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John Jamelske, serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of girls and women and held them captive in a concrete bunker beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, US. All five of his victims were from different ethnic origins and most from different age groups.
Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...
In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who tased her with a stun gun before dragging her into their car as Dugard walked to her school bus stop near her home in Meyers, which is south of South Lake Tahoe, California. While in captivity, Garrido raped her for years, impregnating her twice, resulting in ...
The case is documented in the book Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box (1989), by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, [43] and referenced in Kathy Reichs's novel Monday Mourning (2004). [44] An updated version of Stan's story, Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life by Jim Green, was published in 2009. [45]
A girl in Northern California whose beloved pet goat was seized by sheriff's deputies and taken to slaughter has won a $300,000 settlement. Jessica Long filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of her then ...
Investigators revealed that Dugard had been kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos in an area behind the Garridos' house at 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, California, where Phillip repeatedly raped Dugard during the first six years of her captivity. During her confinement, Dugard gave birth to two daughters, who were aged eleven and ...
Native Americans won state backing to ban a term used to denigrate Native women from geographic place names. Fresno County says the state should butt out.
One suspect in the girls' disappearances was serial child molester Kenneth Guy Shilts; Rahn's and Stevenson's names were reportedly listed in an entry in Shilts's notebook. In 1973, serial killer Gerard John Schaefer was accused of murdering Rahn and Stevenson; he initially denied involvement, though later confessed in 1989.