Phillip Garrido - Kidnap,Rape,Imprisionment - Jaycee Dugard
Kidnap suspect allegedly hoped to start his own ministry Religious views of Phillip Garrido, 58, begin to emerge as California victim reunited with family after 18 years * Ed Pilkington in New York * guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 August 2009 18.44 BST The convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and keeping her locked up in an elaborate hidden prison in his backyard in California for 18 years was convinced he could communicate telepathically and wanted to set up his own ministry of God, it has emerged following the victim's dramatic release this week. The extent of Phillip Garrido's messianic beliefs emerged as his kidnap victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was being reunited in a motel with her mother Terry Probyn. She had not been seen since she was snatched on her way to school on 10 June 1991. Police believe that she was taken by Garrido and his wife Nancy from her home in South Lake Tahoe directly to their house in Antioch, about 170 miles away, where she was kept captive, raped and forced to have two children by him, now aged 11 and 15. Dugard's mother Terry Probyn rushed from her home in southern California after she was told that her missing child had finally been found. According to Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, she was struck by how little her daughter, now aged 29, had changed. "She looks very young, she looks very healthy. She told me that feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip," Probyn said. For Probyn, the discovery has a particular poignancy as he was initially considered a suspect for the disappearance. He recalled today how he had watched his stepdaughter walk to the bus stop on the morning of the kidnap. "A car came down and circled real slow and went back up the hill. Once it got next to her it cut her off and as soon as I saw the door fly open I jumped on my mountain bike. I realised I couldn't get to her in time. I went down to my neighbour and yelled '91' but they got away." Garrido, 58, who has been charged with a range of kidnapping and sex offences and is being held on $1m bail, has given telling insights into his extreme religious beliefs. In an interview with a local radio station, KCRA-TV, from his prison cell he admitted "it's a disgusting thing what took place with me in the beginning". But he then goes on to insist that "I completely turned my life around. Wait 'til you hear the story of what took place at this house, you are going to be absolutely impressed." Though Garrido refused to discuss the kidnapping, saying he wanted to talk to a lawyer first, he did refer to Dugard's two children "that we had together", and implied that he is convinced that shares his views. "You are going to hear the most powerful story from the victim." He also insisted he had not abused his two daughters, whom he kept captive along with their mother their entire lives, never permitting them to see a doctor or to go to school. "They slept in my arms every single night from birth. I never touched them," he said, crying. Garrido's radio testimony suggests that he dates his own religious conversion to the birth of the children. From then on, he said, "everything turned around". That dovetails with a blogpost written by Garrido in which he says "I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows." The first of his two children was born 15 years ago, having been conceived when Dugard was just 13. Garrido has a company registered to his home address called Gods Desire, and kept a blog called Voices Revealed. He uses the web name of "The man who spoke with his mind" - an apparent reference to his conviction that he could speak telepathically through God-given powers. Ralph Hernandez, a private investigator from Antioch, was employed last year by Garrido to help him market a new device that Garrido claimed to have invented. The device was a telepathy machine - Garrido claimed that anyone who wore the headphones-like contraption could hear him speak even when he remained silent. Hernandez said that he visited the Garrido home where, unbeknownst to him, the two girls were imprisoned. "I sat in his living room. It seemed a typical ranch-style house, nothing unusual for that neighbourhood. I'm a retired police officer so if there had been something glaring I would have picked it up." While he was there, Garrido's wife Nancy came into the room, as did a blonde aged 15 to 20 who Garrido said was his daughter or daughter's friend. Garrido himself came across as an intelligent man with deep religious convictions. "He wanted to start a church or ministry and to distribute his telepathy device to the public. He was very enthusiastic about it." It was Garrido's religious commitments that eventually trapped him. He was handing out evangelical leaflets on Tuesday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, accompanied by his two daughters, when college police grew suspicious. A background check revealed that he had a record as a sex offender – he spent 11 years in jail and was on life parole for the 1976 kidnapping and rape of a woman who came, like Dugard, from Lake Tahoe. Garrido was called in for questioning the next day, and brought with him his wife, Dugard (whom he gave the name Allissa), and the two girls. Under probing, both Garrido and Dugard are reported to have separately confirmed the kidnapping, providing details which only they could know. A DNA test is being carried out to confirm Dugard's identity. Questions are now being asked about how the parole service could have missed the signs for so long. The kidnapper was forced to wear a GPS tag and was liable to regular parole visits, but it appears the compound at the back of his property was never searched. Fred Kollar, the police chief in charge of the investigation, said that the parole agent attached to Garrido had never seen nor the children. "Unusual as that may sound, having been there it's very conceivable the way the house is set up." Kollar described a sophisticated series of tents and cabins in the backyard that were screened from view all around and only accessible through a small tarp. But neighbours expressed their anger. Diane Doty who lives next door told a local TV station that she often heard children playing in the backyard. "I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?"' she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live."' Another neighbour claimed to have informed the authorities about sightings of children a couple of years ago, but that even then no thorough search had followed. Dugard and her two daughters are said to be physically fine. Kollar said that she "was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28/jaycee-dugard-kidnap-garrido

