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0:01tonight a duel between an 11-year old
0:05girl and a pair of predators there is
0:08life after something tragic
0:11Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapped by a
0:13convicted pedophile handcuffed in prison
0:17his drug fueled binges a man who said he
0:21heard voices in the wall an 11 year old
0:24girl 18 years in hell and over and over
0:27again she would be betrayed by a justice
0:30system supposed to protect her lessons
0:32from a child held prisoner in a maze of
0:34shacks by a deranged pedophile whose
0:37wife would take him to sing at
0:39children's playgrounds
0:43how did she fight her way out of 18
0:46years of mind-control how did you stay
0:49sane to babies born to a child who had
0:52no medical care in a backyard two babies
0:56she loves I felt like I wasn't alone
0:59anymore
1:00that's lenio that was mine
1:04it wasn't alone and tonight we go in
1:08search of the answer how did parole
1:10officers miss her 60 times you'll see
1:14tonight for the first time video
1:15obtained by the prosecutor a parole
1:17officer coming to the sex offenders
1:19house and never rescuing a girl just a
1:22few feet away chris cuomo investigates
1:25mr. Messner we just want to ask you a
1:27question they hear a report their kids
1:30living in a back yard and they're not
1:31curious at all that's what I don't get
1:34it seems impossible to common sense and
1:36there is someone else at the center of
1:38this story a mother with a broken heart
1:41and strength of steel who will never
1:43give up her challenge to law enforcement
1:46tonight and the story of the day her
1:49baby finally comes home I remember
1:52saying come come and I remember telling
1:54you I'm coming baby up comes a stolen
1:57life a child's courage a mother's love
2:00and victory achieved through the power
2:03of indestructible hope
2:05[Music]
2:08good evening so glad you're with us in
2:10her book a stolen life Jaycee Dugard has
2:13a quote from TS Eliot about people who
2:15carry the light of hope in the world who
2:18hold it close and wait wherever the
2:20journey takes them we want to thank all
2:22of you who gathered to watch her story
2:25some of it is harrowing some of it will
2:27make you simply outraged especially when
2:29you see the times law enforcement could
2:31have saved her and did not and at the
2:35Predators who defy understanding but in
2:39the end Jaycee Dugard would find a way
2:41to save herself but the light no one
2:43could extinguish holding on to hope a
2:46mother who would never let go and some
2:49caring and observant strangers who would
2:52make it possible one day for her to call
2:54her mother and say I am Alive I'm coming
2:58home
2:59she was a little girl with a name right
3:02out of a storybook Jaycee Lee Dugard age
3:0511 years old her little sister a cat
3:11named monkey and school and books and
3:13stories and by holding on to the memory
3:15of everything she loved survived and
3:18would triumph after a battle in a
3:20monstrous backyard where a convicted sex
3:24offender let out of prison Phillip
3:25Garrido and his wife Nancy kidnapped her
3:28handcuffed her imprisoned her had her
3:30give birth outside and over and over
3:34again the justice system would fail her
3:36for 18 years she was forbidden to say
3:40her own name so this is how her book a
3:42stolen life begins let's get one thing
3:46straight
3:46my name is JC Lee Dugard I was kidnapped
3:50by a stranger at age 11 and I want
3:53Phillip Garrido to know that I no longer
3:55have to keep his secret I was happy she
3:58is 31 years old she looks impossible
4:03she is also someone who laughs a lot and
4:07has delight in ordinary things on
4:09ordinary days I do Drive I Drive very
4:15safely
4:16you would never know what she survived
4:19oh my painkiller
4:20you notice how her face changes when she
4:23speaks of the past and the charm around
4:25her neck it's a pine crown back then it
4:28was the last thing I touched you know
4:30the last grip on me now it's it's a
4:36symbol of hope and new beginnings and
4:42that there is life after something
4:48tragic and tonight she says this is what
4:50she wants to do she will not speak of
4:52every detail she has written in her book
4:54but lessons of hope and survival and
4:57what it meant to her to have a mother
4:59who would never let go it is June 10th
5:031991 Jaycee Dugard wakes up in this
5:06house in Lake Tahoe California where her
5:08families moved because it's a safe place
5:10to live
5:11she's in the fifth grade and remembers
5:14worrying about the field trip coming up
5:16because she's so shy remembers dressing
5:18in her favorite all pink outfit and she
5:21remembers the mom she absolutely adores
5:24had to leave early for her work as a
5:25typesetter at a print house and didn't
5:28keep a promise she said that she'd give
5:29me a kiss goodbye
5:30and she didn't it wasn't mad I just you
5:34know I thought I'd catch her when I got
5:36home you know tell her you got to give
5:39me a kiss next time you know she also
5:42remembers there was something she had
5:44wanted to ask her mom I wanted to ask my
5:46mom if I could shave for the field trip
5:51she shaved your legs yeah big question
5:54wanna be embarrassed yeah ya didn't
5:58wanna be embarrassed so that was the big
6:01question on my mind she walks up the
6:05hill from the house to catch the school
6:06bus the way her mother taught her
6:08looking out for traffic walked up the
6:10side of the hill it was the safe way to
6:12go against traffic
6:14and halfway up my world changed in an
6:21instant I thought Oh somebody is looking
6:25for directions a gray car pulls up a man
6:28rolls down the window because what else
6:31would it be
6:31and his hand shoots out and I just feel
6:35numb my whole body is tingly I don't
6:38know what it's from I fall back in the
6:41bushes she had been paralyzed by a stun
6:44gun I lost control my bladder
6:47I wasn't even embarrassed no time to be
6:50embarrassed on the ground sharp edges of
6:53a pine cone are the last thing she
6:55touches before she comes to face down on
6:58the floor in the back seat of a car
7:01I remember my throat felt very dry and
7:04Scratchy and like I had been screaming
7:06but I don't remember screaming the man
7:09behind the wheel is Phillip Garrido a
7:11convicted sex offender supposedly
7:13monitored by parole officers and doctors
7:16holding her down on the floor is his
7:18wife Nancy the district attorney
7:20believes Nancy scouted this little girl
7:23for her husband as a prize did they say
7:26anything did you hear anything no not at
7:29first after we were driving for a while
7:31I heard the driver say I can't believe
7:34we got away with it and he started
7:36laughing I think I blacked out again or
7:39something it was like the most horrible
7:44moment of your life times 10 a hundred
7:50and twenty miles later the car stops in
7:52front of this house on a neighborhood
7:54street the Rideau tells her to be quiet
7:57I said you know I think it's probably
7:59one of the only things I said was my
8:03family doesn't have a lot of money they
8:04can't pay the ransom that's what I
8:06kidnapped his ransom right yeah no not
8:12always
8:13he is 40 years old six feet four inches
8:16tall she is 11 four feet six eighty
8:20pounds he takes away the pink clothes
8:23she dressed in that morning the only
8:25thing she has left is a little ring
8:28like a butterfly she will hide from him
8:30for 18 years blanket over her head he
8:34walks her through a small area of grass
8:35toward a fence where an opening is
8:37concealed by a tarp and hidden behind
8:39the fence a deranged collection of sheds
8:41and storage units which the people
8:44monitoring ggarrido
8:45would not search one of them tiny
8:48completely soundproof he leads her
8:51inside and takes out handcuffs said that
8:54they there were the fuzzy kind so they
8:56wouldn't hurt as bad whatever
9:00behind your back yeah there was a pallet
9:03on the floor and then he said he'd be
9:06back later and he shut the studio or the
9:11soundproof door and then the other door
9:14with the lock you heard that
9:17I'll hear it consciously or when I'm
9:22awake just some sounds and smells and
9:26this don't leave you he warns her there
9:29are dogs outside Dobermans they'll
9:31attack if she tries to escape she
9:34notices there's one window covered with
9:36bars and a towel he leaves at one point
9:41you write that you get up and you take
9:43your teeth and you pull a towel I wanted
9:46to see where I was yeah I couldn't use
9:49my hands and there was just weeds and
9:54some kind of fence naked in handcuffs
9:58she drifts in and out of sleep crying I
10:01didn't really want to because then you
10:03can't wipe him away you know then you
10:06get all sticky and you know I mean that
10:10sounds awful you know I tried not to cry
10:12because it I couldn't wipe them away or
10:17you know and then they get itchy and at
10:21one point she made a note to remember
10:23the sound of the train so it would help
10:25her mom find her then later was just
10:28listening to lawnmowers and airplanes
10:34anything for human contact I guess I was
10:40so lonely I
10:41and I felt so alone
10:44have you seen Jaycee Lee Dugard and 120
10:48miles away the mother who loves her and
10:50will never give up goes on television to
10:53make her first plea it's pretty young
10:56innocent child friends have been
10:59searching all day and evening police
11:01started searching the neighborhood
11:02police set up a roadblock and go
11:05door-to-door her classmates are out on
11:07the streets holding up signs and it's
11:09time that she comes home and she's
