On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard (11-year old at that time) was abducted by a man and woman in a gray sedan outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. Eighteen years later, Jaycee was found when she walked into a San Francisco Bay area police station. DNA tests are being conducted to confirm the identity.

The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago, said sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department.

"We're 99 percent sure it's her," Lovell said. He said DNA tests were being conducted. The woman was in good health. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.

Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and he received a call Wednesday from investigators who had tentatively identified her as Dugard.

Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging a meeting, said Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. "We are very confident at this point in time that it is her."

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On Wednesday, 58-year-old Phillip Garrido and his 54-year-old wife Nancy Garrido were arrested with regards to the kidnapping. The Megan's Law database says Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear.

The Dugard family feels like winning a lottery. They had given up hope on finding Jaycee.

The stepfather said his daughter, Shayna, called yesterday afternoon and said: "Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?"

His wife told him: "They found Jaycee. She is alive." The couple are said to have spent the next ten minutes crying as they discussed the reappearance of Dugard.

Probyn said he had lost hope that they would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

"Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending," he said. "To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win. It's like winning the Lotto."

Source: Guardian

Great News for the family! Hope the perpetrators could have been caught a lot earlier.