I don’t have to hide anymore, says Garrido victim

A PREVIOUS victim of the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard has spoken of her ordeal at the hands of the rapist and her relief at his latest arrest.

Katie Callaway Hall said the capture of Phillip Garrido – who subjected her to an eight-hour long attack in 1976 – had “closed a chapter” in her life and meant she no longer needed to hide.

It comes as forensic investigators completed their search of Garrido’s home and neighbouring properties for evidence connecting him to a string of unsolved crimes. They found a small bone fragment at a house next door to the compound in which Garrido and his wife held Ms Dugard for 18 years after her 1991 abduction.