"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
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- William Shakespeare

Jaycee Dugard - As Allyssa, she is the main character in the narratives. She was kidnapped on June 1991.
Terry Susan Probyn - Mother of Jaycee Dugard.
Carl Probyn - Stepfather of Jaycee Dugard at the time of her kidnapping in 1991. Separated from Terry Probyn in 1999.
Tina Dugard - Sister of Terry Probyn and aunt of Jaycee Dugard.
Shayna Probyn - Step sister of Jaycee Dugard. Was a year old at the time of the kidnapping in June 1991.

Ken Slayton - Biological father of Jaycee Dugard but has no relationship with her.
Erica Price Shulte - A spokeswoman for the Dugard family.
Nancy Seltzer - A spokeswoman for the Dugard family.

Phillip Garrido - Alleged kidnapper and rapist of Jaycee Dugard. He was in prison from June 1977 to January 1988 after his conviction for the kidnapping and rape of Katie Callaway Hall.
Nancy Garrido - Wife of Phillip Garrido and accomplice in the kidnapping and rapes of Jaycee Dugard.
Angel - Born in 1994 to Jaycee Dugard and fathered by Phillip Garrido. She does not legally exist as her birth was not registered.
Starlit (Scarlett?) - Born in 1998 to Jaycee Dugard and fathered by Phillip Garrido. She does not legally exist as her birth was not registered.
Patricia Franzen/Garrido nee Smith - Mother of Phillip Garrido.

Vern Pierson - El Dorado District Attorney
James Clinchard - El Dorado Deputy District Attorney
Susan Gellman - Court appointed Public Defender for Phillip Garrido.
Gilbert Maines - Court appointed Public Defender for Nancy Garrido but was later removed by the court.
Stephen Tapson - Court appointed Public Defender for Nancy Garrido to replace Gilbert Maines.

Christine Murphy - nee Pereira, first wife of Phillip Garrido.
Katherine Calloway Hall - She was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido on November 22 1976 for which he was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. She was 25 years old then and was working at the Harrah Casino as a croupier at the time of her kidnapping.
Manuel Garrido - Father of Phillip Garrido
Ronald Garrido - Brother of Phillip Garrido.

Agent Edward Santos - Parole Agent I, Fairfield II/GPS Unit, CDCR
Agent La Grossa - Parole Agent, CDCR
G. Sims - Superior from CDCR
Officer Von Savoye - Police Officer from Concord Police Dept.
Officer Kaiser - Police Officer from Concord Police Dept.
Sergeant Hoffmann - Police Sergeant from Concord Police Department who extracted the confession from Phillip Garrido that he is the father of Angel and Starlit (Scarlett).
Officer Lisa Campbell - Police Officer from University of California, Berkeley.
Officer Ally Jacobs - Police Officer from University of California, Berkeley.

Ben Daughdrill - Customer of Print for less.
Deepal Karunaratne - Real Estate agent and has been a customer of Print for Less.
Jim and Cheyvonne Molino - Owner of JM Enterprise at Willow Pass Road. Has been a customer of Phillip Garrido for the last 10 years.
Tim Allen -
Tiffany Tran -

Damon Robinson - Next door neighbour and bought over the property. Phillip Garrido takes water from his property. In 2006, Erika Price who was Damon Robinson's partner reported to police that her neighbour was a psychotic and a sex addict.
Erika Pratt - Lodged a police report on Nov 30 2006 that Phillip Garrido was psychotic and a sex addict. Partner of Damon Robinson in 2006.
Haydee Perry - Partner of Damon Robinson in 2009.
Mike Rogers - Next door neighbour of Damon Robinson and Phillip Garrido. His property shares a common back fence with Damon Robinson and part of the corner fence with Phillip Garrido. From the corner of property, he could see a queue of Mexican men outside the tent. Now and then, he could hear a woman scream. Over the 3 year period that he owned the property, he saw about 8-10 times of these sex orgies going on. Mike Roger does not lived on his property.

