Women’s intuition isn’t a made-up description to explain the way women react to or forsee various situations. Women’s intuition is a Super Power. If you don’t believe that, look no further than one of the biggest news stories of 2009 involving the 29 year old woman who was rescued 18 years after her childhood abduction.
Meet officers Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell. These are the two heroines that finally busted Phillip Garrido and rescued Jaycee and her two daughters from their nightmare. Garrido had kidnapped Jaycee (now 29) at he age of 11 and kept her and her two daughters hostage in a series of sheds and tents in his secluded backyard. I won’t rehash they gruesome details of the situation (you can get more than you wanted to know just by Googling his last name – eek!)
The part that troubles me is that Garrido had a lot of contact with the outside world, including reports to a parole officer. But it took two WOMEN following a hunch that this guy was a creep to bring him down.
Kudos to these women for following up on their instincts and not letting him slip away as he had done many times in the past. Women’s “feelings” or “hunches” aren’t just crazy notions. They are real and they can save lives, including our own.
The next time a woman says “I have a feeling…” Pay attention.
3 comments
gretchen
So true Julie. It should be a wake up call for us all to be more aware. :)
Julie
My heart just breaks for the lives (Jaycee, her daughters, and her family) that were devastated by this monster Garrido.
Perhaps we should all listen closer to our intuition and look around us. If something doesn’t feel or look right in our own neighborhood or town, let’s look into it further. Let’s pressure the authorities to do their jobs better.
Paul
You know most of these so called “police/ parole officers” always have a chip on their shoulders, and even when they fail at their jobs they appear arrogant like saying “what are you going to do”, let’s face it, she saved herself, she was not saved by the authorities. Does anyone believe that the authorities were still investigating her disappearance? The car used in her kidnapping was in the backyard, the lazy ass cops didn’t even bother to go through the backyard when the information indicated that kids were living back there, they didn’t check local schools to see if the kids were going to school or even asked to see the kids, no report to child protective services, boy how lazy can you be and still pick up your public service check, not to mention the parole officers who failed to visit and find out where this freak was living and what he was doing. I guess she was taken in 1991, and in 1993 (only two years later) after violating probation he spent for 4 months in federal prison (California have yet to release any details of that violation or explain why he was again released into the community). Nevada officials said they were never notified of Garrido’s parole violation, which would have allowed the state to revoke his parole. Had California parole inspected his home in 1993, we would not be here now asking questions, we would be saying our system works, now I am not sure of anything. Because now I wonder how many more of these freaks are in our country doing the same thing under the noses of our so called authorities.
Yes, I agree he should have served all the time for his first offense, but don’t let our authorities off the hook. I can only say if you have a neighbor that fits this profile, call and call again to try to ensure that this does not happen again. Simply amazing.