SOLVED. Trying to find a true crime/ abuse story, girl kidnapped and kept in dog cage [s]

[Samantha]

I saw a book in kindle store looking for true crime books and I haven't had been able to find it. The book was the story behind the film "Lucy's Law". It involved a girl who was kidnapped and kept in a dog cage.

[Bruce]

A Stolen Life: A Memoir Kindle Edition
by Jaycee Dugard

Only book I could find about a 18-year abduction.

[Samantha]

No, sorry. I know it's out there....

[Adele]

This book has a couple kindle editions and focuses on the trial after an extended abduction:

[Jamie]

Are you sure that the film "Lucy's Law" is based on a true story? I can't find that anywhere.

[Bargle]

Going by the description on the IMDb site, the film does seem to have been based on the Jaycee Dugard story. There have been several cases of children or teen girls kidnapped and held for extended periods. I think there's more than one book on the Dugard case. I'll do some research and post again. (Angela found them. Thanks.)

ETA: I do remember a mention of the enclosure in the Dugard case being fenced in, maybe like a dog pen.

[Angela]

A Stolen Life and Freedom: My Book of Firsts are Jaycee Dugard's memoirs about her captivity and the aftermath.

It looks like some other books have been published about the case, including:

Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World by John Glatt

and Shattered Innocence by Robert Scott.

[Samantha]

No....it had some horror story-detail in the blurb that the abductor got her pregnant a number of times and killed her several of her babies [sorry for that graphic detail :(]

[Lisa]

Could it be about the Cleveland kidnappings from a few years ago? I know that Michelle Knight (one of the victims) had a book about it.

[Samantha]

nope, sorry; it was of a young girl getting kidnapped from school.

[Bargle]

Here you go. Trial of a Monster by C. Tom.

[Adele]

Bargle wrote: "Here you go. Trial of a Monster by C. Tom."

Good find!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The movie came out in 2011, though, and the kindle book in 2013. If the years listed are accurate. Maybe the kindle book was based on the movie rather than the reverse?

[Greg]

I don't think I have seen a book with such bad reviews. May not have done Samantha a favor finding this one. LOL

[Samantha]

Greg wrote: "I don't think I have seen a book with such bad reviews. May not have done Samantha a favor finding this one. LOL"

Sorry for all the trouble, but the blurb look good and I like crime so I wanted to find it. If I read it, you'll see it on my profile!!

Thanks!!!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

So "Trial of a Monster" was your book then?

[Samantha]

Yep, signing off!