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>> reporter: shawn hornbeck lost his childhood. >> held captive for 4 1/2 years. >> reporter: when devlin abducted another boy it was a critical break when police found both boys. hornbeck has launched a missing children foundation. >> see something, say something. >> this is jaycee dugard. >> reporter: kidnapped at age 11, held for 18 years. by philip garrido and his wife nancy in northern california. garrido fathered two children with his victim. dugard lived as a prisoner in plain sight until...

Kidnapped by a stranger. >> reporter: shawn hornbeck lost his childhood. to kidnapper michael devlin in missouri. >> held captive for 4 1/2 years. >> reporter: when devlin abducted another boy it was a critical break as police tracked devlin to his apartment and found both boys. hornbeck has since launched his own missing children foundation. >> see something, say something. >> this is jaycee dugard. >> reporter: you know her by this picture, jaycie dug ard, kidnapped at age 11, held for 18 year...

Dugard captive for 18 years. kgo has the latest fm northern california. >> no question about it. full confession. >> reporter: after negotiations opened for a possible plea deal with nancy and phillip garrido, defense lawyer stephen tapson told reporters the couple confessed to the crimes in the past month with dugard present for at least one meeting. the hope was to get leniency for nancy. the das proposal is 400 years in prison for phillip, 241 for nancy. prompting tapson to reach on it to dug...

Ground. every bible, pew, and stain glass wind did he destroyed. investigators wont release any information about how and where the fires were started inside the churches, saying that that investigative knowledge will be used to pinpoint suspects during questioning when they get somebody. for now, many church leaders have formed their own security teams, patrolling day and night to ensure that a menacing and malicious act doesnt take place in their house of worship. >> julie: amazing pictures. p...

Agents never actually conducted more than a visual cursory search of his residents. you may recall garrido and his wife, pictured here, were both arrested in august accused of kidnapping jaycee doug guard in 1991 when she was just 11 years old. prosecutors say that they held her captive for 18 years in a backyard compound. and that ga garrido fathered her two young children. he was on parole at the time because of a previous rape and kidnapping conviction. according to the log though, a parole o...

A political whim, perhaps for some other reason, but this isnt working. >> nbcs jim miklaszewski, great to see you in studio. the father of the only remaining suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway has died. seen here on the left with his son joran died after collapsing while playing tennis. he had been repeatedly questioned by poe lets about his sons involvement in the disappearance. van der sloot has never been charged. paul van der sloot was 57. new details revealed in the jayice ...

She was 11 when she was snatched in 1991. authorities discovered her living in a backyard compound owned by phillip and nancy garrido last year. the court is releasing entries from her diaries. on july 5th, 2004, "it feels like im sinking. im afraid. i want control of my life. this is supposed to be my life to do with what i like but once again, he has taken it away." prosecutors and defense lawyers are perusing those journals to see how they might be used in the legal case against the garridos....

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