Jaycee has finally revealed to her daughters how their father Phillip Garrido was a rapist who held her in captivity for 18 years.Relatives said she broke the news to her daughters, aged 15 and 11, as they were distraught that Phillip Garrido was in prison.Meanwhile a fragment of bone has been uncovered by cadaver-sniffing dogs on property next door to the Garrido home.
Antioch, northern California, and the one next door for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area. Contra Costa Sheriff's Department spokesman Jimmy Lee said it was too early to tell whether the small fragment unearthed on Sunday was animal or human.
Investigators recovered several other pieces of evidence during the four days they spent searching the two parcels of land. Garrido once lived on his neighbour's property in a shed. Residents say he once worked as the property caretaker and helped out an elderly man who lived there several years ago. Garrido is already suspected of murdering a 15-year-old girl and as many as ten prostitutes who were killed close to a factory where he used to work.
Meanwhile, relatives spoke of the impact the truth about Garrido was having on Jaycee's two daughters, aged 15 and 11. Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn told ABC: 'It’s going to take a lot of therapy for them. We’ re going to have to take it minute by minute. These girls are so fragile.
'Jaycee had to explain to them, like two days ago, that she had been kidnapped. They didn’t even know that. They are upset about this because that’s their father and he’s in jail.' Joann Behrman-Lippert, a psychologist who has researched child abductions, told The Times: 'For these children their father is still their father, no matter what has happened. It’s very complex and not a black-or-white situation.' (Daily Mail)
