By Sophia Kazmi
Contra Costa Times
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Early Thursday, when her husband heard of the return of Jaycee Dugard, he whispered the news to a sleeping Sharon Murch. It was 5 a.m., but the mother of Michaela Garecht was…

Phillip Craig Garrido, the 58-year-old Antioch, Calif., resident accused of 1991 kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, was required to register as a sex offender because he was convicted in 1977 of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman from parking lot in South…

BY JULIET WILLIAMS AND SAMANTHA YOUNG
Associated Press Writers

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — The father of a man suspected of kidnapping a girl 18 years ago and hiding her in his backyard says his son is “absolutely out of his mind.”

Manuel Garrido told…

By Bill Lindelof
McClatchy Newspapers

For Carl Probyn, the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard ends 18 years of heartache and suspicion.

It was Probyn who reported his stepdaughters kidnapping to police.

The blond, blue-eyed Dugard, then 11, was abducted while walking to school June…