Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded not guilty Thursday to all 18 charges relating to the kidnapping and rape of a young California girl who was held captive from age 11 through 29 , according to the El Dorado County Superior Court and an attorney . Phillip Garrido earlier had been expected to enter a plea deal , but it was canceled Thursday , his wife 's attorney , Stephen Tapson , said during a news conference . Garrido and his wife , Nancy , are accused of snatching Jaycee Dugard when she was 11 and keeping her captive in a compound in Antioch , California . Nancy Garrido had pleaded `` not guilty '' last year , but she had to re-enter the same pleas Thursday because the indictment against her was amended , Tapson told CNN . Phillip Garrido had been expected to plead guilty to all but two counts against him during a court hearing Thursday morning , Tapson said earlier . Garrido decided against pleading guilty because his attorney might challenge the indictment , Tapson said . A criminal complaint against the Garridos could proceed , but the legality of the indictment against them is apparently going to be contested , Tapson said . Phillip Garrido is facing at least 18 counts , including kidnapping , rape and false imprisonment , according to court documents . Dugard was snatched from the street in front of her home in South Lake Tahoe , California , in 1991 . Authorities found her in 2009 . Phillip Garrido , a registered sex offender on parole at the time of his arrest , is accused of fathering two daughters with Dugard during her captivity . Garrido 's attorney , Susan Gellman , could not be reached for comment . Tapson said Nancy Garrido confessed that she was involved in the kidnapping but denies she had anything to do with the sex crimes . Nancy Garrido had been offered a plea deal but it `` evaporated , '' Tapson said . Under the plea deal , Nancy Garrido was offered a prison sentence of about 40 years with the potential of being released sooner , Tapson said . The family of Jaycee Dugard approved Nancy Garrido 's plea deal , Tapson said . But then detectives questioned Nancy Garrido about other California children who went missing the same time that Phillip Garrido was living in northern California , Tapson said . Nancy Garrido said she had no information , and the plea deal was withdrawn , Tapson said . Authorities have wanted to question Nancy Garrido because her husband has been a lead suspect in the case of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht , who disappeared in 1988 in Hayward , California . That case was profiled in February on HLN 's `` Nancy Grace America 's Missing , '' during which the lead detective , Rob Lampkin of the Hayward Police Department , said that Phillip Garrido was their top suspect in the girl 's disappearance . Lampkin said Garrido lived in a halfway house about 20 minutes from a market parking lot where Michaela was abducted . Also on the show , the girl 's mother said she believed Nancy Garrido could provide answers to what happened to her daughter . Jean Casarez is a correspondent for truTV 's `` In Session ''
NEW : Phillip and Nancy Garrido plead not guilty in kidnapping and rape case . Garrido and his wife are accused of snatching Jaycee Dugard when she was 11 . Nancy Garrido entered not-guilty pleas last year , but re-entered them Thursday . Phillip Garrido is accused of fathering two daughters with Dugard during her captivity .