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Missing Tahoe girl may have been found alive 18 years after disappearance
F.T Norton

Bay area newspapers are reporting that a woman, claiming to be Jaycee Dugard, who was 11 when she was apparently adbucted from Meyers, in El Dorado County, on June 10, 1991, walked into a Concord-area police station Wednesday afternoon.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, spoke with the woman claiming to be her missing daughter and is en route to Northern California from her Riverside County home.

Jaycee was abducted while walking to the bus stop on Washoan Boulevard. The kidnapping drew national attention but never was solved.

"That was a very long, very taxing investigation," former El Dorado County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Watson said in an interview with the Tribune in June 2005.

Watson, the initial lead investigator in the case, retired in 2005.

Probyn told the Mercury that the people responsible for the disappearance are in custody, but that could not be immediately confirmed, according to the newspaper.

More details will be posted as they become available.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090827/NEWS/908279985/1070&ParentProfile=1058

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South Lake Tahoe Girl Missing for 18 Years Reportedly Alive
Posted: Aug 27, 2009 9:54 AM CDT

Police in California have a possible break in the kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl from South Lake Tahoe 18-years ago.

Police say a woman walked into a Contra Costa County law enforcement office Wednesday, claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who's been missing since 1991.

Dugard was just 11 years old when she was last seen just 150 yards away from her home as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe around 8:05 a.m. on June 10, 1991.

If Jaycee Lee Dugard is alive, she is now 29-years old.

Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, is flying to Northern California today to meet with the woman who claims to be her missing daughter.

Probyn says the FBI told her they have Jaycee -- and the people responsible.

A press conference is expected this afternoon in Placerville where police will release more information on the investigation.

http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=11001598

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Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped from South Tahoe in 1991, believed to be alive
News10 Sacramento • August 27, 2009

EL DORADO COUNTY, CA - The stepfather of Jaycee Dugard, the South Lake Tahoe 11-year-old girl abducted from in 1991, told News10 Wednesday night that family members believe authorities have found the now 29-year-old Jaycee alive.

"It's an absolute miracle if it is her...can you imagine this after 18 years?," Probyn said in a telephone interview.

The amazing news of Dugard's return came after a Concord police officer confirmed to News10 that local agencies were investigating the claims of a woman who allegedly walked into a Contra Costa County law enforcement office Wednesday and said she was kidnapped 18 years ago.

An FBI agent leaving Concord Police headquarters Wednesday night said the Bureau was involved in the case, but would not comment on any details of the investigation.

"There will be a press conference tomorrow," the unidentified agent told reporters. "We're working it."

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department is planning to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the case, according to El Dorado County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Bryan Golmitz. News10.net will provide a stream of the news conference live.

Probyn, a contractor who now lives in the southern California community of Orange, said Jaycee's mother Terry received a call at her job with the Riverside School District from the FBI Wednesday afternoon.

Probyn said the agent on the phone identified himself and said, "We've got Jaycee."

Terry then had a phone conversation with the woman authorities believed to be her long-lost daughter, a conversation that left Terry "positive" that Jaycee was home, Probyn said.

He said his wife thought Jaycee sounded normal and not like she was mistreated over the last 18 years. Terry said that "(Jaycee) remembered a lot," according to Probyn, who was in "complete shock that (Jaycee) is alive."

Terry Probyn told Carl that the FBI didn't get into where Jaycee was or who she was with for the past 18 years, but said "she was with some people and...they are in custody." Probyn said he had no idea about the identity of those "people."

"I told my wife I want those responsible to be taken down, no deals at all," Probyn said.

Dugard was just 11 years old when she was last seen just 150 yards away from her home as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe around 8:05 a.m. on June 10, 1991.

Carl Probyn said from inside his home, he saw a man and a woman in a two-tone gray, late-model sedan make a U-turn on Washeon Boulevard, then saw the woman in the car grab Jaycee and pull her inside.

Investigators at the time believed Dugard may have been taken across state lines into Nevada after her abduction. Despite at least one alleged sighting immediately following her disappearance, Dugard was not seen again -- until Wednesday.

Of the past two decades since Jaycee's disappearance, Probyn said, "It's like having heart surgery and not being sewn up. Your heart just aches."

Carl Probyn said the stress, pain and trauma of Jaycee's abduction destroyed the Probyns' marriage. The pair are separated, but Probyn said they remain friends, living 40 miles apart.

Probyn said Terry and the couple's 19-year-old daughter Shayna were flying to northern California Thursday morning to reunite with Jaycee.

Along Washeon Boulevard Wednesday night, South Lake Tahoe residents who heard about the developments in the case were hopeful these latest events would bring closure to 18 years of unanswered questions.

"I remember my sister was in (Jaycee's) class in the fifth grade when it happened," said resident Sara Esposito. "I'm just blown away."

David Watkins, who bought Jaycee Dugard's family home on Washeon in 1998, said the spectre of Jaycee's disappearance still lingers in the nieghborhood.

"You hear about it every year. Someone says something...'What happened to her? What's going on with her?,'" Watkins said. "Maybe it'll put an end to everything finally."

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090827/NEWS/90827001/1321/NEWS

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Posted: 7:20 am PDT August 27, 2009Updated: 8:58 am PDT August 27, 2009

CONCORD, Calif. -- A young woman walked into an East Bay station and announced that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard – the girl who was snatched by an abductor from a Lake Tahoe area school bus stop in 1991.

Dugard’s stepfather -- Carl Probyn – told KTVU that the girl’s mother got a stunning phone call at work Wednesday from the FBI.

“She got a call from the FBI, they said they had found JC and she was alive,” he said in a phone interview from the couple’s Riverside County home. “They put her (the woman) on the phone. My wife talked with her and is convinced she is Jaycee. Jaycee remembers everything.”

Terry Probyn then called her former husband.

“My wife called me about 4 and asked me if I was sitting down,” said Probyn, whose marriage broke up in the wake of the abduction. “They found Jaycee They found her alive.”

He added that the FBI also said they had the “people responsible” for the abduction. Authorities said they have two people in custody in relation to the case.

Carl Probyn said Terry was enroute to the Bay Area to be reunited with her daughter. Authorities planned a news conference for later in the morning to reveal more details about the case.

The call ended an 18-year nightmare for Dugard.

"After 18 years you do give up hope, this is a miracle," he told KTVU.

On the morning of June 10, 1991, Jaycee was dressed in a pink top and pink pants when she left her family’s South Lake Tahoe home to catch her school bus.

As Carl Probyn looked on from the family’s driveway two blocks away, a gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked Jaycee into the car and sped off.

Even though the local police were quick to respond and there were witnesses, Jaycee was never found.

In 2002, authorities search of the Truckee vacation property of a defrocked priest living in the Bay Area, but found no evidence of the girl.


http://www.ktvu.com/news/20581022/detail.html


WOW!...

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it's been confirmed. What a wonderful thing:

"PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has been located in good health 18 years after her abduction, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department confirmed.

Dugard, who turned 29 Thursday, was abducted from the El Dorado County community of Meyers on the morning of June 10, 1991, when she was just 11 years old.

Dugard's family said two people, a man and a woman, have been arrested in connection with the case, but police did not offer confirmation...."

http://www.kcra.com/mostpopular/20582717/detail.html

what a happy birthday for Jaycee, and her mother :)

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Registered Sex Offender - Phillip Craig Garrido

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Last Known Address: 1554 WALNUT AVE
ANTIOCH, 94509
County: CONTRA COSTA
Zip Code 94509
Date of Birth: 04-05-1951
Sex: MALE
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 196
Eye Color: BLUE
Hair Color: BROWN
Ethnicity: WHITE


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18 years later, kidnapped woman turns up alive
Henry K. Lee,Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers
Thursday, August 27, 2009

(08-27) 11:00 PDT CONCORD --

A woman kidnapped as an 11-year-old girl nearly two decades ago from outside her South Lake Tahoe home surfaced Wednesday when she and the couple now accused of snatching her walked into a Concord police station, authorities said today.

The reappearance of Jaycee Dugard stunned family members, who had all but lost hope that she was still alive 18 years after she was kidnapped on her way to catch a school bus as her stepfather watched helplessly.

Law-enforcement sources said Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, of Antioch and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55, were arrested in connection with the case. Phillip Garrido was being held in lieu of $1 million bail at Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, sexual penetration and conspiracy.

Nancy Garrido was being held on suspicion of conspiracy and kidnapping. Her bail was also $1 million.

The couple were arrested after they walked into the police station with Dugard to ask a question, authorities said. They would not say what the question involved, but it apparently aroused the suspicions of a Concord police officer.

The officer ran a criminal history check of Phillip Garrido and found out he was a registered sex offender, authorities said. State records show that he has a conviction for rape by force, and federal records show him serving a stint in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., in the 1980s.

It is still unclear how police learned that the woman who was with the Garridos was Dugard, but her relatives are beside themselves with joy.

"I gave up hope for 18 years, just went into recovery mode," said her stepfather, Carl Probyn, a wallpaper contractor. "I thought it would be nice just to recover her and capture the people and find out why they did this.

"Now, I just won the lotto. It's just unbelievable. This is going to be a great day today."

Probyn, 60, who now lives in Orange (Orange County), said his wife, Terry, called him at about 4 p.m. Wednesday with the news.

"She basically said, 'Are you sitting down?' I said, 'Yes.' And she said, 'They found Jaycee - she's alive.' "

The two, who are separated, cried for about two minutes on the phone.

Terry Probyn was able to speak on the phone with her daughter. "She sounds normal. She told my wife she remembers everything," Carl Probyn said.

Terry Probyn, who also now lives in Southern California, was on her way to the Bay Area to reunite with her daughter.

FBI agents were searching the Garridos' home today on Walnut Avenue in Antioch.

Police have declined to comment, referring inquiries to the El Dorado County sheriff's office. A news conference is scheduled for this afternoon in Placerville.

Dugard was last seen June 10, 1991, as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. The blond, blue-eyed 11-year-old, wearing a pink top and pink pants, was going to catch the bus to her school near South Lake Tahoe. She never made it.

As Carl Probyn watched from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away, a two-tone gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked the girl into the car and sped off. Even though officers responded within minutes, no trace of the car or girl was ever found - until Wednesday.

Chronicle staff writer Demian Bulwa contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at hlee@sfchronicle.com and jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/27/BA4N19EJ35.DTL#ixzz0PPLqGDKt

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The stepfather said Shayna Probyn called Wednesday about 4 p.m. and said, "Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?"

His wife told him: "They found Jaycee. She is alive."

The couple then cried for about 10 minutes as they spoke to each other. Probyn said agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called his wife at work and told her that they had Jaycee. Thinking it was a joke, she told the caller she did not appreciate what she thought was a ruse.

The FBI then put the young woman on the telephone.

"My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything," Carl Probyn said. "My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip."

He said he followed media accounts of a young woman walking into an Antioch, Calif., police station and then was taken to the Concord Police station.

Probyn was the last person to see Jaycee on the day she disappeared. He took four lie detector tests and endured suspicion of involvement in the abduction for nearly two decades.

"The FBI put me through the wringer, being questioned and having people say the stepdad did something," he said. "I have been kind of the villain these past 18 years."

Probyn said he has always had a spotless record.

"I'm an Vietnam vet and have never spent a day in my life in jail," he said. "My last speeding ticket was in 1977."

Probyn said he eventually lost hope that they would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

"Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending," he said. "To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win. It's like winning the Lotto."

Terry Probyn took a 6 a.m. flight to meet her daughter somewhere in Northern California. Carl Probyn said he wants his wife and their daughter, Shayna, to have time with Jaycee before he meets her again.

"It's a shock for Shayna to meet the half-sister she never knew," he said.

Probyn said that about three weeks ago, Shayna told him that two sheriff's deputies, presumably from El Dorado County, who work on cold cases, had visited his wife. It was his understanding that they were going to re-open Jaycee's case.

"To have this happen, where she walks into a police station, is really a miracle to get her back," said Probyn. "And she sounds like she is doing okay. I don't know if she is married. I don't know if a cult took her, or if a couple who didn't have kids took her. I'll find out today all these answers."

http://www.twincities.com/ci_13215597?nclick_check=1

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Phillip Garrido
aka
Phillip C. Knight
Themanwhospokewithhismind

Tracy, CA
Antioch, CA

WEB PRESENCE;
godsdesire@rocketmail.com
phillipcknight@yahoo.com
www.godsdesire.com
http://www.blogger.com/profile/00940447268727590947

<Snipped from Phillip Craig Garrido’s blogspot ‘voicesrevealed’>

TO: Phillip Garrido, and/or anyone else interested
FROM: Ralph A. Hernandez, P.I. & Consultant
RE: Confidential Investigation Summary Report - concerning the Affirmations / Declarations matters.

This case investigation was contracted for with me by Mr. Phillip Garrido, in person, on Friday, 2-01-08, at Not Available, phillipcknight@yahoo.com. The following is a brief summary of my investigation and personal Witness / Subject contacts.

On the dates and times listed below I personally contacted each Witness / Subject separately and individually. I independently obtained from each of them their own verbally stated verification(s) of their individual “Declaration Of Affirmation” as being honest and truthful, each reaffirmed that they did in person witness Mr. Garrido’s presenteddemonstration, experienced its results, and acknowledge placing their individual truthful and honest signatures on their own individual Declarations (as I showed each of them their’s, and questioned them about). They once again reaffirmed their “Declaration Of Affirmation” and its entire contents as their own, and without exception.

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

<Snipped from Nancy B Garrido’s blogspot ‘talentrevealed’>

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Music Investment Opportunity

As you know it takes money to produce and promote music. I'm looking for an investor to invest in my husbands music.

The profits from your investment will double, that's how confident I am about his music.

He has so much music to share with the world. I'm looking forward to meeting you. Please.
If you are an investor please send email to: nancybgarrido@yahoo.com

http://talentrevealed.blogspot.com/

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<Snipped>

the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.

You too can witness what the world believe's is impossible to produce! email: godsdesire@rocketmail.com. DON'T MISS OUT!

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

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Corporation
GODS DESIRE
Number: C3096947 Date Filed: 4/24/2008 Status: active
Jurisdiction: California
Address
1554 WALNUT AVE
ANTIOCH, CA 94509
Agent for Service of Process
PHILLIP GARRIDO
1554 WALNUT AVE
ANTIOCH, CA 94509

Courtesy: California Secretary of State

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Sex offender's neighborhood searched for clues to girl's 1991 abduction
By Bill Lindelof and Kim Minugh
blindelof@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 11:29 am
Last Modified: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 11:49 am

Police and the FBI were searching the Antioch neighborhood of a 58-year-old convicted rapist and registered sex offender this morning, apparently in connection with the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard, who surfaced alive in the Bay Area on Wednesday after disappearing for 18 years.

Authorities were swarming the neighborhood on Walnut Avenue in Antioch where Phillip Craig Garrido, a 6-foot, 4-inch, 196-pound registered sex offender lives. Garrido is listed on the state's Megan's Law sex offender Web site as being convicted of rape.

The search came amid reports out of the Bay Area that authorities had detained two people in Martinez in connection with the Dugard abduction.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office this morning confirmed the identity of the 29-year-old woman who walked into a Bay Area police station claiming to be Dugard.

Further, in an extraordinary sequence of events today, federal and local law agencies renewed their focus on the 18-year-old mystery of what happened to the blond, blue-eyed girl who was abducted while walking to school June 10, 1991.

El Dorado County sheriff's officials were preparing to release details on the case at a 3 p.m. press conference, but the girl's stepfather confirmed to The Bee early today that Jaycee had resurfaced and was being reunited with her mother today.

Carl Probyn, Jaycee's stepfather, said his wife and daughter were flying to Northern California to meet Dugard and that his wife, Terry, spoke with the young woman by phone Wednesday night.

The Probyns, who are separated, live in Southern California, Carl in Orange County and Terry in Riverside. Terry Probyn and their daughter, Shayna, 19, boarded a 6 a.m. flight to the Bay Area to meet with Dugard, Carl Probyn said.

Probyn said he is elated.

"I'm just pleased that she is alive and well," said Probyn, a 60-year-old Orange County wallpaper contractor.

Probyn, who has yet to speak with his stepdaughter, said he believes suspects who might have been involved with the abduction are in custody.

Dugard's disappearance prompted a massive search, nationwide publicity and one of the largest police investigations in the region.

Dugard was on her way to school when authorities said she was pulled into a stranger's car just a block away from her South Lake Tahoe home.

Probyn said he heard her scream and saw a man and a woman drive his stepdaughter away in a gray two-tone sedan.

Despite several false sightings, Dugard was never seen again.

One person in the car was described as a 30-year-old woman with long, dark hair. Jaycee was last seen dressed in a pink windbreaker, white T-shirt and pink stretch pants.

The stepfather said Shayna Probyn called Wednesday about 4 p.m. and said, "Mom has something to say to you. Are you sitting down?"

His wife told him: "They found Jaycee. She is alive."

The couple then cried for about 10 minutes as they spoke to each other. Probyn said agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called his wife at work and told her that they had Jaycee. Thinking it was a joke, she told the caller she did not appreciate what she thought was a ruse.

The FBI then put the young woman on the telephone.

"My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything," Carl Probyn said. "My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip."

He said he followed media accounts of a young woman walking into an Antioch police station and then was taken to the Concord Police station.

Probyn was the last person to see Jaycee on the day she disappeared. He took four lie detector tests and endured suspicion of involvement in the abduction for nearly two decades.

"The FBI put me through the wringer, being questioned and having people say the stepdad did something," he said. "I have been kind of the villain these past 18 years."

Probyn said he has always had a spotless record.

"I'm an Vietnam vet and have never spent a day in my life in jail," he said. "My last speeding ticket was in 1977."

Probyn said he eventually lost hope that they would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

"Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending," he said. "To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win. It's like winning the Lotto."

Terry Probyn took a 6 a.m. flight to meet her daughter somewhere in Northern California. Carl Probyn said he wants his wife and their daughter, Shayna, to have time with Jaycee before he meets her again.

"It's a shock for Shayna to meet the half-sister she never knew," he said.

Probyn said that about three weeks ago, Shayna told him that two sheriff's deputies, presumably from El Dorado County, who work on cold cases, had visited his wife. It was his understanding that they were going to re-open Jaycee's case.

"To have this happen, where she walks into a police station, is really a miracle to get her back," said Probyn. "And she sounds like she is doing okay. I don't know if she is married. I don't know if a cult took her, or if a couple who didn't have kids took her. I'll find out today all these answers."

Bee researcher Pete Basofin contributed to this report.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2143666.html

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Smart Detective Recognizes Jaycee Dugard
Ayesha Thomas
2 mins ago

SACRAMENTO, CA -- News10 has learned new details about how investigators uncovered the fact that Jaycee Dougard was alive and well nearly 20 years after she was kidnapped.

An unnamed source told News10 they received a call Wednesday from a detective in the Bay Area who said "I've got Jaycee Dugard sitting across the table from me."

According to investigators, Jaycee Duggard came into a police station in Contra Costa County with a couple on an unrelated matter.

The officer at the front desk was suspicious of the man and ran his name, which came back as a registered sex offender.

Sources told News10 Phillip Garrido, 58, was in the South Lake Tahoe area the day Jaycee disappeared.

More information about the investigation is expected to be released at a press conference on the investigation will take place at 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, ABC News has learned that Jaycee Dugard is the mother of two children.

News10/KXTV

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=65918&catid=2

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Source: 1991 Kidnap Victim Was Sex Slave For Sex Offender, Bore Children
By: Rowena Lugtu-Shaddox
FOX40 News
August 27, 2009

ANTIOCH - Sources tell FOX40 News the victim of a 1991 kidnapping was used as a sex slave for a convicted sex offender and his wife.

Authorities tell FOX40 kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard had two children fathered by the suspect, sex offender Phillip Garrido.

Officials were searching the Antioch home of Phillip Garrido Thursday afternoon. The kidnap victim was held captive in a backyard facility or shed.

Dugard walked into a Concord police station 18 years after she was abducted from a bus stop near her home in Meyers. While authorities are certain the woman is Dugard, DNA tests are being conducted with results available as soon as Friday afternoon.

Neighbors told FOX40's Darsha Phillips that while Garrido was frequently seen at the home, they didn't see any sign that Dugard lived there.

A press conference is scheduled with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department at 3PM today. FOX40.com will stream the press conference live.

FOX40 News and FOX40.com will deliver additional information as it becomes available.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/ktxl-news-coldcase-sexslave0827,0,5457032.story

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Gordon Hinkle / Paul Verke
(916) 445-4950
August 27, 2009
CDCR Parole Agents Help Uncover 18-year-old Mystery Concerning Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard

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Phillip Garrido: image submitted 8-26-09

SACRAMENTO - The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Division of Adult Parole Operations helped to uncover a nearly 18-year-old mystery concerning the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was last seen as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991.

On August 26, 2009, a CDCR parole agent brought in parolee Phillip Garrido for questioning. The day before, suspicious activity had been reported when Garrido, a registered sex offender, was seen with two small children at U.C. Berkeley.

CDCR involved the Concord Police Department to assist in determining the identity of the two children and an adult female who accompanied Garrido to CDCR's parole office in Concord. The diligent questioning and follow up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female. It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard and that the children were his.

Garrido and his wife were arrested and transported to the Concord Jail. The FBI with the full cooperation of CDCR and local law enforcement officials are conducting a full investigation surrounding Garrido and further information is pending those investigations.

On June 8, 1999, Garrido was paroled from a Nevada state prison. Garrido, 58, served time in federal custody and in Nevada for sexual assault. Garrido's prior arrest history consists of possession of marijuana. While on parole supervision in California, Garrido was subject to: anti narcotic testing, to refrain from alcohol, and global positioning system (GPS) monitoring.

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Adult Parole Operations will be holding a briefing to answer questions on the matter today.

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/2009_Press_Releases/Aug_27.html

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More on LA Times
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Hope this link works.

[Pandabear]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13216470

Sex offender, wife arrested in 1991 kidnap in California, victim found alive

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — A convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in the kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl in 1991 who recently walked into a Northern California police station, authorities said today.

Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said.

Phillip Garrido is also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.

Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear, according to the Megan's Law database.

The kidnapped woman was in good health when she came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago outside her South Lake Tahoe home, said sheriff's Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff's Department.

It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced.

"We're 99 percent sure it's her," he said. He said DNA tests were being conducted.

Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and he received a call Wednesday from investigators who had tentatively identified her as Dugard.

Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging a meeting, said Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. "We are very confident at this point in time that it is her." Lee said the suspects were being held in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez.

A house in the city of Antioch was cordoned off with police tape as it was being searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.

"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said the news of the case was like winning the lottery.

"To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win," he told the Sacramento Bee.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather was watching on June 10, 1991.

In media reports at the time, the girl's stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and screamed at neighbors to call 911.

The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn said his wife, Terry, had spoken with Dugard by phone on Wednesday. He said the mother and their 19-year-old daughter were flying from their Southern California home to meet with Dugard in Northern California.

Investigators first visited with his wife about three weeks ago, he said.

Probyn said he endured years of suspicion from FBI agents who believed he may have been involved in the abduction. He eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

"Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending," Probyn said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since she was abducted and new leads had surfaced over time.

"You bet it's a surprise. This is not the normal resolution to a kidnapping," he said.

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[Faith]

Closer Look at Other Children Missing From Our Area
Posted: Aug 27, 2009 6:51 PM CDT

Today's developments in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case solves one missing children's case for our area. But there are still many more.

One of the oldest missing children cases in our area is Anthony Franko.

He disappeared in 1983 on his way to school in Lemmon Valley. He is now age 37.

Shantelle Hudson was last seen in November 1988 in Dayton. She's now age 37.

Jennifer Martin went missing in June 1987 when she was leaving a grocery store in Lemmon Valley. She is now 33.

Rene Romero was last seen in November 1994, one day before his sixth birthday. He is 19 now.

Cerenio Solis Jr. has been missing since July 1998 when he was four years old. It is believed his non-custodial mother took him to Mexico. He is now 15.

Heather Lewis was last seen at school in Ely in April of 2003. She is now 19.

And the most recent missing child case, you may remember from last month, the three Martinez children.

They were the subject of an Amber Alert that went on for several days. It is believed their mother took them to Mexico.

If you have information, call 911 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-the-lost or 1-800-843-5678.

http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=11005493

[Faith]

Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later

27, 2009, 09:20 pm ET

Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: Kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home.

Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."

Dugard, now 29, was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the meeting was tempered with sadness as the family learned their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life as a virtual slave.

"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.

The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.

Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was charged with various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.

Garrido was on lifetime parole, and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a visitor to Garrido's house would not notice anything was amiss — the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a tarp.

Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his daughters, but they are investigating.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. It was not known if he had a lawyer.

Dugard's stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing everything he could to help find her.

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"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

Garrido's compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170 miles from her family's home in South Lake Tahoe. The house was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.

"In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade. Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.

In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.

Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido's criminal record.

"We never thought anything bad about the guy," Allen said. "He was just kind of nutty."

In addition to kidnapping charges, Phillip Garrido is being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department. His, Nancy Garrido, 54, was arrested on kidnapping charges.

The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

Garrido has a long rap sheet dating back to the 1970s.

He has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake Tahoe in a Ford Granada and snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Her stepfather said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!"

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I don't know if she was brainwashed, I don't know if she was walking around on the street, I don't know if she was locked up under key for 18 years, I have no idea."

The mother and daughter met Thursday morning at an area hotel. Dugard retains custody of her children, authorities said.

At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by police.

"Oh my God," murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.

Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing searches.

"Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years," she said, her eyes moist with tears.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112293055

[Jute]

Kidnap Suspect: 'Wait Until You Hear The Story'
Phillip Craig Garrido Accused Of Kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard
August 27, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
A sex offender accused of fathering two children with a girl he kidnapped in 1991 claims his life "has been straightened out" and implored people to wait until they hear the whole story of what happened at a Bay Area home over the past 18 years.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, is accused of taking Jaycee Lee Dugard from her home in the El Dorado County community of Meyers when she was 11 years old.

Dugard and the children, now 11 and 15, lived in an isolated backyard compound of tents, outbuildings and a shed behind Garrido's home on Walnut Avenue in Antioch, authorities said.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will."

In a telephone interview with KCRA 3, Garrido urged people to wait for more details about what took place at the house.

"You are going to be completely impressed," he said. "It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there."

Garrido also claimed that he left important documents with an agent at the FBI office in San Francisco.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. It was not known if he had a lawyer.

Garrido and his wife, 55-year-old Nancy Garrido, were booked into the Contra Costa County jail in Martinez late Wednesday night, according to jail records.

Phillip Garrido was booked on charges including kidnapping, conspiracy, rape and committing lewd acts with a minor, according to the records. Nancy Garrido is accused of kidnapping and conspiracy. Both are being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

'This Strange Religious Stuff'

Phillip Garrido has a business called God's Desire, based out of his home in Antioch. He referred to God's Desire as a church in a telephone interview.

"What's kept me busy the last several years is I've completely turned my life around," Garrido told KCRA 3. "And you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim -- you wait. If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.

"In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade.

Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.

During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.

Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido's criminal record.

"We never thought anything bad about the guy," Allen said. "He was just kind of nutty."

Garrido was paroled from a Nevada state prison on June 8, 1999. He served time in federal custody in Nevada for sexual assault.

Family, Community Rejoices As Dugard Turns Up Safe

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, who now lives in Southern California, said Thursday that Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, called him Wednesday afternoon and told him the FBI had contacted her to say they may have found her daughter.

"I'm running around the house like I've had six cups of coffee," Probyn said Thursday morning.

At the time of the abduction, Dugard's family reported that a vehicle occupied by two people drove up to the girl and abducted her in view of her stepfather.

The girl was seen walking to a bus stop. As she walked, a gray, two-tone, late-model sedan was seen making a U-turn on the street.

The car approached the child and a woman described as about 30 years old with long, dark hair pulled her inside, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. A man was also seen in the car.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!"

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I don't know if she was brainwashed, I don't know if she was walking around on the street, I don't know if she was locked up under key for 18 years, I have no idea."

The mother and daughter met Thursday morning at an area hotel. Dugard retains custody of her children, authorities said. A DNA test is being conducted to confirm her identity.

At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by police.

"Oh my God," murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.

Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing searches.

"Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years," she said, her eyes moist with tears.

http://www.kcra.com/news/20591281/detail.html

[Jute]

August 27, 2009
360 Interview: Elizabeth Smart and her father, Ed

An 11-year-old California girl snatched from the street in front of her house in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and lived in a secret backyard shed, authorities said Thursday.

The 18-year mystery of what happened to Jaycee Dugard ended this week when a sex offender admitted to corrections authorities that he abducted her.

Since her kidnapping, Dugard has lived in her alleged abductor’s backyard, in a shed. All of this played out in a residential neighborhood.

We spoke to Ed Smart and his daughter Elizabeth. The Smarts lived through a similar nightmare, when Elizabeth was snatched from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. She was found nine months later.

Anderson Cooper: Elizabeth from your own experiences, what do you think Jaycee is going through right now?

Elizabeth Smart: Well for me I felt relief and happiness and I was just excited to be home and back to the people that I know love and care for me and I know want the best for me. So I think Jaycee is probably feeling something along those lines as well.

Cooper: And Ed from a father’s perspective what was it like getting that call, being told that after so long, your child was alive?

Ed Smart: It’s the end of the nightmare. Just you know, it was very surreal, we didn’t even get a call saying we had them, they just said we want you to come down. So I didn’t know what to expect. They didn’t even ask Lois to come with me, so you know, I’m just so happy for them, the moment finding that it was really her, was just like this one miracle in life that i could really have. It was just overwhelming and joyful.

Cooper: And Elizabeth, that reunion, obviously, incredibly emotional, and obviously, incredibly joyful. But there’s got to be some ups and downs with it — can you talk a little bit about what that’s like?

Elizabeth Smart: For me it was just overwhelming happiness because, I mean, I was out of that terrible situation, I was with my family and friends. I thought life was just going to resume back to what it had been before, I was just very happy. Of course I wondered what was going to happen, my captors, where were they going to be kept? What was going to happen to them? I mean, certainly there were some questions I had. But I would say for the main part I was just so happy, and I felt so loved being at home, and it was just one of the best days of my life.

Cooper: Ed, for you, what was that reunion like, and what do you think this reunion is like for this woman Jaycee who’s been away for so long?

Ed Smart: The reunion was amazing, it was pure heaven. When we were transferred to the Salt Lake Police Department, one of my biggest concerns was that law enforcement would immediately get the full story from Elizabeth, which they took her in and started – I guess what you would call – debriefing her. And I was very concerned about that. And I’m hopeful that Jaycee will not have to immediately go through that. And that’s basically reliving the whole nightmare of the time that she was gone. Now is the time to rejoice and be happy, reconnect as a family. The other will come, and it has to come, but right now it’s just a time to live and feel the joy and happiness that life can bring.

Cooper: It was a police officer, a campus police officer, who was kind of very observant and got the ball moving, which ultimately lead to Jaycee being discovered. And yet, what we’ve now learned is that she was living in a backyard for 18 years, her children never went to school, never went to see a doctor. do you think the public is observing enough of things they see?

Ed Smart: I think that there are some people, in Elizabeth’s case, there were two people that saw her at the same time. So I think a lot of people are very observant. I think that sometimes we need to put ourselves out and if we feel uncomfortable about something, you might look stupid, but it’s better to check than not. There are other children out there like this that want to be found, and that we just need to work on how we feel.

In this scenario I don’t know all the details on it, but you would i think somebody would have noticed a tent in a backyard. It sounds like it might have been remote. It’s hard to second guess anyone and I wouldn’t want to try to. It’s important to be observant. I think that’s really key.

Cooper: Elizabeth what’s your advice for Jaycee?

Elizabeth Smart: I would tell her to just relax and enjoy your family and spend some time reconnecting. Maybe if it’s possible to think back and think of things that she enjoyed doing with her family, and maybe going out and doing them again, and finding new things she would want to do with her family. One of the things I liked the best, after I came home – and no offense to the media – but, we didn’t do anything. We just my family we went on a vacation but we just spent time as a family, which was like — it was the best thing I could have done. Together as a family, it was the best thing that I could have have done.

Cooper:And Elizabeth you would agree with your Dad, and just let her take as much time as she needs and tell her story or not in her own way, to her family, to her loved ones?

Elizabeth Smart: Yes I would agree with my Dad, for me it’s something very personal and I just don’t talk about it all the time with everybody and so I would think maybe she feels the same way and if she chooses to never say anything about it, I think it should always be her decision and there are a lot of people out here that love her and support her in what she decides to do.

Cooper: And Elizabeth, I read somewhere that you had written a pamphlet to help others who have been in similar situations, is that right?

Elizabeth Smart: That’s right. A big thing I tried to stress in the section that I participated in writing was , to set goals for yourself to continually be moving forward, continuing on with your life and not letting this horrible event take over and consume the rest of your life. Because we only have one life and it’s a beautiful world out there and there are so many things to see and learn and grow in. And I would just encourage her to find different passions in life and continually push forward and learn more and reach more for them and not to look behind, because there’s a lot out there.

Cooper: It’s something that happened to you its not who you are.

Elizabeth Smart: Right.

Cooper: Obviously, this is extraordinarily good news for everyone involved in this story. And it gives hope to other families out there who are still waiting for their loved ones to be found, in one way or another. Some would say that it gives false hope to some people because so many people will never find their loved one and yet there are cases like this, like Elizabeth’s case, Jaycee’s case. So it’s a hard thing. Hope is important to hold onto isn’t it?

Ed Smart: It is. A lot of people during those nine months said, how can you believe that she’s still out there? You’re crazy, or any number of comments. But I had this impression that Elizabeth was still out there, and we never gave up hope. That isn’t to say that there weren’t doubts in my mind. But for this family I’ve heard today that a lot of them kept on hoping, and you know, here it is. It’s real. A miracle has happened.

Cooper: So many others are waiting and hoping as well.

Ed Smart: Absolutely.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/27/360-interview-ed-smart-and-his-daughter-elizabeth/

There is also a video at the link.

[Naia]

Sorry but a sex offender who kidnapped an 11 year old from her bus stop, ended her childhood, raped her, kept her hidden in a compound and had 2 children by her DOESNT give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside.

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Missing Lake Tahoe girl surfaces 18 years later

09:23 PM PDT on Thursday, August 27, 2009

By Associated Press & KING5.com



Associated Press

This undated photo provided by her stepfather William Carl Probyn shows Jaycee Lee Dugard.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said.

The details about her time in captivity emerged after Jaycee Lee Dugard surfaced at a police station in Northern California, nearly two decades after she vanished outside her home.

Police said Phillip Garrido, 58, held her the entire time as a virtual slave, sheltered from the outside world in tents, sheds and outbuildings in his backyard in suburban Antioch.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will."

There was electricity from electrical cords, rudimentary outhouse, rudimentary shower, "as if you were camping," he said.


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Prison officials said Garrido admitted the kidnapping after meeting with his parole officer. He brought Dugard and the two children, ages 11 and 15, to the meeting.

Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said.

Lindsey Baum's mother reacts

In Washington state, the family of missing McCleary resident Lindsey Baum heard the news.

"Of course I think it's great because I've felt all along my daughter is alive and well," said Melissa Baum, mother of Lindsey.

Lindsey, now 12 years old, was last seen walking home from a friend's house June 26th.

Volunteer searches for Lindsey are planned in the town of McCleary this weekend.

"I just pray I don't have to wait that long," said Melissa Baum.

Garrido's past

Phillip Garrido is also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.

Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison and served nearly 11 years in a federal prison for a federal kidnapping conviction, said Suzanne Pardee, a spokeswoman for Nevada state prisons.

He also served seven months in a Nevada prison for a conviction of rape by force or fear. Pardee said Garrido was paroled in August 1988.

Dugard was in good health when she came into a San Francisco Bay area station. She was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.

Dugard's stepfather, the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her.

"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

'Dilligent questioning and follow-up'

California corrections officials said they called in Garrido for questioning Wednesday after receiving a report that he was seen with two small children at the University of California, Berkeley.

"The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female," the department said in a statement. "It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, and that the children were his."

A house in the city of Antioch was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.

"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather watched on June 10, 1991.

Probyn said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy. I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!" he recalled.

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I have a million questions, but I'm just delighted," he said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since the abduction and new leads had surfaced over time.

"You bet it's a surprise. This is not the normal resolution to a kidnapping," he said.

The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

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By JULIET WILLIAMS and SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press Writers Juliet Williams And Samantha Young, Associated Press Writers – 24 mins ago

PLACERVILLE, Calif. – A little girl snatched on her way to school was kept hidden from the world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents for nearly two decades, even giving birth to her suspected abductor's children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from the home where she was taken.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was taken directly to the house and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday.

Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the Antioch home.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."

Even a parole agent who visited 58-year-old Phillip Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, Kollar said. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions.

"The way the house is set up, the way the backyard is set up, you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house, and never know," Kollar said.

But neighbors said there were clues even before a parole agent on Wednesday noticed Dugard, now 29, who accompanied Garrido, his wife and the children to a parole office.

Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.

"I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?'" she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"

Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, who identified herself as "Allissa," his wife, and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted to kidnapping Dugard.

Investigators said he did not yet have an attorney.

Dugard was reunited Thursday with her mother as her family learned that their blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life in captivity. Police said they had no evidence that she had ever reached out to anyone beyond the compound walls.

"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.

The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.
Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his daughters, but they are investigating.


Dugard's stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing everything he could to help find her.

"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

Garrido's compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170 miles from the Dugard family home in South Lake Tahoe.

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box. "In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburg, Calif., who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade.

Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.

In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according to the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.

In a blog that appears to have been maintained by Garrido, he wrote that he had hired a private investigator to verify his ability to speak to people using only his mind. In an "affadavit" posted there, he said he had the ability to "control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena."

Garrido gave a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview to KCRA-TV from the El Dorado County jail Thursday in which he said he had not admitted to a kidnapping and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago. "I tell you here's the story of what took place at this house, and you're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life completely around," he said.

In addition to kidnapping allegations, court records showed both Garridos were being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and kidnapping someone under 14 with intent to rape. Phillip Garrido also faces allegations of sexual penetration.

The AP, as a matter of policy, avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

Garrido has a long rap sheet dating back to the 1970s.

