Jaycee Dugard found ALIVE/Phillip Garrido Sentenced To Life In Prison

Nevada parole board rated Dugard kidnapping suspect Garrido as moderate risk in 1988.

Documents from the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners show the suspect in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping was rated as a "moderate risk" parolee when he was released in 1988, despite a record as a violent predator who could not control his sexual urges.

Once on parole, Phillip C. Garrido had few restrictions on his activities. He was required to go to California where his mother lived, maintain steady employment, submit to searches and drug tests, get substance abuse counseling and enter a federal community treatment program for sex offenders, records show.

There were no restrictions on his contact with children.

Last week, Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were indicted in El Dorado County, Calif., on 29 felony counts in connection with the 1991 kidnapping and sexual assault of Jaycee Lee Dugard, then 11.

In 1988, he had been released in Nevada on federal parole and relocated to California. In 1999, California Parole and Probation took over his parole from the federal system.

He violated his federal parole in 1993 and spent four months in a federal prison, but federal officials in California have yet to release any details of that violation or explain why he was again released into the community. Nevada officials said they were never notified of Garrido's parole violation, which would have allowed the state to revoke his parole.

The Nevada parole board records for Garrido, now 58, show he was released in August 1988 after serving less than 11 years in a federal penitentiary and less than seven months in Nevada state prison. Garrido had been convicted of the kidnapping and rape of a 25-year-old Tahoe City woman in 1976.

His federal sentence on the kidnapping conviction was 50 years, and the state sentence was five-years-to-life for the sexual assault. The sentences ran together, which meant he was eligible for state parole after serving five years in the federal prison.

Nevada parole documents from the 1980s obtained Tuesday by the Reno Gazette-Journal, show that Garrido had three parole hearings: May 1984, March 1986 and August 1988. Garrido was still in prison in Leavenworth, Kan., at the time of the 1984 and 1986 hearings.

In 1984, the five-member parole board denied Garrido's parole application because of the nature and severity of his crimes, his previous criminal history, the fact that his crime injured another person and because the inmate failed to show he had reformed. The board further noted that Garrido's release would "depreciate the seriousness" of his criminal behavior and his release might endanger the public.

Garrido's 1986 parole hearing, again conducted in his absence, also ended in a denial of parole for the same reasons noted in 1984.

In January 1988, Garrido was released from Leavenworth early based on good behavior while in prison. He was sent to Nevada state prison and appeared at his third parole hearing Aug. 4. In that instance, Garrido was graded on a "risk assessment" system and received a "moderate" risk grade.

The assessment measured criteria including prior felony convictions, the use of a weapon in a crime, whether his victim was injured and other factors. Garrido's score was a 6, with 10 being a perfect "low risk" score.

But he received 2 points for not previously serving time in jail even though he had been arrested, convicted and sent to Contra Costa County's Clayton Farm facility on drug charges in 1969.

If the California incarceration had been counted against him, Garrido would have been given a score of 4, making him a "high risk" parolee. It's unclear whether that would have made a difference to the parole board.

The board voted 3-2 to release Garrido. Of the five members of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners in 1988, four are now dead. The fifth, Aybbi Kinsley, who voted not to release Garrido, couldn't be located this week.

Gail Powell, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety, said the commissioners' notes of the 1988 deliberations in the Garrido case, even if they could be found, are not public record under Nevada law.

Newspaper articles from the late 1980s show Nevada prisons were overcrowded at the time and the parole board was coming under fire for releasing large numbers of inmates, particularly sex offenders who had served fractions of their sentences.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090902/NEWS01/909020414/1004/NEWS

Jaycee Lee Dugard's
Picture on Cards
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Sep 2009, 11:47 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 02 Sep 2009, 11:45 AM EDT

* By MIKE BRODY

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Jaycee Lee Dugard became so accustomed to life imprisoned in backyard tents in California that she helped run her kidnappers' family business.

The 29-year-old fronted a printing company owned by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and run from their home in Antioch. Dugard even included a picture of herself on business cards she made for her alleged abductor.

Some believe that she put that picture on the cards as a cry for help, according to the Telegraph .

Garrido used the cards to solicit business and told people the girl on the card was his daughter "Allissa."

"Allissa did all the graphic design for him and she put her photo on the cards," one local businessman said. "Maybe she was trying to reach out to us but nobody recognized her as Jaycee."

