Search for Jaycee

By Vik Jolly, in 1991

ANAHEIM Hometown friends, relatives and others turned what was to be a humble rummage sale to raise money to help find a lost girl into a grand fund-ra"This is definitely a swap meet," said Becky Bode, who along with her husband Dennis spearheaded the effort to help find 11-year-old daughter Jaycee Lee Dugard, who has been missing since June 10 from South Lake Tahoe. The Bodes, who live in Fullerton, are longtime friends of Jaycee's mother Terry Probyn, a former Anaheim resident. The three graduated from Anaheim High School together. The money raised from the sale was more than twice what the organizers anticipated. When the two-day sale ended Sunday, nearly $12,000 was collected. The organizers hope to use to the money to publicize Jaycee's kidnapping. An estimated 3,000 people picked up sale items ranging from a piano to antique furniture. Unsold items were picked up by the Children's Hospital of Orange County. "The feeling is that the poster campaignes is going to work. Her face being out there constantly is going to help," said Jay Curry, Jaycee's grandfather, who came from Corona for the sale. Relatives and friends in Orange County have mailed nearly 90,000 posters across California. The South Lake Tahoe community, which was the Probyn family's home for less than a year when Jaycee was kidnapped, has mailed more than 200,000 posters across the country. "It's going to take one person to spot her," Becky Bode said. Terry Probyn said she is optimistic that her daughter, who has been gone eight weeks, will be found.