Most now know the story of Jaycee Dugard, the California girl who was kidnapped while awaiting a school bus in 1991, this by a husband/wife sexual predator team when she was just 11-years-old. One media report indicated that Nancy Garrido, the now 54-year-old former nurse’s aide and wife of convicted sexual offender Phillip Garrido (58), indicated that on the day prior to Jaycee Dugard’s June 10, 1991 kidnapping, she and her husband were driving around looking for a suitable victim for Phillip to kidnap. Allegedly he saw blond-haired, blue-eyed Jaycee and decided she would be his perfect victim. They supposedly saw too many children at the bus stop and returned the next day to grab Jaycee and carry her away for the next 18-years of her life.

A previously convicted violent sex offender, Phillip Garrido was arrested in 1972 for the drugging and rape of a 14-year-old girl at a time when he had already turned 21. His sexual predator skills appear to have already been developed and perhaps refined from yet to be identified experience. His young victim at that time was allegedly too frightened to testify against Garrido, so he went free, obviously to offend again. Described by some as a narcissistic sociopath or psychopath, he appeared to have little feelings for the pain he has inflicted on others. For example there are over 100 registered sex offenders in the zip code area around Jaycee Dugard's childhood home. We know that the “average child molester,” as if any such person could be considered “average” in any such way, will commit about 380 acts of molestation during his lifetime. Other statistics suggest that such an offender will offend against an average of 50 girls or 150 boys before he comes to the attention of the criminal justice system. One study of a group of less than 250 known child molesters revealed that they admitted to attempting over 55,000 individual acts of molestation against almost 20,000 victims.

One such offender, now 68-year-old Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, had been arrested on child molestation charges in New York, Idaho, Oregon, Arkansas and Washington and had lived in other states, as well as in Mexico and Brazil. He had a lifelong history of developing a relationship with adults to get to their children, in his case mainly little boys. When arrested in California in 2005, authorities found a number of log books in his residence with lists of more than 36,000 children’s names, along with codes to suggest what he had done to his victims. While some names suggested repeated contact with the same victim, such would also indicate that since, perhaps, he turned 16 until arrested at age 63, he would have had to commit an average of 766 individual acts of molestation a year or about two per day for 47 years!

Another issue is keeping track of the estimated 775,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. While some are like 75-year-old Jack Louis Sporich, one of three men recently charged under the Operation Twisted Traveler program who allegedly traveled overseas as “sex tourists” to have illicit sexual contact with children, in this case Cambodia. Sporich, convicted in California in 1988 on child molestation charges where his victim(s) were children under 14, was found by the court to be a “violent sex offender.” While he could have come to the attention of a parole officer or a sex offender task force in America, his twisted actions against poor children in Cambodia went unnoticed for a time, but now he and hopefully others who travel internationally where they pay for “the right” to molest children will be charged under the 2003 Federal Protect Act. This law was designed to allow the U.S. Government to go after U.S. citizens who are sexual predators on the prowl outside of America.

The challenge in America is keeping track of the 775,000 “known” sexual offenders in America. A California Senator once said that there were 33,000 violent sexual felons missing or unaccounted for in that state alone, with the missing count for other states unknown. We know that “only” about 115 children become victims of stereotypical kidnappings, those where the victim is unknown to the kidnapper and where the child is held for an extended period of time, physically assaulted and, in some cases murdered or simply never seen again. The terrible fact in the U.S. is that most children are molested by someone they know; someone within their home, or a neighbor, a friend, or an otherwise trusted adult. But of the children and young adults that are never seen again, or at least not for years, how many, like Elizabeth Smart or Shawn Hornbeck, or Tanya Kach, or Vanessa Brancheau or Shasta Groene, are still out there, missing and held by a non-family member in various conditions under various lies or threats to their lives of the lives of their remote parents or loved ones?

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies across this country, just like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, have seen just too many cases of both short-term and long-term stranger abductions not to believe that others still missing could still be held by their kidnappers.

In 1977 Colleen Stan was 20-years-old and an experienced hitchhiker and, therefore, she felt safe when a man, his wife and their baby stopped to pick her up. Little did Stan know that she was being offered a ride by Cameron Hooker, a sexual sadist whose one dream in life, perhaps like Phillip Garrido, was to own a female sex slave. When his wife no longer went along with his aberrant ways, he “allowed” her to have a baby if she would help him introduce another woman into their “family” to do with what he pleased.

Stan would become this woman, “the perfect victim,” held for seven-years in a coffin-like box that Hooker kept under the bed in which he and his wife slept. The Hookers would lead an otherwise unremarkable life, but when “he wanted to play,” he pulled Stan out of her box and he never “played nice." Stan came to believe that she was under constant surveillance and that her real family would be harmed if she tried to escape the physical and emotional constraints that keep her tied to the Hookers. Although eventually rescued with her “keepers” finally brought to justice, Colleen Stan’s story is just too terrible for some to consider. So, unfortunately, are the likely stories of other victims, perhaps other women and children held as slaves by their kidnappers and “masters.”

While we shake our heads at the many stories of women, girls and boys sold into sex slavery across the world, we must face the likelihood that there are other Jaycee’s in this country, and other Colleen Stan’s and Shawn Hornbeck’s. This is just one more reason while we must continue to devote national resources in our attempts to rescue such victims, and why this country needs a national one-strike law against violent sexual predators. Not 19-year-old boys who have consensual sex with their 17-year-old girlfriends, but for the Cameron Hookers, Ted Bundys, Jack Sporichs and Phillip Garridos of this world. Their victims are our national resources, and all of our children are just too valuable to leave such predators roaming the streets of America, or Cambodia, as they stalk their next "perfect victim."

