CNN has obtained e-mails written by the woman who police say was kidnapped and held captive in California. The e-mails to clients of a printing company owned by kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido were sent by “Allissa,” who authorities say was really Jaycee Dugard, taken from her home 18 years ago.
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E-mails show kidnap victim was working
Kidnap suspects met while he was in prison
Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy met while he was in a federal prison serving time for abducting a different woman from South Lake Tahoe, California, and holding her captive in a storage unit, Nevada probation and parole officials said.
Woman’s frantic 911 call helps convict her killer
A Florida plumber was found guilty Friday of kidnapping and murdering a police detective’s daughter at a trial in which his victim’s voice filled the courtroom as her desperate 911 call was played to the jury.
Chilling video shows Florida couple, gunmen
Dark, grainy surveillance camera images from inside the home of a slain Florida couple show the moments before their deaths as gunmen dressed in black storm their house.
Society crime writer Dominick Dunne dies
Dominick Dunne, the former Hollywood producer and best-selling author known for his Vanity Fair essays on the courtroom travails of the rich and famous, died Wednesday in New York city after a long battle with bladder cancer. He was 83.
Arrest was teen’s first lucky break
Getting arrested for stealing cars after his 16th birthday may be the best thing that ever happened to Terrence Barkley. It got him out of the gangs and on the path to college. He finished high school in a Missouri juvenile center. Now he’s a college sophomore, studying criminal justice.
FBI puts brazen bandit’s face on billboards
He has appeared on bank surveillance cameras in four states, sneering and holding a pistol sideways during heists. The FBI hopes to catch the brazen bandit with the goatee and buzz cut by by plastering his image on electronic billboards throughout the South.
Police seek 4 suspects in doctor’s slaying
Authorities in Houston, Texas, are looking for four suspects in connection with a doctor’s fatal shooting over the weekend. Police responding to a 911 burglary call found Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzalez, 56, dead in his home. His wife and child were uninjured.
Police: Teen with pipe bombs subdued at school
Police in San Mateo, California, said Monday that “a potentially very drastic event” at a high school was averted when school personnel subdued a former student who walked into the school armed with pipe bombs, a chainsaw and a 2-foot-long sword.
Infants’ remains found under mobile home
The skeletal remains of two infants were found underneath a rural Texas trailer, police said Monday, in the same area where another set of infant remains was found last year.
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