Dilbert "Jack" Medieros - From late 2007 to March 2008, Garrido allegedly swindled Dilbert "Jack" Medieros, now 79, of nearly $18,000. In the end, prosecutors cited insufficient evidence in declining to file charges in April.

John B. Kiehbauch - Prison psychologist who was instrumental in his early release, telling the parole board that "prognosis for successful transition into the community is considered very good," and the likelihood that Garrido would commit more crimes was "minimal."

Nevada Parole Board - Cameron M. Batjer- Chairman, previously chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court
Benjamin F. Baer- served on President John F. Kennedy's Juvenile Delinquency Commission.
Victor M.F. Reyes -
Carol Pavilack Getty- Served as Chairman, instrumental in Jim Bakker's unfair imprisonment.
Vincent J. Fechtel, Jr. -
Helen G. Corrothers -
Daniel Raul Lopez -
Jasper R. Clay, Jr. -
Saundra Brown Armstrong - on the United States District Court
George MacKenzie Rast -
John R. Simpson

Pets
- 2 dogs (Rottweiler mix and Labrador mix)
- 4 cats
- 3 cockatiels
- 1 pigeon
- 1 white mice
- 1 parakeet

In this section, our narratives focused on the effect of years of brainwashing/conversion that must have taken place in order to Alyssa to be in her current mental state.

In the 1977 movie Telefon starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick, it touches on sleeper agents from the USSR that are programmed to carry out a pre-programmed function when they hear a certain auditory cue spoken to them. The trigger for them to move into a zombie state was from a poem written by Robert Frost. Part of the poem is reproduced below.


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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost


It is an fascinating idea that a human being can be controlled to carry out a pre-programmed action on hearing a certain phrase. Will Jaycee Dugard be so well conditioned over her 18 years that she will still respond to her former captors' voices? Will she will be able to break loose of her captors' psychological hold over her? Those voices in her head that she had been conditioned to respond to over the last 18 years.


A Heart Warming Story
From his jail cell, Phillip Garrido's has made claims that his life "has been straightened out" and implored people to wait until they hear the whole story of what happened over the past 18 years.

"What's kept me busy the last several years is I've completely turned my life around," Garrido told KCRA 3 (Sacramento TV station on channel 3) "And you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim -- you wait. If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."

It was a statement full of suggestions and for the public, it sounded self-serving. But that statement could well be aimed at the victim, Jaycee Dugard. That she should tell her interrogators about the wonderful things that happened between her and him, Phillip Garrido. Those life changing moments that he had conditioned her to believe in that backyard garden. How? Let us discuss about brainwashing or conversion as it is also known.


Brainwashing (Conversion)
The study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming or suggestions.


Nine Conversion Techniques
The brainwashing of Jaycee works by creating an appropriate state of suggestibility in her. In this case, the Garridos had all the time in the world to achieve it. We identified 9 primary techniques used to generate her conversion.

1. Jaycee was kept in the sound-proofed shed for a year and a half. She was cut-off from the outside world with no other human interaction other than by her captors themselves. In order to cause her maximum discomfort, she would have been denied basic physical needs like access to the bathroom, food and water.

2. Her captors would have given her lengthy talk about the importance of "keeping agreements" in life. She would have been told that if she did not keep her agreements, she would be punished severely. And she would have vowed to herself and her captors that she would keep her agreements. Examples of such an agreement would be that she was never to reveal her real identity to anyone. She was never to divulge information on her captors and her relationship with them to anyone.

3. She would also be denied proper meals such that hunger induced tension. The idea was to alter her internal chemistry, which generated anxiety and with the intention to cause malfunction of her nervous system. This helped with accelerating her brainwashing /conversion.

4. And to round off her brainwashing, her agreements will be used to ensure that at some stage in her life, she will be required to go out to find new participants. She will be intimidated into agreeing to do so and in her situation, her captors were always around to enforce these agreements.

