Nancy Garrido’s role in the crimes has sometimes received less attention than her husband’s, but her participation began at the beginning. She was in the car on June 10, 1991, when Jaycee Dugard was grabbed at the bus stop. She helped force the eleven-year-old into the vehicle. She was a knowing participant in the captivity that followed over eighteen years. Her eventual sentence—36 years to life, with parole eligibility in August 2029—reflected both her criminality and the sentencing court’s recognition that her role, while serious, differed in some respects from the primary role her husband played.
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## The Notebook and the Essay
One of the aspects of Phillip Garrido that made him unusual among sex offenders, and that contributed to his eventual detection, was his grandiosity about his own ideas. He was not a person who hid his unusual beliefs; he sought audiences for them.
In the days before the UC Berkeley campus visit, he had gone to the FBI’s San Francisco field office and left behind a four-page essay. The nature of the essay—its content and what the FBI made of it—is not fully documented in the public record, but the act itself was characteristic of Garrido’s behavior in the period leading to his arrest. He wanted to share his ideas about God, about the origins of schizophrenia, about the special properties of a machine he said he had built that could communicate with supernatural forces. He had written a book titled *Origin of Schizophrenia Revealed*, a copy of which he gave to Lisa Campbell and Officer Ally Jacobs when he returned to the Berkeley campus on August 25.