The New York Times–bestselling account of Jaycee Lee Dugard’s remarkable escape from the sexual predator who kept her captive for eighteen years. In 1991, an eleven-year-old-girl was abducted in broad daylight. Eighteen years later, a policewoman at the University of California, Berkeley, confronted a deranged man accompanied by two young girls. During questioning the next day, the girls’ … next day, the girls’ mother blurted, “I am Jaycee Lee Dugard.” Her companion was identified as Phillip Craig Garrido—a convicted drug user, rapist, and sexual predator. An astonishing story was about to unfold . . .
Now, award-winning author Robert Scott brings to light previously unrevealed information about Garrido’s criminal past and manipulation of the legal system. With police and expert testimony, this book shows how Garrido managed to get out of a fifty-year prison sentence—to shatter the innocence of Jaycee Lee Dugard forever.
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This was one of those exciting and yet scary books where you know that the bad guy will, and did, get caught, but knowing that does little to lessen the suspense. For me this was a page turner and so sad that this little girl had to grow up with two monsters abusing her and depriving her of anything approaching a normal childhood.
I bought the book but almost didn’t read it. I thought it would be the same boring narrative that I have found in some true crime stories. This book is definitely a page turner, telling the story in a very interesting way. I recommend it to anyone who likes true crime.
This book was hard for me to read. I try to be kind, and to believe that even the worst human beings deserve some sympathy and empathy but I couldn’t scrape up a crumb of either for the people who took this child and held her prisoner for EIGHTEEN YEARS. Not a single smidgen of anything outside of utter disgust.
I’ll save all my empathy for Jaycee and her family.
The book mainly focuses on the man who held her for all those years, his bizarre urges and drug problems and his steady descent into more madness.
If you have children, you will hold them closer and watch them more carefully, and pray that these people never see the light of day again outside of their prison cells. And, you’ll start checking the laws for sex offenders in your state, and the procedures that are supposed to be followed to keep them away from your kids and families. Make sure the police and parole & probation officers are following up on these predators.
There is a lot of explicit language and descriptions of sexual assaults. As I said it was difficult for me to read and some of it I couldn’t keep reading, it upset me too much.
I’m so glad this young woman and her family are able to be together again, but I cannot imagine what they must go through psychologically. They seem quite strong as a family, and I wish them the best of everything. As for Jaycee’s captors, I can’t say out loud in polite company exactly what I wish as punishment for them, so I have to settle for what the judge decided.
Lot of legal talk, didn’t really paint a clear picture due to bouncing around alot. I wish it was written more like a story personally.
I followed this story in the news. Just so sad how this happens in the blink of an eye.
Hard to read, it’s all about him. Not worth my time.
Such a disappointment. This book is more about the abductors instead of any in depth information about the ordeal Jaycee endured. She most surely was tortured and traumatized, but this story lacked emotion of any kind. It was like a newspaper account of any event
and requires too much effort to read to the finish.
I have read better true crime books than this one. If you want every detail of the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping, except the treatment she received at the hands of her kidnapper , this is the book for you. All violence has been redacted. Much too long and detailed. Didn’t need details of other crimes or possible suspects.
Told the story of the girl who was kidnapped by a sick man and his wife and held for many years. Factual but not a particularly good writer.
Great insight, as horrific as it was. Well written.
Revealed how Phillip Guaridio was ultimately caught, and Jaycee DuGard freed after 18 years. Factual, interesting.
Jaycee’s story was sad, and to read what she went through was heart-wrenching.
I found this story very sad and maddening because of what happen to this very young girl. The years it took for her to find freedom from the nightmare she was living in with her two young daughters she had while a kidnaped victim.
I didn’t care for this too much. It went into way too much background on the kidnapper.
So sad for her, but happy at the ending.
Difficult to read what happened to her, but inspiring as well.
I was glad to learnabout this and the impressive attitude of the victim.
The book was disappointing because it was mostly about a depraved criminal and very little about the victim