Kidnapped Girl Returns Home 18 Years Later
SANCHEZ: All right, as we go on the story about the threats to the president, there is another story that many Americans are following on this day. This is a -- Mike, this is a tough story. This is a tough story even to tell. I have a daughter. And I love my daughter very much. She is my only girl, aside from my three boys. And she is obviously very special to me, just as your daughter, I'm sure, is very special to you. I say this because I could never begin to imagine how horrible it would be to have to make a phone call like this man once had to make. We have got that phone call now. This is a 911 tape. Let's listen to it together. It is 18 years ago.</s>C. PROBYN: Nine-one-one?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is 911.</s>C. PROBYN: On Pineyard Boulevard. My daughter was just kidnapped top of the hill with a gray Ford, a man or woman in the car.</s>SANCHEZ: My daughter Just kidnapped on the top of the -- he watched it happen. Now, what would I do if somebody did that to my girl or your daughter or, I mean, what somebody did to that little girl in the story that I'm about to tell you about? I don't know, but it is all I can think about after watching that. It's all many Americans can think about after following this story. Here is the story. Essentially, it is an 11-year-old girl. She is snatched, as you just heard her stepdad describe, right off the street, stolen away in a speeding car as her stepfather tries in vain to catch up on a bicycle and then frantically dials that 911 call. Now, fast-forward 18 years to now. The girl is now a woman. She is found alive. And that is good. What she went through during those 18 years, though, it's not so good. In fact, it's a nightmare. We are going to continue to drill down on this story. Let's start with this. This is a story that was prepared for us by Randi Kaye.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): June 1991, she was grabbed as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California. Her stepfather, on the driveway, saw his little girl, blonde, blue- eyed, all dressed in pink disappear into a strange car. (on camera): What do you remember about the day that Jaycee disappeared?</s>CARL PROBYN, STEPFATHER OF JAYCEE LEE DUGARD: The minute I saw that door fly open, I was trying to jump on my mountain bike and trying to get to her. My neighbor was out front watering. So, I told her, call 911. They had a two-minute head start.</s>KAYE (voice-over): Those two minutes turned into nearly two decades. There were searches, missing flyers, and reward money. Nothing brought Jaycee back, not even her mother's plea. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, 1991) TERRY PROBYN, MOTHER OF JAYCEE DUGARD: Jaycee, if you hear mommy, I love you, and I want you to come home tonight.</s>KAYE: Jaycee finally did come home -- yesterday, when she suddenly walked into a police station outside San Francisco with her alleged kidnappers and told officers who she was.</s>C. PROBYN: My wildest dreams after 18 years. I mean, this is like a -- the total package, like winning the lotto.</s>KAYE: Early this morning, Jaycee's stepfather got the call he's been waiting for from Jaycee's mom. They are now separated.</s>C. PROBYN: She goes, "Are you sitting down?" And I said, "Yeah." And she goes: "They found Jaycee." And she paused for a few seconds. She goes, "She's alive." So, we both cried for about 10 minutes, before we could talk.</s>KAYE: Jaycee's accused kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, are in custody, charges expected tomorrow. (on camera): Here's how it all unfolded. On Tuesday, a security guard at the U.C. Berkeley campus noticed Mr. Garrido handing out flyers with two young children. A background showed he was a convicted sex offender on parole. When questioned by his parole officer yesterday with his wife, the two children and a woman he called Alyssa at his side, it turned out Alyssa was Jaycee Dugard. Authorities say he admitted kidnapping her all those years ago and fathering two children with her. (voice-over): Even though parole officers had visited Garrido's house over the years, nobody ever spotted Jaycee Dugard. Why not?</s>FRED KOLLAR, EL DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, UNDERSHERIFF: There was a secondary backyard that is screened from view from literally all around, only accessed through a very small, narrow tarp. Her and the two children were living in a series of sheds. There was one shed entirely sound-proofed, could only be opened from the outside.</s>KAYE: Phillip Garrido served time for kidnapping and rape in Nevada. Out on parole, he wears a GPS tracking device. The children he fathered now with their father, Jaycee. Eleven and 15 years old, police say they have never been to school or to the doctor. Still, they and their mom are free.</s>C. PROBYN: I'm just so happy. I haven't gone there.</s>KAYE (on camera): Where is this emotion coming from?</s>C. PROBYN: Ah, it's years locked up. I'm an old Vietnam vet that is shell-shocked. I mean, how much nerves do I have, that I would have to go through this?</s>KAYE (voice-over): Tears of joy, after so many years of sadness. Randi Kaye, CNN, Los Angeles.</s>SANCHEZ: You know, there's three big players in this story, this Garrido character who I -- God forgive me for saying this -- but I want to strangle the guy.</s>BROOKS: Even his father is now saying the guy is basically out of his mind. It's just -- this is an unbelievable story.</s>SANCHEZ: And then there is the stepdad. And when you think about the stepdad, for 18 years, people have been whispering everywhere he went that he is the guy who abducted and made his own stepdaughter disappear.