Lost and Found by John Glatt Page B

found the Lord.
    “In fact,” asked the prosecutor, “you told Miss Callaway that you had discovered God or Jesus, didn’t you?”
    “I told her that I believed in him and someday I would like to turn to him,” he replied.
    “Someday?” asked the prosecutor. “It wasn’t going to be that day, was it?”
    “No.”
    “You think God would like the things you have done?”
    “Absolutely not,” he said contritely. “I am ashamed of them.”
    In redirect, defender Willard Van Hazel attempted to show his client had not known the difference between right and wrong during the period of the abduction.
    “Mr. Garrido,” he began, trying to repair the damage from the prosecution, “were you ashamed when you did what you did to Miss Callaway?”
    “No,” answered the defendant.
    “You were not ashamed?”
    “No,” he continued, “I couldn’t feel shame. I didn’t even realize the reality of shame for what I was doing.”
    Garrido then denied only being ashamed now because he was scared of going to prison, saying his newfound religion was the sole reason.
    “Well, what is the difference between then and now?” asked his attorney.
    “Because I have come close to God,” he replied. “Because I feel God. Because God has shown me he is real.”
    He said although he had spoken of God to his victim, he knew nothing about it at that time.
    “Since November twenty-second,” asked Van Hazel, “you have had contact with God?”
    “Yes,” said Garrido. “I have studied very hard and I have learned what it takes to find God.”
    The final defense witness was its own psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kuhn. He told the jury he had spent an hour examining Phillip Garrido two weeks after his arrest, and would occasionally see him later while visiting other inmates.
    “Have you observed any changes in his behavior?” asked defender Van Hazel.
    “His appearance changed,” replied the psychiatrist. “He looks somewhat more healthy, and he certainly seems quite lucid and pretty well together.”
    Then Van Hazel asked the doctor for his diagnosis of Garrido.
    “Drug dependence,” said Dr. Kuhn. “Both on LSD and cannabis.”
    The defense attorney then asked what the doctor believed Garrido’s mental capacity to have been at the time of the offense. Dr. Kuhn said Garrido’s sexual fantasies, voyeurism and exhibitionism had been exacerbated by his drug use.
    “Without the influence of any of this drug involvement,” he told the jury, “I think Mr. Garrido would pause before carrying out sexual fantasies.”
    Then the attorney asked the cause of the defendant’s perverse sexual fantasies.
    “I think that would be too difficult to explain in any short period of time,” replied Dr. Kuhn. “But in any case I do not feel that the drug caused the fantasy.”
    Van Hazel then asked if he thought Garrido lacked the substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the standards of the law.
    “Yes, I do,” replied the psychiatrist. “I think the defendant did not have adequate control to conform his behavior.”
    Finally, Van Hazel asked if the doctor thought Garrido would be a menace to the health, safety and morals of himself and others, without psychiatric treatment.
    “I certainly do,” replied Dr. Kuhn.
    At this point, Judge Thompson dismissed the jury for afternoon recess, so he could consider the prosecution’s argument to permit damning evidence that Garrido had tried to kidnap another woman just an hour before seizing Katie Callaway.
    The prosecution psychiatrist, Dr. Lynn Gerow, was then summoned into the courtroom to hear this new evidence.
    “He entered her car,” Assistant United States Attorney Leland Lutfy told the judge, “by again asking for a ride.”
    The prosecutor said that he directed the unnamed woman to a certain street, and attacked her when she’d stopped the car, exactly as he had done with Callaway.
    “Mr. Garrido grabbed this woman,” said Lutfy, “put one handcuff on [but] was unable to