<p>"The investigation went years without apparent progress until Tuesday, when Garrido showed up on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley with his two daughters and attempted to get permission to hand out literature and speak, Kollar said. He did not know the subject of either the literature or the planned talk.</p>
<p>Police officers “thought the interaction between the older male and the two young females was rather suspicious,” so she confronted them and performed a background check on him, Kollar said.</p>
<p>That check revealed that Garrido was on federal parole for a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, for which he had served time in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas."</p>
<p>In addition to the horrors that victim (and probably her children) must have endured over the years, there is the separate tragedy of her stepfather being the prime suspect for so long. So many lives destroyed by this predator.</p>
<p>Mary13, that bears repeating; the police concentrated on the innocent step-father while the real S@B went undetected for years!!! How many times have we seen this before? Cops need to stop following a stereotypical coloring-book by the numbers approach to missings persons investigations, such as; ‘the step father must be a moral degenerate, otherwise why she have run away?; the teenager who disappeared just to get away because she was uncontrollable or just mad at her parents’ rules, etc.’ Valuable time and resources are expended for these leads which lead to nothing but heartbreak for the families involved.</p>
<p>The levels of weirdness in this case are indeed amazing. </p>
<p>I was particularly struck by the abductor announcing that he had “turned his life around.” Imagine! He hasn’t even been convicted yet of kidnapping, rape, and who knows what else, and he is already talking the talk of someone who is positioning themselves for a reality show or a triumphant/penitent round of the talk shows and People magazine.</p>
<p>They are saying that Garridos wife was with him when the girl was abducted in 1991. What on earth would EVER possess a woman to do this and go along with it for all these years??? I don’t understand!</p>
<p>He is a special kind of “crazy”. I posted a different version on a Psychiatrists’ forum, on which I posited, “who is more disturbed/disturbing ?”, Mr. or Mrs…</p>
<p>From some local interviews…</p>
<p>“He rambled. It made no sense,” he said.</p>
<p>Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido’s criminal record.</p>
<p>“We never thought anything bad about the guy,” Allen said. “He was just kind of nutty.”</p>
<p>In a blog that appears to have been maintained by Garrido, he wrote that he had hired a private investigator to verify his ability to speak to people using only his mind. In an “affadavit” posted there, he said he had the ability to “control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena.”</p>
<p>If you google his house (Walnut St Antioch ca) you can see that there is something distinctively hinky about the backyard set-up.(fyi its the yard with all the blue tarps) Don’t those parole officers have internet access? One of the neighbors reported to the sheriffs dept that he thought that kids were living in the backyard!</p>
<p>So the victim was abducted at the age of 11 and hasn’t been to school since and her kids are 11 and 15 and have never been to school. What is to be done with them in the future? Obviously lots of counseling but then what for them? Homeschooling, then GED for the mom? It would be nice if, after conviction, all of the property of the perps could be sold and the money used to fund education/counseling/life skills traning for the family. I hope that some lawyer comes forward to file a civil suit pro bono and get a judgment and take their property.</p>
<p>My heart goes out to her mom. I can’t imagine the emotions she has to live with. I’m sure that she was overjoyed at first that her daughter had been found alive. But then, she found out what she had had to endure–and I know I’d be angry. And dealing with the two young girls. Of course, they are innocent. Of course, half the genes they carry are of her daughter–but the other half come from a rapist who kept her daughter in captivity for 18 years and who may well be insane. </p>
<p>You know what I wish? That the FBI would put them in a witness protection program. The news media in this country is just plain sick. You know that they are searching high and low to find Jaycee and her daughters. And, after 18 years in a backyard, I don’t think Jaycee is in any shape to face a media storm. Her daughters are even less prepared for it.</p>
<p>Don’t you wonder how this can go undetected for so many years? Austrian guy had his daughter in the basement. These kids were in the backyard. Neighbors new he was a registered sex offender and saw children in the backyard, and reported to the police. It is extremely frustrating that the police were not more diligent and neighbors perhaps more persistent.</p>
<p>This is a real tragedy for the three victims and the family. Jaycee had her first child at age 14, presumably without any medical care. The story is really unbelievable. It will be very hard for her and her daughters to re-join (or join) society.</p>