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Missing US girl is found after 18 years
• Guy Adams in Los AngelesCouple arrested after woman walks into sheriff's office to identify herself.
A woman who was kidnapped more than 18 years ago was today being re-united with her family, after escaping from a couple who apparently forced her to spend a large portion of her adolescence locked in their garden shed.
Jaycee Lee Duggard, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl of 11 when she was abducted, in broad daylight, while waiting for a school bus, surfaced on Wednesday after wandering into a parole office in a town near San Francisco.
In a case that bears chilling echoes to that of Joseph Fritzl - the Austrian electrician who kept his daughter in a cellar - police believe Ms Duggard was locked away in a darkened building for several years, and repeatedly raped by her captors.
The last paragraphs are the most interesting:
"..., questions were being raised as to how Garrido escaped the scrutiny of investigators for so long.
More on this story (AP):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082800427.html