Dugard was abducted as an 11-year-old near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in June 1991. She reappeared last week when Garrido, a convicted rapist, and his wife walked into a police station to talk to his parole officer. He was accompanied by Dugard, and her two daughters, Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11, that she bore him during her captivity.

The investigation of the case has come under question since Dugard was found. The Contra Costa County sheriff said it was a "missed opportunity" when a neighbor reported a backyard encampment at Garrido's home in 2006, but the investigating officer dismissed it as a routine code violation.

http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Jaycee_Lee_Dugards_Picture_on_Cards_mb_09022009_3291951

Nancy Garrido’s lawyer: ‘She seems a little lost’
He says ‘state of mind’ of woman charged in Dugard case could be an issue
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:15 a.m. ET, Wed., Sept . 2, 2009

The attorney for Nancy Garrido, the California woman accused of helping her husband hold Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years, said Wednesday that her “state of mind” could become a defense issue when the sensational case moves forward in court.

“She’s distraught. She’s scared. She seems to be a little lost,” Gilbert Maines told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira. “She doesn’t seem to be able to really focus well at the moment.”

Maines, who was appointed by the court to represent Nancy Garrido, said he has spent just a couple of hours with his client, whom he last saw on Saturday.

“I am five days into this case. I spoke with my client for two hours. I can’t say right now that I’ve formed an opinion of who she is,” Maines told Vieira.

‘A robot’
But he did say that his client thought of Dugard and the two daughters she had by Garrido’s husband, Phillip, as her family. The two girls are now 11 and 15 years old; Dugard, who was kidnapped from in front of her home when she was 11, is 29.

“What she said that I can tell you about is that there came a time when she felt they were a family, and she loved the girls very much, and she loved Jaycee very much,” Maines said. He added, “That seemed a little strange under the circumstances.”

Phillip Garrido’s brother has been quoted as saying that Nancy Garrido was “under his [brother’s] spell.” He described her as “a robot” who would “do anything he asked.”

Maines declined to discuss any specific plans for Nancy Garrido’s defense. According to reports, it was she who allegedly snatched Dugard from the street while her husband drove the car they were in when the girl was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe in 1991. Two years later, in 1993, she had sole custody and care of Dugard while her husband served months in jail for parole violation on an earlier offense.

Vieira asked Maines how Nancy Garrido could argue she had no knowledge or control when she was alone for that much time with the girl and did nothing to free her.

“That seems to be a fair question,” Maines admitted. “The argument goes to her mental condition at the time, not so much what physically happened. I don’t know that I can argue successfully that she didn’t know what was going on.”

Vieira asked if he would suggest that Nancy Garrido was the victim of mind control.

“I would be derelict in my duty if I didn’t pursue every avenue that was available. One of them would be her state of mind at the time,” he said. The attorney said that he will seek to have his client evaluated by experts to determine her state of mind.

The Garridos’ story
Nancy Garrido, 54, met Phillip Garrido while he was serving 11 years in prison in Leavenworth, Kan., for rape. They were married while he was still behind bars.

The couple lived in a compound in Contra Costa County, Calif. Dugard and her children lived in a warren of tents and outbuildings hidden behind fences in the backyard. Neither parole officers who checked on Phillip Garrido nor local police who visited the compound after neighbors complained about the tents ever discovered the captive woman and her children.

Garrido ran a printing business from his home and also claimed to talk to God. He was captured after he visited UC-Berkeley and told a campus police officer he wanted to hold a religious event at the university. He had Dugard and their two daughters with him.

The officer, her suspicions raised, arranged a meeting the following day, at which time the Garridos were taken into custody and Dugard’s true identity discovered. Dugard has been reunited with her parents. Her daughters have reportedly been told that their father kidnapped and raped their mother.

Police searched the Garrido property for evidence that might connect him to the unsolved murders of nine women. That search turned up an unidentified bone fragment, but no direct evidence to link the Garridos to the murders.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are being held without bail. They face 29 criminal counts that could land them behind bars for life, including rape and kidnapping. They've both entered not guilty pleas.

The assistant district attorney says Nancy Garrido is legally charged with rape based on the theory she participated in it. They don't have to prove she physically raped Jaycee Dugard, according to the prosecutor. He says they just have to prove she aided and abetted the crime.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32654795/

Garrido wife 'misses children'
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 02:04 PM

The lawyer for the wife of accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido says his client misses the children her husband allegedly fathered with his victim, and says she saw them all as a family.

