Kidnap Victim Dugard Located After 18 Years: Update 2

University of California-Berkeley Police Officer Ally Jacobs recounted the stunning details of the bizarre encounter that led her to unwittingly crack the 18-year-long kidnapping case of Jaycee Dugard.

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Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, a UC-Berkeley staff member, met earlier this week with Phillip Garrido and the two young girls he is said to have fathered with Dugard. Little more than instinct led Jacobs to do the police work that freed Dugard from her alleged kidnapper of two decades.

On Monday, Garrido came to the police station in Berkeley's Sproul Hall to discuss a special event he wanted to hold on campus. He briefly met with a staff member who coordinates special events on campus. She asked him to return on Tuesday for an appointment.

On Tuesday, the staff member told Jacobs about her encounter the previous day with Garrido. She told Jacobs that Garrido was erratic, saying he wanted discuss "the Lord's desire," adding that "she kind of had a feeling about him" and that he had an appointment to come in later that day. Jacobs ran a criminal check on Garrido and found that he was on parole for rape. It was enough to make Jacobs decide to sit in on the meeting.

When Garrido arrived for his Tuesday appointment, he brought his two daughters, 15 and 11. The group gathered to discuss Garrido's request, but Jacobs' attention quickly turned to the two young girls. The younger daughter, Jacobs said, sat and seemed relaxed, while the older one stood, "staring at him like he was a god." Both girls, Jacobs recalled, "had this weird look in their eyes like brainwashed zombies."

Concerned by Garrido's erratic behavior, Jacobs began to engage the girls. She asked the girls what grade they were in and they told Jacobs they were home-schooled. Jacobs asked the younger girl about a mark near her eye that initially appeared to be a bruise. The girl told Jacobs it was an inoperable birth defect.

Meanwhile, Nancy Garrido, the wife of Phillip Garrido, played an equal role in his alleged crimes, according to a 16-page charge sheet filed in California by US prosecutors.