Couple 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.
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