LAS VEGAS - A Nevada woman who was abducted and raped in 1976 by California kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido said Thursday she believes he deserves the death penalty, although his crimes wouldn't qualify him.
"I think he should be executed," Katherine "Katie" Callaway Hall said in a telephone interview from New York City, where she and her husband have been describing her encounter with Garrido in network television and radio interviews.
"Don't let him on the streets again," she told The Associated Press. "He did this to me. He is dangerous and he is a liar. Don't let him out. Don't let this happen to anyone else."
California has the death penalty, but only for murder cases with special circumstances, such as the slaying of a police officer or killing for financial gain.
Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and face 29 charges in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard. She was 11 years old when she was snatched outside her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991. They have pleaded not guilty.
The maximum penalty for convictions on the most serious charges would be life in prison.
Hall was 26 and was working as a Lake Tahoe casino dealer when Garrido knocked on her car window and talked her into giving him a ride to Reno 33 years ago. She said he handcuffed her and drove to a soundproofed storage unit where he spent several hours sexually assaulting her before a police officer noticed a broken lock and found them.
Then known as Katie Callaway, she testified at Garrido's trials. He was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison and five years to life in Nevada. Records show he served 11 years in federal prisons and seven months in Nevada before he was paroled in California in August 1988.
Now 57, married, and living in Las Vegas, Hall said she believes Garrido approached her at her job in November 1988, and that he had people keep tabs on her over the years.
"He convinced everybody - the authorities, his parole officer, his mother, everyone - that he wasn't a bad guy, that I was the one crying rape, that I was lying," Hall said. "He's a horrible person. I think prison just turned out a smarter criminal with him."
Hall said she was stunned to hear his name on a news report about Dugard having been found living with Garrido and his wife in Antioch, Calif.
"I said, 'Jim! Oh my God! This is the man who kidnapped me!"' she recalled. "It meant, to me, that my fears had been justified."