A Stolen Life: A Memoir

This summary section includes Chapter 24: “Discovery and Reunion,” Chapter 25: “First for Me,” Chapter 26: “Milestones,” Chapter 27: “The Difficult Parts of Life.”

As Phillip gets more deeply enmeshed in his philosophy about bad angels, he drops off his manifesto at an FBI office. He then goes to the Berkeley University campus to try to book a speaking engagement. He has brought along Jaycee’s two daughters, aged 15 and 11, because he believes people will be more likely to listen to his theory about evil angels if he has children with him. His odd behavior prompts two Berkeley policemen to have him arrested on August 25, 2009, because he is a convicted sex offender who is not supposed to have contact with children. After Phillip is taken into custody, the family is in turmoil. Neither Nancy nor Jaycee knows what to do without Phillip there to tell them. Strangely enough, he is released without being charged, which feeds his delusion that he is under special divine protection.

The next morning, Phillip decides that he is tired of government harassment and orders the entire family to accompany him to the parole office in San Francisco. Acting under his orders, Jaycee claims that the two girls are her daughters.