Horror story emerges after woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later

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Badsey at 10:38 PM JST - 28th August

The neighbor probably thought they were ex-hippies, a cult, etc. =A small part of a bankrupt moral culture.
Nessie at 10:58 PM JST - 28th August

How do you figure, Badsey?
onewrldoneppl at 11:20 PM JST - 28th August

seems the keystone a-cops were only able to nab the perp because he turned himself in ... ha ha ha. ah ... california. where you can get beat down for a DWB but, they can't solve a missing person's case when the evidence is staring them in the mug. must've been the LAPD who trained the j-cops in detective work ... he he he.
WhiteHawk at 01:57 AM JST - 29th August

Tiresias:

Garrido had a wife living with him while his victims lived in sheds in the back yard. What role did she have in this horror?

Apparently, she kept Dugard on the property while Garrido was imprisoned in 1993, among other things.

presto345:

What I can't understand is that a psycho and sex offender with a rap sheet a mile long never was under closer scrutiny.

Because the system is overworked and likely underfunded.

Madverts:

What sort of religious literature?

Tony Alamo's? Just a guess.

I suspect Garrido will - finally - not live a free day for the rest of his life. It's about time.
HonestDictator at 03:27 AM JST - 29th August

Glad this woman and her children are free. Garrido needs to be put away for good and his "wife" need to be put away too with some serious counseling. Dugard was attacked and raped as a child, didn't get to go to school, get a job and mature as a normal person should. Her unfortunate children at least have a chance. This is an extremely bittersweet situation with a mostly bitter aftertaste for the victim and her real family.
adaydream at 06:15 AM JST - 29th August

This is incredible.

I've been thinking about the feelings that the step-dad must have after all these years he has been considered, whispered behind his back, that he was the kidnapper. And to see her come out of this horrible situation alive. < :-)
bushlover at 07:39 AM JST - 29th August

I hope this freak and his wife get what's coming to them. A shank in a jail somewhere soon.
WhiteHawk at 11:17 AM JST - 29th August

Just read a Daily Mail article stating that when Garrido kidnapped Dugard, he had recently been released after serving 11 years of a 50-year sentence for kidnapping and rape. This whole thing could have been prevented if some idiot (or group of idiots) hadn't let him out early.

11? Out of 50? I can't decide whether that's insanity or stupidity.

adaydream:

I've been thinking about the feelings that the step-dad must have after all these years he has been considered, whispered behind his back, that he was the kidnapper.

Agreed. Police rarely know how to investigate these types of incidents properly, unfortunately.
lostrune2 at 02:31 PM JST - 29th August

Whitehawk, The court showed him some compassion.
lostrune2 at 02:33 PM JST - 29th August

AP story: Dugard was reunited with her family and said to be in good health, but feeling guilty about developing a bond with Garrido over the years.

Guess I wasn't too far off about maybe a Stockholm lolicon syndrome....
Betzee at 08:14 PM JST - 29th August

It was actually the Special Events Coordinator for the UC Berkeley police who should be credited with freeing Jaycee and her daughters. She decided, "There's something really wrong here" when Garrido showed up on campus last Monday with the two kids to inquire about staging a religious event. School had already started and the older girl, whose demeanor and appearance were odd, claimed they were home-schooled in response to why she and her sister weren't in school. The younger one also said they had a 29-year old sister at home.

The coordinator got bad vibes and asked Garrido to return to discuss his plans the next day, when she arranged to have him meet with her superior (and joined them though it was her day off). His sex offender status was revealed and he was packed off to his probation officer with the rest of the "family" in tow.

About ten years ago another sex offender with religious delusions and a female partner kidnapped a 16-year old girl from her home in Utah. When the vagrant trio came to police attention several years later, she too claimed to be his wife.
Betzee at 08:46 PM JST - 29th August

One can say, why didn't the neighbors suspect something given they knew the guy was a registered sex offender? Well, he put up a high fence around his yard. Nonetheless, in 2006 someone did call to report people, including children, seemed to be living in the back. But the sheriff's deputy dispatched to investigate never went to look himself after speaking with Garrido out front. Moreover, given his record the police had the power to drop by unannounced without probable cause. So the community may have felt the police knew everything there was to know.

In addition to the charges that stem from kidnapping Jaycee, he's being investigated in connection with a string of unsolved murders near where he previously worked where the bodies of prostitutes were found.
Betzee at 09:14 PM JST - 29th August

Garrido and the girls showed up Monday on the Berkeley campus, where they distributed fliers and met with Lisa Campbell, manager of special events for the UC Police Department.

Garrido told her he wanted to hold a campus event he called "God's Desire," which he frenetically described as having to do with schizophrenia and the FBI.

Campbell, 40, a former Chicago police officer, said she found it curious that the girls were not in school and appeared not to have spent any time in the sunlight. Campbell said that Garrido was "clearly unstable" but that the girls were even more striking.

Clothed in drab dresses, with penetrating blue eyes that matched their father's, they were "non-responsive" and exuded no energy, she said.

Busy with other matters and eager to learn more about this strange trio, Campbell asked Garrido to return the next day to plan the event. She then went to campus police Officer Ally Jacobs, 33, and told her something was not right with the three.

Jacobs ran a computer check and learned that Garrido was a federal parolee and sex offender. She joined Campbell in the Tuesday meeting and tried not to arouse Garrido's suspicions.
WhiteHawk at 11:05 PM JST - 29th August

lostrune2:

The court showed him some compassion.

Well the court's compassion was misplaced, wasn't it?
lostrune2 at 07:58 PM JST - 31st August

Whitehawk, Scots agree ya gotta respect US courts.