I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. I didn't know how I was going to do that, but I did," she said. Dugard remembers the last time she left her family's Tahoe, Calif. She'd packed her peanut butter and jelly lunch, worn her favorite kitty shirt and a butterfly ring given to her by her mother.
And halfway up, my world changed in an instant," Dugard said. Creeping behind Dugard were Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Phillip Garrido rolled down his car window.
My whole body is tingly…I fall back in the bushes," Dugard said. Garrido had shocked her with a stun gun. Panicked, Dugard scooted back towards the woods. She remembers grasping a sticky pinecone, the last thing she touched while free. After shocking her, the Garridos stuffed her into their car, hid her under a blanket in the backseat. When they arrived at their home, Dugard was stripped of her backpack, her pink clothes and her name. Garrido took her to the bathroom and told her she had to be quiet.
Dugard was forced to wear nothing but a towel at first and was locked in a semi-soundproof room that had only one window. Somehow, Phillip Garrido missed the pinky ring her mother had given her. She'd hold onto that ring throughout her captivity. She'd also hold onto the hope that she'd see her mom again. Dugard worried that she'd forget what her mother looked like. She'd keep journals referring to her mother as just "her" because to write "mom" was just too painful.
Her mom, Terry Probyn, carried out a frantic search for her daughter, making tearful pleas on television. She'd continue to hold vigils for her daughter when public interest in the family's plight waned.
You never left me," Probyn told Dugard during the interview. The two women, clinching hands and with their bodies turned toward one another, share a remarkable bond. Timeline: Jaycee Lee Dugard case.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido have waived their right to appeal. Ms Dugard was kept in the backyard of the Garrido home in Antioch, California.
They made no eye contact with Ms Dugard's family. Police mistakes. Published 7 April In a statement released by her spokeswoman, Ms Dugard said: "I'm relieved that Phillip and Nancy Garrido have finally acknowledged their guilt and confessed to their crimes against me and my family. Police in California came under fire after Ms Dugard's discovery and freedom in because Phillip Garrido had a previous conviction for rape, involving an abduction, and was on the sex offenders list.
Ms Dugard was freed after police officers at the University of California at Berkeley saw Garrido on the campus with her and her children and became suspicious.
They contacted Garrido's parole officer and he was detained at a parole hearing. US couple deny Dugard kidnapping. She didn't know how to protect the child, but "I knew I could never let anything happen to her". Dugard spoke on the eve of the publication of a memoir of her captivity, A Stolen Life. Dugard told Sawyer there was "a switch" she had to shut off to emotionally survive her rape and imprisonment. Asked by Sawyer how she stayed sane, Dugard said: "I don't know.
I can't imagine being beaten to death, and you can't imagine being kidnapped and raped. You just do what you have to do to survive. She described walking to the school bus stop on the day of a fifth-grade field trip and being zapped with a stun gun on a South Lake Tahoe street at age
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