Pictures can be viewed at link at end of article. They are too big to post here. Jaycee Lee Dugard's prison: First pictures of filthy backyard jail where religious fanatic held kidnapped girl By Sharon Churcher In Antioch, California and Peter Sheridan In Los Angeles Last updated at 2:13 PM on 30th August 2009 These extraordinary pictures are the first glimpse inside the squalid back garden compound where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kept captive for 18 years. A hand-painted 'Welcome' sign leads the way to a rundown world of tattered tents and outbuildings amid overgrown trees and bushes. Police are now investigating evidence that Jaycee was 'brainwashed' by the religious fanatic who snatched her when she was 11. The first words Jaycee said to her mother when the pair were tearfully reunited were: 'Hi Mom, I have babies,' it has emerged. The 29-year-old's stepfather also claims that she had developed a powerful emotional bond with her abductor, Phillip Garrido. Carl Probyn said: 'Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She feels it's almost like a marriage.' Experts have pointed out that although the makeshift compound where Jaycee and the two daughters allegedly fathered by Garrido lived included an 8ft by 4ft steel cage, it appeared unused. And Jaycee and the girls, aged 15 and 11, were allowed to play in the garden, in view of neighbours. Her captor claimed to be a minister of a 'church' he called God's Desire and indoctrinated her with self-published religious tracts. Jaycee never appealed for help, despite his repeated assaults. She is still undergoing extensive medical and psychological tests at a secret location in Northern California, where she is staying with her mother, Terry, and a half-sister under FBI protection. One of America's leading hostage experts, retired FBI agent Clint Van Zandt, said: 'The relationship that can develop between hostages and kidnap victims and their captors is now known as "the Stockholm Syndrome", a type of emotional bonding that is in reality a survival strategy for victims of emotional and physical abuse.' A source close to the case said: 'The initial findings are that physically she is remarkably healthy but that some type of brainwashing clearly occurred. 'There were moments in the 18 years when she could have called attention to who she was. 'She hadn't forgotten her real identity. In fact, she remembers a remarkable amount about her old life. But from what we know so far about Mr Garrido, it seems he played mind games with her. 'It sounds simplistic, but the real prison was her brain.' Jaycee may also have been forced to take part in orgies in the backyard where she was held, the News of the World reports. A neighbour said he saw men lining up in Garrido's garden, before entering the tents 'one by one'. Mike Rogers, 49, told the newspaper that he once peered through the garden fence during an 'excessively loud' party next door. 'What I saw was not normal,' he said. 'Eight to 10 men, mostly Mexican, would gather in a line in his garden drinking beer, yelling and screaming and swearing. 'They normally had a bonfire and I saw them entering the tent one by one. On a number of occasions I saw them bobbing up and down through the window and I thought, 'My God, there is something sexual going on in there'. 'I thought they had a prostitute or something in there. I thought it might have been some kind of sex party or something. 'I just hope that sicko wasn't pimping out Jaycee or those children. The thought makes me sick.' But, despite being disturbed by what he had seen, Mr Rogers said he didn't think he had enough evidence to call police. 'I'd told my brother about the parties and he agreed that unless they got really out of control I should keep out of it,' he said. Jaycee's stepfather Mr Probyn, who is being briefed regularly on the case, has disclosed that she is racked by 'guilt' because she 'bonded' with Garrido. Her formal education ceased when Garrido allegedly snatched her in 1991 and Mr Probyn said he has been informed that her 'emotional age' is still that of an 11-year-old. 'She didn't try to get away,' he told The Mail on Sunday. 'It probably kept her alive. If she had been really spunky and fought and tried to escape, maybe she would have been killed.' Meanwhile Garrido's first victim, Katherine Callaway of Las Vegas, Nevada, who was kidnapped, raped repeatedly and held as a sex slave by Garrido in 1976, said: 'He's a monster.' Callaway was a 25-year-old casino worker when Garrido hitched a ride in her car. He made her drive to a warehouse in Reno that had been prepared as a 'sex palace'. Police now believe Katherine's abduction was, essentially, a 'trial run' for the kidnapping of Jaycee in South Lake Tahoe, California, years later. Just as he built a labyrinthine backyard prison for Jaycee, Garrido created a makeshift cell for Katherine in the warehouse. It contained a movie projector, sex toys, a spotlight, wine and pornographic magazines. At his trial, there was testimony that he used handcuffs to restrain her and that he used LSD, cocaine and cannabis. Retired Reno police detective Dan DeMaranville, who worked on the case, said: 'I asked him after he confessed why he did it and he said it was the only way he could get sexual satisfaction.' However, investigators have found no evidence that Jaycee - who was less than half Callway's age - was physically restrained. A few years after Jaycee was kidnapped, her desperate grandmother visited a psychic. 'I wanted to find out if she was still alive,' said Wilma Probyn, 83. 'I didn't want to give up hope, but it was agonising to keep holding on. We had pretty much given up hope. The psychic said that Jaycee was alive, in Northern California with a couple, living happily and being looked after and going to school. 'It turns out she was alive but not happy. She didn't go to school and wasn't allowed to see a doctor. 'She was kept caged in an old shed for 18 years without contact with anybody, raped, and she's got two children by that creep, a sexual predator. 'We've always been hoping for the day when she'd be found but when I found out how she'd lived for the last 18 years, I wasn't happy. It's a shock. 'I'm delighted to have Jaycee back, but I'm saddened by how she was treated, living in squalor like that. 'Jaycee's 29 now but she's been cut off from the world since she was 11. We don't know if she'll ever be able to recover from this.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209966/Jaycee-Lee-Dugards-prison-First-pictures-filthy-backyard-jail-religious-fanatic-held-kidnapped-girl.html?ITO=1490