
Many details have come to light since the recovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the arrest of Nancy and Phillip Garrido.
First we learned that Jaycee Lee Dugard had been found, 18 years after she was abducted from South Lake Tahoe. See Jaycee Dugard reappears 18 years after abduction, updates: arrests, searches.
Then we learned that her abductors Phillip and Nancy Garrido had her imprisoned in Antioch and made her bear children for them. See Video: Jaycee Dugard bore children of sex offender abductor.
Last we learned that Jaycee had given birth to two girls, now 11 and 14-years-old, that they had all been kept in sheds and tents in a secret yard within a backyard, and that Jaycee and her daughters were reunited with her mother Terry Probyn and sister Shana. See Jaycee Dugard confined in shed, had two daughters by abductor.
How Garrido got caught
Phillip Garrido wanted to hold an event at UC Berkeley. He wanted to preach about God. When Lisa Campbell, manager of the University of California Police Department Special Events saw Garrido with his daughters Monday she felt something was wrong. They were pasty white, dressed in drab clothes and didn't make eye contact. She told Garrido to return the next day, and asked UC Berkeley police officer Ally Jacobs to sit in on the meeting. When Jacobs found out Garrido was on parole for rape she agreed to be there.
Jacobs told ABC News that the older girl was "staring at [Garrido] like he was a god." Both girls, she said, "had this weird look in their eyes like brainwashed zombies." She said whenever the younger girl spoke, her sister would "shoot her a glance" of warning. When she asked the girls what they were doing there, Garrido intervened, not allowing them to answer.
With no legal reason to hold them, she had to let them go on their way. She then called Garrido's parole officer and learned that he didn't have any daughters. The parole officer called Garrido and told him to report to his office the next day. He did, with his wife Nancy, Jaycee Lee who went by the name Alissa, and the two girls. During questioning Garrido admitted abducting Jaycee Lee.
Normal sex, becoming father caused change, says Garrido
During his jail interview with KCRA this week Phillip Garrido said it was the birth of his daughters that caused him to change. He says he never touched them (in a sexual way.) In the paperwork he gave the FBI Monday he says it was during intercourse with his wife that he had his awakening.
Garrido wrote that after months of controlling his thoughts away from sex and limiting his masterbation he experienced normal sex with his wife for the first time. He wrote that until that moment the only sex he enjoyed was forced, as in rape. He had plans to change the world with his revelations about schizophrenia. He saw himself educating prisoners.
Maria Christenson, a long time customer of Garrido told the Contra Costa Times that he started becoming a religious zealot about a year ago. She says one day he and his wife asked for a $2000 advance. "He started preaching and doing all this stuff. He was telling me about his voices. And then he said, 'You know I've been to prison, and I don't masturbate anymore.' Out of the blue. Then he started crying, and she was crying. I was looking at them - what is this about? I got freaked out."
Garrido's family talks
Manuel Garrido says his son is "nuts, he's crazy." He told the Contra Costa Times that a motorcycle accident during his teen years, the surgery that followed and excessive drug use inclusing LSD, had made Phillip Garrido lose his sanity. Before that, he says, "he was a hell of a good boy."
Ron Garrido told the SF Chronicle that his brother is a "fruitcake." He says the way Phillip controlled his wife reminded him of Charles Manson. He said, "She would do anything he asked her to. She was under his control."
Dugard had contact with others
Patrick McQuaid met Jaycee Lee Dugard shortly after her abduction. He told the Contra Costa Times that he thinks it was the summer of 1991 when a pretty blond girl who said her name was Jaycee talked with him through the chicken wire fence that separated their Antioch backyards. He remembers an adult male coming out and ushering her inside. Shortly after that a tall solid fence appeared, halting any communication.
McQuaid says he didn't see children at the house again until recently, when he saw two girls who looked to be eight and ten riding in Garrido's car. He took note of it, he says, because "Creepy Phil" as the neighbors called him, was a registered sex offender.

Dugard's daughters had contact with outside
An aunt, Ron Garrido said, told him in 2007 about a time that Phillip Garrido came by to visit. He was accompanied by two blond girls. He told her they were neighbors' children and that he was babysitting. Ron said, "My aunt told me, 'I swear that oldest girl is his daughter. She's got his eyes.'"
