Details Emerge in Jaycee Lee Dugard's 18-Year Ordeal; Kidnapper "Heard God," Could "Control Sound"

More details are emerging in the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the now 29-year-old woman who was kidnapped 18 years ago while her stepfather watched helplessly. The initial crime itself was terrible, but the details on the following 18 years are horrific.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch has been arrested in the case. He had a prior history as a sexual predator prior to the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping. His wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, has also been arrested. The two are pictured above.

According to reports, Garrido kept Jaycee Lee Dugard, as well as two children he fathered with her, housed in sheds and other buildings hidden behind a separate fence in his backyard. The fencing was done in such a manner as to prevent it being easily seen by others. The walls of the "compound" were even soundproofed.

In fact, the fencing was so well done that Philip Craig Garrido dodged a bullet in July 2008, when a multiagency Contra Costa County task force searched his home as part of a sexu offender compliance check. They found no evidence of anyone besides the two Garridos and his mother living at the house.

When the task force looked in the backyard, they saw only a screened-in porch and a back fence. What they missed was that behind the back fence was a hidden area with sheds and outbuildings, where Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children were living.

At this point, Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters, who are 11 and 15, are together in a motel in Antioch. Her mother, Terry Probyn has spoken to her and says she "sounds normal," according to Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, from whom Terry is separated. However, when she first spoke to police this week, Dugard told them her name was Allissa, authorities said.

Neither of Jaycee Lee Dugard's daughters has ever attended school. It's also unclear why she did not attempt escape previously, thought that question will likely be answered as time passes. Speaking to my psychologist wife, It is likely that Stockholm Syndrome had something to do with it.

Stockholm syndrome is a well-known psychological response by abductees, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the abductor, regardless of their treatment during the time of kidnapping. In such cases, the abductee may have chances to escape, but not take them, even appearing in public with the kidnapper.

Philip Craig Garrido told NBC station KCRA of Sacramento in a telephone interview Thursday from jail that he has turned his life around, and that the abduction of Dugard had a great deal to do with it.

"Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house. You are going to be completely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there.

"If you take this a step at a time you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."

Does that sound sort of, well, insane? Perhaps that's not off the mark by too much. Apparently Garrido had his own "church," and blog, in which he stated:

This document is to affirm that I Phillip Garrido have clearly demonstrated the ability to control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena. by using a sound generator to provide the sound, and a headphone amplification system, ( a device to focuc your hearing so as to increase the sensitivity of what one is listening to) I have produced a set of voices by effectively controlling the sound to pronounce words through my own mental powers.

He also stated that:

[...] the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.

In case you needed any more evidence, there it is; he's one sick puppy.Pictures from Jaycee Lee Dugard's childhood are above.