News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
Calif.— California corrections officials say they're working to improve the monitoring of released sex offenders, responding to a scathing report that cited missed chances to catch the suspect accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years.
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 month ago
She became defensive as officers questioned her, then asked for a lawyer. She tried to convince police she was fleeing an abusive husband in Minnesota. And then the young woman who had tried to pass herself off as "Alyssa" told police the truth,...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 month ago
Phillip Garrido reported to California parole authorities on June 8, 1999, fresh from being released by federal parole authorities. He was a convicted rapist and kidnapper on lifetime parole out of Nevada, and had been charged but never tried in...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
It says Dugard repeatedly tried to conceal her identity in the hours before it was revealed, telling authorities she was hiding from an abusive husband in Minnesota and defending Phillip Garrido, the man now charged in her abduction and rape.
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Dugard, 29, identified herself as Alyssa, the girls' mother, and laughed off a parole agent's comment that she looked too young to have children that old, the report said. She soon grew agitated at the questioning, however, and said she knew that...
News Source: Canada.com
| about 1 month ago
The convicted rapist who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and held her for 18 years was classified as a low-risk sexual offender and authorities missed multiple opportunities to catch him earlier, an official report into the case said Wednesday.