She has said she does not want to be defined by what was done to her. The JAYC Foundation, the memoir, the interviews, the awards—these are the activities of someone building a life rather than someone remaining fixed in the experience of captivity. What was done to her in 1991 is the context; it is not, in her own framing, the entirety of who she is.
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## The Parole Office Encounter: A More Complete Account
The August 26, 2009, events at the Concord parole office have been described in this account in the general terms established by the public record. A more detailed reconstruction of what happened would require access to the parole office records and law enforcement reports from that day, which are not fully reproduced in any publicly available source.
What the available sources establish is this: Phillip Garrido arrived at the Concord parole office with Nancy Garrido, the two daughters from the campus visits, and a woman who introduced herself as Allissa. Parole agent Edward Santos Jr. conducted the initial questioning. Concord police were summoned.
The questioning revealed the discrepancy at the heart of the case: the two daughters were not in Garrido’s parole record, and their mother—the woman who had called herself Allissa—was not in the record either. The parole agents who had supervised Garrido for ten years had apparently never encountered these individuals, or had never asked about them, or had accepted explanations for their presence that now, in the context of the specific Berkeley information, were being questioned more closely.