Calif. woman describes how she survived captivity

The moment parole officers came within feet of Jaycee Dugard and did nothing is revealed in emotional first ever interview

By Amy Oliver

Last updated at 6:38 AM on 11th July 2011

This is the heartbreaking moment parole officers came within feet of discovering Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was trapped in a makeshift shed in her kidnapper's back yard.
The grainy footage, shot by Phillip Garrido's wife Nancy, was revealed for the first time tonight during Jaycee's first ever interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.
The now 31-year-old was tearful yet determined as she recounted the 18 years of sheer hell she endured at the hands of the Garridos after they shot her with a stun gun and kidnapped her in 1991.

How did this happen? A parole officer, left, can be seen next to Philip Garrido, right, as he searches the rapist's home. But he fails to look in the back yard

Tragic: If he had he would have discovered Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two daughters living in a makeshift shed at the bottom of the Garridos' garden

She spoke of being handcuffed and endlessly raped by Garrido. How she could still hear the camp bed squeaking and the pain of the abuse.

She talked of the two 'beautiful' children - Garrido's children - she gave birth to without medical assistance and the ache for her mother that never went away.

But she also spoke of hope, her future and how the Garridos would never be able to hurt her again.

Questions: The video, shot by Nancy Garrido herself, and seen for the first time during Jaycee's first ever interview, will shock parents. It will shock everyone and raise the question how was this allowed to happen?

Walking away: The agitated parole officers head up the path to leave without even stepping foot in the Garridos' back garden

Perhaps the most extraordinary part of the two-hour long interview was how badly the authorities failed Jaycee.
Parole officers visited the Garridos' house no less than 60 times over the 18 years they held Jaycee, but never once discovered the shocking secret the convicted rapist housed in his back garden.
The home video of the officers visiting the squalid house in San Francisco, 120 miles away from Jaycee's own home and her distraught mother Terry, will shock parents. It will shock everyone and will raise the question: how was this allowed to happen?

Emotional: A visibly moved Sawyer spent much of the two-hour interview in disbelief as she listened to Jaycee talk about being endlessly raped by Garrido, the horrific sound of the squeaky camp bed and giving birth to her daughters without medical assistance

Never let me go: Jaycee chatted openly with her mother Terry about the moment she heard her voice after 18 years and the life they have had to rebuild

Garrido, in an open shirt can be heard trying to distract the officers as they attempt to search the property, tipped off by a neighbour who said she had seen children living in a tent in the backyard and who also described Garrido as 'psychotic.'
Nancy Garrido can even be heard asking the officer where a parole agent goes when he's on parole, while her husband plays innocent: ‘I don’t understand’ he can be heard saying. ‘No one’s ever talked to me like that.’
The officers, agitated by the pestering threaten to put Nancy in restraints, but fall foul of the couple's manipulative tactics and walk out of the door without even going into the back yard.

Set up: One of the ramshackle huts and sheds that lined the Garridos' backyard housed their guilty secret, but even when a neighbour voiced her concerns the police did nothing

Clear evidence: Look at the red dots. They indicate Garrido's movements during the period he wore an ankle bracelet. The map shows he spent an awful lot of time in his backyard - in those sheds. Why didn't parole officers check them out?

If only they had. If only they had become curious enough, they would have discovered Jaycee and her two daughters.
On another occasion a parole officer actually talked to Jaycee herself, but didn't seem to recognise her or think anything of the situation.
'It made me feel like he didn’t really care,' Jaycee told Diane Sawyer.
At some point Garrido also wore an ankle bracelet that tracked his movements throughout the house and backyard.

Something not right: It was Allison Jacobs, left, and Lisa Campbell, right, two University of California officers, who had spotted Garrido preaching on campus alongside two, 'withdrawn' girls. They had a feeling - maybe a mother's intuition - that the picture wasn't right and raised the alarm

Breaking through: Parole officers called Garrido in along with his 'daughters.' When Jaycee couldn't tell them her name because she hadn't said it for 18 years, she wrote it instead on this piece of paper

A police map shows he spent an awful lot of time out the back in those outbuildings, yet officers never became suspicious.
Jaycee wouldn't be discovered until 2009, after two plucky female university officers - mothers themselves - who were nothing to do with Garrido's parole raised the alarm after witnessing the rapist preaching at the University of California, Berkeley campus.
He had two girls with him who looked 'withdrawn'. Lisa Campbell and Allison Jacobs had a feeling - maybe a mother's intuition - that something wasn't right about the picture.

Evil: Nancy and Philip Garrido had shot Jaycee with a stun gun before hauling her into their car and whisking her 120 miles away from her mother's home

Haunting: Jaycee recalled how she was dependent on Garrido, left, for everything: the bathroom, eating - company even during the time of her captivity he kept her handcuffed

Garrido was called in to a parole meeting. He brought along all three of his 'daughters' and was the first to crack, admitting he had kidnapped a girl but not revealing her name.
It took the investigating officers an age to get the name out of Jaycee too.
In her book A Stolen Life, she recalls: ‘She asked for my name again, I said I couldn’t say it I wasn’t trying to be difficult I hadn’t said it in 18 years.’
She then wrote it on a piece of paper.

Keepsake: Jaycee was stripped naked on arrival at the Garridos but managed to hide a butterfly ring which she kept for the entire period of her captivity

Never forget: Jaycee also wears a silver pine cone charm on a necklace - a symbol of the last thing she touched before passing out and being bundled into the Garridos' car

'My name,' Jaycee said in tonight's interview. 'It was like like a piece of me came back.'
She remains forever grateful to the two female officers for having the courage to do something.
‘Just how incredible it is that they spoke up about something they thought was wrong,’ Jaycee said.
‘They saved us,' she added. 'Something I couldn’t do myself.’
She had been just 11 - a fifth grader - on that fateful June 10 day in 1991. She had been on her way to school, pre-occupied with two thoughts.

Hope: Jaycee's mother Terry, seen left during a vigil just after her daughter's disappearance, and right, in tonight's interview, never gave up hope of finding her alive

Emotional: Her one regret, Terry said, was not finding time to kiss her daughter goodbye that dreadful morning. Something to would think about every day for 18 years

One, how her mother hadn't kissed her goodbye as she had promised - something Terry would regret for the next 18 years.
And two, how she had to ask her mother if she could shave her legs for an upcoming field trip.
'I didn't want to be embarrassed,' Jaycee told Diane Sawyer. 'That was the big question on my mind.'
She remembers going half way up the hill where her 'world changed in an instant.'
'I thought it was somebody looking for directions,' Jaycee said of Garrido slowing down to talk to her.
'His hand shot out and my whole body feels numb,' she recalled, her face blank. 'I fall back in the bushes. I lost control of my bladder.'

Languishing: Both Phillip and Nancy Garrido are now in jail. The District Attorney suggested Nancy had been scouting girls for her husband and had come across Jaycee

The sharp edges of a pine cone are the last thing she remembers touching before waking up face down on the floor of a car, a foot belong to Nancy Garrido pinning her there.
'I remember having a dry throat like I'd been screaming,' Jaycee said before remembering Garrido laughing and saying: 'I can't believe we got away with it.'
'It was the most horrible moment of your life times ten,' she said.
They eventually came to a stop at a house that Garrido pulls her into.
'I said "My family doesn't have a lot of money, they can't pay the ransom,"' Jaycee recalls shaking her head at the now absurd prospect that all the Garridos' wanted was money.

Heartbreaking: Terry kept her daughter's room the same, her teddies, her dolls and her awards growing older without her

It IS worth looking: Local children joined in the hunt for Jaycee. Friends of the family even gave up their jobs in order to commit themselves to the task full time

After stripping her of her clothes Garrido escorts her to the backyard and the series of sheds. He handcuffed her inside one that was soundproof and had an outer door with a lock.
Garrido told Jaycee the handcuffs 'were the fuzzy kind so they wouldn't hurt as bad. There was a pallet on the the floor; he said he would be back later,' she adds before recalling the horrific sound that still fills her with dread to this day.
'I can still hear the sound of the door locking,' Jaycee said with a shudder.
'Did you cry?' Sawyer asked?
'I tried not to cry because I couldn't wipe them (the tears) away,' Jaycee replied. 'I was so lonely, I felt so alone.'
There was one window in her 'cell' and out of that were only weeds and trees by day. But at night the moonlight would stream in and remind Jaycee of her mother.Read more...