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.Normal sex, becoming father changed Garrido, news and video roundupThen 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 chargesPhillip, 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 workIn 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
