What Is The Craig Garrido Case

Phillip Craig Garrido was born in Pittsburg, California, on April 5, 1951. He graduated from high school in 1969. After graduating, he began struggling with substance abuse, and was arrested for possession later that year. In 1972, Garrido first became known to police when he was arrested for drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl, although the charges were dropped after the victim refused to testify in court. In 1976, he abducted a 25-year-old woman named Katie Callaway Hall in Reno, Nevada and raped her in a warehouse. Ms. Hall said that he had seemed "perfectly normal" when he stopped her car on 22 November 1976 and asked for a lift. But after handcuffing and gagging her, he took her to a well-prepared storeroom, where Ms. Hall later said she thought she was going to die. Her eight-hour ordeal changed her "in an instant", she said. Garrido told her it was her own fault she had been abducted - because she was attractive. At his trial, according to court documents, Garrido said he had been overcome by sexual urges. He said that he had this fantasy that was driving him to do this, inside of him; something that was making him want to do it without - no way to stop it. He testified to being a regular user of cocaine and LSD, and to masturbating in public places. This time he was sentenced to 50 years

Phillip Garrido earned a living through a small printing business, but eventually he became more of a religious fanatic. A blog registered in his name was updated with rambling messages about government mind control and his own abilities. "The Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongues of angels," it read. "You too can witness what the world believes is impossible to reproduce." He created a website and a machine through which he could ostensibly convey divine messages as part of his "God's Desire"