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Phillip Garrido, out on parole, tases an 11-year-old at her bus stop and drives away with her

Stepfather Carl Probyn watches from his driveway in Meyers, California, and cannot catch the car. Garrido served time for kidnapping and rape in 1976.

Phillip Craig Garrido had already been convicted of kidnapping and rape in 1976, served time, and was on federal parole when he and his wife, Nancy, spotted Jaycee Lee Dugard walking to her school bus stop in Meyers, California. On the morning of June 10, 1991, Nancy drove while Phillip tased the eleven-year-old unconscious with a stun gun and pulled her into the car — witnessed by Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, who could not catch them. Dugard would not be found for 18 years, held in a concealed compound behind the Garridos' house in Antioch, California, while parole officers repeatedly visited the property and missed her…

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