SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Katie Callaway was just going to stop for a minute to pick up some coffee for her boyfriend.
A crockpot of cioppino stew was ready and waiting in her Tahoe City, Calif., home she pulled her 1975 Ford Pinto into the parking lot of Ink’s Al Tahoe Market.
The 25-year-old blackjack dealer picked up the coffee, some cooking oil and rice and slipped back into her car, then began to back out.
That was when Phillip Garrido tapped on the passenger window and asked for a ride.
It was Nov. 22, 1976, and Katherine Gayle Callaway was about to begin a terrifying, nightlong ordeal at the hands of a man who has become infamous worldwide since his arrest last week in the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.
In the 18 years that Garrido allegedly hid Dugard in the backyard of his mother’s Antioch-area home, he was largely a mystery. Many knew he was a registered sex offender, but little more.
On Tuesday, as federal officials downloaded hundreds of pages from his 1977 federal court trial into the U.S. District Court computer system, a fuller, more disturbing picture of the 58-year-old Garrido and the ordeal Callaway suffered emerged from the documents.
He was described by witnesses in a federal courtroom in Reno, Nev., as a "sexual deviant," a heavy drug abuser and a man who had recently found God.
Evidence showed Garrido was a troubled young man with a sexual addiction so great that he would masturbate in drive-in theaters, restaurants, bars, public restrooms and outside the windows of homes.
But he was mentally stable enough to understand the charges he was facing, a psychiatrist told the court at the time, even as he alternately tried to enter a guilty plea, then successfully fired his own lawyer after he was found guilty.
"He was unhappy with my case from the start," Garrido wrote to the federal public defender’s office in March 1977 as he set about appealing his conviction and 50-year federal sentence.
Garrido was born in Pittsburg, Calif., on April 5, 1951, the second child. He had "considerable emotional conflict with his parents during his formative years," Reno psychiatrist Lynn B. Gerow Jr., who examined him for the court, wrote in a Dec. 20, 1976, mental evaluation.
That conflict continues through today, apparently. His 87-year-old father, Manuel, said Tuesday he would not discuss his son unless he was paid.
"You give me the moola, or you get nothing," he said. "I’m gonna start making money off this."
Court records show Garrido graduated from high school in 1969, and he testified during his trial that within a month of graduation he had been introduced to marijuana. A month later he tried LSD.
He was arrested for possession of both in 1969, he testified, and was sent to Contra Costa County’s Clayton Farm facility.
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