Free Lost and Found by John Glatt

to be marijuana, and a pill bottle containing a substance believed to be hashish.”
    The detective said he also found a roach clip on the floor, as well as a hashish pipe. There was also the burned end of a marijuana cigarette, which he informed the Grand Jury members was known as “a roach.”
    The next witness was Lloyd Whalen, the chief chemist of the Nevada State Department of Law Enforcement Assistance. He testified that his laboratory had been given a number of samples of suspected drugs found in Garrido’s mini-warehouse.
    He testified that testing had confirmed there was 1.88 grams of marijuana and 3.01 grams of hashish, as well as a “clip-type smoking device” with cannabis residue.
    At the end of the chemist’s testimony, a grand jury member had a question.
    “Hashish, or whatever you call it,” asked the grand juror, “what do they do—take it as a pill, or do they smoke it?”
    “Either way,” Whalen replied. “Normally it would be smoked, but it can be taken orally. The word hashish itself I believe is from the India dialect, and the word means assassin. There were hired assassins that would get high on this stuff and go out and do their work.”
    Then the juror asked if marijuana was an aphrodisiac.
    “Neither in my search of the literature,” replied the chemist, “nor in my personal experience.”
    Later that day, the Washoe County grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Phillip Craig Garrido for forcible rape, an infamous crime against nature and possession of a controlled substance.
    And the following day—after a separate hearing of the evidence—a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment, charging him with interstate kidnapping. From now on the federal and Washoe County cases would run in tandem, with his federal trial being held first.
    On December 6, United States Magistrate Harold O. Taber appointed assistant federal public defender Willard Van Hazel, Jr., to represent Phillip Garrido. And two days later, Garrido was arraigned in the Washoe County case in the Second Judicial District Court in Reno.
    Ron Bath, the deputy public defender assigned to represent Garrido in the state case, told Washoe County district judge Grant L. Bowen that he was having problems communicating with his client.
    “Mr. Garrido has been under a great deal of stress,” he explained. “And we would like to ask that we have two psychiatric examinations prepared.”
    The defender said he also wanted the reports to see if Garrido was a danger to the “health, safety and morals of the community.”
    Judge Bowen asked if Phillip Garrido had ever spent time in an institution, and Bath said he had not.
    Washoe County deputy district attorney Donald Coppa said the state also needed to determine if Garrido knew the difference between right and wrong when the alleged kidnap and rape were committed.
    Judge Bowen agreed that the defendant should be examined by two psychiatrists, one for the state and one for the defense. And he adjourned the case for a month until the results could be known.
    On Friday, December 10, defense-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Charles Kuhn spent an hour examining Phillip Garrido at the Washoe County detention facility. The doctor conducted a clinical evaluation, but could not find any thinking disorder or organic impairment.
    “There is no question in my mind,” said Dr. Kuhn, “that Mr. Garrido has an intelligence somewhat better than average.”
    During the examination, Garrido became highly emotional, telling the doctor about his overpowering sexual fantasies of masturbating in public. He explained how drugs sexually aroused him, saying that he had taken four hits of LSD after kidnapping Katie Callaway. And since his arrest, he told the doctor, he had found God and spiritual sanctuary in the Bible.
    The psychiatrist later observed that Garrido had displayed “strangely erratic judgment” by kidnapping a girl in South Lake Tahoe and then taking over the state line