11:11written that all alone that night she
11:14decided to cling to something that would
11:17sustain her there is moonlight streaming
11:19through the towel it makes her think of
11:22her mother we would always sit on the
11:24porch and we would debate whether the
11:29full moon or the crescent moon was the
11:31better moon I was like the full moon and
11:36she liked the Crescent and just always
11:44made me think of her do you remember the
11:46song you and your mom saying looking at
11:49the moon okay right
11:52you are the moon how does it go okay I
11:55love the moon I see the moon and the
12:00moon sees me
12:01god bless the moon and god bless me when
12:11we come back a mother's search you're
12:14always there I never left me parole
12:17officers doctors who miss what is in
12:19front of them and the story
12:21Jaycee Dugard will tell for all the
12:23victims of sex abuse a story she says is
12:26his shame not hers can't steal anything
12:30else can't steal our love for each other
12:34couldn't take that away and also ahead
12:37the women who save her and the day she
12:40comes home
12:43[Music]
12:45once again Diane Sawyer we want to begin
12:51now with a parental warning for anyone
12:53who might have children in the room and
12:55also with some numbers we should all
12:57know there are 20,000 abductions of
13:00children every year by strangers 99
13:03percent of them will be returned fairly
13:05soon but of the 100 who are held long
13:09term only about a half returned alive
13:12and fewer still have the strength to
13:14bear witness to the reality of what
13:16predators do Jaycee Dugard said she
13:20wanted to write it for all the victims
13:22and as a call to action for judges
13:25psychiatrist parole officers and any of
13:28us who might be able to save a child's
13:30life okay this is Phillip Garrido in a
13:36video obtained by ABC News from the
13:38prosecutors he is singing one of the
13:40songs he wrote he told everyone he was a
13:42musical genius on the verge of a big
13:44break he also calls himself the witness
13:48rambling on about the Bible saying he
13:51was chosen to hear the voices of demon
13:53angels in the walls in the ground and
13:56that he will save the world and doctors
14:00in the parole system know about him he's
14:02even given medication and everything he
14:05does is supposed to be monitored his
14:08first arrest was 1972 for raping a
14:11fourteen-year-old girl who was too
14:12afraid to testify so the case collapsed
14:14five years later in a rented storage
14:17container he raped a woman for eight
14:20hours who managed to escape because of
14:23her he was sentenced to 50 years in
14:25prison but he was released after a
14:28quarter of that sentence was served
14:30later he would even receive a letter of
14:32commendation from the parole board
14:33heralding him for his personal
14:36accomplishment and parole officers would
14:39visit him 60 times at his house and
14:42though they knew his patterns they never
14:45looked hard enough in the back yard to
14:47find a little girl
14:49Jaycee Dugard imprisoned two hours from
14:52her home she didn't know it but she was
14:55in Antioch on the outskirts of
14:57San Francisco it is still that first
15:00week in June 1991 the 11 year old girl
15:03handcuffed arms behind her back is
15:05aching skin rub draw Phillip Garrido is
15:08her only human contact and sometimes
15:11he'll just sit and tell her funny
15:12stories or bring her fast food classic
15:16approach we are told for a pedophile I
15:18depended on him for bathroom food
15:23company you had no water toothbrush no
15:27toilet today no not the toilet toilet
15:31was a bucket well I had handcuffs on so
15:34it was very difficult so she writes in
15:37the book she has no idea what he's
15:39planning to do she's never heard about
15:42sexual abuse had you ever heard the
15:44phrase nope not into boys other than you
15:50know maybe the new kids on the block or
15:52something like that sex was Ken and
15:55Barbie yeah laying together that's what
16:00it was
16:01that's what you thought it was that's
16:03what I thought it was yeah in her book
16:05what she has written is unflinching and
16:07detailed I asked her why she decided to
16:10write it all she said she wanted to do
16:13it for victims of sex abuse who often
16:16keeps secrets along with fear and shame
16:20why not look at it you know stare it
16:23down until it can't scare you anymore
16:26she worked on all this with her
16:28therapist rebecca bailey who specializes
16:30in family reunification after trauma
16:33it is not her shame those things
16:37happened to her they're not who she is
16:40this is the studio that's where I was
16:42first taken I didn't want there to be
16:44any more secrets as we continue we will
16:48not bring you all the details in the
16:50book we said she should only say out
16:52loud what she wants to say she tells us
16:55right after she's kidnapped he forces
16:57her into a shower with him and she's
16:59never seen an unclothed man again she's
17:02just 11 it will be at the end of that
17:05first week that he brings her a
17:07milkshake comes in with the milkshake
17:09and I was getting new
17:10to him coming in but he said things were
17:16gonna be different this time this time
17:18she is still in handcuffs the first time
17:21he rapes her remember crying but they
17:25were silent this tears running down my
17:28face she tells us she remembers seeing a
17:31trail of ants make their way toward the
17:33untouched milkshake
17:34it will continue day after day before I
17:38ate meals I felt like every day I mean I
17:40don't like I said time is hard to judge
17:45but there's a switch that I had to shut
17:48off just go someplace else
17:50this went someplace else at one point he
17:53brings in a TV though she can't see the
17:55news she doesn't know her mother is now
17:58asking neighbors to keep their porch
18:00lights on in case she comes home
18:08or that I can
18:11this is gonna bring her home I know it
18:13in the beginning you could only see QVC
18:17yeah I would fall asleep to the sound of
18:20jewelry being sold but at least it was
18:26talking and she tells us she thinks it
18:30was almost a month and a half later when
18:32ggarrido takes her out of that
18:34soundproof storage unit into a room next
18:36door over here the blue building he
18:40tells her the demon angels those voices
18:43he hears had let him take her because
18:45she will help him with his sexual
18:47problems and again this is a convicted
18:50sex offender still in the care of
18:51court-mandated doctors he had one
18:54appointment three days before he
18:56kidnapped JC and another appointment
18:58four days after but he tells her Society
19:01has ignored him and that's why she is
19:03there that's what I was here for yeah
19:05that's why he got me and if you do it
19:09you would keep other little girls safe
19:11yeah always
19:13yeah protect other people so he didn't
19:16have to go out and do this to anybody
19:17else did you believe that you were
19:20protecting other little girls I think I
19:22did I think on some level I did yeah
19:25he put that stun gun out on a table
19:28where she could see it
19:30he got out equipment for drugs and so
19:32began what he would call runs
19:34drug-filled binges four days in the book
19:37she writes what he forced her to do this
19:40is what she is comfortable telling us
19:42well they were very long usually started
19:46out with you know Eva dress me up for
19:48hours because he was taking
19:52methamphetamines and speed he called it
19:55speed he would get focused on one thing
19:58for long periods of time and then it
20:02usually went to him with his little
20:06books of cutouts that he would cut out
20:09for hours and pasted on little girls
20:12from magazines and porno magazines I
20:16mean then make sense to me at all
20:19but that's what he did and then
20:21sometimes he would make her listen for
20:24the voices
20:25the ones he says he can hear in the
20:27walls and when it's over she says he
20:30sobs he would apologize and that's the
20:35confusing part beg your forgiveness tell
20:38me what an awful man he was you know and
20:42Here I am trying to feeling you know
20:47hurting coz it hurt you know wanting it
20:50to stop and I have to comfort him after
20:55the tears to keep her compliant more
20:58threats once he said he'd sell her to
21:01people who would lock her in a cage she
21:03said she was shaking he would come up
21:05with unknown that would always be more
21:10terrifying than what I knew after you
21:13know I got used to the I don't know if
21:15you ever get used to that but you can
21:18get used to things once I got used to
21:20that it would be the unknown thing that
21:23was two more terrifying than actually
21:25keeping with the rent and doing
21:27something that was at least I knew what
21:29was gonna happen it's when he would
21:32invent new things and and all night long
21:34you would think that's what he was gonna
21:37do I begged him you know I'll do it
21:41better you know I'll be good because it
21:45was the unknown that was terrifying
21:47did you think it was gonna be the rest
21:49of your life it sounded like it and as
21:53the first month passes remember there's
21:55no way she can run the handcuffs the
21:57bolted doors the dogs outside there was
22:01not a day that I didn't cry I felt like
22:04they would never ever be a day that I
22:06wouldn't cry again and then after a
22:10while I told myself I can't cry anymore
22:13what's the most haunting memory that
22:16Locke carrying the lock I know I said
22:19that earlier but or some reason that and
22:23the bed squid was a squeaky bed squeaky
22:29pullout bed
