Now that she has been found I was curious to know what shows was her case ever profiled on? UM?

Now that she has been found I was curious to know what shows was her case ever profiled on? UM?

I heard she was profiled on America's Most Wanted, Not sure about UM though.

I know this isn't going to be of much help because I can't recall exactly when she was featured on UM but I am 100% positive she was. It's possible that she wasn't given her own segment but instead was featured as part of a story about abductions of young girls in California in the early ninties.

Amber Swartz and Michaela Garecht are among the other girls who were abducted around this time and for awhile the abductions were thought to be the work of one or two individuals. Someone else (crystaldawn?) might have more information.

I was looking on the charley project page and they also mentioned the possible link between amber and michaela and jaycee. They suspected James Daveggio and his girlfriend as possible suspects and it was CRAZY how much the sketch of Jaycee female kidnapper looked just like Daveggio's girlfriend.

I know this isn't going to be of much help because I can't recall exactly when she was featured on UM but I am 100% positive she was. It's possible that she wasn't given her own segment but instead was featured as part of a story about abductions of young girls in California in the early ninties.

Amber Swartz and Michaela Garecht are among the other girls who were abducted around this time and for awhile the abductions were thought to be the work of one or two individuals. Someone else (crystaldawn?) might have more information.

Hey there Dante! :) Interesting you think it was featured on UM. I've had two people ask me today if it was and I don't remember it. It could have been one that never made it to Lifetime or was a one time Special Alert. Maybe Justin or Kane will remember.

I'm not one of the UM experts but I am almost positive this one was on UM as well. I know I remember watching a re-enactment featuring the the stepfather on the bike trying to go after her. It doesn't seem like it was a big segement, like Michaela's. I could be wrong, but I don't remember watching AMW very often....it didn't hold my interest like UM did.

What an amazing case this is though....tragic and sad as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a good number (maybe not the majority by far) of cases like this that we don't know about that are truely still alive but in situations like hers. I wonder if Anthonette Cayedito is one of them...or Michaela, Ilene Mischelloff.....so many others. It shows that you can truly never give up hope.

I'm not one of the UM experts but I am almost positive this one was on UM as well. I know I remember watching a re-enactment featuring the the stepfather on the bike trying to go after her. It doesn't seem like it was a big segement, like Michaela's. I could be wrong, but I don't remember watching AMW very often....it didn't hold my interest like UM did.

What an amazing case this is though....tragic and sad as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a good number (maybe not the majority by far) of cases like this that we don't know about that are truely still alive but in situations like hers. I wonder if Anthonette Cayedito is one of them...or Michaela, Ilene Mischelloff.....so many others. It shows that you can truly never give up hope.

I remember it too. I'm not one the the U.M. "experts" either. With so many shows on now though, it's hard to remember which one it was on. I do know that I never watched much of AMW.

I think it may have been mentioned in this episode. I seem to recall it. I-80 runs right past Lake Tahoe which is where Dugard was abducted. My impression is that she wasn't profiled in-depth and was only briefly mentioned along with several other girls.


June 13th, 2002
Amber Swartz - In 1988, seven-year-old Amber Swartz vanished in Pinole, California. She is one of at least six young girls who have vanished from the San Francisco area near Interstate 80 over the past 20 years. Is there a serial kidnapper on the loose?

I don't remember seeing Dugard's case on UM. However, it may have been presented as a "special alert" or other brief profile that wasn't shown in syndication.

I think it may have been mentioned in this episode. I seem to recall it. I-80 runs right past Lake Tahoe which is where Dugard was abducted. My impression is that she wasn't profiled in-depth and was only briefly mentioned along with several other girls.


June 13th, 2002
Amber Swartz - In 1988, seven-year-old Amber Swartz vanished in Pinole, California. She is one of at least six young girls who have vanished from the San Francisco area near Interstate 80 over the past 20 years. Is there a serial kidnapper on the loose?

I believe you are right - it's a later episode which is why I believe a lot of people aren't remembering it. But yeah that is the episode I believe...from memory they show a map and pinpoint where all these girls disappeared. Garecht, Swartz etc. and Dugard is among those listed.

