We're thrilled by the news that Jaycee Lee Dugard has been found alive and in good health after being in captivity for 18 years.
That news is tempered by the ordeal she experienced at the hands of her reported captors Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who are being held in Placerville on multiple counts of kidnapping and rape.
Descriptions of the place where she and her two children were kept for nearly two decades boggle the imagination.
Living in tents and shacks constructed in the backyard of the Garrido home in Antioch, Calif., Jaycee and her children didn't go to school or see a doctor.
Almost more shocking have been the near misses revealed over the years as Garrido's neighbors complained to authorities about his behavior.
By all accounts, Garrido is a pretty cool customer when confronted by law enforcement. On Sunday we learned that the arresting officer in a Reno rape that sent Garrido to federal prison in 1977 was almost taken in by him.
Were it not for observant University of California, Berkeley, campus officers, there's no telling when Jaycee would have been united with her family.
Neither of the Garridos have been convicted of any crime involving Jaycee's kidnapping or what may have ensued, yet.
That's up to a El Dorado County jury to decide, based on evidence presented in a court of law.
We're confident that a jury selected in a community once known as Hangtown will be able to do their duty.
