New videos, report released in Dugard case
SAN FRANCISCO -- New videos released Tuesday shows the wife of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido luring a girl into the couple's van and asking her to do the splits while she videotapes it, two years after the couple kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard.
The videos were released by El Dorado District Attorney Vern Pierson, with a report highlighting failures in the criminal justice system that allowed Garrido to roam free despite warnings and snatch Dugard off a street in South Lake Tahoe in 1991.
He held her for 18 years, raped her and fathered two children with her while holding her captive in a backyard compound in the town of Antioch.
Pierson said that "law enforcement failed to see Phillip Garrido for what and who he truly is ... evil," and he outlined startling details that show how the enterprising Garrido gamed the parole system.
The report outlines dozens of failures by counselors and psychiatrists, including one in 1994 when it was learned that Garrido wore a prosthetic penis during drug screenings. "Garrido would wear a fake penis and use warm Mountain Dew to fool the urine tests conducted with this counselor," the report said.
Yet his parole was not revoked, and he and wife, Nancy, continued to look for victims.