Yep, I never watched AMW either but I do remember Jaycee on UM. Like others have said, not her own segment but a mention in another segment.

I think it may have been mentioned in this episode. I seem to recall it. I-80 runs right past Lake Tahoe which is where Dugard was abducted. My impression is that she wasn't profiled in-depth and was only briefly mentioned along with several other girls.


June 13th, 2002
Amber Swartz - In 1988, seven-year-old Amber Swartz vanished in Pinole, California. She is one of at least six young girls who have vanished from the San Francisco area near Interstate 80 over the past 20 years. Is there a serial kidnapper on the loose?

I just rewatched my original NBC airing of the Michaela Garecht segment. RS mentions at the end that in the last 5 years 3 other girls were abducted in the SF area but sadly 2 of them were found dead. The one still missing is Amber Swartz and mention more details of her case. Although her body was never found, it recently came to light who her killer was. The original airdate was in '89 which was 2 years before Jaycee was kidnapped.

Yep, I never watched AMW either but I do remember Jaycee on UM. Like others have said, not her own segment but a mention in another segment.

Like bugnpinky, I actually remember it as a long segment on Jaycee only. Maybe it was a different show.

I don't remember seeing Dugard's case on UM. However, it may have been presented as a "special alert" or other brief profile that wasn't shown in syndication.

That's what I've been thinking. That is, if UM ever did a segment related to Jaycee Lee Dugard.

I don't know about UM, but I'm pretty sure she was profiled on America's Most Wanted.

I just rewatched my original NBC airing of the Michaela Garecht segment. RS mentions at the end that in the last 5 years 3 other girls were abducted in the SF area but sadly 2 of them were found dead. The one still missing is Amber Swartz and mention more details of her case. Although her body was never found, it recently came to light who her killer was. The original airdate was in '89 which was 2 years before Jaycee was kidnapped.

So was the 2002 episode perhaps a re-packaging that would have included other girls? The description from the guide does say 6 girls over a 20 year period. So maybe they used the original Garecht segment and embellished upon it? I dunno. I can't remember.

So was the 2002 episode perhaps a re-packaging that would have included other girls? The description from the guide does say 6 girls over a 20 year period. So maybe they used the original Garecht segment and embellished upon it? I dunno. I can't remember.

I'm not sure. UM probably did a lot of Special Alerts that only aired a few times (I've seen several of them) so its possible they did a quick bit about her case soon after she went missing and didn't rerun it. I do know that the end part about the Amber Swartz case was taken off the Lifetime version of Michaela Garecht. Perhaps because later UM did a segment solely about Amber Swartz.

If you enter in 1554 Walnut Ave Antioch CA into google earth you can see the house that Garido kept Dugard in. It's somewhat chilling.

If you enter in 1554 Walnut Ave Antioch CA into google earth you can see the house that Garido kept Dugard in. It's somewhat chilling.


Your picture of "Ted" is chilling too! :wave:

Your picture of "Ted" is chilling too! :wave:
Oh man I'm thinking the same thing. Once I read "The Stranger Beside Me" anytime I see this picture I just get spooked.

If you enter in 1554 Walnut Ave Antioch CA into google earth you can see the house that Garido kept Dugard in. It's somewhat chilling.

The thing with Google Earth/Maps is that the street view isn't always precise. For example, if I enter my home address and click street view it takes me to about a block away. It's hard to say exactly which house is the Gardio's without something else to work with, although the creepy old van in the drive way looks like something child abductors would drive.

It's the one with all the blue tents in the back.

I can say with 100% certainty that Jaycee was profiled on AMW. I remember it. I watched it back then, just like UM. The segment had a re-enactment of her stepfahter witnessing the kidnapping and riding his bike to chase them down. They also showed footage of a candlelight vigil during that segment. And a sketch of the female who allegedly kidnapped her who looks like Garrido's wife for sure. You can probably find it on Youtube I would assume.