22:32I guess the noise the sounds it's weird
22:37what sticks in your head but it sounds
22:42how did you stay sane I don't know I
22:48still alive was still there are still
22:54hope
22:59still hope I'm trying to imagine how you
23:02are coping I'm trying to imagine I don't
23:06know I can't imagine being beaten to
23:09death you know but and you can't imagine
23:12being kidnapped and and raped you know
23:15so it's just you just do what you have
23:18to do to survive and again she says she
23:22is telling her story so that the
23:23thousands of other survivors of sexual
23:26abuse know that survival is your
23:29strength not your shame it's that TS
23:32Eliot quote you haven't yeah I had hope
23:37thinking I have to hope in something
23:41hope was in the wrong place but
23:45sometimes you just have to hold on to
23:47any kind of hope to survive and there's
23:54one other measure of Jaycee Dugard 'he's
23:55willingness to stare it down stare down
23:58the truth it turns out Phillip Garrido
24:01videotaped what he did to her and the
24:04prosecutors asked her to look at them
24:06she says she did to make sure he had not
24:09kidnapped any other little girls and
24:11every tape was of her next the mother
24:16moving heaven and earth to find her
24:18child and seven months into her
24:21imprisonment someone new enters Jaycee
24:23Dugard room Nancy Garrido Philips wife
24:26together they try to take JC's identity
24:30away and she fights to hold on to it
24:32inside some ways she's just as evil as
24:36Phillip Barry
24:39twisted minds and later throws Momo
24:42investigates the colossal failures of
24:45the justice system mr. Messner we just
24:48want to ask you a question and if you
24:50think you might be witnessing child
24:51abuse there's a number to call on our
24:53website abcnews.com
24:55[Music]
24:59as we resume seven months have now
25:02passed since Jaycee Dugard was taken
25:04from her mother her sister her life
25:06that field trip she worried about long
25:09over her fifth grade classmates have now
25:11graduated elementary school her mother
25:14is still pleading with everyone to keep
25:16on searching for her she is coming home
25:19that gives me a lot of hope a lot of
25:21optimism somebody's you know feeding me
25:23dreams for a reason and by the way her
25:27biological father had left the family
25:29was never in Jaycees life there was a
25:31stepfather but JC was not close to him
25:34two hours away JC is now being moved
25:37back and forth from the soundproof room
25:39to the larger room where she's
25:40handcuffed to the bed her only company a
25:43spider she names Bianca then one day
25:46ggarrido says there's someone he wants
25:48her to meet and he wants them to be
25:50friends she enters the picture yes Nancy
25:55Nancy Garrido is his wife they had met
25:59in a visiting room at Leavenworth prison
26:01he a prisoner there she visiting her
26:04uncle
26:05she had Jehovah's Witness he talked to
26:07her about the Bible she was also in the
26:09car the day Jaycee Dugard was stun
26:11gunned and kidnapped she was the one who
26:13pinned the little girl to the floor with
26:15her legs now she shows up bringing a
26:18purple bear and a Barbie doll and
26:20chocolate milk I was so lonely I craved
26:23any kind of attention I wanted her to
26:26like me because because I felt like if
26:32she doesn't like me then I'm gonna get
26:35in trouble
26:36JC remembers using the cartons for the
26:39chocolate milk to try to make furniture
26:40for her Barbie Nancy starts bringing me
26:43meals there's a TV over there so I could
26:46watch TV as long as it was low she told
26:48you she was sorry
26:51what they've done to you mm-hmm she told
26:53me that means she was she cried too in
26:55some ways she's just as manipulative
26:58because she would cry and say I can't
27:01believe that he did this I wish he would
27:04have got a headache that morning that he
27:05took you and she knew everything yeah
27:08she knew everything everything what
27:11makes somebody do that in the first
27:15place take somebody else's child just to
27:20satisfy your husband I don't know she's
27:22just as evil as Phillip very twisted
27:27minds twisted okay does this a record
27:32still yes good remember the video
27:35obtained by the prosecutors of Phillip
27:38Garrido playing his guitar again he is a
27:41convicted sex offender supposed to be
27:43monitored at times even wearing an ankle
27:45bracelet but here he is singing at a
27:48children's playground and holding the
27:51camera his wife Nancy who will furtively
27:54move it off him away to gather secret
27:57pictures of little girls playing
28:01[Music]
28:03I can see you're really good as we've
28:08said later tonight we will go to law
28:10enforcement and seek answers when they
28:13are arrested Nancy Garrido will also be
28:16charged with kidnapping and raped by
28:18force we remember a moment from the
28:21courtroom Phillip Garrido Nancy Garrido
28:23in a jewelry box separated by their
28:26lawyers and suddenly he looks at her and
28:28mouths the words I love you even as she
28:33kept scouting little girls for her
28:35pedophile husband Nancy Garrido like him
28:38would alternate motherly concern with
28:40coldness and cruelty jealous very
28:43jealous of me for some reason
28:46like I wanted her husband to rape me
28:49very jealous and sick she worked by day
28:55as an aide in a nursing home but when
28:57Phillip Garrido vanished for a month she
28:59replaced him as jailer a whole month
29:02he's gone yeah she said that he was on
29:05an island with a friend but it was
29:08actually sent back to prison for failing
29:11a drug test so it's the two of you yeah
29:15she would lock us in every night she
29:18wanted to watch this scary movie called
29:21the unborn it was awful it was very
29:25scary and then she would leave in the
29:30morning and lock the door and the two of
29:33them also worked together to use JC's
29:35love of animals to manipulate the little
29:37girl giving her kittens that would then
29:40mysteriously vanish well I was Tigger
29:43and then it was snowy oh I don't know
29:47what happened to her another kitten was
29:50named Eclipse a girl kitten JC loves so
29:54much she asked for paper and a pen to
29:56make a little diary she writes how
29:58grateful she was for the little kitten
30:00and how much the Garrido's told her they
30:02paid for her
30:03adding last night I started to cry and
30:05she heard me she came to me and set next
30:08to me and after that I felt a little
30:10better she means more to me than my own
30:13life I see her love for me and every
30:17entry is done
30:17with a little heart on a string like a
30:20balloon the little kitten eclipse would
30:24also disappear during one of kirito's
30:26drug-filled runs and when Garrido
30:30happened to notice that the little girl
30:32had signed her name JC on that journal I
30:35actually wrote my name hmm and I tore it
30:39out right because he said you had to yes
30:43that was the last time the last time for
30:4718 years she'd be allowed to write or
30:50speak her name losing her name and
30:53fighting to hold on to the memory of the
30:55face that is keeping her alive her mom
30:58wanted to see her more than anything and
31:01worried you'd forget where he died
31:04forget as she looked like or what she
31:08sounded like would she forget me would
31:12she want you after this
31:18yeah I mean I mom now you know I know
31:21that she never forgot about me cuz I can
31:24never forget about my kids but you know
31:27when you're a kid and you think you're
31:29easily forget forgettable and and her
31:32mother Terri is also fighting to hold on
31:34as one year passes and then a second
31:37she's alone except for a couple of her
31:40friends well quit their jobs to help her
31:42on TV
31:44she shows Jaycees room untouched since
31:46her disappearance
31:47it's where Terri says she goes to pray
31:50every night even though she's not here
31:52she's still in my heart and when 34
31:55months have passed 1,000 29 days since
31:59Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped the
32:01handcuffs occasionally come off but
32:03she's still always locked in a bolted
32:05room one night the Garrido's are with
32:08her they are watching the 10
32:10commandments on TV for the first time
32:12they bring her cooked food corned beef
32:14and cabbage
32:15it's Easter 1994 and then they tell you
32:19they think you're pregnant yeah four and
32:24a half months pregnant thirteen years
32:27old as we said by now Jaycee Dugard has
32:34been in captivity for 1029 days a sketch
32:38artist tried to imagine the little girl
32:40now entering her teens but those posters
32:44were weather and fall away by now her
32:47mother is holding rummage sales to raise
32:48money for private investigators she is
32:51sending more than a million flyers
32:53across the United States while working
32:55and raising Jaycees little sister Shana
32:57and two hours away in the backyard
33:00Jaycee Dugard is pregnant still bolted
33:02in not allowed to go outside sit in the
33:05Sun or see the sky she learned the link
33:08between sex and pregnancy from TV did
33:11you have any idea what it meant to give
33:12birth no I had never seen it happen
33:16there was this show that he would talk
33:18about a lot growing up baby or something
33:21like that so I watched that and he was
33:23watching birthing videos and just
33:27learned and he said that he would read
33:29up on it
33:31he would do it yeah she makes up little
33:33stories she tells to the baby growing in
33:36her stomach August 18 1994 you're how
33:39old 14 having a baby in a backyard yep I
33:45did she is locked in alone watching dr.
