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Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World
John Glatt
3.56 AVERAGE
25 reviews for:
Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World
John Glatt
3.56 AVERAGE
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This shouldn’t have never happen. System didn’t do their jobs at all. He should’ve got out the first time. There were so many RED flags and he broke parole how many times? No one did anything. So heart broken story. She deserves better
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I was somewhat disappointed in this book, as I normally really like Glatt's writing. I found that this book tended to drag, and had a lot of dry detail that (I felt, anyway) was unnecessary. It read to me as if Glatt had not had the opportunity to really talk to Jaycee and her family, which is entirely possible, so there was far more information about the perpetrators, Philip and Nancy Garrido. I also think that this book came out before Jaycee's own book did ,as at press time of Glatt's book, the Garridos were still on trial and Jaycee and her family had done a minimum of interviews to protect their privacy.
I really dislike when books claim to be about the survivor and are more about the perpetrators. Frankly, I feel that disgusting, abusive pedophiles like the Garridos don't deserve any more attention. If the book were advertised as to a deep dive into their lives and an attempt to explore their respective psyches, it would make more sense, and serve as a more honest description of the content. As it is, this is not really Jaycee's story, it's Glatt's take on the Garridos and how her kidnapping, violent abuse, and being held prisoner for an astonishing 18 years was made possible by a lax justice system , lazy parole officers, and maddening technical failures on behalf of the police department/parole system. I'd recommend people read Jaycee's book, "A Stolen Life", to learn about this from her perspective.
All that notwithstanding, it was still a fairly good book and packed with detail. I'm personally not a fan of tons of details, so others that enjoy that sort of writing may like it better.
The book chronicles the life of Philip Greg Garrido. Philip was troubled from a very young age; his family claims that his problems started after he was in a serious motorcycle accident. He was a fairly decent musician and was in a band, and was known to rampantly abuse meth, cocaine, and LSD, among other things.
Despite a seemingly "normal" marriage to his high school classmate (that was privately anything but..), Garrido showed shocking and horrifying tendencies towards perversion and pedophilia for decades before he kidnapped Jaycee. He was, maddeningly,. charged and released after drugging and assaulting a young girl, when she was too afraid to testify (this was 1972). He abducted, brutally assaulted and likely would have killed a young woman named Katie Calloway in 1976, had a police officer not come to the door of the warehouse where he held Katie prisoner, and she bravely ran out , naked, to scream and tell the officer that she was being held captive. (It's noteworthy to mention that the police officer stupidly left her alone with Garrido in the back of the warehouse , after she ran out naked, when she went to get dressed, just the start of the frustratingly awful police work and justice system fails that would allow Garrido to be free for far, far too long.) Katie pressed charges, Garrido was sentenced to over 50 years in Leavenworth prison. Somehow, due to a series of incompetencies far too lengthy to list here, Garrido ended up being transferred to a Nevada prison for another crime, where he only did 7 months of a five year sentence. He met Nancy while she was visiting her uncle in prison, they married, and somehow he ended up on parole after serving only 11 years. Had the system worked, he never would have been let out and would not have kidnapped Jaycee and ruined so many lives. To say that is maddening is an understatement.
The Garridos kidnap Jaycee when she is on her way to fifth grade one morning, June 10, 1991. They taser her and keep her captive in some sort of shed for days. Garrido had built an entire intricate system of sheds, lean-to's, and buildings behind his house as he planned to kidnap a young girl. Jaycee is horrifically assaulted, gives birth to 2 of Garrido's children, and lives in substandard, disgusting conditions in the yard. Her formal education stops at fifth grade, but she is very bright and helps the Garridos with their printing business. Sadly and understandably, Jaycee is thought to have developed stockholm syndrome during that time.
Parole officers and police are at the home numerous times, and somehow Garrido always snows them. The details are all in the book, but I think Jaycee's stepdad was right when he said that they were basically a "Keystone Cop" operation. Hindsight is 20/20, I know, but Garrido didn't exactly present as stable (he toured around with a black box, claiming it let him speak to and hear from angelic beings, and that he had "Solved" schizophrenia-just as a start). Garrido's now ex wife, Christine, has gone on record saying he was horribly abusive to her.
The case doesn't get solved until Garrido shows up at UC Berkeley, wanting to market his black box, and security gets suspicious when they see the young girls that he says are his daughters. They are eerily quiet and pale, and seem to be both frightened of and attached to him.
Finally, the police are brought in on the issue and Jaycee breaks down in tears, admitting who she is and what went on. I don't believe that her daughters, Angel and Starlit, knew the story behind their strange lives. I can only imagine how horrific it was for all of them.
Except for some technical detail, we don't learn a lot about Jaycee and her daughters' adjustment to a normal life, not to mention that of Jaycee's parents (her stepdad and mom sadly split after Jaycee's disappearance), her half-sister Shayna (just a toddler when Jaycee was abducted). The endless detail about the attorneys and upcoming court case (at the time of the book ) I found dry as toast - we didn't need to read about how Nancy Garrido's attorney was suspected of blabbing about the case and the complexities of who would be her legal counsel after that. Yawn. I thought that should have been a footnote at best.
