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| Kidnap suspect had criminal past |
| By sfgate.com |
| Published: 08/28/2009 |
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Ron Garrido said he always knew his younger brother was deeply troubled. There was, he recalled Thursday, Phillip Garrido's damaging use of LSD as a teenager in Brentwood and his talk of sexual compulsion. There was the escape from fellow drug dealers after high school, the federal conviction for rape and kidnapping and his prison marriage. Still, the latest news - accusations that his 58-year-old brother had snatched a child off a street, held her in his backyard for 18 years and fathered two of her children - was a shock for Ron Garrido. He said in an interview with The Chronicle that he was surprised at his only sibling's alleged crimes - but he didn't doubt the story. "It just seems so bizarre, but I can believe it," said the 65-year-old Brentwood resident. "I know my brother, and I can believe he did that. ... He's a fruitcake. "My thoughts are with the poor little girl," Ron Garrido said of Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, who was abducted in 1991 near her family's South Lake Tahoe home. "She was held prisoner there. She had two children with this idiot. Now she's got to start a life." Ron Garrido said his brother's wife, Nancy Garrido, who was also arrested, was "a robot" under her husband's control. "She would do anything he asked her to," said Ron Garrido, a former electrician and retired supervisor at the East Contra Costa Irrigation District. "I told my wife, 'It's no different from Manson and those girls.' She was under his control." Read More. |
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