As for UM, I can't recall an episode with her on it. Although it is the type of case that they would profile.

Do you know how I remember it was on AMW? On Friday I picked up a paper and of course Jaycee's picture was right on the front page. Right away I knew who that was from the picture. It took me back to AMW. Scary really.

There was a featured interview with John Walsh on one of those "Entertainment Tonight" type shows earlier today ( i don't know which one because i don't watch those type of shows but my grandmother does and I was visiting her at the time), and he mentioned that they profiled her case numerous times on AMW.

I don't know about UM, but I'm pretty sure she was profiled on America's Most Wanted.

Your certainty carries a lot of weight. In fact, CBS aired a special about Jaycee Dugard this past Saturday night. Although I didn't watch the program, I caught a preview of it, which included a clip from America's Most Wanted. In that clip, the voiceover asked the viewers if they had seen Jaycee Dugard, and the phone number 1-800-CRIME-91 was shown.

When Jaycee went missing in 1991, it was at a time when the AMW hotline number ended with two digits reflecting the calendar year. That went on from the show's debut in 1988 (when it was 1-800-CRIME-88) until 1994, when it was permanently changed to 1-800-CRIME-TV.

What an amazing case this is though....tragic and sad as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a good number (maybe not the majority by far) of cases like this that we don't know about that are truely still alive but in situations like hers. I wonder if Anthonette Cayedito is one of them...or Michaela, Ilene Mischelloff.....so many others. It shows that you can truly never give up hope.

It's very unlikely there are a lot of cases like Jaycee. An FBI agent was on TV saying that something like 95% of child abductions end up with the child dead within 24 hours. If they haven't found the child after a week or so then it's almost always bad news. There are exceptions like Shawn Hornbeck and Elizabeth Smart but those are rare.

You realize how difficult it is to take care of kid for YEARS and feed,clothe, shelther them PLUS brainwash them or force them not to tell anyone that they've been abducted?

Was she mentioned in the Tim Bindner segment of UM? Maybe that is the segment people here are referring to?

Although I don't remember where I saw it, the detail of the stepfather chasing the kidnappers on a bike rang a very vague bell, and I always watched UM and never AMW.

It's very unlikely there are a lot of cases like Jaycee. An FBI agent was on TV saying that something like 95% of child abductions end up with the child dead within 24 hours. If they haven't found the child after a week or so then it's almost always bad news. There are exceptions like Shawn Hornbeck and Elizabeth Smart but those are rare.

You realize how difficult it is to take care of kid for YEARS and feed,clothe, shelther them PLUS brainwash them or force them not to tell anyone that they've been abducted?
It just boggles the mind. :eek:

PLUS brainwash them or force them not to tell anyone that they've been abducted?

I am a little confused about this aspect. When Natascha Kampusch escaped a few years ago, she immediately talked about how she had been kept captive and that pretty much as soon as she had a chance, she made an escape.

What I dont understand about Jaycee is that she seemed to have many chances to tell the police and escape. Now that she is reunited with he family she seems to be cooperating with police and even going so far as to appear on people magazine showing that she is spending quality time with her mother.

If she wanted to see her mother she could have at any time over the last 15 years. I mean I understand in cases where the person is actually brainwashed, but she doesnt seem to be brainwashed (in that she remembers her mother and is accepting of her)

Does anyone have more info on this particular aspect of the case?

If she wanted to see her mother she could have at any time over the last 15 years. I mean I understand in cases where the person is actually brainwashed, but she doesnt seem to be brainwashed (in that she remembers her mother and is accepting of her)

Does anyone have more info on this particular aspect of the case?

That's the CRAZY thing about cases like Hornbeck, Elizabeth Smart, and Jaycee Duggard. They must be very mentally vulnerable or even have some kind of mental condition because you DON'T just stay with an abductor and rapist for so long when you can escape!

I'll give you an example of a case I saw on AMW. It was just a SIX year old girl who was snatched and taken to some guys house and assaulted. BUT when that guy fell asleep the little girl BOLTED from the house and screamed for HELP!! She was RESCUED and the guy got busted!