Wilma Probyn, Dugard's step-grandmother told People magazine that Terry Probyn, Dugard's mother said the two girls Garrido fathered with Dugard had been allowed to have some normal activities. They were taken to Hometown Buffet and the aquarium in San Francisco. One of Garrido's customers said his wife had run into Nancy Garrido and the girls at an Antioch grocery store.
Deepal Karunaratne, also a printing customer of Garrido told the Contra Costa Times, "I met all of them, even the girl Jaycee. He introduced her to me as his daughter. She's the one who handled my printing. She's the graphic designer. She did all the layout, designing and everything. Sometimes when I go there, she comes out with the work, wearing gloves, with ink all over her clothes."
Why didn't Dugard escape?
Terry Probyn says daughter Jaycee Lee feels guilt over bonding with her abductor and not trying to escape. She decribes what her daughter felt she had was "almost like a marriage." Experts say she may be suffering from Stockhom Syndrome, which happens when a victim bonds with their kidnapper to survive.
What the girls know now
Wilma Probyn explained that Jaycee Lee didn't tell her daughters about her abduction until now. Probyn said, "But whether they know what that is, who knows. They have no education."
Garrido's previous victim speaks out
Katherine Callaway, who was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido in 1976 told The Daily News, "I am overwhelmingly relieved. He's a monster." Callaway who was 25 at the time had given Garrido a ride in her car. Then he attacked her.
Garrido handcuffed Callaway, tied her up drawing her neck down to her knees, threw a blanket over her, and drove to a storage warehouse in Reno. During the drive he told her it was her fault he had attacked her because she was attractive.
The storage unit where Garrido raped her had been prepared with rugs on the floor and walls, and was equipped with pornographic magazines, sex toys, wine, a movie projector, spotlight and hot water. Callaway was rescued by Reno Police Officer Clifford Conrad after he saw her car and a broken lock on the stoarge unit. When he knocked on the door to investigate Garrido opened the door and Callaway screamed for help.
Phillip meets Nancy, sets up house in Antioch
Garrido was sentenced in 1977 to 50 years in federal prison for kidnapping across state lines, and five years to life on a state charge of sexual assault. While he was serving time at Leavenworth in Kansas he met his wife, who was visiting another inmate. They were married behind bars.
Garrido served less than 20 years and was released in 1988. It was at this time he moved in with his mother, into her house on Walnut Avenue in Antioch. She lived there until this week, suffering from dementia for several years.
Current charges
Phillip, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 54, appeared in El Dorado Superior Court Friday and were charged with 29 counts including kidnapping, rape, lewd acts with a minor, sexual penetration, abduction and molestation. Phillip Garrido seemed dazed and stoic while Nancy Garrido cried and tried to hide her face throughout most of the hearing.


Garrido possible serial killer?
Garrido's Antioch house was searched again today in connection with the murders of nine local women, some prostitutes, during the 1990's. Their bodies were dumped in industrial parks in Pittsburg and Bay Point, Contra Costa County, places Garrido frequented. One victim who was not a prostitute was 15-year-old Lisa Norrell. She was abducted while walking home from a party, her shoes found on the side of the road she had been walking. Also murdered were 24-year-old Jessica Frederick, 32-year-old Rachael Cruise, Valerie Dawn "China" Schultz, Sharon Mattos and Andrea Ingersoll.
Statistics
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children about 258,000 children are abducted in the United States every year. The vast majority, about 200,000, are parental abductions. Most of the rest are solved within the first 24 hours.
Cases like Jaycee Lee Dugard's, where the children are taken with the intent to keep them permanently, or with the intent to kill them, or when they're taken for ransom, are rare. There are only about 115 of those a year.
El Dorado County Undersheriff Kollar discusses Dugard recovery at first press conference
Phillip Garrido's interview
"You'll see, this is a heartwarming story..."
A neighbor reported young girls in psychotic sex addict 's Antioch backyard in 2006
The investigator never ran a background check or went beyond Garrido's front porch. Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E Rupf responds.
People who tried Garrido's miracle black box said it did not work
In papers Garrido gave to the FBI Monday are affidavits that he says are signed by people who heard his thoughts through his miracle black box. Some of these people now say the affidavits are bogus.
photos of Garrido's house by RADAR/Claycord.com
aerial photo and photos of Garridos from AP Photos
For more info:
- Jaycee Dugard reappears 18 years after abduction, updates: arrests, searches
- Video: Jaycee Dugard bore children of sex offender abductor
- Jaycee Dugard confined in shed, had two daughters by abductor.


