ends up on cover of "People"

This morning People magazine revealed its new cover featuring a photo of a beaming Jaycee Dugard. The image of the 29-year-old Dugard is the first to be released to the public since she was was freed after spending the past 18 years in captivity and reunited with her family. A quote from Dugard accompanies the cover photo that says simply, "I'm so happy to be back with my family." More>>

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Survivors and their families have been left wondering about the boys' parents in the decade since the 1999 shootings. "You know, I always wondered how she felt and what she went through. 'Cause I know I went through a living hell, and I was always sure she did, too," Michalik told the AP. Michalik, who has never met Susan Klebold, said reading the essay answered some of her questions about the Klebold family. "I applaud her for the courage to talk about this."

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Sex Maniac (Update)

ANTIOCH, California (SFGate) -- A bone fragment found at a property once connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido is "probably human"... (Image). The bone piece was found at a property outside Antioch next to the home where Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, allegedly kept sex slave 11 year old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe captive for 18 years.

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Garrido had lived in a shed on the neighboring property before the current owner moved in, authorities said. Dugard emerged from captivity Aug. 26 after authorities discovered Garrido was a registered sex offender when he tried to get a permit to distribute religious leaflets at UC Berkeley. More>>

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Jaycee Dugard reunites after Sex Slavery

Tearful Dugard family reunites
An aunt describes how the kidnapping victim spent her first days with her mom in 18 years. "She's beautiful"

Schizophrenic suspect P.C. Garrido awaiting trial

Dissecting a Sex Maniac (WQ)

Dissecting a Sex Maniac

Jaycee Dugard case suspect blamed 60's drug use

(WQ) There are Five Precepts in Buddhism. When one is broken, it is a slippery slope and not long before the others give way. In ascending order, consuming intoxicants leads to negligence. Thus negligent, one speaks falsely. One engages in sexual misconduct (kāmesu micchācāra). One takes what is not given (in this case kidnapping women). Sex runs all out of control. If a dead body should turn up, it would be no surprise. Celibacy (brahmacariya) is not a reasonable expectation for anyone but monastics and retreatants. But abstaining from "misconduct" regarding sensuality certainly is. WQ frequently defines and discusses it.

"I undertake to abstain from sexual misconduct."
(Kāmesu micchācāra veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi).

(Contra Costa Times) Phillip Craig Garrido tried to convince a jury that his pot and LSD use were to blame for a 1976 rape in Reno, and he told the victim she was at fault because of her good looks, according to news accounts. A retired Reno police detective assigned to the case said Garrido indicated he preferred sex by force after confessing the crimes to him, according to the Associated Press. At trial, he testified that he indulged his fantasies by masturbating in restaurants and restrooms and while reading magazines and watching movies. More>>

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Nancy and Phillip Garrido, second from left and far right, in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Aug. 28, 2009, to face 29 felony counts in the abduction case of Jaycee Dugard. Appearing with their lawyers Gilbert Maines and Public Defender Susan Gellman, the Garridos entered a plea of not guilty and are being held without bail (Contra Costa Times/Karl Mondon).

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• Memories of the '91 abduction and search
• Dugard's teacher, principal look back on kidnapping
• Video: 1997 arrest brings false hope
• Video: FBI investigating after Dugard turns up in Concord
• Tahoe Daily Tribune's 1991 coverage of the case

Suspect Profile: Phillip C. Garrido

• Criminal past hid eccentricities of suspected kidnapper
• Sex offender info on suspect
• Garrido's blog
• Religious paraphernalia from Garrido
• Flier distributed by Garrido
• Nevada Offender Tracking Information System
• Garrido's business registration

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UC Berkeley police help nab kidnapper

The author of Origins of Schizophrenia Revealed, Phillip Craig Garrido, is accused of kidnapping 11 y.o. Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and raping, falsely imprisoning, and fathering her two children. Lisa Campbell (center) and UCB officer Ally Jacobs at news conference today taking credit for his arrest (AP/SF Chronicle, Paul Chinn).

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BERKELEY, California — Two quick-thinking police employees at the University of California Berkeley campus described today how they set in motion Jaycee Lee Dugard's release after nearly two decades of captivity when they encountered her alleged captor on campus. Phillip Garrido, a white male who was distributing bizarre religious material with two girls, seemed incoherent and mentally unstable, Lisa Campbell said. The girls wore drab-colored dresses, were unusually subdued, had unnaturally pale complexions, and appeared robotic and rehearsed when they spoke... More>>