1991 Kidnapping Research Paper

Kidnapping is taking someone away illegally by force, typically to obtain a ransom or personal use. For people to kidnap and keep a person for many years there has to a problem or reason for doing so. In 1977 and 1991 kidnappings occurred that shared many similarities. In 1977 Colleen Stan was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker for seven years. Being his slave and used for sexual activities. In 1991 Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido when she was only eleven years old and was kept for eighteen years. In the following paragraphs I will go into more detail about the kidnapping couples and how the stories are similar.

On November 5, 1953 in Alturas, California a criminal was born. Cameron Hooker was tall, thin, geeky

Phillip like most criminal had problems with drugs at a very young age. In 1972 Phillip rapped and drugged a girl a fourteen year old girl but charges were dropped because the girl didn’t want to testify. In 1976 he abducted a twenty-five year old woman and rapped her too. He was caught and was sentenced to fifty years in prison but he only served eleven years and got parole in 1988. While in prison he met his soon to be wife Nancy. Nancy was born on July 18, 1955 in Seguin Texas. While Phillip was still in prison they got married on October 5, 1981. He was released and only two years later he abducted Jaycee Lee Dugard. Jaycee Lee Dugard was born on May 3, 1980 in South Lake Tahoe, California. Only at the age of eleven, on July 10, 1991 she was kidnapped from outside of her house. She was kidnapped from outside of her house. Her stepdad tried to chase down the car on a bike but they got away. Her stepdad called the police and everything but she wasn’t found. Phillip and Nancy Garrido took and kept Jaycee in the backyard of their house in Antioch, California for 18 long and sad years. During those eighteen years she was rapped multiple times and was told many lies by Phillip and Nancy. The icing on the bake was that Phillip got Jaycee pregnant twice and she had two daughters when she was only fourteen and seventeen years old. One day Nancy and Phillip went to the University of California of Berkeley because they had a religious event. People got suspicious so one day someone called the police and found out that he was a sex offender and was shocked that he had two little girls with him. Because of that there was a parole meeting on August 26, 2009 so Nancy, Phillip, Jaycee, and her two daughters were there. Phillip told his parole officer that Jaycee and her daughters that were relatives. But later he crumbled under pressure and two days later Phillip and Nancy were charged with 29 felonies.