33:49Quinn Medicine Woman when she feels the
33:51first sharp pain you're in labor and
33:53there's nobody there and then knows her
33:56locker yeah I was still yeah loft at
34:00that time just scared
34:04it was terrible pain you know what was
34:07going on
34:07hadn't seen anybody all day she will be
34:10in labor all by herself for hours
34:13finally the Garrido's return they give
34:15her codeine the labor continues for
34:18another 12 hours and with a complication
34:20the baby is still inside her Phillip
34:23Garrido uses his hand to unwrap the
34:26unbel cord from the baby's neck they had
34:29seen that on one of the shows that
34:32that's what you do because she wasn't
34:34coming out so he did that and she came
34:37out and then then I saw her she was
34:44beautiful
34:50I felt like I wasn't alone anymore had
34:58somebody that was mine it wasn't alone
35:10then I knew I could never let anything
35:12happen to her I didn't know how I was
35:18gonna do that but I did
35:22and when ggarrido takes the baby he held
35:27her in a chair and prayed that he would
35:29never hurt her
35:29was it your terror yeah every day three
35:34years later another birth in the
35:36backyard we have a second person to love
35:40and to love me and maybe another little
35:44piece of my mom to hang on to I wanted
35:49to see her more than anything every day
35:51the beginning like I said I would cry
35:55every day and being hardest when I would
35:59think about her and what she was doing
36:01and then trying to convince myself she
36:04was better without me easier you know
36:08she had Shayna but if I wanted her and
36:14for the next two years as doctors
36:17professed to monitor ggarrido along with
36:19all those parole officers who come into
36:21the house Dugard is in the back locked
36:25up in a room with two little girls
36:27taking care of them with what she's
36:29learned from TV breastfeeding first one
36:32than the other
36:33Garrido she writes in the book still
36:35erupts with anger inexplicable rants
36:38about her behavior which she tries to
36:39keep altering to avoid his moods
36:42at other times long lectures about the
36:44Bible how he is the chosen one
36:46and he continues to make her listen to
36:49voices he says he hears with the machine
36:52he is built using plastic cups at what
36:55are Bionic ears and it's like a sound
36:59amplifier and I would have to listen to
37:01the air conditioner sit with the
37:03headphones for hours
37:04tuning in he called it finally when
37:07she's a young mother ggarrido builds a
37:09fence walling off the entire backyard he
37:12gives her a little tent outside she
37:15writes about the first time she can walk
37:17outside I can feel it the Sun warm on my
37:21face and experts who write about
37:23survival say near
37:24all those who make it find some way to
37:26create meaning in the reality of their
37:30days
37:30amid the trash and squalor you planted
37:34yeah a little flowers yeah I like to
37:36garden this was your garden yep
37:40even little flowers inside the tent and
37:43then the girl who once loved books and
37:46stories decides for her girls to create
37:49a little school we had math social
37:51studies English and history was the
37:55other one
37:56you know it's teach them the best I
38:00could I only had a fifth grade education
38:01so my math wasn't my strongest suit in a
38:05secret act of defiance she saves little
38:08scraps of paper and begins writing a
38:10journal she manages to hide from him
38:12sometimes it still sounds like a child I
38:15would live in my own world and I would
38:18have superpowers like the power to heal
38:21people and animals sometimes she wonders
38:24if out in the world there could be a
38:26soul mate for her the physical abuse was
38:29all I knew but things that I saw on
38:32television were so different and you
38:35know I mean I don't know look at this I
38:38would search the world for the top
38:40teachers if I could get out of here and
38:43psychologists and doctors and I would
38:46organize and we would open a free clinic
38:48for homeless people to come and act
38:51without time on my hands to think about
38:54things I would do and then one day
38:57Garrido tells her they need to make
38:59Nancy feel better he has decided that
39:02from now on the girls will call Nancy
39:04their mom they will be told that JC is
39:07just their sister at another point she
39:10writes in her journal I want to be free
39:13to come and go as I please free to say I
39:16have a family free free to have my
39:20family and next the great mystery
39:24why didn't she try to escape
39:28think about taking those two girls and
39:31running
39:31[Music]
39:36whiteness door block but the first time
39:39ever you're seeing a video obtained by
39:41prosecutors of a parole officer going
39:44through the house of convicted sex
39:46offender Phillip Garrido the voice you
39:48hear is Nancy Garrido taunting the
39:50officer what does the Perl agent do for
39:53his parolee mystic man using office and
39:57was disgusted and what you should know
39:59is Jaycee Dugard is just thirty feet
40:02away on another occasion ggarrido
40:04actually lets her into the house she
40:06even has a casual exchange with a parole
40:08officer not daring to say who she was I
40:11actually talked to one of the agents and
40:13the agent proceeded to give Phillip his
40:16urine test and left this made me feel
40:18like didn't really care and as we said
40:2360 times parole officers will come to
40:25Garrido's house and not question what
40:28they are seeing even when a neighbor
40:31called 911 said she had seen girls in
40:34his yard nothing was done at another
40:38point Garrido once had a court-mandated
40:40ankle bracelet if officials had studied
40:43the data which tracks exact movement
40:45they would have seen this a handful of
40:48blue dots in the house but look at all
40:51those red dots what was he doing all
40:53that time in the yard chris cuomo
40:58investigates their inaction later and so
41:01more and more years go by summers
41:04fall/winter Jaycee Dugard 'he's little
41:06friends from the fifth grade are now
41:08entering college she has been told to
41:11take a new name how are you I was Alyssa
41:15I like that the actor Alyssa Milano and
41:18who's the boss and I couldn't be JC so
41:23picked another name and by 1999 the
41:26greedo's feel so confident no one will
41:29find her they all go out to a kind of
41:31carnival called the corn fest
41:34we got actual news photos of the crowd
41:38that day she's nineteen forty thousand
41:41people are there at any of them heard of
41:44her seen the Flyers we poured over them
41:46hoping she'd be there in plain sight we
41:50didn't find her and who were you inside
41:52when you would be out among people
41:54hiding afraid I'm gonna make a mistake
41:57and do something wrong and no one seemed
42:00to see you no nobody noticed she said by
42:04then she'd gained weight and her blond
42:06hair had turned brown did you know that
42:08there was a an artist attempt to imagine
42:13what you look like
42:15what do you think I don't think that
42:17looks like me
42:20which brings us to one of the great
42:22mysteries of human behavior if she was
42:24out in the world
42:26why didn't she run what was the
42:28psychological stun-gun that paralyzed
42:31her action even when the doors were
42:33unlocked classic classic manipulation
42:38being responsible for everything from
42:41time to food to human companionship and
42:44you see it over and over again you do
42:48see it over and over again
42:49her therapist Rebecca Bailey says what
42:52happened is not Stockholm Syndrome but a
42:54kind of coping an adaptive helplessness
42:57it comes with years of abuse when the
43:00emotional handcuffs become stronger than
43:02the tangible ones in the hands of a
43:04predatory expert he was a mastermind and
43:07in his narcissism was able to weave
43:13people into believing his stories he had
43:16a prior rape in which he had held a
43:18woman captive and was able to talk a
43:21police officer away from the sight
43:24convinced initially the police officer
43:28that this naked woman screaming was in
43:30fact enjoying being with him after the
43:34children were born Burrito stopped the
43:37sexual relationship did you think of him
43:39as father father to the kids know
43:43somebody who and always knew what
43:47I depended on him for everything and it
43:49seems you can almost see something in
43:51her face when she tries to go back to
43:53that time searching for reasons to just
43:56think about taking those two girls and
43:59running I'm sure I did but it wasn't
