Lost and Found by John Glatt Page A

hours,” she replied. “He had a radio on and I would hear the Reno station say, ‘This is Reno.’ And I would hear them say the time. I heard them say twelve-something. Then I heard them say two-twenty something, right before the officer came in.”
    There had been a loud bang on the warehouse door, she told the jury, and Garrido had put on his jeans to investigate.
    “He came back in and said, ‘I think it’s the heat,’ ” she said. “ ‘Are you going to maintain? Are you going to be good?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, okay, I’ll be good.’ ”
    At first she thought it was a setup, but had decided to take a chance, literally fighting her way through the series of hanging carpet walls and out of the warehouse naked, screaming for help.
    She described her abject frustration, when the uniformed police officer standing outside with her abductor and rapist did not appear to take her seriously.
    “They both looked at me like I was insane,” she testified. “I just stood out there in the freezing cold, while the officer [asked] what was going on.”
    Then to her horror the officer ordered her back into the warehouse to dress, before allowing Garrido to follow her inside.
    She told the jury she was “terrified” Garrido would now take her hostage, but instead he began “begging” her not to tell on him, because it would be so embarrassing. Finally she had dashed out again half-naked, with the officer this time telling her to sit in his car until backup arrived and Garrido was arrested.
    In his cross-examination, Willard Van Hazel asked Callaway if she had been provocatively dressed at Ink’s Al Tahoe Market, when Garrido had first seen her.
    “Was your jacket zipped while you were in the store?” he asked.
    “I don’t remember,” she replied.
    “Were you wearing a brassiere that night?”
    “No.”
    Then Garrido’s defender asked if his client had ever threatened her with a weapon.
    “The only weapon,” she replied, “was a pair of scissors [which] he cut my pubic hairs with.”
    Van Hazel said he assumed that after his client overpowered and handcuffed her, she had done everything she could not to antagonize him.
    “I was completely passive,” replied Callaway. “I was trying to deal with the whole situation as logically as I could, without allowing terror to take over completely. I do have a son and that makes you think twice.”
    “All right,” said the defense attorney. “Now, what were the things that put you in fear?”
    “The fact of being bound,” she replied. “My hands handcuffed. My head strapped to my knees and being at the complete mercy of someone I had no idea what they were going to do with me, or what was going on in their minds at the time. I could go on and on.”
    Van Hazel then asked if she had offered his client sex while they were still in California.
    “Yes, I did,” she answered. “I asked him, ‘Couldn’t we just pull over to the side of the road and get it over with,’ because, you know, every girl has to think about rape sometime.”
    Later in his questioning, Van Hazel asked if Garrido had ever mentioned his wife’s job.
    “He said she was a [21] dealer,” she replied. “I asked him why he told me that if he didn’t want me to do anything about him. He also told me his name was Bill, and then he slipped up later on and he said, ‘My wife said Phil the other day.’ But I continued to call him Bill, so he wouldn’t . . . think that I knew his real name.”
    Then Van Hazel wanted to know if she had discussed her own sexual fantasies, after his client mentioned his.
    “I completely went along with everything,” she told the jury. “I said, ‘Oh yes. Oh I like that too.’ I tried to completely stay on good terms with him. ‘I’m all for what you’re doing.’ ”
    “And this was part of that passive role?” asked Van Hazel.
    “That was it,” she replied.
    “In that conversation then,” continued Garrido’s attorney, “did you say you often