First we learned that Jaycee Lee Dugard had been found, 18 years after she was abducted from South Lake Tahoe. 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.
How Garrido Was 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 masturbation 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 said he started becoming a religious zealot about a year ago. "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 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."
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.
Why didn't Dugard escape?
Terry Probyn says daughter Jaycee Lee feels guilt over bonding with her abductor and not trying to escape. She describes what her daughter felt she had was "almost like a marriage." Experts say she may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, which happens when a victim bonds with their kidnapper to survive.