S1 Ep1: Lost and Found: Jaycee Dugard

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the gripping premiere of our new series Lost and Found, we delve into one of the most shocking and heartbreaking missing persons cases in modern American history—the abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard. Snatched in broad daylight by strangers in a seemingly random act, Jaycee’s disappearance would haunt investigators and her family for 18 long years. But this was no ordinary kidnapping. Her captors had meticulously planned every detail—and the truth of what happened behind closed doors is even more disturbing than you might imagine.

How do families cope when a loved one vanishes without a trace? When do you give up hope—or do you ever? This series explores the emotional limbo of missing persons cases, the fight to keep their stories alive, and the rare, miraculous moments when the unthinkable becomes reality.

Join us as we uncover the unbelievable true story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl who was found after nearly two decades, and whose survival defied all odds.

Recommended Reading:

A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard
Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World by John Glatt

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may include descriptions of violence. It is not intended for children. Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.7	Do you remember how Alice wasn't always in Wonderland? She fell down, down, down deep in a hole.
0:18.7	Well, I wasn't always in room. I'm like Alice.
0:21.6	I was a little girl named Joy.
0:23.6	And I lived in a house with my mom and my dad.
0:26.6	You would call them Grandma and Grandpa.
0:27.6	What house?
0:28.6	A house.
0:29.6	It was in the world.
0:31.6	And there was a backyard and we had a hammock.
0:33.6	We would swing in the hammock and we would eat ice cream.
0:36.6	A TV house no Jack a real house
0:39.9	not TV when I was a little older when I was 17 but there was a guy he pretended his dog
0:45.2	was six what's the dog's name Jack there wasn't a dog he was trying to trick me okay he put me
0:53.0	in his garden shed. Here, room is the shed.
0:58.0	The clip you just heard is from a recent movie titled Room. It tells the fictional story of a girl
1:03.8	who was kidnapped and kept hidden in a backyard shed for years. She gives birth to her son while
1:09.4	imprisoned. In that clip, she is trying to make
1:12.3	him understand that there is a whole world beyond the room they live in. He has never seen
1:17.0	the outside of the four walls where he was born. While this movie is fiction, it is based
1:22.0	on unbelievable but true events. But first, imagine for a moment that a loved one of yours goes missing. What do you do?
1:30.3	First, you might try and explain it away. They got delayed. They made a detour and forgot to call.
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