A parole agent who oversaw the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard has been transferred for the safety of him and his family. California corrections department spokesman Gordon Hinkle says the agent and his family were moved to a new location after he was publicly identified. His children had to be taken out of school because of threats, Hinkle said Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her. In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer termed a plan to make a movie about her life as "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."

The man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for nearly two decades wrote an apology in a jailhouse letter that talks about "ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible." Only a brief portion of Phillip Garrido's handwritten letter received Thursday by KCRA was released, and those excerpts did not mention Dugard. 

A judge has decided to remove the attorney defending Nancy Garrido from allegations that she kidnapped, raped and held Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years. According to court documents, Gilbert Maines was removed during a closed hearing in El Dorado Superior Court on Thursday. However, Judge Douglas Phimister immediately stayed the decision until another hearing Nov. 30.

California's Inspector General is blasting the state parole department for a series of failures in the supervision of Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender now charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for more than 18 years. In Wednesday afternoon news conference, IG David Shaw listed a series of failures involving parole officers in charge of keeping track of Garrido after his release from Federal and Nevada prisons.

The Northern California couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard made a brief appearance in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing that gave two people with personal stakes in the case their first glimpses of the defendants in court. Phillip and Nancy Garrido were in El Dorado County Superior Court for two minutes before they were ordered to return for another case update on Dec. 11.

The first photo of Jaycee Dugard since she was reunited with her family after 18 years in captivity shows a smiling woman with long, light brown hair. Dugard, now 29, tells People magazine she's "so happy to be back with my family" after being reunited Aug. 27. People published the photo and comments from Dugard in its latest issue, which hits newsstands Friday.

The Contra Costa County Sheriff's office said Friday that bone fragments dug up from the backyard of kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido's home and a neighboring property probably belonged to American Indians buried a long time ago. Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said that while scientists at a state forensics lab were unable to pull any DNA from the bones, an anthropologist concluded the fragments were likely human, but probably old.

Northern California investigators probing two old kidnapping cases say some of the bone fragments found on the property of a man charged in a separate abduction are likely from animals. Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said Thursday that preliminary test results from some fragments collected on Phillip Garrido's property show they are likely not human. Orrey says more bone fragments found there still await testing.

Phillip Garrido has contacted a Sacramento television station to express concerns about the legal rights of the woman he is charged with kidnapping 18 years ago, raping and hiding in the backyard of his home. In a letter addressed to a KCRA anchorman and dated Sept. 29, Garrido wrote that Jaycee Dugard "has been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning," the station reported Wednesday.