It's not just this little girl but kids run away from abductors all the time!!

Now OBVIOUSLY all abductors have to sleep and those other victims had plenty of chances to leave but WHY didn't they??? It's INSANITY! I saw an interview with Hornbeck's parents and even THEY don't know why Shawn just didn't leave!!

yeah I mean I remember clearly being the age of 11 (jaycees age).
If she was say 4 or 5 I could potentially understand her being confused.

However when I was 11 there was no mistake in my mind about who my family was and things like that. By the age of 11 I knew very clearly where I lived, where my parents worked, how to find my fathers place of work if I was ended up in town on my own etc etc

I would assume that if I was held captive, no matter how long, and I had a chance to see my parents again (by runnning away and getting help) I would definitely have done this!

Im not criticising her decisions.... I just wish I understood them.

yeah I mean I remember clearly being the age of 11 (jaycees age).
If she was say 4 or 5 I could potentially understand her being confused.

However when I was 11 there was no mistake in my mind about who my family was and things like that. By the age of 11 I knew very clearly where I lived, where my parents worked, how to find my fathers place of work if I was ended up in town on my own etc etc

I would assume that if I was held captive, no matter how long, and I had a chance to see my parents again (by runnning away and getting help) I would definitely have done this!

Im not criticising her decisions.... I just wish I understood them.

Don't you remember when you were in pre-school your parents MADE you remember your home phone number just in case you needed to call home?

I was only 3 years old then, almost 4, but I recall repeating that number over around 100 times!

Act 3 of this program http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=286 is about Elizabeth Smart, but much applies to Jaycee Dugard and some to Shasta Groene and other kids held captive and sometimes taken out in public by their captors.

yeah I mean I remember clearly being the age of 11 (jaycees age).
If she was say 4 or 5 I could potentially understand her being confused.

However when I was 11 there was no mistake in my mind about who my family was and things like that. By the age of 11 I knew very clearly where I lived, where my parents worked, how to find my fathers place of work if I was ended up in town on my own etc etc

I would assume that if I was held captive, no matter how long, and I had a chance to see my parents again (by runnning away and getting help) I would definitely have done this!

Im not criticising her decisions.... I just wish I understood them.

In response to people who continue to question why some abductees do not run, or somehow otherwise escape their situation.

I do not begin to say that I can fully understand it either, I WILL say though that until I am a child say of age 11 who is abducted, held against my will, raped repeatedly and victimized in god knows what other ways, I will not pass judgement or question WHY.

It's so sad their families had to suffer--not only the mental anguish, suspense, and expense of searching, but sometimes even being suspected of their disappearances.

Just an FYI, ABC is airing Dugards first ever inteview with Diane Sawyer on Sunday night July 10th.

Just an FYI, ABC is airing Dugards first ever inteview with Diane Sawyer on Sunday night July 10th.
Interesting, can't wait to watch.

Just an FYI, ABC is airing Dugards first ever inteview with Diane Sawyer on Sunday night July 10th.

Thank You, I'll have to record that.

Thank You, I'll have to record that.


Her picture was on another segment. The segment about the teacher who had a secret room to molest kids :( when they reenact the interview with the police officer and child at the station, her picture is up behind the officer.

It's been established she was either locked in/or restrained most if not all of the time. so how exactly could she escape?

Not to mention she had her babies with her. would you expect her to leave them with her captors? or risk trying to take them with her and make noise?
it's not like she was hanging out in a hotel for years.

Let's not forget all of the social workers, parole officers, etc. who came to the house and never checked the backyard. granted they have alot of cases and don't always have the time to make a full sweep... but c'mon.

Not trying to butt heads... but jeez people! you weren't in her situation! not everyone reacts the same way.

Let's not forget all of the social workers, parole officers, etc. who came to the house and never checked the backyard. granted they have alot of cases and don't always have the time to make a full sweep... but c'mon.

I hope this was a wake up call for the parole officers, if they are more thorough who know what they will find in any given guys yard. Whos to say some of these missing persons aren't still alive.

