Details continue to trickle out in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case, and we are beginning to see some of the details of the "relationship" between Dugard and her kidnappers, Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55. Not only was she his captive and the mother to two of his children, she was apparently a key player in Garrido's specialty printing business.This obviously pretty much confirms that Jaycee Lee Dugard had Stockholm Syndrome. It would, in fact, have been surprising if she had not gotten the psychological disorder, which describes the behavior of kidnap victims who, over time, become sympathetic to their captors.
The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined after a 1973 hostage incident in Stockholm, Sweden. At the end of six days of captivity in a bank, several victims resisted rescue attempts, and even refused to testify against their captors, afterwards.
Customers knew the Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, as "Allissa," the name she gave police last week when she was first interviewed. Garrido told them she was his grown daughter. They also knew here as efficient and professional.
Ben Daughdrill of Oakley was a customer of Garrido's who dealt with "Allissa."
"She was very professional, very polite, just like any other secretary or anyone you'd meet at a place of business. If I was requesting something, he'd say he'd have his daughter send it over. He'd say, 'I'll get Allissa right on that.'"Antioch residents Cheyvonne Molino and her husband James used Garrido's printing firm, as well, and even worked with Jaycee Lee Dugard face-to-face. Cheyvonne Molino said:
"Phil couldn't design nothin'. Allissa was the one designing the cards, working the computer, emailing people. Allissa came out to see customers, delivering cards, talking to people."While Jaycee Lee Dugard continues to heal, police continue to investigate possible ties between Garrido and a string of prostitute murders from the 1990's. Several of the victims were found close to Garrido's business.
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