5. She would have been subjected to repetitive sessions. In her case, it was at least a year and half before she was let out of the sound-proofed shed. She was in that backyard compound for 18 years. From the bookshelf in her tent, we know that he spent significant amount of time with her in that tent. With her kind of repetitive conditioning, long term control of her was assured.

6. She was repetitively raped in that sound-proof shed. The prolonged rapes caused a physical and mental fatigue. The rapes degraded her psychological and physical well-being. These rapes would have been blamed on her for some infringements. She had to do better not to be raped and she was conditioned to blame herself for the rapes. She would have developed a guilt complex.

7. She would have been verbally and physically abuse in that sound-proofed shed and over the years. This would increase the tension. She would be picked on and shouted at or humiliated. The whole idea was to put her “on the spot”. She would have been pumped for information about herself, immediate family members, her school friends and teachers and anything that she knew then. That information would then be manipulated and presented in the most negative manner back to her. An example could be that her family had abandoned her or threats of violence against her family members, school friends and teachers.

She had to relate all her innermost secrets and forced to take part in activities that emphasized removing her mask. This could be the removal of her clothes or denial of sanitary pads during her menstrual period or even sex toys inserted into her private parts. So you can imagine the fear and tension that she was put under the spot. She would literally go into an alpha state and open to suggestions. And another loop of the downward spiral into conversion was successfully effected.

8. She would have been introduced to religious ideology. The introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to her and her captors. Vicious language could be frequently used, purposely, to make her uncomfortable.

9. And to round it off, there would be no humor in the communications. Not until she had submitted to the will of her captors. Then, merry-making and humor, highly desirable as symbols of the new joy she had supposedly "found."

The mental conditioning had been constant over the last 18 years. She was conditioned to respond to his suggestions and commands. His voice resonated inside her head.

And from his prison cell, he had suggested that the victim had a powerful heart-warming story to tell the world. That was the first time she had heard his voice played over the mass media.


Recovery - Long Term Impact
Since her recovery, Jaycee Dugard has undergone deprogramming, psychological and psychiatric counselling. Phillip Garrido owned her body and mind for 18 years. From his prison cell, he had written to KCRA-3 that Jaycee Dugard was denied her constitutional right during the questioning at the parole office as she had requested for a lawyer. This came from a man that was used to owning her body and mind that he did not recognise her rights to be with her natural family. Obviously for him, the law of the jungle applied with the kidnapping and yet he demanded that his captive has constitutional rights to deny her identity. Such was his belief in his mental hold over her. Could he be proven right in the long term? Will history repeat itself and will Jaycee Dugard seek to free Phillip Garrido just like when Nancy Bocanegra worked to free him 25 years ago? Will Jaycee Dugard continue to respond to his commands in the long term?


Update Feb 11 2010 - Court submission by the prosecutor revealed that the following.

page 7, (16) - On or about Jan 28 2010, counsel for Phillip Garrido sent a letter to Ms Doe (Jaycee Dugard) which stated, "Mr. Garrido has asked me to convey to you that he does not harbor any ill will toward [Ms Doe} or the children and loves them very much." Ms. Doe immediately put the reference to "no ill will" in context that "I am not following the plan." Ms. Doe explained that "the plan" dictated should Mr. Garrido ever be arrested, they were to "keep in communication through lawyers." Ms Doe further indicated that her belief that the referral by her former captor and rapist to not harbor ill will was "another way of manipulating" her.

Sources
Brainwashing
Bonding with Rapist - Daily Mail, UK
KCRA 3
Guilt from bonding with kidnappers
MSNBC News- Jaycee Dugard's Diary: I want to be free (Feb 11 2010)

Neighbour Mike Rogers
Mr Rogers says 'perverts' in the area were regularly invited over by Garrido for sex, beer and drug parties and that the Garrido home was, in effect, being used as a brothel.

He watched groups of men arriving at the house on hot summer nights. They carried crates of beer. Mainly of Mexican appearance, they lit bonfires, played music and shouted and laughed late into the night.

They also took it in turns to enter a tent erected amid the junk in Garrido's backyard. 'I saw them entering the tent one by one,' he says. 'I saw them bobbing up and down and I thought, "My God, there is something sexual going on in there".'

