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

The next morning, Alyssa and Nancy joined the 2 younger girls on the trip to the parole office in Concord. The parole agent had been questioning him about the 2 younger girls. They were now aware of their existence. That morning, Nancy, Alyssa, Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?) joined Phillip Garrido on the trip to the parole office in Concord most likely in a reddish volkswagen.


The Questionings/Interrogations
That Wednesday morning on August 26, they arrived at the parole office in Concord. The drive took less than 30 minute. It was about 8:10 am when Phillip Garrido walked into the lobby of the parole office. The parole agent was on the phone to Ally Jacobs when they walked into the room. Garrido signed in at the front lobby and the women seated themselves. When he had finished his conversation, he opened the lobby door and Garrido immediately started to walk in at the same time gesturing to the women to follow him. Agent Santos instructed him to stop and wait in the lobby while motioning the females to carry on and he escorted them into the conference room. The females were seated on one side and parole officer Santos was seated on the other side directly facing them. No one else was in the room.

The parole agent (Santos) introduced himself and then asked the three younger females to identify themselves. The oldest female stated, "Alyssa", the youngest stated, "Starlet" and the second oldest female said, "Angel". He then turned to Nancy Garrido and requested parents information on the two younger girls. Alyssa immediately stated that she was their mother. Agent Santos commented that she looked too young to be their mother and Alyssa laughingly said that she gets that all the time from people, and they think that she is their sister. He then asked her how old she was and she advised 29 years old. He then asked her for identification and she said that she had left it at home. He then asked her for her birthdate and she gave May 03 1980. He then asked her to spell out her full name and she hesitated for a moment and out slowly, spelled "Allissa Franzen". It was obvious to officer Santos that she was having difficulties spelling out her first name. He then asked where she lived and she replied that she and the two girls were staying with different families and sometimes with the Garridos.

As agent Santos attempted to gather more personal information for the purpose of confirming her identity, Alyssa became defensive and agitated. She wanted to know why she was being interrogated by agent Santos. At this juncture, Nancy Garrido jumped into the conversation and stated, "Yes, agent Santos, why are you interrogating us? We have done nothing wrong."

He then explained that he was not interrogating them but was looking into an incident that occurred on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. Alyssa acknowledged that the two girls were with Garrido yesterday and he took them to University of California, Berkeley. She also acknowledged that he was a registered sex offender and on parole. He then asked Alyssa whether she knew what crime he had committed and she advised that he had kidnapped and rape a woman over thirty years ago and that he was a changed man. She immediately started saying that Garrido was a great person , good with her kids and he had a gift. The two younger girls also commented how good Garrido was to them.

He then tried to reassure her that her information and that of the two girls were going to stay in the file, but she became even more agitated and started to say that she did not do anything wrong. At this point, agent Santos asked Nancy, Alyssa and the two girls to wait downstairs so he could talk to Garrido.


Interview with Garrido
Officer Santos then contacted Garrido in the lobby and escorted him to his office. He asked Garrido to tell him the relationship of the three younger females, and he first asked "What do you mean?" Officer Santos then restated his question. After a brief moment, he stated that they were all sisters. Garrido identified the older girl as Allissa and thought she was twenty eight or twenty nine years old and the oldest of the three girls. Garrido was then asked about the father of the three girls and he briefly thought for a while before stating that the father was a relative of his. Agent Santos again asked who the father was and stated that the father was the son of his mother. For clarification, agent Santos stated, "So that makes him your brother?" Garrido looked at him in astonishment and stated, "Yes". Garrido then advised that the parents were divorced and the girls were divorced and living between them and other people. He advised that the father was Ronald Garrido and that he did not know his physical address or telephone number but that he lived in Oakley, California. When agent Santos asked about the mother, Garrido stated her name was Janice and she lived somewhere in Brentwood, California. Garrido also advised that he did not know her address or phone number. Agent Santos then ended the conversation and escorted Garrido to a different office where another agent stayed with him.


Inconsistencies in the Alibi
9:00 am: Due to the inconsistent statements between Garrido and Alyssa, agent Lovan and agent Santos isolated Garrido in an office with another parole agent and went outside of the office and contacted the females. Agent Santos separated Alyssa from the other females. He then asked Alyssa why she lied to him about who she was and she stated,"What do you mean?". Agent Santos explained that Garrido told him that she was the older sister and not the mother. Alyssa looked confused and advised that she had full custody of the girls, implying that she was not the mother but a guardian with full custody. Agent Santos informed Alyssa several times that if she refused to cooperate, he would contact Child Protective Services (CPS) and/or the local police department. Alyssa then changed story to being the biological mother. She continued to say she did not know what was going on. Agent Santos informed her that he did not believe her and she had to show some form of identification or give him a phone number of a relative or friend for verification. Alyssa advised that she learned long time ago not to carry or give personal information out to anyone. When challenged by agent Santos to explain herself, she kept on saying she did not know what was going on and that she needed a lawyer.

