Phillip Garrido was Reported Heavily Using LSD in Brentwood While Growing Up

Early childhood indications were present that suggest Phillip Garrido was disturbed. Reports from his brother establish a pattern of illogical behavior.

“Ron Garrido said he always knew his younger brother was deeply troubled.

There was, he recalled Thursday, Phillip Garrido’s damaging use of LSD as a teenager in Brentwood and his talk of sexual compulsion. There was the escape from fellow drug dealers after high school, the federal conviction for rape and kidnapping and his prison marriage. Still, the latest news – accusations that his 58-year-old brother had snatched a child off a street, held her in his backyard for 18 years and fathered two of her children – was a shock for Ron Garrido.

He said in an interview with The Chronicle that he was surprised at his only sibling’s alleged crimes – but he didn’t doubt the story. ‘It just seems so bizarre, but I can believe it,’ said the 65-year-old Brentwood resident. ‘I know my brother, and I can believe he did that. … He’s a fruitcake.

‘My thoughts are with the poor little girl,’ Ron Garrido said of Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, who was abducted in 1991 near her family’s South Lake Tahoe home. ‘She was held prisoner there. She had two children with this idiot. Now she’s got to start a life.’” (TMR)

“The brothers grew up in Brentwood with their parents, Manuel and Pat Garrido. Their childhood was relatively unremarkable, he said, until Phillip Garrido began acting out, using LSD and dealing drugs.

Phillip Garrido graduated from Liberty High School in 1969. When he was about 20, he fled to Reno after learning that fellow drug dealers “had a contract out on him,” Ron Garrido said.

In 1971, Phillip Garrido was convicted of rape and kidnapping after taking a woman prisoner in Reno and assaulting her somewhere else in the Tahoe area, the brother said.” (SF Chronicle)

“Phillip met his wife, Nancy, in prison, and Ron describes her as “a robot” willing to do whatever his brother told her. “I told my wife, ‘It’s no different from Manson and those girls.’ She was under his control.” Phillip and Nancy then moved in with his mother. “My brother could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes,” says Ron. “I’m sure he told her some story and she bought the whole thing.” The mother, who suffers from dementia, was still living in the house when Jaycee Lee Dugard was discovered Wednesday. ” (Newser)

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