John Glatt - Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World (St. Martins True Crime Library)

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JOHN GLATT

from the True Crime Library of

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Lost and Found

Playing with Fire

Secrets in the Cellar

To Have and to Kill

Forgive Me, Father

The Doctors Wife

One Deadly Night

Depraved

Cries in the Desert

For I Have Sinned

Evil Twins

Cradle of Death

Blind Passion

Deadly American Beauty

Never Leave Me

Twisted

Lost and Found

JOHN GLATT

St. Martins Paperbacks

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LOST AND FOUND

Copyright 2010 by John Glatt.

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Acknowledgments

After Jaycee Lee Dugards allegedly heartless kidnapper Phillip Garrido was unmasked as a twenty-first-century Charles Manson, many questioned how a human being could commit such unspeakable crimes. But Garridos arrest came as no surprise to Katie Callaway Hall, who had been his first victim in 1976, when he had forcibly taken her across the California/Nevada border to rape her.

As a result, Garrido was sent to prison for half a century. But after only serving 11 years, he had cunningly managed to beat the system to be freed back into society.

Soon after getting out, he tracked Katie down to the casino where she was working and threatened her. Terrified, she warned his parole officer that it was only a matter of time before he struck again, but was told nothing could be done.

If only law enforcement had heeded Katies desperate pleas, little Jaycee might have been spared her terrible eighteen-year ordeal.

Over the years, while Jaycee and her daughters Starlit and Angel lived in squalor hidden away in his backyard, the authorities missed many opportunities to catch the sexual predators and free their captives. And they would almost certainly still be there if the increasingly delusional Garrido had not virtually given himself up, seeking a world stage to preach his bizarre religious beliefs.

Perhaps the only precedent for this strange case is Austrias Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his own daughter Elizabeth for almost a quarter of a century, fathering her seven children. In 2008 I wrote a book about the case, Secrets in the Cellar , but in many ways the Jaycee Lee Dugard tragedy is even more disturbing and heartbreaking, as it should never have happened in the first place.

Lost and Found is the result of ten months of exhaustive research and countless interviews. In it I have attempted to explore what went wrong with the system, allowing such a dangerous sexual predator back on the streets to commit the outrageous crimes with which he has been charged.

In September 2009, I visited Antioch and spoke to many people with first-hand knowledge of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, some of whom wished to remain anonymous.

I would like to thank: Tim Allen, Deepal Karunaratne, Lorenzo Love, Christine Mecham, Maria Christenson, Murray Sexton and Tony Garcia of the Bridgehead Caf, Lt. Jim Lardieri, Michael Cardoza, Phillip Sherlwell, retired detective Dan DeMaranville, Janice Dietrick, Janice Gomes, Marc Lister, Victor Acosta, Eddie Loebs, Tommy Wilson-OBrien, Jim and Cheyvonne Molino, Wayne Thompson, Betty Upingco, Polly White and Carol Lloyd of the Washoe County Library System.

As always, I would also like to thank my editors at St. Martins Paperbacks, Charles Spicer and Yaniv Soha, for their unstinting support and the superb job they always do.

Gratitude also to Gail, Jerome and Emily Freund, Debbie, Douglas and Taylor Baldwin, Trudy Gerstner, Henry Kaufman, Charlie Chen, Danny and Allie Tractenberg, Cari Pokrassa, Milda Koueder, Providence Juca, Alex Hitchens, Virginia Randall, Ena Bissell and Annette Witheridge.

Prologue

June 1991

Phillip and Nancy Garrido had spent months preparing. Behind the white picket fence that surrounded the middle-aged couples three-bedroom cinder block home, less than an hours drive from San Francisco, there was anticipation and excitement.

Always obsessive, Phillip had worked hard on his most ambitious project to date. He had divided the acre of land behind his house into two parts, creating a backyard within a backyard. At the front he had planted shrubbery, trees, and built an eight-foot fence to conceal the rear half from his neighbors. This he had transformed into a kind of concentration camp, installing an escape-proof shed.

The onetime rock musician had carefully soundproofed it with foam insulation, to muffle any sounds. Alongside it hed constructed a primitive outhouse and shower, laying green high-voltage electricity cables all the way from his house for power.

It was in this shed that the Garridos would hold their captive. For they intended to kidnap a young girl to act as both their sex slave and the bearer of their children.

This wouldnt be the first time the six-foot, four-inch Phillip Garrido had snatched an innocent young girl off the streets to satisfy his uncontrollable appetite for sex. But fifteen years earlier, in Reno, Nevada, it had ended badly. High on LSD, hed been raping and sodomizing his unfortunate victim for five hours when a policeman arrived at his mini-warehouse and caught him red-handed. Even hardened detectives were shocked by the extraordinary lengths he had taken to prepare that early version of his prison, equipping it with flashing stage lights, a bed, sex toys, explicit magazines and copious quantities of wine and drugs.