Sep 2, 2009 7:45 pm US/Eastern
Garrido's Rape Victim 'Stunned' By Dugard Case
Katherine Callaway Hall Was Abducted, Raped By Phillip Garrido In 1976
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Phillip Garrido looks out at the courtroom during his arraignment on 28 felony counts stemming from the abduction of Jaycee Dugard in 1991, in the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., on Aug. 28, 2009.
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Police in California have found no evidence connecting kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido with several unsolved murder. His arrest in the abduction of Jaycee Dugard left one woman particularly stunned, however. For 33 years, she's been haunted by her own nightmare encounter with him.
"I thought, 'Oh my God,' that's the man who kidnapped me. That's him. I called my husband to come down and see. I was shocked. I was stunned. I started shaking," Katherine Callaway Hall, Garrido's first victim, said on the CBS Early Show. "I couldn't believe he went after a child. I could and I couldn't, you know, because he went after an easier prey."
Just 25-years-old at the time, Katherine Callaway Hall was Garrido's prey in 1976 when Garrido told her he had car trouble. Looking back at what she calls the most horrible decision of her life, she offered him a ride. Garrido made her drive to a remote location.
"He slammed my head into the steering wheel, he pulled the keys out of the ignition, he grabbed handcuffs out of his pocket, grabbed both my hands. He overpowered, me he was much larger than me," she said. "Then he maneuvered me over into the passenger seat, made me put my head into my lap, and he tied my head to my knees with my hands handcuffed behind me."
He took her to a warehouse where he raped her for eight hours. Hall said her survival instincts saved her.
"I just had to be alert every second every moment. I had to be aware of his frame of mind. I had to just figure out how to stay alive and connect with him on some kind of human level and make myself real to him and not let him go off in his fantasy world," she said.
A police officer passed by and saw something was wrong. Garrido was arrested and convicted to 50 years in prison. Released after only 11 years, he showed up at the Lake Tahoe casino where she worked.
"He came up to my roulette wheel and very, very threateningly said, 'Hello Katie,'" she said.
Hall never saw him again until the Dugard story broke last week. She said her heart breaks for Dugard and her daughters.
"I want him put away forever or I want him executed," she said. "I know that's harsh, but I'm sorry, I wish he'd never gotten out."
Garrido and his wife Nancy are charged with a total of 29 criminal charges in the Dugard case that carry multiple life sentences if they are convicted.
Nancy Garrido said she missed Dugard and her daughters. According to her attorney, she said she felt that they'd become a family.
The Garridos are due in court September 14.
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