I know this article has been posted and discussed, but here is some of it again that could be pertinent. I think someone said they thought Philip brother might have problems - I'm not so sure I would think that. Different kids in the same family can perceive things a lot differently and when you are younger, you may not put two and two together. It's quite possible more went on between Patricia and Philip than he knows or it started later in Philip teenage years, early adulthood. You have to remember, Ron is 7 years older than Philip. I had read it before but found it good to revisit - much more in the article but I can only quote so much of it.
Kidnap suspect had criminal past, brother says
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/MNHQ19EU4O.DTL
After his release in the late 1980s, Phillip Garrido moved in with his mother, who lived just outside Antioch in a modest home with a large backyard. His parents had divorced in 1971, and his mother had later married Herschel Franzen, who left the home to his wife when he died in the early 1990s.
Their mother still lives at the home but has suffered major dementia for about eight years, according to her son. On Thursday, she was at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez.
Ron Garrido said his brother, over the subsequent years, spoke of plans to get rich and start a church. But he never spoke of Dugard.
There was one suspicious incident. In 2007, Ron Garrido said, an aunt told him that Phillip Garrido had visited her in Brentwood and brought along two young girls. He said they were neighbors' children and that he was babysitting.
"My aunt told me, 'I swear that oldest girl is his daughter. She's got his eyes,' " Ron Garrido remembered.
Ron Garrido said he never went into the home's backyard, where police say Phillip Garrido had set up a crude compound for his captives.
"My brother could do no wrong in my mother's eyes. I'm sure he told her some story and she bought the whole thing," the older brother said.
