A Brief History of Stockholm Syndrome

A Brief History of Stockholm Syndrome
Time and again during the 18 harrowing years she allegedly spent in captivity, Jaycee Lee Dugard must have had the chance to cry for help. She assisted her alleged abductor, Phillip Garrido, with his home business, sorting out orders by phone or e-mail. She occasionally greeted customers alone at the door. She even went out in public. But she apparently never made a run for it, returning each day instead to a shed in the backyard of the man who allegedly kidnapped and raped her. “Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy,” her stepfather Carl Probyn — who saw Dugard snatched at age 11 from a bus stop in 1991 — said Aug. 28. “She really feels it’s almost like a marriage.”

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