A woman kidnapped when she was only 11 has been reunited with her family after an 18-year ordeal during which she was kept in a hidden backyard and had two children with her abductor. Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, was found after she accompanied Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender and rapist, to a meeting with his parole officer. Garrido, 58, is believed to have snatched Dugard off the streets of South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991 and fathered her two girls, now aged 11 and 15. He and his 54-year-old wife, Nancy, were in police custody after being charged with kidnapping Dugard to commit rape. The pair were arrested Wednesday by the FBI, Captain Daniel Terry of the Contra Costa County sheriff's office said. Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 by two occupants in a car right before the eyes of her horrified stepfather Carl Probyn, who gave chase on a bicycle but failed to stop the abduction. The kidnapping case took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of Garrido for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes. Officers executed a search warrant at Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings, Contra Costa sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry said. Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido worked during the 1990s.
