Once, Phillip Craig Garrido wanted to be a rock star. Before he turned 17, Garrido was “just a normal high school kid” in Brentwood, relatives and acquaintances say – a teenager who played bass in a band and was so handsome girls jostled for his attentions at high school dances. He went out with, and later married, a pretty, athletic member of the school a cappella choir. He could have had a fine future, they say. But after a trip to the emergency room in 1968 for a motorcycle wreck in which he slammed his head, Garrido began the transformation from quiet teenager into a dope-smoking hippie, then a chronic cocaine and LSD abuser – and finally the most notorious sexual predator in the world today. Garrido made stabs at normalcy over the years, devoting himself to the Jehovah’s Witness faith with second wife Nancy Garrido in the late 1970s and picking up carpentry and drafting skills in prison. He had plans to study computer programming in college, and even after he served more than a decade in prison for kidnapping and rape, he launched a successful business card enterprise. But nothing, it seemed, could tamp down his lust for… Read full this story
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