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Article: Nancy Garrido: participant or victim in Jaycee Dugard case?(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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Byline: Michael B. Farrell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
San Francisco -- The portrait that has emerged of Nancy Garrido is, in many respects, strikingly different from that of her husband.
The two were arrested Aug. 26 on charges of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Phillip Garrido has a history of drug abuse and was twice arrested on charges of rape, though convicted only once, in 1976.
His wife, on the other hand, has been described as a passive yet caring woman who worked as a nursing assistant. She looked after her husband's elderly mother in their Antioch, Calif., home. Her acquaintances and relatives have called a ...