Mike Rogers, 49, told the newspaper that he once peered through the garden fence during an 'excessively loud' party next door. 'These guys were unsavoury looking men,' he says.

'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'.

'They were drinking beer and smashing the bottles on the ground. I thought they had a prostitute or something in there. I thought it might have been some kind of sex party or something. It happened quite often. They were different men each time.'

The men gave each other 'high-fives' when they emerged from the tent.

'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.

Christine Murphy who was the first wife of Phillip Garrido described him as a monster, and that he continually hit her. Phillip Garrido was an aspiring musician with no valid income. Murphy recounts that he continually smoked marijuana and dropped LSD. He had sexual perversions and wanted his wife to engage in group sex, which she refused. It wasn’t until Phillip Garrido was arrested for the rape of Katherine Gallaway that Christine Murphy found a way to escape.


Neighbour Dana Crandell
Neighbor Dana Crandell, 35, used to play near the yard as a kid and now works at the local Savemart, where Garrido would shop "with two young girls."

"Years ago, my brother heard someone in the back yard having sex. At the time we just thought it was him and his girlfriend. They had a hot tub back there. "There were wooden shutters on the house that he would always put up, and he always locked his gate."

Until three years ago, Garrido, 58, acted as caretaker of the house next door to his property, which also has a number of sheds and outbuildings which have now been cordoned off by police.


Neighbour Damon Robinson
Damon Robinson, who now lives in the house, said all the locks were turned around so people could be locked in, rather than locked out.

'It took me a while to realise, but Garrido had access to all of these buildings. At first I didn't even realise they were part of my land because there are wire fences splitting up the yard.

'When I moved over in one of the sheds there was a music player, a couch, a mattress and a VCR. He really wanted the VCR back when I found it.

'There had been times when I could hear music coming from there at night. Maybe he was taking the girl over there for a change of scenery or something a little nicer than he had in his yard, I don't know.'


Janice Gomes
Janice Gomes remembers the day she met Garrido. She was in a beauty salon getting her nails done when he came in soliciting business. It was 1994, she recalled, and "he told me his wife just had a baby."

Gomes and her husband used Garrido for their home-cleaning businesses, and he also printed brochures and tickets for Gomes' National Community Empowerment Program, a nonprofit public safety group.

Nine years ago, after 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild was abducted from the nearby city of Vallejo, the group decided to update its tip sheet for parents. Gomes recalled that Garrido made suggestions.

"He said, 'You might want to put that parents should never let their children go to the bus stop alone,' " Gomes recounted. " 'Children are no match for an adult.' "

Like many print shop customers, Gomes said Garrido's religiosity began to deepen. Last October, he came to their offices, especially excited, waving a document.

"When the FBI reads this and this comes out," he told her, "this is going to be a beautiful story. It's going to be worldwide. It tells how God healed me from pornography and prostitutes."

He handed Gomes the papers. She threw them away.

"He's so happy right now," Gomes speculated. "This is the worldwide thing he's talking about."


Erika Pratt, 25, who stayed next door two years ago, said she was continuously "freaked out" by Garrido's behavior and that when she popped her head over the fence she saw his secret compound. There were tents, sheds and pit bulls, she said, and water hoses leading from her house next door.

"He had little girls and women living in that backyard, and they all looked kind of the same," Pratt said. "They never talked, and they kept to themselves."

Erica Pratt was the woman that called the police in 2006 to report Phillip Garrido as a psychotic and a sex addict. Obviously, she saw some sexual activities happening in that backyard from her side of the fence. Also, Phillip Garrido took water from her side of the property to run the shower and the swimming pool.


A blank stare
Haydee Perry, 35, who lives next door, said that when Phillip Garrido helped her jump-start her car a month ago, he had a young girl clinging to him in a manner that struck her as strange.

"She stayed close to him at all times," Perry said. "It wasn't normal behavior. She had a blank stare on her face. Now it seems like a cry out for help."