Yup, the Diane Sawyer interview will air on Sunday, and Jaycee's autobiography hits the bookshelves on Tuesday.

Just saw the Diane Sawyer interview and wow she is a strong young women. I find it amazing that after all she went through and being held captive for 18 years that she is still moving forward, living life and starting a family. I wish her and her family good luck in the years to come. It also goes to show that there's always hope out there for missing children.

this case always gives me hope that no matter how long ago a crime was committed, just can and will always prevail

http://www.fox8.com/news/nationworld/la-me-jaycee-dugard-20110711,0,7187188.story

In her first interview since being abducted at age 11, a poised Jaycee Dugard tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer about her harrowing kidnapping, repeated rapes and giving birth in a crude backyard shed.

By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times

1:27 a.m. EDT, July 11, 2011

As 14-year-old Jaycee Dugard struggled in a crude backyard shed to deliver her baby daughter, the serial predator who had abducted and raped her stepped in to unwrap the umbilical cord that trapped the infant.

"She was beautiful," Dugard said of the child she birthed three years into her captivity in Northern California. "I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. I knew I could never let anything happen to her."

In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer broadcast Sunday on ABC, Dugard, displaying remarkable poise and smiling often, provided chilling details about the 18-year ordeal she endured at the hands of her captors, an increasingly deranged parolee named Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who aided the abduction and condoned his rapes.

Dugard's memoir, "A Stolen Life," to be released Tuesday, tells how the Garridos informed her she was pregnant when she was 13. At the time, she knew she was putting on weight and waddling, but she didn't know why.

A naive, toothy-grinned blond when she was taken captive at age 11 in 1991, Dugard is now 31 with brown, shoulder-length hair and impossibly young skin — the result, she said, of years spent with little exposure to the sun. Around her neck she wears a pine cone on a chain.

A pine cone, she told Sawyer, was the last thing she grabbed after Phillip Garrido shocked her with a stun gun and Nancy Garrido dragged her into the car as she walked toward the school bus on the street in front of her South Lake Tahoe home.

Phillip Garrido handcuffed her and raped her repeatedly, she said. She learned the link between sex and pregnancy by watching TV. She gave birth to two daughters and kept them in the hidden compound of sheds and tarpaulins, teaching them math and history despite her own limited education, until she was found in 2009.

Early on, her only companion was a spider she called Bianca. "I would live in my own world," she said. "Physical abuse was all I knew."

The Garridos pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping, raping and confining Dugard in their hidden backyard encampment and were sentenced last month to long prison terms. The plea deal spared the victim from having to testify. During the trial, it was revealed that parole officials repeatedly visited the Garridos' Antioch home but never ventured into the backyard, where they might have found Dugard, despite alerts by neighbors.

Phillip Garrido, 60, who was on parole for rape when he and his wife kidnapped Dugard, was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. Nancy Garrido, 55, was sentenced to 36 years to life and cannot be paroled until she is in her 70s.

Throughout her ordeal, Dugard said, she thought always of her mother, Terry Probyn, who unbeknownst to Jaycee had launched a ferocious search for her child. At the Garridos' insistence, the captive Dugard denied her own name, coming up instead with an alias, Alyssa.

Why didn't she run? Sawyer asked repeatedly.

"It wasn't something I felt I could do," Dugard said. "There was no leaving."

In a defiant statement read by her mother during the emotional sentencing hearing, Dugard said the man who kidnapped her, held her as a sex slave and fathered her two children "stole my life."

When Dugard finally wrote down for police the name she had not used for 18 years, "it was like breaking an evil spell," she said. "It was like a piece of me came back." Officers told her: "You can see your mom now." Dugard told her mother by phone: "Come quick." "I'm coming," her mother replied.

martha.groves@latimes.com
Copyright © 2011, The Los Angeles Times

Jaycee Dugard's missing poster was in the background of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Can't remember which one though (just thought I'd point this out).