44:04something I felt I could do because the
44:08situation felt like it wasn't an option
44:15found a house to explain it there was no
44:20leaving what would it have taken for you
44:24to believe you could leave I've asked
44:27myself that question many times the mind
44:30manipulation plus the physical abuse I
44:35suffered in the beginning there was no
44:38leaving maybe if one of the girls were
44:41being hurt and everyone who thinks that
44:44that the total impulse would just scoop
44:47them up to run doesen't they were safe I
44:50was being told that the outside world
44:52was dangerous
44:54ironically enough filled with rapists
44:57yeah pedophiles I couldn't protect them
44:59out there I it's like what I knew was
45:04safe the unknown that was out there was
45:08terrifying
45:09especially when thinking about the girls
45:13you can see it at her journal she writes
45:15about her fear and wonders how she could
45:18live survive on the outside he helped
45:22her to believe if he was the only person
45:25that she could be safe with she had
45:28parole officers coming to the house
45:30right now searching the house and at
45:32some point it's logical to assume you
45:34would say does anybody even know that
45:36I'm here or even care that I'm here and
45:39even when she is now in her 20s burrito
45:42has started a printing business JC is
45:44designing cards and invitation on a
45:46computer with internet her mother on her
45:49mind her hands still unable to move he
45:53said that the computer keeps track of
45:55all that stuff and he could see that
45:58I'm having my clicks a couple of clicks
46:01but you never I never did it
46:04something always held me back it was
46:07like I still had those handcuffs on do
46:09you think you'll ever understand it why
46:12you didn't leave
46:13didn't think so in fact after she was
46:16found one of her first questions to her
46:18therapist was is he crazy or am i but
46:22the real miracle is that even as Jaycee
46:24Dugard was drowning in the undertow of
46:26ggarrido and his control
46:28she kept clinging fiercely to fading
46:31memories of mother love and hope she
46:35kept her hope I don't know how she did
46:39that you know how did I keep my hope how
46:40does she keep her hope and look again at
46:43those little secret journals she makes a
46:46list of dreams for the future
46:49first thing on the list see my mom see
46:52my mom and ride in a hot-air balloon
46:57still ahead the impossible happens to
47:00campus cops do what an entire federal
47:02bureaucracy had failed to do they will
47:05make the move that will catch two
47:07predators and save a life Jaycee Dugard
47:10after 18 years is about to hear her
47:13mother's voice I'm so happy I'm so happy
47:16[Music]
47:19it has now been 18 years Phillip Garrido
47:22is increasingly taking his delusions
47:25public he decides to go proselytized on
47:27the campus of UC Berkeley and take his
47:30daughter's with him thinking they'll
47:32draw more attention to his grandiose
47:34ideas and there are two people who do
47:37pay attention who would have thought
47:39after all the outrageous carelessness by
47:42law enforcement to campus police women
47:45will be the gladiators who step in at UC
47:52Berkeley Phillip Garrido is posting
47:53flyers about his wild religious beliefs
47:56all around the campus with him two young
47:59women who seem withdrawn not happy and
48:02after 18 years of law enforcement
48:05inertia it would be campus police
48:07officers Lisa Campbell and officer Allie
48:10Jacobs who say they simply didn't like
48:13what they saw one of the main things
48:15with me was the concern for that for the
48:17girls from him on their standpoint they
48:19weren't giving me any kind of sign that
48:21they were in trouble but yet I felt that
48:24they were we knew that he was way out
48:26there but we just didn't know what we
48:27had no way of envisioning that it would
48:29be as big as it was the two women
48:31engaged Garrido and conversation
48:33pretending to be interested in his
48:35delusional rant and as soon as they
48:37could
48:37ran to check who he was they discovered
48:40in horror is a sex offender and I'm
48:42thinking he's on parole he's huge and
48:46he's got this record this this violent
48:48record this is not gonna be good
48:50mother's instinct female intuition and
48:53cops just plain doing their job just how
48:57incredible it is that they spoke up
48:59about something they thought was wrong
49:01even if they would have been wrong they
49:03still spoke up and they saved us
49:07something they couldn't do for myself
49:09by this time August 2009 Jaycee Dugard
49:12had long since stopped looking at the
49:14moon as she used to do with her mother
49:16it was just too painful but mysteriously
49:19this
49:20for some reason I looked up and the moon
49:23was just bright and beautiful and 120
49:30miles away someone else has also grown
49:3318 years older eighteen years of
49:36searching suffering struggling to hold
49:39on to hope Jaycee Dugard 'he's mother
49:41also looks up i had gone to my second
49:45job and got home about 8:30 9 o'clock
49:50and i was tired and hungry and wore out
49:52and i remember looking up at the moon
49:55and I said ok Jace where are you where
50:00the hell are you on August 26
50:02parole officers will summon Phillip
50:05Garrido to come in his family comes with
50:08him but there's a problem a frightened
50:10do guard keep sticking to the script
50:12Garrido has given her and keeps saying
50:13her name is Alyssa the family is
50:16separated the questioning continues and
50:19surprisingly late in the day the first
50:22person to crack is Phillip Garrido
50:24himself for some reason he confesses to
50:27kidnapping it's not clear who
50:30as he leaves he first winks at her and
50:34then with dead eyes says a non-lawyer
50:37and it's at this point a police officer
50:40takes her aside and asks her kindly
50:43repeatedly who are you what's your name
50:48here from her book is what happens next
50:52she asked for my name again I said I
50:55couldn't say it I wasn't trying to be
50:57difficult I told her I hadn't said it in
50:5918 years I told her I would write it
51:02down and that's what I did you are
51:07looking at the piece of paper on which
51:09Jaycee Dugard shakily finally wrote the
51:14letters of her name
51:17Jaycee Lee Dugard it was she says like
51:21freaking an evil spell your name my name
51:27and it was like
51:29[Music]
51:31like a piece of me came back and the
51:34flame that had been extinguished
51:36immediately they ignites and they're
51:41like you can see your mom and I like I
51:43can I can see my mom it was like a
51:48question to them you know I can you're
51:51at the office
51:52the phone rings unbelievable absolutely
51:55unbelievable and then it was disbelief I
51:58thought no you're joking
51:59don't don't do this to me this is not
52:01funny and I remember you shouting and I
52:10was crying you know and you're crying
52:11you can't speak oh I just said come
52:15quick I remember saying come come and I
52:18remember telling you I'm coming baby I'm
52:20coming and then I said I said something
52:25about having babies I didn't mean I had
52:27babies and then I had had babies it was
52:30I didn't know what to say
52:31it was like unbelievable and when you
52:34heard she has a daughter baby so I'm
52:36thinking babies okay I can deal with
52:40this those babies were by now 15 and 11
52:45the first night the police officer let
52:48them stay in a motel JC wants her mother
52:50and sister so much she can't sleep I
52:53woke the girls up at night I said I'm so
52:57happy I was so happy like I can't wait
52:59anymore I don't care if they're sleeping
53:01in so I ran down the hall I forgot the
53:03motel key I walk there they're so happy
53:05I'm so happy so happy and stunningly
53:10even now two years later with all that
53:13time loss she insists life is too short
53:15for a moment of bitterness or rage I
53:19don't feel like I have this rage inside
53:20of me that's building why not
53:25how can I refuse to let him have that he
53:29can't have me you mean if you felt rage
53:33it would mean he hadn't won I think I
53:36have enough hate in my heart for the
53:39both of us I hate that he took her life
53:43away and that makes me sad I'm sorry
53:46baby
53:49I hate that he stole our from me he
53:53ripped out a piece of my heart and
54:06he stole my baby
54:12he stole your childhood he stole your
54:15adolescence he's still high school proms
54:17and pictures and memories then but he
54:23didn't get all of me know still to come
54:29Jaycee Dugard victory her daughters the
54:32plans for the future
54:33and the things we can all learn from how
54:36she healed and when we come back they
54:39hear a report their kids living in a
54:40backyard and they're not curious at all
54:42it seems impossible to common sense
54:44Chris Cuomo takes up a mother's
54:47challenge to track down those who let
54:49this happen and to see anything has
54:52changed and there is a question we've
54:57been asking and we suspect you are
54:58asking it 260 visits by parole officers
55:02to the house and no one ever found her
55:04how is it possible the justice system
55:06and the law enforcement system let her
55:08down so badly Chris Cuomo is here now
55:10he's going to investigate justice it is
55:13too important a question to leave
55:15unanswered and when we come back you
55:17will see just how many opportunities
55:19there were to save a stolen life as we
55:24return the story of Jaycee Dugard a
55:26convicted pedophile Phillip Garrido and
55:29his wife Nancy stole her childhood her
55:31name and held her 18 years in a maze of
55:34shacks and tents and as you'll see when
55:38we continue over and over again she
55:40could have been saved how did you stay
55:43sane you just do what you have to do to
55:47survive
55:48two times she will give birth in the
55:50backyard
55:5260 times the parole officers come to the
55:54house and see nothing this is
55:57never-before-seen video of one officer
55:59missing what is right in front of him
56:02[Music]
56:04and now a Chris Cuomo investigation of a
56:07colossal failure mr. Messner we just
56:09want to ask you a question they hear a
56:11report their kids living in a back yard
56:13and they're not curious at all that's
56:15what I don't get it seems impossible to
56:17common sense and what about Jaycee
56:19Dugard life today what does she see when
56:22she looks at her daughter and more from
56:25the mother who wants changes to protect
56:27other families the mother the daughter
56:30who never gave up hope and from a secret
56:33diary a girl gets a chance to do what
56:36she always dreamed good evening once
56:40again I'm Diane Sawyer with Chris Cuomo
56:42and this is the story of Jaycee Dugard a
56:44stolen life and as we continue chris is
56:48going to investigate the cascade of
56:50failures by the system supposed to
56:52protect her Diane in the 18 years that
56:55Jaycee Dugard was held captive there
56:57were so many failures of the American
56:59justice system so many chances to catch
57:01the man who should have been a prisoner
57:03so we set out to find the people
57:05involved we called and wrote them and
57:08when they wouldn't talk to us we found
57:10them and along the way we found video -
57:13that's never been seen parole visits
57:15that were epic failures scenes that will
57:18chill you to the bone
57:20[Music]
57:23Philip and Nancy Garrido are preparing
57:25to make a home movie you will not
57:27believe it looks like the video will
57:31capture Phillip Garrido playing a song
57:33on his guitar but the guitar playing is
57:36just a ruse you look like you're putting
57:39at me look at where they are behind them
57:42is a playground the burritos are there
57:45to get shots of young children to feed
57:48Phillip burritos sick appetites really
57:54good this is going on despite the fact
57:57that Phillip Garrido is supposedly under
57:59the watchful eye of federal parole
58:01officers for his past history of sexual
58:04violence our investigation reveals that
58:08this is a metaphor for decades of
58:11neglect by state and federal parole
58:13officials basically allowing Phillip
58:15Garrido to do as he pleased including
58:18taking Jaycee Dugard prisoner pain felt
58:22most sharply by the one person who never
58:24lost sight of the situation JC's mom how
58:29could anybody with a heart or a
58:31conscience or a soul for that matter
58:34taken innocent child away from its
58:37mother this is the first time Terri
58:40Provins searing words have been heard
58:41outside court the pain and outrage
58:44she spoke directly to the Garrido's a
58:47mother who demands change I'm appalled
58:50I'm I'm disgusted in something needs to
58:54change how much of the outrage goes to
58:58fixing this situation I think that's
59:01what it is I think that's what fuels the
59:04fire the outrage that I have the anger
59:08that I have
59:11burritos terrifying career of sexual
59:13crimes begins in April 1972 Vietnam is
59:18raging students are protesting at UC
59:20Berkeley and just 40 miles away in the
59:23small town of Antioch 21 year old
59:26Phillip Garrido is waging a war of his
59:28own against young women charged with
59:31drugging a 14 year old girl and
59:33repeatedly raping her the case is
59:36dropped after the victim refuses to
59:38testify
59:39leaving Dorito free to strike again and
59:42he does I just started screaming oh my
59:45god oh my god that's him that's the guy
59:48who kidnapped me
59:49news of Garrido's 2009 arrest brought
59:53back a flood of dark memories for Katie
59:55Calloway Hall in November of 1976 Katie
59:59then 25 years old made the terrible
1:00:01mistake of giving a lift to ggarrido
1:00:03outside South Lake Tahoe California what
1:00:07I saw was a very tall slender
1:00:10normal-looking white male he didn't look
1:00:14like what I thought a rapist would look
1:00:16like obviously she was horribly wrong
1:00:20burrito hogtied and handcuffed Katie and
1:00:23drove her over 60 miles to Reno Nevada
1:00:26to a shed at this storage facility where
1:00:28she says he repeatedly raped her over an
1:00:31eight-hour period he had just kind of a
1:00:34faraway look in his eyes he looked at me
1:00:36like I was an object katie was saved
1:00:39when a police officer on patrol noticed
1:00:42a broken lock on the shed and went
1:00:44inside to investigate burrito was soon
1:00:47sentenced to 50 years in federal prison
1:00:49for kidnapping and five years to life in
1:00:52nevada for rape then came the first in a
1:00:56line of system failures after serving
1:00:59just 11 of his 50-year sentence burrito
1:01:02is released after two parole examiner's
1:01:05interview him for reportedly just 35
1:01:07minutes but burrito wasn't a free man
1:01:10yet he must serve his rape sentence in
1:01:13nevada but just eight months later a
1:01:15second failure a Nevada parole board
1:01:18also decides to let ggarrido
1:01:20out of prison the reason not
1:01:23contributing to be
1:01:24menace to the health safety and morals
1:01:27of society these bizarre decisions were
1:01:31made decades ago our phone call lead to
1:01:35dead ends or refusals to comment so we
1:01:38followed the trail to state prison
1:01:40warden Brenda burns who signed off on
1:01:42burritos release we found her in
1:01:45retirement watering her lawn and with a
1:01:48little interest in the dreadful mistakes
1:01:50of the past we want to know why you
1:01:52released Phillip Garrido so early from
1:01:53prison were you surprised when you heard
1:02:05that he kidnapped Jaycee Dugard
1:02:13August 1988 garita walks out of prison a
1:02:17free man but he's now supposedly under
1:02:19intense federal supervision as a high
1:02:22risk offender parole is supposed to be
1:02:25release
1:02:26conditioned on regular check-ins at home
1:02:28and the parole office
1:02:30federal officials actually tour
1:02:33Garrido's house in Antioch discovering
1:02:35the hidden backyard with structures like
1:02:38this eerily similar to the shed where he
1:02:41raped Katie Hall yet no alarms went off
1:02:46just a month after that visit in June of
1:02:491991 ggarrido kidnaps 11 year-old Jaycee
1:02:52Dugard outside her home in South Lake
1:02:54Tahoe California and stashes her in the
1:02:59backyard in that same shed years pass JC
1:03:06gives birth to Garrido's two daughters
1:03:08and yet parole officers remain oblivious
1:03:11to the former Inspector General of
1:03:13California who investigated what went
1:03:16wrong with Garrido's parole this is
1:03:18outrageous a federal parole agent had
1:03:21not only been in the backyard but had
1:03:23been inside what Greedo was calling a
1:03:25soundstage or a soundproof room for
1:03:29recording so they knew it was there so
1:03:31the federal government knew then in
1:03:34March 1999 another major failure after
1:03:38just 11 years of supervision federal
1:03:41probation officials again give Dorito a
1:03:43huge break cutting short his parole for
1:03:46of all things good behavior in this
1:03:49letter
1:03:49senior US probation officer Mark Messner
1:03:52thanks ggarrido for his cooperation over
1:03:55this period of supervision and hopes
1:03:58that he will continue to do well mr.