A Web site containing statements from Garrido and others called "Voices Revealed" talks about a turnaround that allowed him "to open doors that will honor the creator and his eternal purpose for mankind."

The site also indicates that he gave a demonstration in Pittsburg last month with a homemade box to prove "the creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world."

Mary Thomas, accountant at J&M auto dismantlers in Pittsburg, near where Garrido set up his revival tent, said he "was always very professional and spoke the word of God whenever he talked."

Garrido had a printing business, making business cards for J&M and others in the area. Tiffany Tran, who runs Furniture Gallery in Brentwood, said she had seen and done business with "Phil the printer" for six years, as recently as last week.


A little different
She recalled Garrido as being "a little different" and said he constantly talked about religion and showed her a device through which he claimed he could control sound with his mind.

"Some people have a story behind their smile, some don't - he did," Tran said. "He was happy-go-lucky, but you knew there was a story behind it."


Pratt said people came and went from the property, but the core group consisted of two girls about 4 years old, one girl about 11, another girl about 15 and a young woman about 25. They were all blond, she said.

Pratt said she had called Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies to investigate, but that officers "told me they couldn't go inside because they didn't have a warrant. So they just told him they'd keep an eye on him."


Neighbor Dana Crandell, 35, used to play near the yard as a kid and now works at the local Savemart, where Garrido would shop "with two young girls."

"He came into the supermarket where I work and I met the little girls," she said. "I said to him, 'I didn't know you had daughters.' He said, 'Oh, yeah, these are my girls.' He always talked about God. He always talked about his recordings.

"I saw the girls three different times. They were hanging on his arms, asking 'Can we get this, can we buy this?' He just got milk and the bare necessities and always paid with cash.

"I played back there as a little kid. He always peeked over the fence. He was real neighborly, but he never let anyone come onto his property. I never knew that existed back there.

"Years ago, my brother heard someone in the back yard having sex. At the time we just thought it was him and his girlfriend. They had a hot tub back there.

"There were wooden shutters on the house that he would always put up, and he always locked his gate."

Another neighbor, Dante Consetti, has lived in the area for decades and often worked outdoors.

"I worked in the yard for years and I didn't hear a thing," he said.

Residents said they frequently saw Garrido but tended to avoid him and his religious rants and his penchant for singing gospel songs.

"He came around to my place and he wanted to sing," said Sam Kovisto.

"It was always gospel singing and religious stuff. I told him to get lost and not come on my property."

Kovisto said he saw the little girls a few times and "knew he was on the sex offenders registry."

"Since I first saw that guy, I knew there was something not right about him," he said. "He thought he was God. He was crazy."

Another neighbor, Erika Pratt, 25, reported seeing pit bulls on the property.

Some of the neighbors knew he was a registered sex offender. But they said they didn't know he'd been convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1976.

Many of the homes surrounding Garrido's are rentals.

Garrido moved into the house -- which had been owned by his mother Patricia's now-deceased husband, Herschel Franzen -- after he got out of prison.

He and his wife and alleged co-conspirator, Nancy, lived in the main home with Patricia, who is said to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Even Garrido's family had their suspicions -- but apparently never asked too many questions.

Garrido's brother, Ron, who lives in nearby Brentwood, yesterday recalled how Phillip visited an aunt in 2007, with two little girls in tow.

Phil told the relative that he was watching the kids for a neighbor, but she didn't buy it, Ron said.

"My aunt told me, 'I swear that oldest girl is his daughter. She's got his eyes.' "


Deepal Karunaratne, a Sri Lankan-born estate agent who employed Garrido to print his flyers and business cards, said he believed "Phil and Nancy" when they introduced him to their blonde blue-eyed "daughter", Jaycee.

"Only he said she was called Allissa, and one of her daughters was called Scarlett," he told The Sunday Times last week.

"Jaycee was part of the family business, running the printing press in the back yard. I would see her in work overalls, covered with ink, negotiated with her when she could not complete my order. She was always polite and professional. Or wearing jeans and a blouse standing outside the house with Nancy, who did all the bookkeeping."