During this time, Nancy was advising her to get a lawyer. At this time, Alyssa's demeanor changed. She became more concerned about the children. Agent Santos asked why Garrido would say that they were all sisters and she said, "He was just trying to protect her." After numerous attempts to get further information, agent Santos called 911 from his cell phone at about 0917 hours. He was transferred to the Concord Police Department and he requested an officer to assist him at his location.

While waiting for an officer to arrive, Alyssa continued to say she did not know what was going on and she had done nothing wrong. During this time, Starlet stated that she needed to use the restroom immediately. Because of Starlet insistence and because agent Santos did not want the females to be separated, he escorted them all of them to the Concord library across the road but the library was closed. While walking to the library, Alyssa stated, "I am sorry that I lied to you." She then began to say that she was from Minnesota and that she was running and hiding from an abusive husband. She continued to say that she had been on the run for 5 years and was terrified of being found by her ex-husband. While patting agent Santos shoulder, she said, "You can see why I learned a long time ago never to give out personal information." Again Santos reassured her that her information would not become public. She stated that she could not take that chance and would not give me any information.

At this time, Officer Von Savoye arrived from CPD. Agent Santos briefed him on the situation and told him that he did not believe the story given by Alyssa. Officer Von Savoye attempted to get personal information and she gave the same name of "Allissa Franzen". She refused to give further information. At this time, Officer Kaiser from CPD also arrived.

Because Starlet kept insisting on using the restroom, they all relocated back to the parole office. Alyssa was separated from Nancy and the two girls and she kept stating that she was from Minnesota and running from her husband. At this juncture, Alyssa requested to speak to Phillip Garrido. He was brought into the room and Alyssa told him that she did not know what to do. Phillip Garrido immediately blurted out, "Get a lawyer". Agent Santos told him to stand up and escorted him back to his office. Agent Santos asked him why she was protecting him and he said, "What do you mean?" Agent Santos repeated that she was protecting him from something. Garrido replied that he felt that she needed a lawyer.

Sergeant Hoffman from CPD arrived at the office and entered the room and he asked Garrido for the names of the females. Agent Santos left the room to check whether the other police officers had managed to get information from Alyssa.

Shortly after, Sergeant Hoffman came out of the room and stated that Garrido had admitted that he was the father of the 2 girls. At that point, agent Santos reentered the room and asked Garrido why he had made them gone through all this? He stated to the effect of not knowing why. Agent Santos asked Garrido whether it was because Garrido did not want Nancy to know and he said, "On no! She knows and she forgave me a long time ago." Agent Santos commented that it did not make sense and there had to be another reason. Garrido continued to evade his questions and agent Santos persisted in the questioning. Finally, Garrido told agent Santos that if he brought "Allissa" into the room, he would tell him why. Agent Santos informed him that he would not do it but Garrido insisted that if he did, he would basically tell him but he wanted her to be in the room. Agent Santos informed Garrido that he would only do so if Garrido told him first, so that he would not drop a "bomb" on her. Garrido then made a spontaneous statement and said,"A long, long, long time ago, I kidnapped and raped her." Agent Santos then asked him whether Garrido knew where her parents were and he said, somewhere in Los Angeles.

Agent Santos then exited the room and relayed that information to Sergeant Hoffman.

During further questioning, Alyssa identified herself as Jaycee Dugard and confirmed that she had been kidnapped and raped by Garrido. Once faced with the reality that her captor had confessed, it took a short while for Alyssa to come to terms with herself that the man she feared had confessed to her kidnapping and rapes. The truth was staring at her. Alyssa could now be Jaycee Lee Dugard and for the first time in 18 years, she stuttered out her name.

Following the revelation, Phillip Garrido, Nancy, Jaycee and the two girls were transported to the CPD to continue the investigation. Agent Santos followed them to the Concord Police station where he met with El Dorado County investigators, the FBI and the CPD detective.

Police officers subsequently arrested Phillip and Nancy Garrido on numerous charges. In subsequent days both Phillip and Nancy Garrido were charged with suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy

Charges against Phillip and Nancy Garrido can be downloaded here and here


Mother and Child Reunion
That morning Alyssa had joined in the trip to the parole office with the intention to provide an alibi for Phillip Garrido. Their relationship was "almost like a marriage". She had existed in those years of captivity living as his 'wife'. Her intention was to accompany him home back to the backyard compound to continue that relationship.

Instead by about 10:00 am, the parole agents and Concord police officers had identified her true identity. By the afternoon, FBI had located her aunt Tina Dugard. From Tina Dugard, they located her mother Terry Probyn who worked at the Riverside School District. At about 4 pm, FBI placed a call to Terry Probyn and Jaycee spoke to her mum for the first time in 18 years.