1:04:01Messner we pay Messner a visit to find
1:04:04out why Garrido's federal parole was cut
1:04:06short given his violent and unstable
1:04:08background mr. Messner we just want to
1:04:11ask you a question Messner drives off
1:04:15without answering our questions could
1:04:17the federal government really ignore a
1:04:19situation like this we sent letters to
1:04:22the head of the US Parole Commission to
1:04:24the United States Attorney General to
1:04:26the congressional Judiciary Committee
1:04:28all asking why the federal government
1:04:30failed so miserably in its oversight of
1:04:34Phillip Garrido we received one response
1:04:37from the US Parole Commission which said
1:04:39it couldn't talk to us because it's
1:04:42still investigating the matter but in
1:04:44fact a federal investigation had already
1:04:46been completed months ago and was kept
1:04:49confidential fortunately just this past
1:04:52Thursday a US District Judge decided to
1:04:55release the report which concluded
1:04:57Garrido's federal probation office did
1:05:00not follow commonly accepted supervision
1:05:02practices and had failed to adequately
1:05:05supervise Phillip Garrido most chilling
1:05:08is this one may fairly question whether
1:05:11ggarrido could have been deterred from
1:05:13the horrendous acts attributed to him
1:05:15had his federal super
1:05:17vision been conducted properly the
1:05:20report goes on to lay out necessary
1:05:21changes but notes that previous
1:05:24recommendations had been ignored they
1:05:26say we're working on it takes time doing
1:05:29our best this is government stuff you
1:05:30don't get it will change on our own time
1:05:33a fitting response from a mother still
1:05:39waiting for answers get any calls from
1:05:41the Federal Bureau of parole and all
1:05:44that the corrections they call you yeah
1:05:46they say sorry no they say we figured it
1:05:50out doing it differently next time
1:05:52no but that will be a battle within
1:05:55itself I need change and I need
1:05:58something to be different and this
1:06:02never-before-seen video will open eyes
1:06:04about how much change is needed
1:06:07come inside Garrido's home during an
1:06:09actual visit with a California parole
1:06:12official you'll see just how close
1:06:16officials got to discovering doritoes
1:06:19secret when we come back find out how
1:06:26many chances
1:06:27authorities had to rescue Jaycee Dugard
1:06:32[Music]
1:06:37this is video california parole
1:06:40officials don't want you to see Phillip
1:06:42Garrido bare chested and brazen leading
1:06:45an officer as he checks out Garrido's
1:06:47house the officers face was blurred by
1:06:50authorities to protect the identity of
1:06:52one of the many who failed to see what
1:06:55was right in front of them okay-y his
1:06:56door block can you move that out and
1:06:58open the door the video is being shot by
1:07:00Garrido's wife Nancy who is helping her
1:07:03husband manipulate the visiting officer
1:07:05what does the parole agent do for his
1:07:08parolees discuss appropriate time during
1:07:13a search if you stay in his front room
1:07:16and I don't have to place you in
1:07:17restraints because right now search in
1:07:19the house tough talk but watch as the
1:07:22officer is distracted by the Garrido's
1:07:24chattering about doing nothing wrong and
1:07:26appears to follow the path burrito lays
1:07:29out
1:07:30doing everything I know it no further
1:07:34questions coming 2.2 coming to the
1:07:36office we won't be in Italy neighbor
1:07:38[ __ ] Jimmy likes it alright both of you
1:07:40guys we can like says he's an arrogant
1:07:42little guy isn't he the officer seems to
1:07:44want to escape the pestering and leaves
1:07:46if he had just walked into the backyard
1:07:49he could have found JC and her two
1:07:52helpless children instead the Garrido's
1:07:55find new confidence that they can evade
1:07:58authorities whenever they want when you
1:08:01look at 18 years of this like all these
1:08:03different tentacles of this system
1:08:06that's supposed to be in this business
1:08:07of watching people like this what are
1:08:10your thoughts on it I think a lot of
1:08:12mistakes were made I think Jase could
1:08:16have been home a lot sooner had somebody
1:08:19cared enough and slowed down to look at
1:08:23the real what was really going on bottom
1:08:25line at every level the people who were
1:08:27supposed to watch burrito failed our
1:08:30investigation reveals that almost no one
1:08:33wants to answer for the fact that
1:08:34officials either didn't know didn't care
1:08:37or didn't act to stop Phillip Garrido
1:08:40and his wife Nancy JC and her kids
1:08:43weren't hidden in some remote hideout
1:08:45they were right behind that fence in
1:08:47that backyard maybe it's not so easily
1:08:49visible but neighbors in 2006 said there
1:08:53were kids living in that backyard and
1:08:54nothing happened and probation officers
1:08:57had 60 home visits but never discovered
1:09:01what was right behind that fence to
1:09:04train law enforcement officers it should
1:09:07have been evident that something was
1:09:08going on out behind the house
1:09:10David Shaw the former California
1:09:11inspector general prepared a scathing
1:09:14115 page report detailing a litany of
1:09:17failures by state parole officials top
1:09:20of the list all the visits with ggarrido
1:09:23by officials each yellow box marks a
1:09:26visit to Garrido's house each one a
1:09:29missed opportunity parole officials
1:09:31never interviewed Garrido's neighbors
1:09:33who had often spotted JC and her two
1:09:36daughters agents also never questioned
1:09:39why there was a network of utility wires
1:09:41connecting the house to the backyard
1:09:43complex
1:09:44burrito was fitted for a GPS device in
1:09:47April 2008 tracking all movements each
1:09:51red dot marks his location in time look
1:09:54at how much time he was spending in the
1:09:56part of the back yard
1:09:57they never searched worst of all says
1:10:00Shaw
1:10:01burrito often explained away reports and
1:10:03sightings of the children in his home by
1:10:06saying they were his brother's children
1:10:08it was very easy to dispel this story
1:10:11that he was telling we called his
1:10:13brother and spoke to his brother and the
1:10:14brother didn't have any children but one
1:10:16phone call hello brother of crazy
1:10:19Phillip Garrido do you have KITT No
1:10:21thank you very much have a good day hang
1:10:23up the phone go and rest Phillip Garrido
1:10:25and find out where the kids are right we
1:10:28thought that an agent could have dug
1:10:30just a little bit deeper and found out
1:10:32that those weren't his brothers children
1:10:34and if not then who do they belong to
1:10:36meanwhile over the years ggarrido
1:10:39apparently descended into madness with
1:10:42wild ideas about hearing angels he even
1:10:45developed a device to channel God's
1:10:47voice Tim Allen a contractor who bought
1:10:50business cards from ggarrido found the
1:10:53signs obvious yeah he would come in here
1:10:55and he was just rambling I would tell
1:10:58the girls hey when you see Phillip come
1:11:00in tell him I'm not here does it
1:11:03surprise you that they didn't pick up on
1:11:04what was going on with him yes it
1:11:07surprises me that they as soon as you
1:11:10would talk to him you would think you
1:11:11know this is a guy that needs some help
1:11:12November 2006 perhaps the most egregious
1:11:16failure of all a neighbor calls 911
1:11:20complains children are living in tents
1:11:22in burritos backyard the caller also
1:11:25describes ggarrido
1:11:26as psychotic with a sexual addiction
1:11:29this time it's not parole officers but a
1:11:32sheriff's deputy who shows up at
1:11:33Garrido's house but after a brief chat
1:11:36the deputy turns and leaves never even
1:11:39bothering to check out the backyard
1:11:41despite the neighbors complained we
1:11:43asked then sheriff Warren Roop what went
1:11:46wrong here they hear a report their kids
1:11:49living in a backyard they're not curious
1:11:51at all yes that's the whole reason he's
1:11:53there is to look for kids in the
1:11:54backyard this comes back to
1:11:58what you know human flaw pilot pilot
1:12:01error
1:12:02I am of the opinion that he should have
1:12:04had the professional curiosity to to
1:12:09push beyond just a conversation on the
1:12:12front porch but how did he explain you
1:12:14talked to this person right I did not
1:12:16talk to this person no as the sheriff
1:12:18you never talked to your deputy about
1:12:19this I did not talk to this person
1:12:21where was your professional curiosity
1:12:22Sheriff when you knew that this was your
1:12:24deputy why didn't you say I want to talk
1:12:25to this guy I want to find out what was
1:12:27going on in his head that he didn't
1:12:29think to go into the backyard the those
1:12:32questions were asked I mean the fact
1:12:34that I did not personally talk to him is
1:12:36not nor should not be seen as a lack of
1:12:39interest or a lack of curiosity but in
1:12:41fact it is symptomatic of the neglect
1:12:43that contributed to Jaycee Dugard 18
1:12:46year nightmare in no small irony the
1:12:49officers who helped capture ggarrido had
1:12:51nothing to do with his probation too
1:12:54suspicious UC Berkeley campus officers
1:12:57checked up on burrito after seeing him
1:12:59on campus with his two daughters and
1:13:01that led to his arrest in JC's rescue
1:13:05all of the forces that came together
1:13:07work together for the good and the
1:13:09result was that we found JC 18 years
1:13:11later with her daughter's alive most
1:13:14importantly on that day was a curiosity
