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Garrido told KCRA that he left documents three days ago with the FBI in San Francisco, California, that would shed light on the case. Theyre going to be a part of the trial, he said.
A call from CNN to the FBIs San Francisco bureau was not immediately returned.
Garrido said he could not go into detail about why he chose to abduct Dugard. I havent talked to a lawyer yet, so I cant do that, he said.
But Garrido said he had completely turned my life around in the past several years. Youre going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim, he said. If you take this a step at a time, youre going to fall over backward and in the end youre going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story.
He added, Wait til you hear the story of what took place at this house. Youre going to be absolutely impressed. Its a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning, but I turned my life completely around.
Describing the two daughters, he said, Those two girls slept in my arms every single night from birth; I never kissed them.
But in a later comment, he said that, from the time the youngest was born, everything turned around.
Asked about the fact that they had not seen doctors, he said, “We just didn’t have the finances and so forth.”
Kollar said a search of Garrido’s property “revealed a hidden backyard within a backyard,” he said. It included several sheds no higher than 6 feet tall, two tents and several outbuildings “where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their lives.”
The “secondary” backyard was inside the first and was “screened from view.” One of the sheds was soundproof, he said.
“The way the backyard is set up you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house and never know that there was another set of living circumstances in that backyard.”
At the end of the backyard is a 6-foot fence lined with shrubs, tall trees, garbage bags and a tarp, all of which obscured views of what was there, he said.
Extension cords provided electricity to the sheds and tents, and an outhouse and rudimentary shower “as if you were camping” were there, too, he said.
Dugard “was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll,” Kollar said. He described her as “relatively cooperative, relatively forthcoming” in discussions with detectives. He said Dugard was “in relatively good condition,” neither obviously abused nor malnourished. He added, “There are no known attempts by her to outreach to anybody.”
The mother and her two daughters were staying at a motel in the area, he said. “Family reunification has begun and will be a long and ongoing process,” he said, presumably referring to Dugard’s parents.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/