The story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, a girl who was kidnapped outside a school bus stop and found alive eighteen years later.
Social & External
The people behind it
Caroline Catz
Narrator
Jaycee Dugard
Herself
Carl Probyn
Himself
Terry Probyn
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