As Jaycee Lee Dugard is reunited with her family nearly 20 years after she was abducted, Sky News Online looks at other missing children who have been found.
Schoolgirl Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom in Salt Lake City by an armed man in June 2003.
The 14-year-old was found nine months later just 20 miles away.
Brian David Mitchell, a street preacher who believed in polygamy and thought he was a prophet, was charged along with his wife Wanda Brazee with aggravated kidnapping.
The pair are still in custody but have never been tried because they were both ruled mentally incompetent.
Elizabeth, now aged 21, is studying music at university.
Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped on her way to school in 1998, aged 10, and was held captive in a house outside Vienna for more than eight years.
Her captor Wolfgang Priklopil kept her prisoner in a hidden cellar beneath his garage and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape.
In August 2006, she fled as Priklopil was cleaning his car.
He ended up killing himself by jumping in front of a train as he was pursued by police.
Elisabeth Fritzl was imprisoned by her father Josef Fritzl for 24 years in the cellar of the family home in the Austrian town of Amstetten.
From 1984 to 2008, he drugged her, raped her repeatedly and she gave birth to seven children.
Three of the children were kept underground with their mother.
Fritzl was jailed for life this year after he was convicted of murder, rape, enslavement and incest.
Shawn Hornbeck was tortured by Michael Devlin for over four years after he was kidnapped as an 11-year-old by the pizza parlour manager in Missouri in 2002.
Devlin was caught when police raided his St Louis home after he tried to abduct a second boy, aged 13.
He is now serving a life sentence in prison.
Seven-year-old Steven Stayner was abducted in California by Kenneth Parnell on the way home from school in 1972.
Parnell began calling Steven by the name Dennis and introduced him to people as his son.
They moved frequently around California, with Parnell enrolling the young boy into a series of schools.
In 1980, aged 14, Steven managed to escape with another boy while Parnell was at work.
Stayner died in a motorcycle crash nine years later.
His story has been dramatised in a television mini series I Know My First Name Is Steven.
Parnell was sentenced to seven years in jail but was freed on parole after five years.
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