He added that he and Jaycee exchanged regular phone calls and e-mails.

"He [Garrido] would not let me see the press or the backyard: he said it was a trade secret. I was aware there were two little girls there, although I did not know they were living in tents. They went out to movies and to eat, nothing exceptional or strange," he said.

His testimony is backed up by Ben Daughdrill, who last year met a woman who was introduced as Allissa when he went to Garrido’s house to pick up some business cards. "She was the design person; she did the art work; she was the genius," said Daughdrill, who also communicated by phone and e-mail with Jaycee.

Both Karunaratne and Daughdrill are now haunted by what was uncovered last week. For Karunaratne, two recollections are particularly telling and troubling.

"Over the last three years he [Garrido] grew more intense about his religion. He said that God was speaking to him through this machine, and asked me to listen through headphones and sign a form saying I’d heard the voices too.

"I heard nothing but did it, to be polite. But he seemed to grow more crazy every time I saw him. He said he was being attacked by angels. He was melting down.”

The second cold finger running down the estate agent’s spine is Garrido’s account of a day recently when he took Jaycee and the girls on a "mission" to a nearby town called Pittsburg.

"He told me he had set up a stall to hand out his tracts, and all the family was helping him. His car broke down on the way home, and he phoned me up for a lift back. I told him to take the bus."


Maria Christenson -
Garrido did printing work for a Pittsburg recycling center for more than a decade, and he did it well.

Some of the receipts and envelopes came with lovely children's designs, said Maria Christenson, owner of Christenson Recycling Center. His daughter did them, Garrido proudly told her.

"There was nothing weird with him at the beginning. But I noticed a year ago he just went off the deep end," she said.

That's when Phillip and Nancy Garrido - charged Friday in the 1991 abduction and sexual assault of Jaycee Dugard - came into her office, shut the door and asked for a $2,000 advance. They needed a new bathroom and had plans to start a backyard church, they told her.

"He started preaching and doing all this stuff. He was telling me about his voices. And then he said, "You know I've been to prison, and I don't masturbate anymore." Out of the blue," she said. "Then he started crying, and she was crying. I was looking at them - what is this about? I got freaked out."


Christine Murphy
Just 19 when they married, Christine worked at a Reno casino to pay the bills because Garrido, an aspiring musician, had no real income. She says he took LSD or smoked marijuana every day, and he became violent when she refused to go along with his sexual fantasies.

"What did he ask you to do?" McInerney asks.
"Multiple partners is what he wanted, I wouldn’t go for that," says Christine.

When Garrido saw another man flirt with his wife, Christine says he took out a safety pin and dug it into her face. The scar is still visible. And when she ran away, Garrido carried out what was probably his first kidnapping.

"He pulled up in front me and we got in an argument and he grabbed me and threw me in the car," she says of the incident.

Four years into the marriage, Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

"Honestly [I was] relieved, it was my exit out," Christine says of Garrido's sentence.

Christine later remarried and had four children. She had no idea that her ex-husband had been released from jail until she heard the news about the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

"It made me sick to my stomach," she says of Dugard's ordeal.

Christine says she has total sympathy for what Jaycee has gone through these last 18 years.

"What do you want to say to Phillip Garrido right now?"

"Nothing. The only person I have anything to say to is the victims: Just be strong, take it one day at a time."


Sources
Erika Pratt

Ron Garrido, Erika Pratt, Sam Kovisto, Dante Consetti,

LA Times - Pursuing God and Sex

Bonding with Phillip Garrido

Karunaratne and Ben Daughdrill

Profile of Phillip Garrido - Juror thirteen

Christine Murphy - With InsideEdition

Books Inside Alyssa's Tent
What did Alyssa read during her years of captivity? The books that people choose to read say a lot about them. Women who eat up romance novels are permanent believers in love, whether or not they have it in their own life.

Most people read to escape their world - and a look at many books Alyssa read during her 18 years in Philip Garrido's squalid compound shows that she's no different.

