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Details of Jaycee Dugard's 18 Years of Captivity

Airdate: 8/28/2009
The world is learning shocking new details about Jaycee Dugard's 18-year-long kidnap ordeal.  

Jaycee was held prisoner in a backyard for 18 years, where police say she was forced to raise the two children she had with her kidnapper.  Hidden from view behind a fence is a secret maze with two sheds and two tents, a primitive outhouse, and a shower.  One of the sheds was even soundproofed.  Police also found the silver-colored car used in the kidnapping back in 1991.   

The secret compound was so well concealed, law enforcement officers did not find it during a search of the property last July.

"It was bizarre.  It was just very, very concealed," Detective Bryan Golmitz of the El Dorado County Sheriff's office told INSIDE EDITION.
 
The accused kidnappers Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy were an odd couple.

"I didn't have good vibes about him, he just kind of seemed out there," says neighbor Betty Unpingco.

Phillip Garrido was taken to jail in Antioch, California.  Incredibly, he gave a jailhouse interview to a Sacramento TV station in which he tried to justify his actions:

"You are going to find the most powerful story coming from the victim.  You are going to fall over backwards and in the end you are going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story.  It's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around."
 
The religious fanatic also wrote a blog in which he says, "The Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongues of angels."

Jaycee was 11 when she was kidnapped in 1991.  She's now 29. Today she's with her mother, Terry, and Shana, a toddler when Jaycee was kidnapped, now a grown woman.

"She was in good health, but living in the backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar told reporters. 

Also with them are the two children Jaycee had with Garrido.

Carl Probyn, Jaycee's stepfather, tells INSIDE EDITION, "The two girls are okay, they’ve never been to school, they’ve never been to a doctor or anything, so we've got some major hurdles here."

Cheyvonne Molino, a client of Garrido's printing business, has met the two girls.  She tells INSIDE EDITION that when she asked where the girls went to church, they told her they had church in their basement and their father was the pastor.

The reunited family is now living together in a rented house in an undisclosed location, with 18 years to catch up on.
 
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