I would like to see this UM episode if Jaycee had been featured on UM. I saw the Diane Sawyer special. I can't imagine her relief on being found. I thought about buying her book and her pine cone charm (I collect pine cones), but I assume she will be well taken care of for the rest of her life. Good for her. She deserves it. :) :)

Hi I would like to comment to those who question why Jaycee did not run away sooner. I unfortunately have some personal experience with this because I was taken by a 21 year old man when I had just turned 13. He was very very manipulative and would give me animals to use against me. He would hurt them in front of me to gain my compliance and threatened to harm my family as well. He drove me across several states to a pay phone to have me call home and tell my family that I had run away. (this was the 80s btw)
I did have chances to get away from him but was too scared of the consequences. He always carried guns and when I finally did get away from him he shot himself. I was asked by my family why I did not run sooner (was with him 2 yrs) A child's mind is not that hard to break. Some of the tactics that abductors use are similar to what is used on POWs to break them,and those are soldiers who are trained to deal with that as opposed to young naive teens who did not know such horrors even existed. I hope Jaycee and Shawn are able to find peace in their lives.

Hi I would like to comment to those who question why Jaycee did not run away sooner. I unfortunately have some personal experience with this because I was taken by a 21 year old man when I had just turned 13. He was very very manipulative and would give me animals to use against me. He would hurt them in front of me to gain my compliance and threatened to harm my family as well. He drove me across several states to a pay phone to have me call home and tell my family that I had run away. (this was the 80s btw)
I did have chances to get away from him but was too scared of the consequences. He always carried guns and when I finally did get away from him he shot himself. I was asked by my family why I did not run sooner (was with him 2 yrs) A child's mind is not that hard to break. Some of the tactics that abductors use are similar to what is used on POWs to break them,and those are soldiers who are trained to deal with that as opposed to young naive teens who did not know such horrors even existed. I hope Jaycee and Shawn are able to find peace in their lives.
I am so sorry for what you had to go through, I hope you are doing very well now.
As for Jaycee she was only 11 at the time of the kidnapping and by the time she was old enough to run away she was far too brainwashed to think of even trying to. I'm happy she is free now and I wish her and her family a happy, safe life.

did anyone read jaycee's book? Is it worth reading? Does it add much new information or clear up questions about why she didnt run sooner ?

I haven't read it, but I read an excerpt that said she was handcuffed and locked up for a few months. That did a number on her mental state. Nancy also manipulated her by pretending to be an ally and Phillip himself also was really manipulative. He would pretend he cared (i.e. by telling her that the handcuffs had fur so as not to hurt her) and told her that he had a sexual disorder so she was saving other people from being his victims. All around, there was disgusting psychological abuse on top of the physical abuse.

did anyone read jaycee's book? Is it worth reading? Does it add much new information or clear up questions about why she didnt run sooner ?

I know this is an old thread, but I read the book a little while ago and it does seem to clear some things up.

In the beginning, she was locked up pretty tight. She was locked alone in a shed so much, she actually looked forward to seeing Garrido for someone to talk to.
Years in, she did have more freedom and was even permitted to use the internet (Garrido had her working from home on the computer). But by that time she had two little girls and didn't know how she would support them. Garrido had also done a number on her and by this time she believed the outside world to be a scary place.

He also stopped using her for sex, which probably lessened the imminent need to escape. I think it was mostly her kids that held her captive after that. She didn't know how she would support them. I think there also was a bit of a stockholm thing going on.


And the unknown can be scary. It was a scary thought running away with two babies out into the unknown as opposed to a place they were used to where they had food and shelter.

I'd recommend the book. It really details what she went through.

Jaycee Dugard's missing poster was in the background of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Can't remember which one though (just thought I'd point this out).
Her picture was in the background of a case. I can't think of the guy's name, but it was where the guy got poisoned by his wife with his protein shake, and the wife was being interviewed in the police station and you can see the poster of Jaycee in the background. The main thing I remember about his case was the wife saying "they got Jonathan!" when she went to the hospital to see her husband.

Not to get off subject, but that Garrido should have fried in the chair for what he did to this young woman, for 20 YEARS!:mad: