nbc's michael okwu now has the details. >> reporter: the letter is handwritten and full of misspellings and musings about how authorities have mistreated jaycee. "she's been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning," the author writes, "her civil rights have been clearly violated. please consider this request to contact her at your earliest possible date." >> all psychopaths love power and control. so, by sending out this letter, he's still affecting people on the outside and telling them what to do and to do it his way. >> reporter: the return address on the envelope is the county jail where garrido is awaiting trial. just underneath that address, the name faintly visible, phillip garrido. a jail official says the letter appears authentic. a dugard family spokesperson said they have no intention of dignifying a letter from the kidnapper with a response. the letter was sent to nbc affiliate kcra and reporter walt gray. in a phone interview shortly after his arrest last month, garrido told gray the years with jaycee and the children he fathered with her wer

he knows exactly what he's doing. >> reporter: for "today," michael okwu, nbc news, los angeles. >>>it is now 7:15, and once again, here's meredith. >> matt, thank you. now to the latest on the arrest of director roman polanski more than three decades after he fled the u.s. to avoid sentencing on a child sex crime. a number of people have come to his defense, and that has triggered a heated debate. we're going to get thoughts from both sides of that in a moment, but first, nbc's stephanie gosk is in zurich, switzerland, with the latest. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. swiss officials won't confirm where polanski's being held, b he's widely believed to be in a cell in this building behind me. a local paper says the acclaimed director has few creature comforts -- only a bed, a table and a tv. his wife is allowed to visit, but just once a week. there are signs polanski will be sitting in that cell for a lot longer than many thought. instead of a matter of days or weeks, legal experts say the swiss court may deliberate for months. while the process drags, a

nbc's michael okwu has details. >> i have a little story that i would like to tell you and the home viewers as well. do you feel like a story? >> reporter: the late-night audience was primed. at first, clearly amused. but then not quite sure where the story was going. >> i get into my car, and in the back seat of my car is a package i don't recognize and have never seen before. and there's a letter in the package, and it says that "i know that you do some terrible, terrible things and i can prove that you do these terrible things," and sure enough, contained in the package was stuff to prove that i do terrible things. >> you heard a lot of laughter, but that was a lot of nervous laughter. >> reporter: a couple minutes in, perhaps as it was dawning on some folks this was no comedy bit, a bombshell. >> there seems to be quite a lot of terrible stuff he knows about and he's going to put it into a movie unless i give him some money. >> reporter: letterman said the man confronted him, demanding $2 million or he would reveal some potentially embarrassing information about the comic's sex life at