Nancy Garrido’s lawyer told CBS’s 'The Early Show' today that his client says she loves the girls.

Authorities say Phillip Garrido fathered Jaycee Lee Dugard’s two daughters, now 11 and 15.

The Garridos were arrested last week and charged in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was snatched outside her home in 1991.

Lawyer Gilbert Maines also appeared on ABC and NBC on today, saying Nancy Garrido seemed distraught and frightened during his first meeting with her.

He sais that she realises why she is in jail, however.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/garrido-wife-misses-children-424828.html


Nancy Garrido is seen with her court appointed attorney, Gilbert Maines, during her arraignment on 29 felony counts stemming from the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard,11, of South Lake Tahoe, in the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Garrido, and her husband Phillip Garrido, pleaded not guilty on charges including forcible abduction, rape, sexual assault and false imprisonment.


Jaycee Lee Dugard: daughters thought she was their sister
Jaycee Lee Dugard's two daughters spent their lives thinking that she was their elder sister and have finally been told that she is in fact their mother.

Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11, grew up believing that Miss Dugard, 29, was also a daughter of their father Philip Garrido, 58, and that there was just a large age gap.

They are thought to have regarded Garrido's wife Nancy, 54, as their mother.

The children, who have been completely sheltered from the outside world, are said to be struggling to come to terms with the sudden disintegration of their family structure.

"They thought Jaycee was their sister," Miss Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said. "People have to realise this will take years of therapy."

Ernie Allen, president of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children which has been working with the family, said: "It's important to reinforce with them that they've done nothing wrong. Jaycee will play a key role in this. It's going to take patience and time to help these children."

In her first prison interview with her lawyer Mrs Garrido claimed she "loved and missed" all three girls and that they were her "family".

Gilbert Maines, her lawyer, said: "She has said to me that she misses the girls, that she loves them and her feeling was they had become a family. They acted like a family. It seems a little strange, given the circumstances, but that's it.

"She's distraught, frightened, and appeared to be a little lost. I would describe her like a ship without a rudder but she understood why she was there."

Mrs Garrido and her husband have denied 29 counts related to the abduction of Miss Dugard in 1991, including rape, kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Mr Maines, who has been threatened on the internet for defending his client, claimed she was "controlled" by her husband and was a "victim". He said she will be examined by a psychiatrist but seemed fit to stand trial.

The prosecution of Mrs Garrido is likely to focus on a five month period in 1993 when her husband was in jail for violating parole. During that time Miss Dugard was still held captive at the Garrido home in Antioch, California.

Detectives are looking into a report that Mrs Garrido worked at a children's centre as part of a child abuse prevention program in the early 1990s, around the time Miss Dugard was abducted.

They believe it was she who grabbed Miss Dugard and forced her into in a car in 1991.

As she grew up Miss Dugard started working for Garrido's printing business and included photographs of herself on business cards she made for him to deliver to potential clients. He told clients the girl on the card was his daughter "Allissa".

A local businessman, who saw one of the cards, said: "Allissa did all the graphic design for him and she put her photo on the cards. Maybe she was trying to reach out to us but nobody recognised her as Jaycee."

Steve Contreras, who runs a car repair business, said Angel came to his shop with Garrido.

He said: "She was small for her age and acted more like a five-year-old. She was talking to an imaginary friend. Garrido said the world was going to end and I thought he was on drugs."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/jaycee-lee-dugard/6127898/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-daughters-thought-she-was-their-sister.html

Jaycee Dugard - a tragedy waiting to happen
ANTIOCH - They have called it scruffy, cheap and unloved. They have sneered at the wire mesh fences and unmowed lawns and the rusting trucks in almost every driveway.

And in time, when the media write the final chapters of the appalling story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, they may very well conclude that in Antioch, her story was simply an accident waiting to happen.

Under laws governing America's treatment of convicted sex offenders, Antioch is one of the few places in California where they can legally reside. It begs the question: was the strain of monitoring them all too much for the local police?

A staggering 122 registered sex offenders live here, in a small, blue-collar city in northern California. That includes 102 in the compact zip-code area containing the suburb that Jaycee Lee's alleged kidnapper, Phillip Craig Garrido, called home.

Two convicted rapists reside on Vine Lane, the street next to Walnut Ave where Jaycee Lee's imprisonment and sexual abuse went unnoticed for almost two decades. On Viera Ave, less than 200m away, is the home of Henry Lee Mickens, a 46-year-old man who recently served time for "lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old".

Dozens of other paedophiles can be found within walking distance. On Gragnelli Ave, the occupant of No 420, Shayne Patrick Gaxiola, was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl and impregnating her in 1994, when he was 20. Gaxiola was also found guilty of giving marijuana to a string of pubescent girls. He then took indecent pictures of them.

In a town full of such men, the activities of Garrido seemed simply to slip below the radar - despite the awful track record that has emerged since he and his wife, Nancy, were arrested and charged .

Court papers released yesterday from Garrido's 1977 trial for the kidnap and rape of a young woman in Nevada portray him as a dangerous sexual predator. During a psychiatric evaluation, he admitted to using LSD and cocaine as sexual stimulants and said that he would often masturbate in public, by the "side of schools, grammar schools and high schools, and in my own car while I was watching young females".

There is, however, no shortage of similar stories in Antioch. That is perhaps why, after Garrido was released in 1988, 10 years into a 50-year sentence, he and his wife were able to slip virtually unnoticed into the fabric of this community along the Sacramento River.

Antioch's 100,000 residents are largely white and working class. In keeping with most of California, about 10 per cent are unemployed. For reasons largely beyond its control, it has become a paedophiles' ghetto.

At fault are laws governing America's treatment of sex offenders, passed with the laudable intention of protecting children. Their actual effect is open to debate.

The most prominent is Megan's Law, which requires the public to be given access, usually via an internet site, to the names, addresses and "previous" of every man and woman convicted of a sexual offence. It is a well-intentioned exercise in open government. But in practice, critics say, it was introduced in such a way as to be of little help to anyone but the voyeuristic.

"Thanks to political pressure, they made the criteria for including someone on the registry so wide that it has become totally ineffective," says Michael Risher, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. "It doesn't just carry details of violent rapists but also people who, say, lost their temper during a road rage incident and flashed at someone, or an 18-year-old boy convicted of statutory rape for sleeping with his 17-year-old girlfriend."

In California, the Megan's Law website contains 90,000 entries. Given this extraordinary statistic, it isn't hard to see why the residents of Walnut Avenue - who had 121 other convicted sex offenders in their city to worry about - might have allowed a man with Garrido's dubious profile to pass largely ignored.

The second group of laws governs where paedophiles are allowed to live. Voters have in recent years endorsed Jessica's Law, which bans paedophiles from residing within 610m of a school or a park where children regularly play.

This has driven sex offenders out of major cities, where they have access to rehabilitation and treatment facilities, and into suburbs and secluded rural areas, where they don't. In some smaller cities, they have now become concentrated in such large numbers that parole and law enforcement officers are unable to properly vet them.

Thanks to the influx of offenders to Antioch from major cities, the authorities were simply too overstretched to do their job properly. It may explain - but not necessarily excuse - the fact that a police officer dispatched to investigate claims of children living in Garrido's garden in 2006 seemingly did not have either the time or the wherewithal to thoroughly research his suspect's background.

"If you look at maps that show where offenders are actually able to live under Jessica's Law, there's almost nowhere in the whole of Los Angeles and San Francisco where they can now legally settle," Risher adds. "Everywhere is within 2000 feet (610m) of a park or school. So they all end up in places like Antioch."

Daniel Terry, from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, which oversees Antioch, has about 1700 registered sex offenders in his jurisdiction. His station is responsible for about 350 of them, or "349 more than the number of detectives I have dedicated to monitoring these people".

He told the Los Angeles Times that the region's concentration of sex offenders was "significantly higher" than other areas in California and the rest of the US. "This is the reality. These people are walking amongst us everywhere."

Adding to his woes are wider problems in the cheap parts of Antioch where Garrido and many other convicted sex offenders live. In the ramshackle area around Walnut Avenue, petty theft is rampant, drug abuse endemic - the favourite local tipples are crystal meth and crack cocaine - and lawns are littered with junk.

Nearly 2500 homes, roughly 5 per cent of the city's stock, are in foreclosure, with 699 new homes entering arrears last month. Property values have dropped 40 per cent in the past year and unemployment is soaring.

Against this background, it now seems that a man known as "Creepy Phil" by neighbours was able to take a little girl hostage, hold her for 18 years, father her two children, and even take them to community events, while barely raising an eyebrow.

In January, Zion Dutro, a convicted child rapist who lived on Alpha Way, not 3km from Walnut Avenue, appeared in court to plead not guilty to performing rape, sodomy and "lewd acts" on at least eight small girls. He faced 21 counts; his wife, a co-defendant, faced four.

In any other town, this kind of case would have sparked a mixture of shock and outrage that would be heard across the world. In Antioch, it merited no more than a few paragraphs in the local newspaper - a reaction which suggests that Jaycee Lee Dugard may not be the last grisly secret that the city reveals.

MEGAN'S LAW
Requires the public to be given details of the identity, whereabouts and criminal record of convicted sex offenders living in their midst. It was named after New Jersey schoolgirl Megan Kanka, who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a serial sex-offender in 1994. Today, it's enacted in every US state. Opponents say it encourages vigilantism and is an infringement on the civil liberties of ex-offenders. A study last year found the law achieved no demonstrable reduction in child sex offences.

JESSICA'S LAW
Prevents convicted sex offenders from living within a certain distance of schools and parks. It was first adopted in Florida in 2005 after 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was snatched from her home, then raped and murdered by a convicted paedophile. Today, a version is in force in 42 US states. Critics say it has made major cities off-limits to offenders, leaving some homeless and ghettoising others. There is little evidence that it works. Many police forces say it has the opposite effect: stretching resources and doing nothing to prevent paedophiles travelling to commit crimes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/child-abuse/news/article.cfm?c_id=146&objectid=10594916&ref=rss

Garrido Not Linked to No. Cal Killings
Associated Press
Sep. 02, 2009. 06:29 AM EST



Police in No. Calif. say they have found no evidence to connect kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido to several unsolved murders. Garrido was arrested last week after Jaycee Lee Dugard reappeared, 18 years after her kidnapping.

Police see similarities between Dugard, Garecht cases
By Linda Goldston
lgoldston@mercurynews.com
Posted: 09/02/2009 09:48:16 AM PDT
Updated: 09/02/2009 11:17:42 AM PDT
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13250794
SAN JOSE — Authorities are exploring whether Phillip Garrido could be behind the abduction of another high profile missing girl, Michaela Garecht — with long blond hair, blue eyes and a friendly big-toothed grin, she could pass for Jaycee Dugard's sister.

But they share more than a similar physical appearance. An investigator looking into Michaela's disappearance is struck by the fact both she and Jaycee were kidnapped about two decades ago, yanked from the street into a stranger's car — Michaela from Hayward, in 1988, when she was 7; Jaycee from South Lake Tahoe, in 1991, when she was 11.

The cars in both cases are also similar, a large sedan. And in 1988, Garrido reportedly was living in a halfway house in Oakland, a short drive from the Hayward store where Michaela pulled into a car after going to the store with a friend.

Hayward police said the similarities are too close to ignore.

"The fact both kidnappings happened in broad daylight, the similarity of the car, the area, the fact he was released from prison a few months before Michaela was taken," said Hayward Police Lt. Chris Orrey. And, "if you look at the pictures of Jaycee and Michaela, they could be sisters."

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with abducting Dugard. Once Dugard's identity was confirmed and authorities learned more about Garrido — his conviction for the kidnap and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman in 1976 — several law enforcement agencies launched a four-day search of the Garridos' ramshackle property in Antioch for possible links to a string of homicides in the 1990s.

During the 18 years she was missing, Dugard and two daughters Garrido fathered with her lived behind his Antioch home in a motley collection of tents and sheds.

The search, which included the use of cadaver dogs, turned up a small bone fragment on property next to Garrido's that he had access to.

But police ended their search late Monday, saying they had turned up no links to the prostitute homicides.

Michaela's mother, Sharon Murch, is hoping the search for links to her daughter's case will be more successful.

"I called the police at 6:30 a.m. the day after Jaycee was found," Murch said Tuesday. She, too, was struck by the similarities — and she wasn't the only one.

The other young girl who had gone to the store to buy candy with Michaela in 1988 is grown now and was one of many watching the news about Dugard and the Garridos unfold last week. As soon as she saw police removing a dirty old car from Garrido's backyard on television, she called Murch. "That looks like the car Michaela was kidnapped in," she said.

Authorities are exploring whether Phillip Garrido could be behind the Michaela Garecht was 9 years old when she was kidnapped in 1988




This is the sketch released by Hayward Police in 1988 of the man who kidnapped Michaela Garecht. The main witness was her childhood friend, who had gone to the store with Michaela to buy sodas and taffy. (Hayward Police Department)

Attorney: Nancy Garrido distraught, loves husband's daughters
NEW YORK—The lawyer for the wife of accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido says his client misses the children her husband allegedly fathered with his victim, and says she saw them all as a family.

Nancy Garrido's lawyer told NBC's "Today" show this morning that his client says she loves the girls.

"What she said that I can tell you about is, there came a time that when she felt that they were a family and that she loves the girls very much and loved Jaycee very much and that seems a little strange given the circumstance but that's what she had said to me," Maines said.

Authorities say Phillip Garrido fathered Jaycee Lee Dugard's two daughters, now 11 and 15.

The Garridos were arrested last week and charged in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was snatched outside her home in 1991.

Lawyer Gilbert Maines also appeared on ABC and CBS on Wednesday, saying Nancy Garrido seemed distraught and frightened during his first meeting with her. But he says she realizes why she is in jail.

"Oh yeah. No, we've had a conversation about that. Yeah, she understands," Maines told the "Today" show.

Maines said he's considering arguing that despite the suspicion that Nancy Garrido was the one who physically snatched Dugard from the street 18 years ago, she may not have been fully aware of the circumstances of the kidnapping.

"Well, that seems to be a fair question but the crux of the matter, the argument, I think, goes to maybe her mental condition at the time, and not so much what physically happened," Maines said. "I don't know ... I can argue successfully she didn't know what was going on."

When asked about whether Phillip Garrido had brainwashed or had mind control over his wife, Maines said that would be explored.

"I think I would be derelict in my duty if I didn't pursue every avenue that is available and one of them, certainly, is to look into her state of mind at the time," he said. "Maybe even prior to that time."

The attorney also dismissed notions that Nancy Garrido might not be fit for trial.

"Oh, I don't think she's incompetent to stand trial," Maines said. "My plan is ... sometime in the near future.. is to have her evaluated, to have an expert sit down with her and spend some time with her."

Bay Area News Group staff writer Malaika Fraley contributed to this report.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_13253075

Jaycee Dugard’s Modelling Portfolio, In Pictures

JAYCEE Lee Dugard - Anorak’s look at Jaycee Dugard in the news: Jaycee Dugard put her modelling portfolio on Phillip Garrido’s business cards.

The Telegraph reports that Jaycee Lee Dugard put her picture on business cards as ‘cry for help‘.

This is a statement of fact. Facts are thin on the ground in the big media feeding frenzy. Nick Allen has done well to find a new one. And then Nick Allen in Antioch tells us:

Jaycee Lee Dugard included a photograph of herself on business cards she made for her alleged abductor Philip Garrido in what may have been a cry for help.

May have been. And may not have been. Such are the facts.

A local businessman, who saw one of the cards, said: “Allissa did all the graphic design for him and she put her photo on the cards.

Another client, Cheyvonne Molino, 35, who owns a wrecking business, said: “Her picture was all over his business cards for the last 10 years. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a beautiful young lady and was aspiring to do modelling.”

So many facts. Jaycee’s looks are relevant - those blue eyes and blonde hair keep the media interested. And then another fact: Garrido is not as sane as you may suppose:

Andy Dryer, 41, who runs an auto business and fixed Garrido’s car, said: “He was weird. He said he could read my wife’s mind. He asked her what she was thinking and then said it was God. It wasn’t.”

Good God?

Garrido brought the two daughters he fathered by Miss Dugard – Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11 – to the shop.

Mr Dryer said: “I saw them both and they seemed find. He gave me a bunch of literature about a church or cult he was trying to open up.”

You mean to say that the mindless zombies seemed fine? What does this say about the state of California teens, people? They seemed normal.

Jaycee Dugard is in hiding – hiding form a voracious media.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/221597.html

FystyAngel wrote:Maines said he's considering arguing that despite the suspicion that Nancy Garrido was the one who physically snatched Dugard from the street 18 years ago, she may not have been fully aware of the circumstances of the kidnapping.

Good luck with that one Maines. Does he mean to tell us that Nancy Garrido wasn't fully aware that grabbing somebody else's child off the street and making them live in your backyard is kidnapping?

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2009
What's Ahead for Jaycee and Her Girls
Reporter: They're Moving to Her Mom's Home; Expert: Trauma Will Prove "Overwhelming"; It's "Critical" to Keep Them from Media

CBS) Even though Jaycee Dugard, her two daughters and their family are said to be overjoyed to be back together, the horrible ordeal Jaycee and the girls went through will probably "overwhelm" them when it all starts to sink in, and take years to recover from, according to one expert.

And keeping them away from the media would be a huge help, the expert says.

Police say Jaycee, 29, was held captive and repeatedly raped in sheds and tents in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's Antioch, Calif. home. Authorities say Phillip snatched Jaycee off the streets of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. 18 years ago. Jaycee and her two daughters, 15 and 11, both of whom police say were fathered by Garrido, were freed last week.

Orange County Register reporter Greg Hardesty, who interviewed Jaycee's aunt, said on "The Early Show" Friday that Jaycee and family are apparently dwelling on the here-and-now and experiencing boundless happiness at being back together, putting the "darkness" of those 18 years aside.

The aunt, Tina Dugard, is the sister of Jaycee's mother, Terry Probyn, and witnessed the reunion.

On "The Early Show Saturday Edition," Hardesty told co-anchor Chris Wragge he thinks "they realize the horror of the reality and it has set in, but I think they're so busy reconnecting and enjoying the connections that they're sort of pushed to the side a little bit. But they're under no illusion that this will be an easy time moving forward."

Hardesty said, "The message they wanted me to get out, I believe, is that these two young girls aren't some, you know, wild children running in the wilderness with no education, that they're very literate, that they're reasonably well-adjusted given their upbringing."

How is that possible?

"I think that Jaycee is a remarkable mother. I think she had to have exceptional parenting skills to raise her daughters to the extent that she has. And she got that from her mother."

Hardesty says it's his understanding that the Dugards "plan to remain low-profile for awhile, but, within a couple of weeks, they plan to relocate" to Probyn's Southern California home in Riverside.

But psychologist and author Dr. Susan Bartell told Wragge, "It would probably be better for her to be in a different place, although for some people, it is better to go back, to revisit and to have the chance to work through a little bit what they had been through.

"I think what's most important, though, is for (Jaycee) her to really stay out of the spotlight -- I think that's critical -- and to really focus, for all three of them to focus on their healing, to get into counseling as soon as possible, and to stay away from the media as much as they possible can."

Bartell says that, even though Jaycee and her daughters may be dong well now, being reintroduced to society, and all that went on in that backyard, will be "overwhelming for all three of them, for her, for the kids, very overwhelming. The idea that they are having this reunion with their family is wonderful, but what's going to happen gradually, as the weeks and months go ahead, is the trauma is going to begin to overwhelm them, and it's going to take a very, very long time to heal from this. And they're going to need to gradually learn to adjust to being back home, to learn to live in a different kind of environment. They might even miss where they were for all those years, weirdly enough."

Not only that, Bartell continued, but, "I suspect it will be even hard for them to talk to their family about it. They're gonna want to protect their family and just let their family feel the joy of being with them. So, they're not even going to want to share that with hair family, and rather, (will) want it to talk to their therapists about it."http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/05/earlyshow/saturday/main5290134.shtml?tag=pop

well - i have to say that I didn't see THIS one coming in what lies ahead for Jaycee - she has been victimized yet again IMO - this idiot sports writer thinks that he needs to publicly write in his column everything that Jaycee has missed in the sports world... disgusting, right?? like she has nothing else to be worried about than what has been going on in sports while she was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment - and that's just her living conditions... not to mention being brutally raped, being forced to have children with her rapist, and so on.... it angers me that this man can so callously post something this outrageous. I think his resignation should be demanded...
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/sports/Dugard_Primer_Enrages_Readers

tish wrote:well - i have to say that I didn't see THIS one coming in what lies ahead for Jaycee - she has been victimized yet again IMO - this idiot sports writer thinks that he needs to publicly write in his column everything that Jaycee has missed in the sports world... disgusting, right?? like she has nothing else to be worried about than what has been going on in sports while she was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment - and that's just her living conditions... not to mention being brutally raped, being forced to have children with her rapist, and so on.... it angers me that this man can so callously post something this outrageous. I think his resignation should be demanded...
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/sports/Dugard_Primer_Enrages_Readers

I read the article and I agree that it is completely tasteless. I'm sure Jaycee could care less what's happened in the sports world over the last eighteen years.

