Questions still swirl around the events of the past 18 years, during which time Jaycee Lee Dugard was forced to live with a convicted sex offender, bear two of his children and live in sheds and tents in California.

Dugard, who has been missing since 1991 when she was abducted at the age of 11, resurfaced on Tuesday. Police have arrested Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, in her abduction and on sex abuse charges. Dugard and her children — ages 15 and 11 — were kept in complete isolation, often in sheds with locks on the outside, and in soundproof structures, so as to never be found by police checking in on the Garridos.

Needless to say, Dugard’s family is ecstatic over the news, yet they’re horrified at the conditions Jaycee was forced to live in.

"It’s like winning the lotto," Dugan’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, who witnessed her kidnapping, told The San Jose Mercury News. "You never dream after 18 years you’ll get her back."

Garrido clams he had "completely turned [his] life around" in the past several years. "You’re going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim," he said. "Wait till you hear the story of what took place at this house. You’re going to be absolutely impressed. It’s a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around." Garrido’s brother, Ron, said he always knew something was very off with Phillip, and said he married Nancy while in prison. Ron Garrido said Nancy Garrido was "a robot" under her husband’s control.

"She would do anything he asked her to," said Ron Garrido to The San Francisco Chronicle. "I told my wife, ‘It’s no different from Manson and those girls.’ She was under his control."

CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke to another former missing girl who made headlines around the world: Elizabeth Smart. Cooper asked how she felt at the news Dugard was found after so long.

"I felt relief and happiness and I was just excited to be home and back to the people that I know love and care for me and I know want the best for me. So I think Jaycee is probably feeling something along those lines as well," Elizabeth told Cooper, adding that a mix of emotions and questions undoubtedly is going to come with that happiness.

Hopefully Jaycee Dugard and her family can one day find comfort and peace after her terrible 18-year ordeal, and that the perpetrators receive appropriate justice for their actions.

Watch CBS News’ interview this morning with Jaycee’s stepfather below: