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Kidnap Suspect: Real Story 'Heartwarming'

'It's a disgusting thing that took place with me,' Phillip Garrido says in jailhouse interview

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 27, 2009 9:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – “It’s a disgusting thing that took place with me,” the man arrested in the 18-year abduction of a California girl tells KRCA-TV in a jailhouse interview. “Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house,” says Phillip Garrido, 58, of the case surrounding Jaycee Dugard. “You are going to be completely impressed.”

“What’s kept me busy the last several years is I’ve completely turned my life around,” Garrido said of finding religion. “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 heartwarming story.”

Google Maps' view of the backyard compound where Dugard and her daughters were allegedly kept.
Google Maps' view of the backyard compound where Dugard and her daughters were allegedly kept.   (Google Maps)
Jaycee Dugard, in 1991; Phillip Garrido's mugshot.
Jaycee Dugard, in 1991; Phillip Garrido's mugshot.   (AP Photos)
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prowlerzee
Aug 31, 2009 11:20 AM CDT
You mean like Ubermann, hwoodude, who wanted some guy to take Hillary into a room and only he come out? I thumbed up you too soon! But nice try!
boubou
Aug 29, 2009 12:31 PM CDT
own medicine. Why is it that these pedophiles get protective custody, or the "needle"? No wonder it keeps going on. Throw them in general population, let them feel a little terror, although this terror will never even come close to this little girl. God bless her, my heart aches big time for her.
youngblood
Aug 29, 2009 6:35 AM CDT
Lock him up and this time don't let him out in 10 years!!

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