Cadaver dogs pick up scent that may be a sign of remains in yard of Calif kidnapping suspects

September 25th, 2009 US extradites kidnapping suspect to MexicoMEXICO CITY — The United States has extradited to Mexico a woman wanted in a kidnapping that grabbed headlines after the victim's mother outperformed police in finding several suspects. The Attorney General's Office says that Brenda Quevedo is in the custody of Mexican federal authorities.

September 21st, 2009 Digging to continue Tuesday in Garrido backyardANTIOCH, Calif. — Police investigating two child abductions say digging will continue Tuesday on the property where a Northern California couple allegedly held a girl captive for 18 years.

September 21st, 2009 Searchers begin digging on Garrido propertyANTIOCH, Calif. — Police investigating two child abductions are starting to dig on the property where a Northern California couple held a girl captive for 18 years.

September 18th, 2009 Texas group derides scent IDs as junk scienceDALLAS — A group that tries to free wrongly convicted people says scent identifications using trained dogs are based on junk science and should be scrapped. The Innocence Project of Texas says it will release a report next week outlining its reasons why scent identifications should be inadmissible in court.

September 18th, 2009 Kidnapped woman hasn't given clues in other casesANTIOCH, Calif. — A woman kidnapped 18 years ago has so far not offered any clues in two other child abductions in Northern California in the 1980s, police said Friday.

September 18th, 2009 Authorities dig at home of suspected kidnapperANTIOCH, Calif. — Signs of disturbed soil and the discovery of bone fragments on the property where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years could indicate something is buried on a site where authorities have been searching and cadaver dogs earlier picked up a scent.

September 10th, 2009 Properties searched in Calif. kidnapping casePITTSBURG, Calif.

September 9th, 2009 Severed hand, torso found in valley near LALANCASTER, Calif. — Authorities say a male torso has been found in the high desert about 20 miles east of Lancaster, not far from the site where a severed hand was discovered.

September 8th, 2009 ANTIOCH, Calif. — A sheriff's spokesman says a bone fragment pulled from the backyard of a home where kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido once stayed is probably human.

September 1st, 2009 Couple never on FBI radar in CA girl's kidnappingSAN FRANCISCO — An FBI agent who spent 18 years on the Jaycee Lee Dugard case says the Antioch couple charged in her 1991 abduction were never considered suspects. Special Agent Chris Campion said the bureau exhausted thousands of leads about Dugard's whereabouts, sometimes with the help of confidential informants and court-ordered wiretaps.

September 1st, 2009 Police: No link between kidnap suspects, slayingsPITTSBURG, Calif. — Police in the Northern California city of Pittsburg say they have found no evidence to connect kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido or his wife to several unsolved murders.

August 30th, 2009 Police search neighbors' back yard in kidnap caseANTIOCH, Calif. — Authorities inspected the neighboring back yard of the couple charged with kidnapping a girl 18 years ago, seeking clues that could shed light on unsolved murders of prostitutes and other open cases.

August 25th, 2009 Search finds no remains of 3rd Buffalo fire victimBUFFALO, N.Y. — Fire investigators spent Tuesday searching a burned-out convenience store where two Buffalo firefighters died a day earlier, but found no evidence anyone else was inside.

August 17th, 2009 No seat belt charges in Calif. crash that killed 8DINUBA, Calif.

June 3rd, 2009 Mom accused of duct-taping daughter's boyfriendADELANTO, Calif. — Authorities arrested a woman for allegedly trying to kidnap her daughter's boyfriend and haul him away to Northern California.