</s>BROOKS: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: The guy is perfectly innocent. And then you have this little girl who has been -- let's show them what we are talking about. Do we have the -- let's show the map of the house and where she has been living or hidden for the past 18 years. Let's see if we have got that. Google Earth doesn't do us any good. But I think we're going to able to get that now. OK. There is the Garrido residence, right?</s>BROOKS: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: Now, let's see if we can do a little turn. And then you will be able to see what we're talking -- all right, that's the area right there. You see that area right there. All right, there is the home, right? I'm going to circle the home. Now, behind the home, nobody could see this, but there was enough stuff, including shrubs, to hide what was going on back here.</s>BROOKS: There was another fence there, Rick.</s>SANCHEZ: There's another fence right here?</s>BROOKS: Yes. Yes. There was another fence right at the entrance going back into the backyard. And the sheriff said apparently there was just a tarp with just a slit in it, so with the trees overgrown around it, so you really couldn't see into the back of there.</s>SANCHEZ: And can you imagine? She is only an 11-year-old little girl.</s>BROOKS: And apparently, they brought -- after he snatched her near Lake Tahoe, brought her back to here, and have been living here 18 years, put her in a soundproof shed with a lock on the outside.</s>SANCHEZ: And got her pregnant twice.</s>BROOKS: Right.</s>SANCHEZ: Here is my question.</s>BROOKS: Fourteen years old, Rick.</s>SANCHEZ: But here's my question to you. This guy had done this before. He has got a record. He was on probation. There is every reason to believe that the people who do these kind of things can't be cured. Is there a lesson being sent here?</s>SANCHEZ: It just bothers me that he was allowed to do this for 18 years to this little girl.</s>BROOKS: Right. He did his time in Leavenworth prison. He was originally sentenced to 50 years. So, he got out in the '80s, did some time. And what has he been doing? Are there any other victims? That's what law enforcement is looking into now, Rick. And the other thing, he fathered two children with this girl, 11 and 15. So, she was 14 years old.</s>SANCHEZ: Well, police admitted now that they made a mistake. In fact, let's listen to this sound. We got this in just a little while ago while you and I were starting our conversation. Let's go ahead and play that, guys.</s>WARREN E. RUPF, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHERIFF: We made contact with Mr. Garrido in the front yard of his home. The responding deputy determined that there was not any criminal misbehavior, warned Mr. Garrido that there were code restrictions with regards to living outside in a residential neighborhood. He did not enter, nor request to enter the backyard. This is not an acceptable outcome. Organizationally, we should have been more inquisitive, more curious, and turned over a rock or two.</s>SANCHEZ: A rock or two? So, a citizen went to the police and said, there is something strange going on in that man's backyard. There's children back there. The police knock on the door. The guy gives him a cockamamie response and they walk away. And now the police are saying, we screwed up.</s>BROOKS: Yes. And I have to agree with the sheriff. They should have a done a little bit more. If a complainant calls up and says, Rick, that there are children living in the backyard, and I'm an investigating officer who comes there first and I ask the guy, hey, you mind if I take a look in the backyard? And if says no and doesn't give me consent, OK, well, what are you hiding? Fine. Go back. Get in touch with your detectives. Interview the people again, exactly what they saw, who they saw, how many kids did they see and go back and get a warrant or have the detectives come out. But apparently, this was, what, I think two years ago, Rick?</s>SANCHEZ: Oh.</s>BROOKS: So, you know, again, it is easy to place blame.</s>SANCHEZ: Yes, ifs and buts. If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts on the ground every time they jumped, too.</s>BROOKS: Ain't that the truth?</s>SANCHEZ: But I'm serious. This is the kind of thing that we all can learn from and maybe something will come out of it. I just hope she -- I'm glad she is alive.</s>BROOKS: No. And the parole officer, how many times had he been out there, registered sex offender. Hey, mind if I take a look around? And I guarantee you now any time you get somebody who is on parole, and you are dealing with a registered sex offender, I guarantee you that that parole officer will go, hey, do you mind if I take a look around?</s>SANCHEZ: Yes. I wish they had taken a look around.</s>BROOKS: Everybody does, Rick.</s>SANCHEZ: You are going to join us again...</s>BROOKS: Yes. I will be back.</s>SANCHEZ: ... and drill down on this thing with the death threats against the president.</s>BROOKS: Right.</s>SANCHEZ: We are going to get more information out of the -- on that pastor.</s>BROOKS: All right, buddy.</s>PHILLIP GARRIDO, DEFENDANT: You're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim. You wait. If you -- if you just -- if you take this a step at a time, you are going to fall over backwards. And, in the end you are going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story.</s>SANCHEZ: All right, that is the man who is now admitting to taking that little girl when she was just 11 years old. Hard not to call him a monster, isn't it? All right, alleged monster. You will hear what else he says. We now have an interview with him from prison. Stay right there. I am going to play that for you when we come back.