Never Give Up Hope - I am one that refuses to give up on Natalee being alive!!
Tahoe Girl Missing For 18 Years May Be Alive
August 27, 2009 9:30 AM
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (CBS13) A possible break in the 1991 kidnapping case of an 11-year-old girl from South Lake Tahoe. A woman showed up in Contra Costa County yesterday, claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who has been missing for 18 years.
This morning, Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn is flying to Northern California from her home in Southern California to meet with the woman who claims to be her missing daughter.
CBS13 spoke with Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn late Wednesday, who says the FBI facilitated a phone call between the woman in Concord and Dugard's mother Terry who now lives in Riverside County. According to Carl Probyn, this woman walked into a Bay Area police station identifying herself as Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11-years-old at the time of her disappearance.
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department has announced they will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss the high-profile kidnapping case from 1991.
Dugard was kidnapped the morning of June 10, 1991, while walking from her home to the school bus stop on Washoan Blvd. in Meyers. Her stepfather said he watched a stranger pull up and yank Jaycee Lee into a two-toned gray sedan as she kicked and screamed. Probyn believed a man and woman were in the vehicle. Although there were several false sightings, Dugard was never seen again.
CBS13's Kurtis Ming investigated the cold case in 2003 when there was renewed hope Dugard may have been alive. There were several similarities to the Elizabeth Smart case out of Utah. Smart and Dugard resemble one another. Both girls were abducted in the month of June, 11 years apart. One of Smart's alleged captors, Wanda Barzee resembled the female captor in the composite sketch in Dugard's case. Dugard was kidnapped near Highway 50 which leads to Salt Lake City.
DottyThursday, August 27, 2009 04:29 PM
There aren't that many happy endings unfortunately. Those people that take children and the children survive, most likely they needed the children as some sort of guarantee. Possibly so they can apply for social assistance or other government handouts. Natalee was not of that age that she could be brainwashed by abductors.
tmjThursday, August 27, 2009 04:45 PM
People should never give up hope. This story if it proves to be true is a perfect example of never say never, not without a body. And there have been way too many weird and very strange elements to this case to make me believe for sure that Natalee is even dead.
As for her not being of the age that she could not be brainwashed? What age would that be. History shows two examples of a girl around the age of Natalee being brainwashed, Patty Hearst and Elizabeth Smart.
DottySaturday, August 29, 2009 12:28 PM
Patty Hearst was in a totally different league. She had everything she could have ever wanted...life gets boring for those that everything. I doubt she was kidnapped and brainwashed. She wanted to live the other side of the coin.
Smart was probably scared and was brainwashed easily through fear. Strange stories didn't surround these cases like Natalee's. Blogdom gave silly people who want to detract from the case, an avenue to do so. Natalee has been under the sea very soon after she didn't show at the HI.
RizzoSaturday, August 29, 2009 01:39 PM
Interesting how even a post of hope about another missing girl found, can have such differing opinions. I was an avid reader of the Patty Hearst case and I disagree completely that she wanted a new life or the "other side of the coin," whatever that means. What she did with her life in later years was a credit to whom she was as a person.
As for Elizabeth Smart and Natalee, why couldn't Natalee have been brainwashed through fear if she was taken? No one knows one thing for sure about her other than she is missing. There is no evidence (like the book says) and just because a bunch of random people on message boards have concocted a lot of harebrained theories ON BOTH SIDES, it does not mean they are true.
What of course makes the most sense is that she was lost at sea or that she was disposed of at sea by someone. So maybe we will never know for sure. But really until the case is truly solved and when cases like Jaycee prove that miracles do happen, then why not keep the faith in a miracle. I have read where there are those that absolutely do believe that Natalee is alive. Who am I to say otherwise. I will hope and pray that they are right.
DottySunday, August 30, 2009 10:35 AM
I didn't follow Patty Hearst after her incarceration so I have o idea what she became. When she was suppoosedly kidnapped, she fell right into the crime immediately. shehad to have been very weak in mind if her captors made such a strong impression right off the bat. The other side of the coin...a life she didn't know may have been exciting for her. Living on the run.
I think it's great the girl was found finally, since many people apparently just didn't want to get involved and report what they saw and heard. Luckily for Jaycee that her captor was trusting her and taking her to business meetings.
I've read before where girls were imprisoned for long periods by molesters and finally were somehow able to get to freedom. The majority don't have that kind of luck. What society needs to do is recognize these predators and watch them...that is, take an interest in their methods of operating and aid Police in capture by way of tips, etc. There are groups in Canada doing that on sites and one can be surprised by all the tips that can come forward just by local lay people...the general public.
crimejunkieThursday, September 10, 2009 11:13 AM
Never heard of this story before. What a horrible situation for this girl, now a woman. Wonder what her parents thought all these years as she was never found. Did they think she was dead? Did they give up on her or continue to accuse others of the crime? Just musing here a bit. Certainly this has to give anyone with a missing child some hope. Maybe 18 years from now we will read here that Natalee has been held somewhere too?
DottySaturday, September 12, 2009 02:05 AM "The last time I talked with Beth, I was real hopeful. She said, 'One day, I am burying her. The next day, I am wanting her home alive.' It's just like the waves in that ocean," she said tearfully. "It is a ride." (this offered by Marilyn Whitlock)
She said the Aruban justice system has confused and frustrated the Twitty family since their arrival, especially since many of suspects in the case have been released.
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...but she said everyone has different theories about exactly what happened to her.
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I can imagine how frustrated and confused Beth was especially since all the scenarios and wild goose chases that led from "tips". She certainly doesn't sound like someone who knows where her dtr is.
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