But there's one novel that doesn't provide an escape, and a photograph shows it on top of a dilapidated nightstand in the compound: Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost, a fantasy chronicle published last year. It's about a teenage girl traveling through an imaginary kingdom, and a "brothel" where customers go to drain the vitality of young children until the kids have no soul left. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see the parallels with Alyssa's own horrifying situation.

Photos taken inside her tent showed that Alyssa was an avid reader. Jaycee's aunt, Tina Dugard, said that Jaycee told the family during their reunion that she loved to read. "She likes mysteries," Tina Dugard told the Orange County Register - an ironic preference, given that Jaycee's own disappearance was one of the most persistent mysteries of recent years.


From the bookshelves, another story can be told. Due to the numerous books by Dean Koontz, Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, we can only interpret that Phillip Garrido spent a significant amount time in this tent. Those books are his books not hers. It was in this tent that he guided her intellectural curiosity. He conditioned her mind to believe that there was a love story between them.


In Riley in the Morning, Alyssa transported herself into the role of Brin Cassidy, the sensuous and strong-willed beauty and wife of Jon Riley. Temperamental, charismatic, and devastatingly blue-eyed, Riley was a man who knew what he wanted, and he wasn't leaving until he got it. But the sensuous and strong-willed beauty he still called his wife was every bit his match. From dusk until dawn the two will experience a second honeymoon of passion, seduction, and deep revelation that will determine if there is any future for Riley in the morning.


In The Rana Look, Alyssa became supermodel Rana Ramsey the exotic, one-of-a-kind allure supermodel. Ruggedly handsome, charming, and undeniably charismatic, Trent is the kind of man that Alyssa finds irresistible...the kind of man she is certain would never look twice at a woman as ordinary as the new Alyssa. Trent seems unfazed by her Plain Jane look. For he is drawn to a beauty that Alyssa can't hide. He is determined to learn the mystery behind the elusive, reclusive boarder with the secret past. Then an unexpected tragedy strikes, and the stakes seem higher than ever. Now they must look deep into each other's heart to determine if their relationship is just an impossibly erotic dream--or a dream of love come true.


In the A Whole New Light Alyssa is Cynthia a widow who took on a lover Worth Lansing. The two close friends took a short vacation together. Worth always knew what to say and Alyssa could always open up to him. They were each other's rock and Worth would always be there for his best friend's widow.

Worth was a lady's man; he had many women around but never found one that fit his lifestyle. Alyssa teased Worth about his wild ways and Worth let Alyssa know that her ways weren't as perfect. If they were, she would be happy. The beauty of their friendship allowed them to discuss everything, just as best friends would. All of that would change in Acapulco as they entered their suite. "...Worth and Alyssa stood like statues in the middle of the room, staring down at the bed-the one king-size bed."

In Do With Me What You Will, Alyssa fills the role of Elena. It is a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American 'pathways' : the way of tradition, or Law; and the way of spontaneous emotion-in this case, Love. In the synthesis of these two apparently contradictory forces lies the inevitable transformation of our culture.

"Romantic love is one of our Western religions and must be respected as such; it must be acknowledged as the violent, unstoppable, rather beautiful force it is. But the West is also a culture of Law : American society will never be transformed by stray acts of violence in the streets-it will be transformed only through the courts. And they, in turn, will not be transformed until the men who run them are changed, individual by individual. Ours is still a time of romantic love; the time of a more communal, transcendental love is not yet come. DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL suggests such a transformation.

"If what is available to an individual is romantic love, then it must be-it will be-this kind of love that liberates." In the "freeing" from the enchantment of her "self," Elena lives a drama in which, by a continual process, she is raised to a higher aspect of her own being through involvement with a man-a drama of marriage and adultery that constructs an hour-by-hour, thought-by-thought experience both shattering and redemptive."

