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Garrido Turned Me Into Zombie: Victim

His attacks on a child had to be far, far worse, Katie Callaway Hall laments

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(Newser) – News that Philip Garrido had struck again horrified the woman he kidnapped and raped in 1976, CNN reports. "I started screaming 'Oh my god, it's him,'" Katie Callaway Hall told Larry King. Hall says she was permanently traumatized when Garrido attacked her as she was handcuffed naked in a warehouse. "I thought I was dead. He changed my life in an instant. For years I walked around like a zombie," she said.

"I can't imagine what Jaycee is going through," Hall wrote for a Larry King blog. "He had me for 8 hours. He had her for 18 years." Garrido was sentenced to 50 years for the attack but was released after 10. Garrido's first wife, Christine Murphy, told Inside Edition last night that Garrido was a "monster" who repeatedly abused her, once trying to dig out her eyes with a safety pin after another man flirted with her.

Phillip Garrido's mug shot and background, posted on the web site of California attorney general.
Phillip Garrido's mug shot and background, posted on the web site of California attorney general.   (AP Photo/California Attorney General)
Phillip Garrido's mug shot, taken by by the El Dorado County, Calif., Sheriff's office.
Phillip Garrido's mug shot, taken by by the El Dorado County, Calif., Sheriff's office.   (AP Photo/El Dorado County Sheriffs)
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He changed my life in an instant. I don't feel like I can ever be that person again. Being victimized is something that only a victim can understand. I hate that he did this to me, and I doubt I'll ever get over it.
- Katie Callaway Hall

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ryderbackside
Sep 1, 09 2:48 AM CDT
Deterrents? Castrate him, dig out his eyes with a pin. Reply
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UrUndertaker
Sep 1, 09 7:03 AM CDT
castration is ineffective and blindness would make him even more evil....death awaits this one but to bad it is to slow in it's travels
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freethemall
Sep 1, 09 3:36 PM CDT
@ UrUndertaker: Why do you say castration is ineffective? That's what they do to control no human animals. None humans who are a danger to humans are euthanized, if castration doesn't do the trick. I say the same approach should be applied to human animals. Not for revenge or punishment, but for the protection of the public at large.
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Mad
Sep 1, 09 5:08 PM CDT
Castration does not work because it does not stop the desire to rape, and the criminals resort to using an object instead
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Berzelius
Sep 1, 09 11:47 PM CDT
Well Mad, when they do, then you kill them.
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