Authorities say they have not yet positively identified a body found Wednesday in a landfill as Somer Thompson's body, but hearts sank anyway. The landfill is about one hour away from the seven-year-old's home.

Reminiscent of burglars who become security consultants, Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper, rapist and father to her two children (as well as possible prostitute murderer) gave a woman advice on protecting children. Janice Gomes couldn't possibly have understood the irony.

Jaycee Lee Dugard's story has placed the city of Antioch, CA on the map, though not in a good way. Kidnapped at age 11 in South Lake Tahoe, found on Wednesday in Antioch, seeing her mother for the first time since June 1991 on Thursday, can she, now 29, ever have a normal life?

Jaycee Lee Dugard and, we assume, her two children, today continue to adjust to "normal" life, as normal as it could be under the circumstances. At the same time, Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, pleaded not guilty, while police searched their residence of evidence of connection into a string of 10 prostitute murders in the 1990s.

More details are emerging in the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the now 29-year-old woman who was kidnapped 18 years ago while her stepfather watched helplessly. The initial crime itself was terrible, but the details on the following 18 years are horrific.

Jaycee Dugard, now 29, was abducted in Meyers, CA in El Dorado County, on June 10, 1991. She has now surfaced in Concord, CA, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. She is pictured as a child above.

Napping may have a significant influence on young children's daytime functioning, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8 at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

As he was delivering a pizza to a remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Chris Turner noticed a woman who was tied up, and as a result of his call to the police they were able to rescue her from her abductor.

A 24-year-old teacher, Lisa Lavoie, and an unnnamed 15-year-old student were found in a Morgantown, West Virginia hotel room. The boy had been reported missing Feb. 16th.

The parents of two children kidnapped in 1989 are preparing to meet their kids, Christie and Bobby Baskin, after two decades.

While abductions by strangers are extremely rare (most offenses against children, including abduction and sexual offenses, are committed by people that they know), now is a good time to provide some tips for child safety.

According to new reports emerging from the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl in Boston by her father, Police have said that they have got reliable information which seems to suggest that Clark Rockefeller may have duped investigators into thinking that he wanted to flee the country in a yacht.