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<P>The search has grown grim as FBI Agents and Connecticut State Police officers clothed in hazmat suits continue their search of a local trash dump just south of Hartford, Conn and Yale University, this as they press their investigation concerning missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Marie Le. Sunday was to have been Le’s wedding day, but her family had already cancelled the service and caterers when she failed to turn up after first being reported missing this past Tuesday evening.</P> <P>Most now know that the double MD/PhD major had walked across the Yale campus from her office and entered a University lab building at 10 AM last Tuesday morning. Her university ID card had been used to enter the five-story building and a picture from one of the 70+ surveillance cameras around the building confirmed that she had entered the building. While apparently alone, she was carrying a number of items, not to include her purse or cel phone which she left in her office. The FBI and local and state investigators have interviewed many of the students, faculty and staff members who were in the laboratory building that morning, some of whom evidently had seen Le.</P> <P>At 12:40 PM a fire alarm was automatically activated in the building when steam set off a sensor, thereby causing an evacuation of the building. Many people who exited the lab were wearing white lab coats similar to a coat available to Le when she conducted experiments in the same building. An exhaustive review of the tape from all of the surveillance cameras around the building has yet to provide a picture of Le exiting the building. Investigators, therefore, must conclude that she somehow left without an image of her being captured on film, perhaps shielded from the eyes of a camera by the many other similarly clothed students and faculty members. Or she may have exited via the garage entrance, the one that led to parking spaces for 1,000 vehicles, or maybe something much more frightening and sinister happened and perhaps she was still in the building, the victim of some terrible assault.</P> <P>Investigators have by now thoroughly searched the 120,000 square foot laboratory building for Le. While they have denied some media reports that they had found a body, they did acknowledge finding items of potential evidence in the missing person case. Police sources indicated that the evidentiary items were thought to be items of Le’s clothing with blood on them, clothing found hidden above a drop down ceiling in the lab. It is now reported that although clothes with a small amount of blood were found, the clothing was not that known to have been worn by Le the day she disappeared, i.e., a brown skirt, a green t-shirt, and brown shoes. This evidence is undergoing analysis to see if it can be forensically linked to Le, i.e., can blood or other DNA evidence, or hairs or fibers found on the clothing be identified as having come from Le or even from a potential assailant? Unlike CSI programs on TV, such analysis can take more than a few minutes, although FBI standard operating procedure would have already established a known standard for Le’s DNA, and samples of her hair and a chart of her dental records and other identifying information would be available for comparison purposes.</P> <P>While investigators have already used tracking dogs, to include the necessary cadaver search dogs in and around the Yale laboratory building and across the campus, the dogs are now assisting investigators as they continue the grueling task of searching the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA) waste processing facility, i.e., local land fill for evidence of Le’s presence. This search obvious sets a much more ominous tone to the hunt for the missing bride-to-be. While some had speculated, even hoped that Le had simply been overwhelmed by the stress of her studies and impending marriage, perhaps another “runaway bride,” those who knew her best refused to accept that she had given in to the pressures of the day. “She was just too much in love with her fiancée and too looking forward to her wedding day to have simply run away,” her friends and family would say. Sadly they may be correct and Le, who this year wrote an article about being safe on the Yale campus, may have become one of the victims about whom she had written.</P> <P>The search of the land fill suggests investigators consideration of the circumstances of her disappearance. By this, she was last seen in the lab building on Tuesday morning but not reported missing until Tuesday evening, and the search for her did not take on significance until Wednesday. While the trash containers in and around the laboratory were searched, evidence, even to include Le’s body in a worst case scenario, could have been transported to the land fill from somewhere on campus or such evidence could have been deposited in a similar trash container off campus. Either way all such disposal items go to one place, the local CRRA facility for processing. East coast investigators will recall that it was on Memorial Day weekend, 2002, that disgraced former U.S. Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit and his wife Erika befriended and then murdered a couple they had met during a night of bar hopping in Ocean City, Maryland. The Sifrits then dismembered the bodies and disposed of the remains in a local trash container. Nine days later authorities found parts of the bodies after an extensive search of a local land fill in that area and both Sifrits were subsequently convicted of the crime.</P> <P>The grim task for the FBI and the other investigators and cadaver dogs turning over the thousands of pounds trash at the waste processing plant is trying to identify and preserve potential items of evidence. Most landfill operators are able to say exactly when and where certain trash containers were collected and where the contents of such containers were dumped. Hopefully such records are correct as the search in the warm fall temperatures around New Haven continues. While some potential criminal cases require investigators to “follow the money,” in this sad case the FBI and other agencies are, as one FBI Agent said, “following the trash.” As a “green city,” New Haven also uses incinerators to burn trash in its “trash-to-energy” facility, and we just don’t know how quickly the collections from last week were handled in this manner.</P> <P>Should Le prove to have been the victim of a violent personal attack, one that may have taken her life, theories include the potential that she was stalked, or just a random victim of violence by someone prowling the laboratory halls, or she could have witnessed a crime, like a robbery or burglary where the criminal attacked her to prevent her from identifying him. Investigators must also consider that Le’s potential assailant could have hidden his or her own clothing above the false ceiling, slipped on an available white lab coat and left the building with the other occupants who walked out at the time of the fire alarm.</P> <P>Based upon the current investigation it appears that investigators are now strongly considering the likelihood that Le was the victim of some type of violent crime and the search for a missing bride-to-be may have evolved into a grim body recovery task. And for the local Yale University community; they must now consider the distinct possibility that in the worst case, a woman that had so much to offer the world may now be dead, and an unidentified killer may be walking on campus.</P> <P>To obtain a copy of our free DVD, "Protecting Children from Predators, please see <STRONG>www.Live Secure.org</STRONG> for quality proven personal and family safety related items that could help to save a life,</P>