Jaycee Lee Dugard, a girl who was kidnapped nearly two decades ago from South Lake Tahoe at age 11, was found alive and well in the East Bay, authorities said Thursday. A registered sex offender from Antioch and his wife have been arrested in the case and reportedly confessed.

Jaycee Lee Dugard’s kidnapping from her South Lake Tahoe bus stop 18 years ago quickly became one of the area’s most high profile crimes, the tragedy of which gripped the community as detectives searched for leads that remained scarce for nearly two decades.