Jaycee kidnap case police extend inquiry

Police in the Californian town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly imprisoned for 18 years by a convicted sex offender were today examining possible links to unsolved cases of murdered and missing women in the area.

Officers with cadaver dogs were searching a house next door to the home of Phillip Garrido, who is believed to have fathered two children with Ms Dugard while holding her in sheds and tents in his backyard.