1:13:16that was uncommon in the case of Phillip
1:13:20Garrido the curiosity that it bothered
1:13:23you that the way he was and with these
1:13:26girls didn't work I think that it comes
1:13:29down to life experience you know having
1:13:32that woman's intuition mother's
1:13:33intuition work experience life
1:13:34experience being in the right place at
1:13:36the right time and having all those
1:13:37things is what you know made this happy
1:13:41ending today we are joined by our
1:13:42incredibly after the arrest California
1:13:45parole officials held a press conference
1:13:47to give themselves credit for cracking
1:13:50the case very proud today to report the
1:13:53Department of Corrections and
1:13:54Rehabilitation 's parole division for
1:13:57their work and solving the 18-year old
1:13:58mystery of the disappearance of Jaycee
1:14:01Lee Dugard these officials declined
1:14:04requests to sit in the chair and answer
1:14:07our questions however the former
1:14:09inspector general's report painted a
1:14:10very
1:14:11different picture of their actions an
1:14:13abject failure that demanded not
1:14:16celebration but major reform in
1:14:18California's parole system people have
1:14:21described the Jaycee Dugard case for the
1:14:24state system as the 911 of homeland
1:14:27security that this was the big thing
1:14:30that we should have seen coming
1:14:31everything must change fair analysis I
1:14:34think it's a it's a decent analogy
1:14:36clearly it woke everyone up in the
1:14:39system that something like this could go
1:14:41on with an offender who I think largely
1:14:44we had ignored in law enforcement in the
1:14:47wake of the do guard case California
1:14:49says changes have been made in line with
1:14:51Shaw's report such as criminal
1:14:54background information being available
1:14:55to all law enforcement and specific
1:14:59training for how to check thoroughly on
1:15:01all sex offenders the state also paid 20
1:15:05million dollars to the do guard family
1:15:06to settle a claim that it had failed to
1:15:09properly supervise ggarrido but money is
1:15:12not what the do guards want there's a
1:15:15settlement was that enough feel better
1:15:17now know what matters more well can't
1:15:21you put a price on the 18 years that I
1:15:25lost with her the crap she went through
1:15:30nobody can put a price up it's not good
1:15:36enough that the Garrido's are behind
1:15:38bars and will never see the light of day
1:15:42again it's not good enough for talent to
1:15:46tell me that a change is coming the
1:15:52battles just begun and as you well know
1:15:57Diane Terry is just the woman to take on
1:15:59this fight and I want everyone to see
1:16:01this family today here's what's coming
1:16:04up when we come back
1:16:08[Music]
1:16:11[Applause]
1:16:18[Music]
1:16:26Jaycee Dugard says you can redeem 18
1:16:29years of stolen life and return from a
1:16:33chamber of horrors for body and mind
1:16:37two years after her return she says she
1:16:39knows it's better to laugh and cry and
1:16:42only fry and as we said she loves that
1:16:47it was her little sister Shana now 21
1:16:49who had to teach her how to drive so
1:16:53tell me about learning to drive I Drive
1:16:57I Drive very safely I go to park and I
1:17:03get out I'm like oh god I did really
1:17:04good and my mom was like but look are
1:17:07you packed and I was like taking two
1:17:08spaces she even makes a ride joke about
1:17:11her impossibly young skin saying how
1:17:14about years of no Sun yeah it's how to
1:17:18preserve yourself that's the kind of
1:17:21humor I used to you know goodbye she
1:17:26continues to receive therapy from
1:17:28Rebecca Bailey a specialist in family
1:17:30reunification Bailey teaches one way to
1:17:33vanquish the past is gratitude for the
1:17:36pleasures of the present a it's just
1:17:41remembering that you get to make dinner
1:17:42with a family and have real food instead
1:17:45of fast food and nature
1:17:48[Applause]
1:17:49voices she cares for them as part of her
1:17:52therapy mystical tangible symbols of
1:17:56trust animals don't lie I mean maybe I
1:18:00believe in a higher power but I believe
1:18:03in nature and what we see around us as
1:18:06healing you know and yes she is
1:18:09remarkable I'm not I will I will give
1:18:11that I'm confident that the community
1:18:16and the support that she has put around
1:18:19her since she has come out will carry
1:18:22her through whatever bumps in the road
1:18:26she hits and I think she has a lot to
1:18:29teach all of us she's even creating a
1:18:31foundation with some of the money the
1:18:33state gave her to help all members of
1:18:35families after trauma when something
1:18:38happens they don't think about the whole
1:18:40family like there's a sister and there's
1:18:42a mother and there's other components
1:18:45it's not just the victim if you go
1:18:47online and you can find the foundation
1:18:49with JC's symbol the pinecone charm
1:18:52Diane
1:18:54you know I want to give you this with
1:19:00[Music]
1:19:06and the girl who loves words and
1:19:09metaphors says maybe a GED even college
1:19:13and I asked her about something she
1:19:15wrote in a journal when she was captive
1:19:17something that ended with happily ever
1:19:20after I want to find love one day the
1:19:22kind of love I read about okay still
1:19:26want that I don't know I don't really
1:19:28think about it I'm happy the way my life
1:19:30is now I mean if it happens it happens
1:19:32if it doesn't I'll still be happy but it
1:19:38doesn't seem impossible after what
1:19:40you've been through now it doesn't seem
1:19:42impossible I think that the prediction
1:19:45of the future is not in my job but I
1:19:47will tell you that whether there's a man
1:19:51in her life or not this woman will love
1:19:54fully in her life he has certainly
1:19:58infused fear and he has certainly I'm
1:20:00not gonna sugarcoat it there are things
1:20:02that he has taken away from her that she
1:20:05will never have back or get back but she
1:20:08has her daughters whom she loves she is
1:20:11very protective of their privacy and
1:20:14will say only that they're healthy happy
1:20:16wonderful students in fact so confident
1:20:19heading off to school one of them said
1:20:20to her mom you're making me nervous
1:20:22she also says they can make their own
1:20:25decision about whether to read the book
1:20:27but they know what happened their dad
1:20:29did strange things and they knew it they
1:20:31lived that way for so long then I don't
1:20:35really think it was that big of a shock
1:20:37to them because they knew their dad it's
1:20:42interesting to hear you call him their
1:20:44dad he is what he is when you see his
1:20:48expressions if it's startling in your
1:20:51daughter's surprisingly I don't see it
1:20:53in them I see my mom
1:20:56I see me I don't see him but she admits
1:21:03at the beginning she was worried that
1:21:05her own mom would have trouble
1:21:07children fathered by that man I don't
1:21:10see him in my granddaughters no it is
1:21:14not there they are who they are
1:21:16and they are so beautiful and I'm very
1:21:21proud to be a grandma I love those girls
1:21:26with all my heart you don't even have to
1:21:31ask that baby
1:21:36no they're mine and where are the
1:21:44Garrido's they pled guilty Nancy Garrido
1:21:46sentenced to 34 years Jaycee Dugard went
1:21:50to see her was unmoved by her tears and
1:21:53closed the door on her forever
1:21:55and as we said Phillip Garrido was
1:21:57sentenced to four hundred and thirty one
1:21:58years he sits on the same prison row as
1:22:01Charles Manson in isolation in a tiny
1:22:04cell with a window covered with bars if
1:22:09he is watching this if he sees this is
1:22:14there anything more either of you wants
1:22:17to say to him
1:22:18can't steal anything else can't steal
1:22:22our love for each other no couldn't take
1:22:26that away so in the battle between good
1:22:30and evil Goodwin Goodwin's yep
1:22:37before we left Harry wanted to send a
1:22:39message to you about a morning more than
1:22:4118 years ago when her little girl asked
1:22:44for a morning kiss I had been late to
1:22:47work three Monday mornings in a row and
1:22:50I was focused on myself trying to get
1:22:54myself out that door so I wouldn't be
1:22:56late for work and I chose not to go in
1:23:00and kiss my girls goodbye that morning
1:23:04wanting to be on time
1:23:11for 18 years I kick myself for not
1:23:16kissing that baby goodbye how could you
1:23:20have no no you can't beat yourself up
1:23:22about that no but it's a good lesson you
1:23:30know take a minute for your kids
1:23:34do that
1:23:36extra thing may be an inconvenience to
1:23:41you but is important to them
1:23:44[Music]
1:23:46I am so lucky and blessed for all the
1:23:49wonderful things that I do have life is
1:23:52too short to think about all the things
1:23:53you don't have I had my girls to give me
1:23:57strength and my cats to keep me warm at
1:23:59night and perhaps deep inside the dim
1:24:02hope of seeing my mom again even if it
1:24:05is just one thing or person you have to
1:24:07be thankful for
1:24:09that is enough you're excited very
1:24:15scared and out of her journals in
1:24:17captivity that list of impossible dreams
1:24:20[Music]
1:24:23her final words live each day to the
1:24:26fullest whatever Life brings you so
1:24:31peaceful
1:24:31[Music]
1:24:40once again so glad you watched tonight
1:24:43and we hope it's a wonderful week for
1:24:45you and to all in your family and JC
1:24:48thank you as promised here it is good
1:24:53night

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