Phillip Garrido
BACKGROUND:
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Born April 5, 1951 in Contra Costa, California.
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Baby of the family, spoiled
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Father said he was a sweet child, friendly, and was always making jokes
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Played electric guitar and had a band as a kid
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Always willing to help parents around the house, “everyone loved him”
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Began using LSD in high school
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High School Graduate
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Married wife Nancy in
CRIMES:
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In 1972, aged 21, he was charged with drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl at an Antioch motel, but
the case was dropped when she chose not to testify in court.
In 1976, Garrido kidnapped a young woman outside a food market in Reno, Nevada. He pretended
that his car had broken down in order to get a lift before attacking and binding the stranger. Garrido
later admitted to raping her in a rented storage unit described by investigators as a ‘sex palace’
containing various sex aids, stage lights, and pornography.
Garrido was granted early release in August 1988 after serving 10 years in federal prison, and an
additional seven months in Nevada for the rape conviction.
Kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard on June 10, 1991, as she walked from her family’s South Lake Tahoe
home to a bus stop.
 Dugard was then held in a compound (old sheds and tents) in Garrido’s backyard in Antioch,
CA, less than 200 miles from her home.
 Dugard was raped and sexually abused continuously for years.
In 1993, he was jailed for 38 days for breaking parole and smoking marijuana. (His wife Nancy
looked after Dugard during this time)
In 1994, Dugard gives birth to her first daughter, fathered by Garrido
In 1997, Dugard gives birth to her second daughter, fathered by Garrido, Garrido stops the rapes
In 2009, Garrido was spotted at UC Berkley handing out pamphlets for “God’s Desires” with two
young girls
 On August 26th, 2009, Garrido was taken in for questioning at the department’s parole office.
He was accompanied by two children and two women, later identified as Dugard and his
wife. After being questioned by parole officers, Garrido revealed that he had kidnapped a
female, now an adult, who was later identified as Dugard.
Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison for to kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard. He is
still in Corcoran State Prison in King’s County today.
VISUAL OF GARRIDO’S HOME:
EVIDENCE SUPPPORTING CRIME:
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Jaycee Lee
Dugard, age 11
Compound located at his home in Antioch, CA
Journal of Jaycee Lee Dugard during her captivity
Garrido confessing to kidnap and rape
Seen at UC Berkley with Jaycee’s daughters
SENTENCE:
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431 years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a 11-year old girl held for 18 years
Serving time at Corcoran State Prison
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF DEVIANCE:
It is hard to pinpoint why Phillip Garrido felt the need to engage in criminal acts and deviance.
But, I believe that his behavior can best be explained by the Social Control Theory. This theory says that
people care about what others think about them and they conform to social expectations because they
accept what people expect. The deviance occurs when the attachments to a social bond is weaken or
severed.
Phillip would do anything to help his parents out as a child. He loved their attention and cared for
them very much. But when he was in high school, their bond started to weaken. Phillip did not feel he had
a good relationship with his parents anymore. He began to experiment with drugs, especially LSD, and
his parents were devastated. The bond between Phillip and his parents broke, and he was on the fast track
to a life of crime and deviance.