Led by Garrido, she walked with a blanket over her head and wearing only a towel and no shoes to the building where she was held. If you're holding me for ransom, my family doesn't have a lot of money.' "ĭugard said at one point she "lost control of her bladder and then blacked out."Īt one point he said they were going to walk - he would lead the way, and she would hold on to him and follow. "I kept telling him that, you know, 'I don't know why you're doing this. "I can't believe we got away with it," she recalls the man, Philip Garrido, saying.Ĭovered with a blanket, hot, and nervous, Dugard remembers pleading with her captors to release her. She was offered a drink and then heard a man laughing. She remembers the sound of the car door slamming. Then she found herself inside a car on the floorboard with someone putting pressure on her body. She felt as if her body wouldn't work - like she had no control, according to the transcripts. "All of a sudden his hand shoots out and I feel tingly and like losing control, and I'm in the bushes, trying to go back, and somebody is dragging me," she said.
JAYCEE DUGARD CAPTOR FULL
It is the first time she Dugard has told in full detail what happened during her kidnapping.ĭugard told the grand jury about the exact moment her walk to school turned into 18 years of captivity. Dugard’s description of the events comes from grand jury testimony in the case against the couple. His wife Nancy got 36 years for Dugard's kidnapping. Philip Garrido was sentenced this week to 431 years in prison. The couple both pleaded guilty to avoid a trial, where Dugard would have to publicly testify and describe the nearly two decades she spent in captivity. In a flash, her life took a turn that would change her forever.ĭugard would go from an 11-year-old, blue-eyed, freckle-faced blonde to a 29-year-old with two children - all while she was kept locked away in a backyard compound of sheds and tarps owned by Garrido. In them she describes her encounters with her convicted captors Philip and Nancy Garrido. "I didn't think it was weird at the time, but it kind of pulled in close to me," she told a grand jury in September 2010, according to redacted transcripts released today. A car crept up behind her as she walked to the bus stop for school. She was seated, dressed in a black shirt and jeans and a pink baseball cap, and feeding two spaniels.Jaycee Dugard vividly remembers the morning 20 years ago when she was kidnapped. I want to thank you for your support and I'm doing well," Dugard said in her first public statement since the arrest of her alleged captors. She has been seen rarely in the last year, appearing briefly in a home video provided to ABC News in March.
They have pleaded not guilty.ĭugard has spent the last 11 months in an undisclosed location in northern California with her daughters, allegedly fathered by Garrido, and her mother. Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido have both been charged with numerous counts of kidnapping and rape and are awaiting trial.
JAYCEE DUGARD CAPTOR TRIAL
Jaycee Dugard's Alleged Kidnappers Awaiting Trial The Dugard case, as well as this year's conviction of registered sex offender John Albert Gardner for the murder of southern California teenagers Amber DuBois and Chelsea King, brought to light the inadequacies of the state's parole sytem, which struggles with a disproportionately high number of offenders to parole officers. During parole checks, Garridos house was inspected, but officers never checked the backyard. Even then, Dugard and her children were never found. The state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation came under fire in the weeks and months after Dugard's rescue in August 2009 for not properly supervising Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender who was on parole.Ī scathing investigation last year by the California Office of the Inspector General found Garrido's state parole officers had missed numerous opportunities to locate and rescue Dugard and her children from their backyard prison.Īs late as 2006, police were called to the house to investigate reports that Garrido had children living with him. Jaycee Dugard's spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer could also not be immediately reached for comment. The governor's office referred requests for comment to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which confirmed the settlement, but did not comment further.
The settlement was reached with Dugard and the Department of Justice on June 24.
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