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Dugard remained missing for over 18 years until 2009, when a convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido, visited the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, accompanied by two adolescent girls, who were discovered to be the biological daughters of Garrido and Dugard, on August 24 and 25 of that year.
A Stolen Life is the story of Dugard's 18-year ordeal and was written as part of her therapy with Rebecca Bailey, who specializes in post-trauma family reunification. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Dugard further says that she wrote the memoir to provide an in-depth look at what captives like her have endured, and to reach other survivors.
Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. [3] Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered. December 1954 Unidentified 11-year-old girl John A ...
On February 19, 2013, the body of Canadian tourist Elisa Lam (born as Lam Ho-yi; Chinese: 藍可兒) was recovered from a large cistern atop the Stay on Main hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, where she had been a guest. She was last seen alive on January 31 and was reported missing by her parents on February 8.
Four teenagers were arrested Sunday for holding a 13-year-old girl hostage inside a New Jersey hotel room, where they tried to sexually assault her at gunpoint, according to authorities.
For 30 years, the disappearance of a six-year-old girl in Arkansas who went missing while chasing fireflies at a Little League ballpark has been a mystery.. Then a key clue discovered in a red ...
Between 22:00 and 23:00 BST, [17] 16-year-old Leneghan and her 18-year-old friend were in a third girl's Renault Clio at the disused Wallingford Arms pub [6] [18] when they were kidnapped by Thomas and a group of five other men—Michael Johnson, brothers Joshua and Jamaile Morally, Indrit Krasniqi, and Llewellyn Adams.
A missing 8-year-old Texas girl has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool, Houston police told news outlets. The girl’s body was discovered in the pool at a DoubleTree hotel on Houston’s ...