Mr. Glatt, being a professional author, knows far more than I about what makes a good book. I personally feel, though, that this was far from his best work.
I really dislike when books claim to be about the survivor and are more about the perpetrators. Frankly, I feel that disgusting, abusive pedophiles like the Garridos don't deserve any more attention. If the book were advertised as to a deep dive into their lives and an attempt to explore their respective psyches, it would make more sense, and serve as a more honest description of the content. As it is, this is not really Jaycee's story, it's Glatt's take on the Garridos and how her kidnapping, violent abuse, and being held prisoner for an astonishing 18 years was made possible by a lax justice system , lazy parole officers, and maddening technical failures on behalf of the police department/parole system. I'd recommend people read Jaycee's book, "A Stolen Life", to learn about this from her perspective.
All that notwithstanding, it was still a fairly good book and packed with detail. I'm personally not a fan of tons of details, so others that enjoy that sort of writing may like it better.
The book chronicles the life of Philip Greg Garrido. Philip was troubled from a very young age; his family claims that his problems started after he was in a serious motorcycle accident. He was a fairly decent musician and was in a band, and was known to rampantly abuse meth, cocaine, and LSD, among other things.
Despite a seemingly "normal" marriage to his high school classmate (that was privately anything but..), Garrido showed shocking and horrifying tendencies towards perversion and pedophilia for decades before he kidnapped Jaycee. He was, maddeningly,. charged and released after drugging and assaulting a young girl, when she was too afraid to testify (this was 1972). He abducted, brutally assaulted and likely would have killed a young woman named Katie Calloway in 1976, had a police officer not come to the door of the warehouse where he held Katie prisoner, and she bravely ran out , naked, to scream and tell the officer that she was being held captive. (It's noteworthy to mention that the police officer stupidly left her alone with Garrido in the back of the warehouse , after she ran out naked, when she went to get dressed, just the start of the frustratingly awful police work and justice system fails that would allow Garrido to be free for far, far too long.) Katie pressed charges, Garrido was sentenced to over 50 years in Leavenworth prison. Somehow, due to a series of incompetencies far too lengthy to list here, Garrido ended up being transferred to a Nevada prison for another crime, where he only did 7 months of a five year sentence. He met Nancy while she was visiting her uncle in prison, they married, and somehow he ended up on parole after serving only 11 years. Had the system worked, he never would have been let out and would not have kidnapped Jaycee and ruined so many lives. To say that is maddening is an understatement.
The Garridos kidnap Jaycee when she is on her way to fifth grade one morning, June 10, 1991. They taser her and keep her captive in some sort of shed for days. Garrido had built an entire intricate system of sheds, lean-to's, and buildings behind his house as he planned to kidnap a young girl. Jaycee is horrifically assaulted, gives birth to 2 of Garrido's children, and lives in substandard, disgusting conditions in the yard. Her formal education stops at fifth grade, but she is very bright and helps the Garridos with their printing business. Sadly and understandably, Jaycee is thought to have developed stockholm syndrome during that time.
Parole officers and police are at the home numerous times, and somehow Garrido always snows them. The details are all in the book, but I think Jaycee's stepdad was right when he said that they were basically a "Keystone Cop" operation. Hindsight is 20/20, I know, but Garrido didn't exactly present as stable (he toured around with a black box, claiming it let him speak to and hear from angelic beings, and that he had "Solved" schizophrenia-just as a start). Garrido's now ex wife, Christine, has gone on record saying he was horribly abusive to her.
The case doesn't get solved until Garrido shows up at UC Berkeley, wanting to market his black box, and security gets suspicious when they see the young girls that he says are his daughters. They are eerily quiet and pale, and seem to be both frightened of and attached to him.
Finally, the police are brought in on the issue and Jaycee breaks down in tears, admitting who she is and what went on. I don't believe that her daughters, Angel and Starlit, knew the story behind their strange lives. I can only imagine how horrific it was for all of them.
Except for some technical detail, we don't learn a lot about Jaycee and her daughters' adjustment to a normal life, not to mention that of Jaycee's parents (her stepdad and mom sadly split after Jaycee's disappearance), her half-sister Shayna (just a toddler when Jaycee was abducted). The endless detail about the attorneys and upcoming court case (at the time of the book ) I found dry as toast - we didn't need to read about how Nancy Garrido's attorney was suspected of blabbing about the case and the complexities of who would be her legal counsel after that. Yawn. I thought that should have been a footnote at best.
Mr. Glatt, being a professional author, knows far more than I about what makes a good book. I personally feel, though, that this was far from his best work.
Wow, what a brave little girl who became a woman. She is amazing!
Very informative book that gives a lot of facts that go with her book.
Fascinating (in a bad way!) story but so tragic. I did feel like this author was cavalier about awful events and it didn't read like an investigative journalist piece. More sensationalist media, less independence.