By Raina Kelley
It seemed like a miracle when Jaycee Lee Dugard, allegedly kidnapped by Phillip Garrido almost 20 years ago, walked into a parole office with her captors on Aug. 27. Police say that Dugard had been kept by Garrido, a convicted rapist, and his wife, in a warren of tents in their backyard in Antioch, Calif. Dugard, 29 and pictured bottom right in an FBI artist's computer sketch of what she may now look like, has two daughters fathered by Garrido, who are now 11 and 15.
More than 2,100 children go missing every day, according to the Amber Alert Registry, but many of them have run away or have been taken by noncustodial parents. Children kidnapped by strangers rarely survive; more than 91 percent of the victims are dead within 24 hours. Adults are often snatched too, with deadly results. But while rare, sometimes people do live through this. Here are stories of other survivors.
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