Comments
It is embarassing to be human today. How dumb are we? The police officer? The neighbors? Especially that kid who is now 27 and is clueless! The parole officer should be strapped to the electrri chair as well. How dumb are we?/ This is a case of across the board incompetence... it is embarrasing how stupid we are. We are so stupid. PATHETIC.
...and this guy thinks he's , ha, he thinks he is going to be exonerated. What a joke. He may have fathered 20 kids with Jaycee, and probably aborted them. Now, he has this crazy blog, he is going to try to claim insanity.
The above story is very vague about what happened to his mother. When did his mother die?
Garrido's mother is still alive. She was removed from the home after he was arrested.
some people r nuts totally crazey and this person should get wat he deserves no question but why do people who r sick say they r insane if they were i dont think they would be able to say it maybe some people r just born evil and should pay for the pain they have coursed too inercent people wat about her childhood her mum and step father think of the lives and family that have suffered cos of this sick and evil human
It is "dumb" luck that law enforcement have freed this young woman and her two children. Even after failing to appropriately monitor this monster, the federal parole agency tipped off Garrido when they asked the known rapist/kidnapper to come down to their office. What morons! Had Garrido wanted to escape, he could have fled with the girls.
This guy is wrong in every way! He Put human lifes on Earth from a mother that was raped buy him. Thats Sick Imagine how Jaycee felt the day she birthed her Child it was probably horrible and terrifing. This Guy mite be worse then Albert Fish. The Human brain is a crazy thing and what ever it was a birt defect or him just eating to much acid it really shows! If that was my daughter that was kidnapped buy him I would Cut him Limb buy Limb and Push his quadrapalegic body down a slide of razor blades and land in a box full of salt and syringes and then shoot him in the head exacution style! I just cant stand people like that
Great article Teri, everything I wanted to know all in one convenient spot. Thanks.
Why was this FREAK ever let out of prison in the first place!????!!!!
Give me a break! Its is beyond belief that anyone could think these
creeps can be rehabilitated. Over and over we see these tragic stories
where some child molester or rapist gets out of prison and does the same thing again or worse. These people are not curable and need to be put away
for good, forever.
Thanks Ken. I had mixed feelings about this article because I went way over the normal 400 words. I'm glad it served it's purpose.
If any of you want your questions answered, and dare to know the truth, research Project Monarch, MK Ultra,TRAUMA-BASED mind-control. There are millions of "Manchurian Candidates" in our society, being churned out like an assembly line in underground military facilities,universities, hospitals,etc. Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, and most if not ALL of these serial killers,rapists, etc. were created courtesy of the CIA, and good ol Uncle Sam. Kinda makes you feel proud to be an American doesn't it? (;
Thanks for imparting us with that bit of gnostic truth Ken.
*psst* Hey FBI, you missed Creepy Phil's homeboy Ken.
*Nick, not Ken.
The world just needs to pray for all three of the young lady's
and hope that nancy and phillip Garrido get was is comeing to them when they get to prison it wont be prety we can hope justic will be served then
What is completely amazing is why people would sign an affidavit for a bogus box. Doesn't that make them liers. The Garridos are just pathetic sociopaths and the police in that area need to start taking their job more seriously. The parole person assigned to Phil had 39 people he watched (read in different site). Ok. Lets say 40. That is just two people a day to check up on (5 day week, 4 weeks) if they go just once a month (which I don't think they do). He had time to go check on the complaint instead of just chewing the fat with good ol' Phil out front. That is 4 hours a person. Stop with the freaking conversations and start looking around because, in case this has missed your notice parole peoples, convicts lie big time. Phil is not going to say, "oh yeah, I kidnapped this girl and forced her to have my kids which I gave to my wife. That is who the neighbor heard. All is fine. They are not hurting anyone."
Hmm is Jesus going to kiss Phil Garrido's rectum with forgiveness or give him his rightful punishment? Nancy Garrido deserves the same punishment. She video taped some of the rapes on Jaycee, helped him kidnap her and also kept her hidden while PHil was in jail for parole violations.