Parole agents arrived at the house. They found Nancy Garrido and Garrido’s elderly mother. The agents searched the premises. They did not discover the hidden compound at the rear of the property. They handcuffed Garrido briefly during some portion of the encounter, then released him and drove him home, instructing him to appear at the parole office the next morning.
The discovery that would change everything had not yet happened. Dugard and the daughters were still in the compound. The parole agents, without the knowledge or the tools to identify what they were actually looking at, departed.
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## August 26: Concord
On the morning of August 26, 2009, Phillip Garrido arrived at the Concord parole office. With him were Nancy Garrido, the two girls from the campus visit, and a woman who identified herself as “Allissa.”
Parole agent Edward Santos Jr. was the officer managing the appointment. The arrival of Garrido with the two girls, the woman, and Nancy created an unusual scene. Santos questioned the group. Concord police were called to assist.
The questioning proceeded. The woman who had called herself Allissa was asked to wait separately from the others. As investigators pressed further, the circumstances became increasingly difficult to sustain as ordinary.
What happened in the Concord parole office in the hours that followed is not narrated in detail in any single public document. What is established is that Phillip Garrido, under questioning, admitted that he had kidnapped a woman a long time ago—and that the woman with him was her.