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Jaycee Dugard's most recent picture is on the cover of People magazine.

Considering everything she has gone through, she looks good.
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Of course Nancy Garrido is an accomplice to her husband's crimes.

If amazes me the lengths lawyers go to defend their clients.
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Even in the wild and weird 1960s Phillip Garrido stood out in weirdness. But was something else wrong, too?

Garrido's father, Manuel, blames the transformation in his son on a 1968 motorcycle accident that resulted in a serious head injury. And Phillip Garrido, in a letter seeking a sentence reduction in the Nevada case, said copious amounts of marijuana, LSD, cocaine and prescription drugs were to blame for his sexual misbehavior.

Gregory Sheppard owned a liquor store Garrido frequented during his time in Reno. Sheppard testified at Garrido's rape trial that the two aspiring musicians would often jam together and take drugs. Sheppard testified that Garrido ingested a lot of different drugs.

"I have seen him taking LSD," Sheppard said, "pot, cocaine, downers, uppers."

Medical experts found his problems were too complex to explain so simply. A neurological test ordered before his 1977 rape showed his brain activity to be normal. Every court-authorized mental evaluation concluded Garrido knew right from wrong, though a psychiatrist hired by Garrido's public defender told the jury that Garrido suffered from deep-rooted sexual obsessions.

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At least it wasn't a Grand Canyon divorce:

A man took his girlfriend hiking Sunday afternoon on the gorgeous -- albeit rocky and rough -- Billy Goat Trail, on national parkland near Great Falls. At some point, he popped the question. She said yes.

As they continued their walk, the woman apparently slipped, fell down a rock face and was injured. With no way to reach her easily, emergency responders used a U.S. Park Police helicopter to pluck her off the path.

In case you don't know what I mean about "Grand Canyon divorce," read the case of the infamous black widower, Robert Spangler.

Details about his third wife's death:

When he saw her broken body lying motionless beneath him, he scrambled down, found her dead, washed the blood from her face with his handkerchief, covered her with a tarp, grabbed her pack and headed back up to report the tragedy.

The rangers snickered about "Divorce by Grand Canyon," but there was no evidence of foul play, despite the fact that the place she fell was probably the only place on their hiking route that would have resulted in a fatal fall. And the fact that he never heard her cry out when she went over was an odd detail they couldn't quite forget.

When he got home, the distraught Spangler called John Mackley, his boss at the radio station, and told him that Donna had fallen in the Grand Canyon and died, and that Spangler wouldn't be in to work.

He had her cremated right away.

Donna left behind five grieving children and five grandchildren.

Mackley and his wife, along with all the Spanglers' friends and coworkers attended the memorial service Bob designed, at which he eulogized her at length. One friend called the service "tearless and weird."

Spangler even went back to the Grand Canyon to scatter wildflower seeds at "Donna's Point," the place at which she died. The grieving husband also went on local talk shows, discussing the dangers of hiking in the canyon. He was quoted in USA Today and on NPR.

Spangler was a twisted bastard.

He died of cancer in prison in around 2001 rather than tossed off a cliff like he should have been.

Dugard, Etc.

Apparently Jaycee Lee Dugard was molester/kidnapper Phillip Garrido's muse while he was serving time in the big house. He later recorded the songs he wrote, with most of the songs being written while in prison.

Make sure you view the video on the right sidebar.

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Nancy Garrido says she misses the children her pedophile husband fathered.

The story gets weirder by the day...
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Dugard Case

As expected with people who have been kidnapped for a very long period of time, Jaycee Lee Dugard bonded with her captors.

After all, she lived with her kidnappers far longer than she had with her own family. She even worked at her abductor/molester's printing business. She was smart and very good at what she did.

They knew the 29-year-old Dugard as "Allissa" and believed Garrido when he said she was his grown daughter. Mostly, they knew her as the courteous, professional young woman who, in telephone calls and e-mails, helped them order business cards, flyers and posters.

"He told us up front he works with his daughter. He said Allissa did all of the graphic design and he did all of the printing," said J.P. Miller, who hired Garrido this month to advertise his Orinda-based company, A&J Hauling.

Meanwhile, a bone fragment has been found on Garrido's property.

Similar Cases to Jaycee Lee Dugard's

exist, but few captivities go on as long as hers.

The News of the World has lots of pictures purportedly of the backyard of "Creepy Phil."

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Everything you want to know about the Jaycee Lee Dugard case is right here.

I suspect book and movie deals are or will be in the works.

The dad of the suspect states the obvious.
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It's official: Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide. Somebody's gonna get in big trouble.
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Miscellaneous News

I'll be surprised if Nancy Grace doesn't talk about this truly remarkable story of a Lake Tahoe girl who was abducted in 1991 and has been found to be alive and well and is 29 years old today.

The alleged abductors are in custody.

Jaycee Dugard, who would be 29 today, walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday, stunning police and family members who had all but lost hope that she was still alive.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, 60, of Orange (Orange County) told The Chronicle today that his wife, Terry, called him at about 4 p.m. Wednesday with the news he never thought possible. "She basically said, 'Are you sitting down?' I said, 'Yes.' And she said, 'They found Jaycee - she's alive."

The two, who are separated, cried for about two minutes on the phone.

But that wasn't all. Citing information provided to her by the FBI, she also had another chilling bit of information: "They have the people she was with."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL#ixzz0PP0I18PB

More ishere.

There were a bunch of sheds and tents where this woman, who had two children ages 15 and 11 by this s.o.b., lived for years with the kids. Disgusting.