When news broke about the recovery of Jaycee Dugard, a British photographer, Nick Stern was one of the very first at the house in Walnut Avenue. He jumped the fence and took photographs of the living conditions in those tents and sheds.

That night Jaycee was shown on abc7news getting into a car with FBI agents in front of the Concord Police Station at 1350 Galindo Street. At 2 am the next morning, FBI agents were in the backyard compound of the house in Walnut Avenue. The next morning, she was re-united with her mother Terry Probyn, half sister Shayna and aunt Tina Dugard.



Commentary
The previous evening on Tues, Aug 25 2009, Phillip Garrido was instructed to bring "all that was living with him to the parole office at 0800 hours" the following day. How did Phillip Garrido interpret that instruction? Nancy was certainly living with him and so was his mother, Pat Garrido/Franzen. He had already informed the parole agents that one of the parents had already taken the two younger girls back with him/her that Tuesday evening. So it is a mystery why he brought along Alyssa and the two younger girls with him to the parole office. After all, the two younger girls were not supposed to be in his house and certainly not living with him.


Sexual Rivalry between Nancy and Alyssa?
Perhaps he felt he had to bring the two younger girls since the parole agents were looking for them. Nancy was known to the parole agents as his wife and Pat Garrido/Franzen was his invalid mother living permanently in that house. Other than that anybody else would be just visiting.

Since he was bringing the two younger girls, perhaps Alyssa insisted that she had to be there? Up to Tuesday evening when he was dropped back home by the parole agents, they did not appear to know about the 'older sister' Alyssa. Perhaps Garrido assumed they knew since that information was divulged by Starlit (Scarlett?) to Officer Ally Jacobs and Lisa Brown at the University of California, Berkeley the previous day. Perhaps that was his rationale for bringing Alyssa along just in case it was brought up by the parole agents.

Also perhaps Philip Garrido might not have wanted to leave her behind in the backyard compound on her own although she could have kept Patricia Garrido company in the house. The sexual rivalry between Nancy and Alyssa may have played a part in bringing Alyssa to the parole office.

From Phillip Garrido's response, we know that he was following the 'Alyssa' identity of that of the older sister of Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?). He had used that line the previous day with the parole agents. That would meant that Alyssa had provided truthful information about herself without the knowledge of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. This begged the questions of why? What was her state of mind that morning?

Also we note that when agent Santos turned to Nancy Garrido for the parent information on the two younger girls, Alyssa immediately stated that she was their mother. What was happening here? Was she not supposed to play the part of the older sister? Was it sexual rivalry with Nancy Garrido to drive her to claim the children as her own in the parole office? Or was she trying to provide Phillip Garrido with an alibi?

From the 2 younger girls' perspectives, they would have identified Nancy as their mother and Alyssa as their sister. But being minors, they were not questioned.

Alyssa's claim of being the mother of Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?) had caught agent Santos by surprise. From Ally Jacobs, he had been provided with the information that Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?) were the daughters of Phillip Garrido. He had expected that Alyssa to be the older sister but now he was faced with Alyssa's claim that she was the mother of the 2 younger girls.

Was Alyssa there that morning to provide Phillip Garrido with an alibi? Her relationship with Phillip Garrido was that of his second wife and the mother of the girls Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?). By abandoning the Alyssa identity in that spontaneous moment when agent Santos requested parent information on the two younger girls, she had entrapped Phillip Garrido in his deception. Had she followed the line of Alyssa being the older sister of Angel and Starlit (Scarlett?), the outcome might well be different. By claiming to be the mother of the two younger girls, her intention might have been to deny Nancy that opportunity. But by doing so, she had entrapped Phillip Garrido and herself.

In that backyard compound, she had been denied the opportunity of claiming the children as her own. They had grown up calling Nancy 'mum'. In that parole office, Nancy could not possibly be claiming to be their mother as the parole agents had no record of them having children. What would Nancy Garrido have said if Alyssa had not interjected and claim the children as her own?


Identity
And when Alyssa was asked for verification of her identity, her response was instinctive and true. It was naïve under the circumstances but the truth nevertheless. It was what she had been told years earlier when she assumed the Alyssa identity and also when she acquiesced to be his 'wife'. Not that she had any choice. She was never to give her true identity to anyone. The retribution would be absolute terror. The rapes of earlier years were always in her subconsciousness. It had defined her existence in that backyard compound.

The introduction of the police officers into the parole office introduced new dynamics to the interrogation. Alyssa had no fear of the Concord police officers. She had no experience of dealing with them. The voice of authority in her life for the last 18 years had been Phillip Garrido. He had brutally raped her before. Over the years, he was the father figure, soul mate, sex partner, pimp, protector and her everyday terror and master. But now she felt his strength. The terror that brutalized her was now her protector. She drew strength from knowledge of his capacity for brutality.