The following link has an apology from the writer, Mark Whicker. It also shows some comments from the outraged readers of that newspaper. I think the apology is too little, too late, and won't calm people down.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/column-apologize-readers-2557723-register-most

I agree J4a - there are some things that just shouldn't be discussed - and I found him to be extremely sarcastic in some areas - well, nevermind - he said at one point, like he didn't want to take the time to explain it... it just sickens me - i can understand as a professional in his field that he might think - man, look at all she has missed in the last 18 yrs - but then to act on it as he did, in a public way - to me it just victimized her even further... had he sent something like this to her privately, and in good taste, I might have a different opinion...

Tish, I think the main problem with his article was the sarcastic and condescending nature of it. He also seemed to have his facts wrong about Jaycee being cut off from everything. He almost talks about her like she's a cavewoman, but I have read that she used the internet and that her kids were big Hannah Montana fans. Please don't get me wrong here. I believe that Jaycee lived under horrible conditions, but I think the article made a lot of incorrect assumptions.

In my opinion, they say they were not caged like animals all of the time, but how often and for how long were they treated this way? Were they caged and put in tents, most likely, all of the time. No one will know that until Jaycee and her children decide to tell. But what it comes down to, they were always prisoners. And she was kidnapped and raped by a maniac as a child. She gave birth without modern medicine to children, while she was a child herself. But, they do seem to have knowledge of the modern world. This young woman taught her daughters to read and write. This young Jaycee coped, her survival skills kept her alive, to take care of her young. This monster and his wife deserve the death penalty, he should never have been on the streets to begin with when Jaycee was abducted. A rapist takes the soul of a child, it can never be given back. Jaycee and her girls have a long road ahead to escape the brainwashing.

Phillip Garrido selected the pretty blonde girl with the gap-toothed grin as his prey during a "child shopping" trip because she looked "cute" , his wife Nancy has told investigators in California.

But the couple decided not to try and snatch 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard that day in June 1991 because she was walking through South Lake Tahoe with a bunch of school friends.

Instead, they apparently trailed her to her home before returning the next morning to complete their horrific mission. Mrs Garrido allegedly jumped out of their car and grabbed her as she walked to nearby a bus-stop, while her husband remained behind the wheel.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/jaycee-lee-dugard/6180448/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-abductor-Phillip-Garrido-wanted-cute-blonde-girl.html

Garrido selected Jaycee during a child shopping trip. How disgusting. I hope both Garrido and his wife rot in prison.

Phillip Garrido's bail has been set at $30 million. I don't think he should have bail at all, but $30 million should be more than enough to make sure he doesn't get out.

I learned today that papers were filed with the court stating that a stun gun was used on Jaycee at the time of her abduction... can there be additional charges for that? and stun guns were all but unheard of 18 yrs ago... I'm wondering how they got one, and surely, they wouldn't have been as "safe" as they are now... And I can't help but imagine that if they used it on her in an effort to kidnap her, that same tool was most likely used in order to make her submit and to keep her fearful, at least in the beginning. What she has endured is unthinkable... there have been reports of men (presumably illegals) lined up outside her tent and going in one by one - so there is more to this story I'm sure...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32841578/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

I would think they could file additional charges for using a stun gun. I've also read about the men lined up outside her tent. They need to charge Garrido with as many crimes as possible since he always seems to get out before he has served one-fourth of his sentence.

I was also very put out that he has a bond set at all - i know $30 mil is way up there - but i say NO BOND!!!

Oh, not to mention this idiot that calls for Jaycee to "tell the truth" - that she and the girls lived inside the house, as if that makes everything better... wth?

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/11/crimesider/entry5302741.shtml

Bone Fragment Found at Garrido Home

ANTIOCH, Calif. (Sept. 16) -- Police said Wednesday they found a bone fragment on the property of a Northern California couple charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in their backyard for 18 years. Other fragments were found on property next door.
Investigators collected the fragments as part of a search for any evidence that might link Phillip and Nancy Garrido to two other child abductions in the 1980s.
An earlier search of their next door neighbor's backyard also yielded a bone fragment that police say is likely human but tests still must be completed.

http://news.aol.com/article/bone-fragment-found-at-home-of/671568

Investigators are looking for links to the unsolved kidnappings of Michaela Garecht in 1988 and Ilene Misheloff in 1989. I would not put anything past Garrido and he should be investigated for every unsolved kidnapping and murder in the area. I don't understand why sex offenders are ever let out of prison early. I'm interested in finding out what percentage of paroled sex offenders end up committing similar or worse crimes.