Another critic Rose Marie Burwell states: "Certain that the law will not save her, that the very concepts of innocence and guilt depend on the human propensities of those who define and dispense justice, Elena recognizes the truth that "Necessity Makes Law." Assuming moral self-responsibility in the final chapter, Elena Howe enters an unspoken plea of nolo contendre, the vulgate of which is the title of the novel, Do With Me What You Will ( 1973 ). The plea, in English common law and in most states, requires the court to proceed on an assumption of the defendant's innocence--even though he refuses to defend himself. Here the reader is the court and Elena Howe is both Everyman and many women. The dilemma she has been chosen to exemplify, the struggle to create and retain a tenable sense of self, is a universal one in which every individual who achieves emotional and moral maturity participates. For Elena a belated and violent sexual awakening sounds a warning signal, forcing upon her the realization that she must synthesize her personality or accede to her own disintegration. Elena's resistance and the Jungian stages of her individuation provide the narrative structure of novel. "



Books
Shadow Bridge - Gregory Frost
Game of Throne - George R R Martin

The Cat Who Went to Paris - Peter Gethers
Do Cats Think?
Catlore - Desmond Morris
The Cat On My Shoulder - Lisa Angowski Rogak


Dealing With Dragons - Patricia Wrede
Psychomech - Brian Lumley
Psychosphere - Brian Lumley
Foundation (1951) - Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation (1953) - Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge (1982) - Isaac Asimov
Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell Story of a female murderer
The Vision - Dean Koontz
Velocity - Dean Koontz
Intensity - Dean Koontz
Midnight - Dean Koontz
Forever Odd - Dean Koontz
The Demon Seed - Dean Koontz
Intensity - Dean Koontz
Pop Goes The Weasel - James Patterson Story about murder of prostitutes
Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear Underlying story is acceptance of paranoia
Angels and Demons (2000) - Dan Brown
Hearts of The Sea (2007) - Nora Roberts Romance with a touch of Irish mysticism and two star-crossed ghosts
To Love Again (1989) - Danielle Steel Romance story with theme of a new beginning for a young woman with her child
Star (1990) - Danielle Steel Romance story of a young girl pregnant with her lover's child
Riley in the Morning (2001) - Sandra Brown Sensual novel about one night in the life of a man and a woman that will change their future forever
The Rana Look (2003) - Sandra Brown Sensual novel about a man and a woman drawn together in a sensual idyll unlike anything either of them has ever known
A Whole New Light (1992) - Sandra Brown Sensual novel about forbidden love between a man and a woman
Lightpaths (1997) - Howard V Hendrix Science Fiction
Nimisha's Ship (1998) - Anne McCaffrey Science Fiction Escapism
Do With Me What You Will (1973) - Joyce Carol Oates Explore the issues of violent sexual awakening
Angels, God's Secret Agents - Billy Graham
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Portrait of A Killer - Patricia Cornwell (An Investigation into Jack the Ripper)
Roger Zelazny
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Eddings
Robert Jordan

Contra Costa Times: Jaycee Dugard
Fox News: Stockholm Syndrome
Personal Identity of Kidnap Victims Following Recovery: Jaycee Dugard - Katherine Van Wormer
The Battle For Your Mind - Dick Sutphen
Do Me What You Will - Joyce Carol Oates
Creepy Phil - Background story on Phillip Garrido
Nancy Garrido - The woman and wife behind the rapist, Phillip Garrido
Bookshelf that tells a horror story
Jaycee Dugard Stories - San Francisco Chronicle
Jaycee on horseback with mother - Hello magazine Oct 26 Edition
Local Statistics - Information on Pittsburg and Antioch, California.
KCRA 3 - Sacramento TV station on channel 3.
Phillip Garrido had not touch her in years - Kids not molested. San Francisco Chronicle
Phillip Garrido has not touch her in years - CBS Crime News
Pat Garrido reveals how she was duped- Daily Mail online.
Twisted: Phillip Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips- CBS13 News interview with Janice Gomes.
CBS News- Interview with Christine Murphy
Daily Telegraph- Pittsburg recycling plant, reddish Volkswagen ..

One Angry Daughter- Stockholm Syndrome: Why We Do Not Escape