She requested his presence when the police officers were interrogating her. She had tried to create an alibi for Phillip Garrido. Instead of cooperating with the police officers, she was instructed to get a lawyer which provided a hint of criminality into the room.

Phillip Garrido knew of a different world. He had been in prison for about 11 years. He respected and feared that authority. He had been in jail before and he knew what the authorities were capable of.

Also perhaps, there was a sense that he could pass one over the parole officer again as he had successfully done the last 18 years. He had brought the whole family with him and he had parked the car by the road expecting a quick session with agent Santos. This time it was to expose them to Alyssa and the 2 younger girls as part of his family once and for all, that they would be accepted like part of his furniture in his home. Officer Ally Jacobs had passed on some pertinent information to agent Santos and for that reason, he separated them from Phillip Garrido. Agent Santos interviewed Alyssa and Garrido and they had given differing stories and identities.

We believed that sexual rivalry for the affection of their man, Phillip Garrido was the dominant reason for Alyssa to claim the children as her own. His affection for the children was genuine and Alyssa knew it. It was through the children that she could be assured of his continuous affection for her.

On that Tuesday night (Aug 25), it had been a warm summer evening. We believe that she had spent a confusing evening alone in her own tent and she was menstruating. That night Phillip Garrido had slept in the house with Nancy. Perhaps, she woke up that morning troubled and roiled with jealousy. Photos taken inside the tent on the afternoon of Aug 26 show the book "Shadow Bridges" by Gregory Frost on the little cabinet. It was most likely the last book she read that night alone in her tent while listening to music (?) from the Walkman with the earplug buds. The clamp-on fan was used throughout that warm summer night.

Due to her captivitiy and isolation, Alyssa did not develop the social skills that would be expected of an adult woman. With her limited knowledge and interaction with the outside world, she was naieve to the point of being simple.

Also due to her captivity at age 11, her mental development could be skewed. Perhaps Alyssa's brain frontal cortex is under-developed due to the trauma of the earlier years and also due to the early childbirth of Angel and Starlit. The brain frontal cortex is where reasoning connects with emotions , enabling her to weigh consequences. Her responses and interaction with agent Santos and the police officers seemed to point towards that possibility. And subsequent to her recovery, her stepfather, Carl Probyn had commented that her emotional age remained at the age of her captivity which was eleven.

Since her recovery, we now understand that she had been conditioned to accept her relationship with Phillip Garrido as "almost like a marriage". That Wednesday could have been the final day of her menstruation and they would have been together that night most likely in the air-conditioned shed to continue that relationship.

Her identity of the abused wife from Minnesota that had been hiding for 5 years from an abusive husband is intriguing. Was that another identity that had been created by Phillip Garrido? Was that her identity as a prostitute that we believed that she had become by then? Since Feb 11, 2010, we learned that Ally Smith was the name of that identity.

Perhaps pain, the strongest of human emotions was a constant reminder in her years in captivity. The questioning was a threat to her identity and her relationship with Phillip Garrido. Phillip Garrido had brutalised her in the past and continued to exert that fear in her life.

In that backyard compound, she was surrounded by the sheds and tents. Those were the very places that was a constant reminder of what could happen to her if she ever crosses Phillip Garrido.

The fear of pain is the most powerful of human emotions. Perhaps it was those memories seared into her sub-consciousness that triggered those agitated responses. The constant fear of retaliation by Phillip Garrido.

What is common with victims of sexual abuse and trauma are they do develop sexual addictions with their abusers. They confused fear with love and sex with love.


Identity Concealment
Her attempts to hide her true identity came as no surprise, said Katherine van Wormer, a social work professor at the University of Northern Iowa who has written about Dugard and other kidnap victims.

"After so many years of psyching themselves up, it's sort of like a denial. It's a survival skill. It became second nature," she said. "She shuts off the part of her mind that would caused her to think in a disloyal way. And she just went along.


Note: The actual vehicle that they travelled to the parole office was not mentioned but was quite likely to be a reddish volkswagen sold to him by Jim Molino of J&M Enterprise. The photos showing the beat-up van was taken from Google Earth. The google vehicle mapping the Garrido neighbourhood in 2007 showed a van exiting the Garrido residence at 1554 Walnut Avenue and proceeded to follow the van all along Walnut Avenue.

Sources
Office of the Inspector General- Special Report on the Supervision of Phillip Garrido
MSNBC News- Jaycee Dugard diary: I want to be free (Feb 11 2010)

Update Feb 11 2010- The latest news (MSNBC) report, court document submitted by the prosecutor revealed that Phillip Garrido was instructed by his parole officer on Aug 25 2009, to bring everyone that lives with him to the parole office the following day.

Update-Feb 11 2010 In the latest news (MSNBC), court submission by the prosecutor revealed the further information about what transpired in the parole office.