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Dear Reader,

I dont know anyone who wasnt heartbroken upon learning of the 18-year ordeal that Jaycee Dugard survived after being abducted at the age of 11 near her home in South LakeTahoe, California. When she and her two young daughters revealed themselves to authorities in 2009, their courage won the hearts of millions.

Like so many others, Ive read countless articles and watched numerous shows about beautiful Jaycee and her frightening abductor, Phillip Garrido. I thought I had a good understanding of their story. Then I read the book you are holding in your handsand my eyes were opened to facts and insights that brought the story into a more vivid and more compelling focus.

Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Scott, the author of over a dozen widely praised nonfiction books, has uncovered aspects of this gripping case that will amaze, outrage, surprise, and move you.

As bestselling author and former prosecutor Robert K. Tanenbaum said:

Robert Scott shows that the Jaycee Dugard story is more compelling and more shocking than the news previously reported. SHATTERED INNOCENCE is a fascinating account of a young girls abduction by a monster who should never have been free to walk the streets. This is a ground-breaking book.

I invite you to share my sense of discovery by reading through this copy of SHATTERED INNOCENCE.

Michaela Hamilton
Executive Editor
Kensington Publishing Corp.

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SHATTERED INNOCENCE

ROBERT SCOTT

Kensington Publishing Corp.
http:///www.kensingtonbooks.com

All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.

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Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals connected to this story.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Id like to thank my great editors at Kensington, Richard Ember and Michaela Hamilton, for all their help on this book. Thanks also to the staff at the El Dorado County Court and Contra Costa County Court.

Children should never go to a bus stop alone. Theyre no match for an adult.

Phillip Garrido

The innocence of the town was basically taken away that day.

South Lake Tahoe mayor Jerry Birdwell

If you are alive after eighteen years, you did the right thing. I dont care what you did, it was the right thing.

Ken Lanning

Im so happy to be back!

Jaycee Lee Dugard

I

BEYOND BELIEF

CHAPTER 1

ROBOT CLONES

August 24, 2009

Forty-year-old Lisa Campbell slowly walked into her office on the University of California (UC) campus at Berkeley after lunch. It was just another warm pleasant afternoon during summer break, but things would become more lively soon with incoming students for the fall semester. Lisa was the special events manager with the University of California Police Department (UCPD). A native of Chicago, she had been in police work for four years in Cook County, Illinois, and then eight years as an officer for the city of Chicago. Lisa eventually moved to California and, by 2009, had taken on many different tasks in her law enforcement career in San Diego and Los Angeles. One of those tasks had been working with issues about abused and neglected children.

Shortly after 1:00 P.M. on Monday, August 24, Lisa received a phone call from a records technician that there was a man in the lobby of Sproul Hall who wanted to meet with her about an upcoming event. The man said that he wanted to conduct some type of demonstration or lecture on campus. This was not an uncommon occurrence, and even though Lisa was busy, she told the records technician to send the man down to her office and she would schedule an appointment for him.

A short time later, a middle-aged man came into Lisas office and he had two young girls who followed slowly behind him. One of the girls was in her midteens, and the other one looked to be about ten years old. Almost immediately, the man started telling Lisa about his organization in a very agitated voice. Much of what he was saying didnt make any sense to Lisa, and he rambled on and on in a disjointed manner, never really getting to the point. Finally Lisa interrupted him and said, What can we do for you? How does this relate to the UC campus?

The man took a breath and tried explaining himself, but he was still having a hard time conveying what he wanted Lisa to do for him. Lisa recalled later, He wasnt consistent. His thoughts were all over the place. At one point, he did say, This is going to be really big! It has something to do with the government and the FBI. He wanted UC Berkeley involved, because whatever was going to happen, was going to happen on campus.

Lisa told the man she had to schedule him for another appointment because she had so many other things to attend to that day. She asked him if she could schedule him for 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, August 25, and he replied, Yeah, thats great! Excellent! I look forward to sitting down with you. Youre really going to love this! Its going to change the world! Ill see you tomorrow at two oclock.

Lisa asked the man his name so that she could put it down on her calendar. He said his name was Phillip Garrido. When Lisa asked the man what the nature of the event was, Garrido responded, Its called Gods Desire.

Once the strange man and the two girls departed, Lisa was left with an uneasy feeling about the whole situation. She later said, My initial impression of him was that he was clearly unstable. The girls were very quiet. They were very subdued. They were nonresponsive and didnt show the energy that children their age would normally do. They werent in school, and that caught my attention. School had already started in the area. And the manhe was very animated, unlike the girls. The older girl stared straight up at the ceiling the whole time. She didnt make any eye contact at all.

Once the man and the girls left, Lisa was so uneasy about what had just occurred, she went to her captain in the UCPD and said, This guy who came in was a little peculiar. There were things that just didnt settle right with me. Ive scheduled an appointment for him to come back tomorrow at two oclock, but I have some concerns about the kids he brought with him. I want to get a better assessment about them.

One reason Lisa had concerns was that she, in her police officer duties in Chicago, had often dealt with domestic violence and child welfare issues. She had seen her share of abused and molested children and knew how to read the nonverbal signs of such children. Many times they had furtive looks, the way the children whom Phillip Garrido had brought with him had. The two girls hadnt said anything negative to her while they were there, but as Lisa had told her police captain, something just didnt settle right with her about them.

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