He was convicted of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman whom he snatched from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed, tied down and held in a mini-warehouse in Reno, according to a November 1976 story in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

He also has a conviction for rape by force or fear stemming from the same incident, and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake Tahoe in a Ford Granada when he snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Her stepfather said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!"

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Jaycee Lee Dugard has retained custody of her children and was staying at a Bay area motel, authorities said.
___ Associated Press Writers Paul Elias and Terry Collins in San Francisco; Gillian Flaccus in Orange, Calif.; Brooke Donald in Antioch, Calif.; Don Thompson in Sacramento and Sandi Chereb in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., contributed to this report.-

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http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/t1home.dugard.missing.cfme.jpg (http://helpfindthemissing.org/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/index.html)


Man, wife held as '91 kidnap victim surfaces (http://helpfindthemissing.org/2009/CRIME/08/27/california.missing.girl/index.html)

A California girl snatched from the street in front of her house at age 11 in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and lived in a secret backyard shed, authorities said. The 18-year mystery of what happened to Jaycee Dugard ended this week when she surfaced and corrections authorities said a sex offender admitted that he abducted her.

From CNN

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Police: Victim was kept as sex slave, had 2 children by her abductor

PLACERVILLE, Calif. - Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home, police said.

Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.


"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."

Dugard, now 29, was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the meeting was tempered with sadness as the family learned their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life as a virtual slave.

"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.

The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.

Suspect: I've turned my life around
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was charged with various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.
more at the link...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583149/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

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18 years later, missing girl case solved
Aug. 27: Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 when she was abducted near her home. NBC's George Lewis reports.
Nightly News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32588605#32588605

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Report: Jaycee Lee Dugard helped with alleged abductor's printing business
BY MARTHA BELLISLE • mbellisle@rgj.com • August 28, 2009

A business owner in Antioch, Calif., said the woman who was abducted at age 11 from her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 worked for her abductor’s printing business and helped him design his business cards.

Police said at a news conference Thursday that Jaycee Lee Dugard had been held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound, but Deepal Karunaratne, a real estate agent in Antioch, said he saw Alyssa, the girl Phillip Garrido allegedly kidnapped, often.

“She did the work on the cards,” Karunaratne said, adding that Garrido owned a printing company called “Printing For Less” and provided inexpensive jobs for local businesses.

“She does all my work and does all the designing,” Karunaratne said. “She would come out and do the work. She never mentioned what’s going on. Every time she comes, she’s very well-dressed and she seemed to be very healthy and happy.”

Karunaratne said Garrido sometimes dropped the business cards off at his Remax office, and sometimes Karunaratne picked his orders up at Garrido’s house.

“He told me he had three girls, three daughters,” Karunaratne said. “I’ve seen all of his daughters. Alyssa was the oldest.”

Karunaratne was one of several people listed on a Web site run by Garrido called “Voices Revealed,” which was part of his organization called “God’s Desire.”

According to Voices Revealed, Garrido believed that God had given him “the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.”

The site includes what he claims were affidavits from people, including Karunaratne, who were allegedly interviewed by a private investigator and signed a declaration saying they had witnessed Garrido demonstrate his ability to control “a voice or set of voices that are unearthly in nature.”

But those people contacted said their signatures were faked.

Timothy Allen, owner of East County Glass & Window in Pittsburg, Calif., said Garrido produced the business cards for the glass company, but Allen said he never interacted with Garrido beyond the printing jobs.

“He would come in to deliver the cards, and he was always talking about this new religion thing, rambling,” Allen said. “I always encouraged him because he seemed like a simple guy with a mental problem.”

Allen said Garrido would come in with two young blond girls, aged around 10 and 14, and said they were his daughters.

“They looked normal,” Allen said. “They spoke really well, and one even shook my hand.”

Allen said Garrido would talk in circles about his religion, and said he had rented a hall where he planned to hold his church, and said he was preaching at the University of California, Berkeley.

“He told me months ago that he had been at UC Berkeley,” Allen said. “The more he told me, the more I knew it was garbage. I thought he was retarded or something. He’s out there.”

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090828/NEWS12/90828004&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2Fbreakingnews

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I don't know that I believe this story. If true, why not be persistent?


Missing girl Jaycee Lee Dugard could have been rescued earlier according to neighbours

28 August 2009

Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl who sensationally reappeared this week after being kidbnapped 18 years ago, could have been rescued earlier had the authorities listened to warnings from locals concerned about the alledged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, according to neighbours.

Dugard, and her two daughters were being held by Garrido in his back yard in a series of tents and sheds. Garrido was a known sex offender, having been convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1971.

According to his neighbours, the authorities had been informed of suspicious behaviour by Garrido, who fathered Dugard's daughters while she was in captivity.

One neighbour, Haydee Perry, told KCRA-TV, "They knew that he was a sex offender. They knew there were kids there. We all knew it wasn't right."

They [the neighbours] called the Sherriff's department a couple of years prior to me being here and said 'hey there's kids in the back yard, there's people living in tents back there - can you come and check?.'"

"From what I understand they did nothing about it. They didn't look at the back yard, they just left the situation... How can this happen when he's a registered sex offender and he has little girls living with him?"

Dugard, who went by the name "Allissa" while in captivity, seems to have been seen with her daughters at times by the neighbours. During that time her daughters referred to her as their sister.

Perry said of the daughters, ""Very quiet, she wouldn't smile, she wouldn't wave and that's what touches my heart. She would just give a blank stare. Someone said maybe she was crying out for help or something because it was a blank stare. She wassn't like happy and go lucky and skipping around, it was just blank."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090828/missing-girl-jaycee-lee-dugard-could-have-been-rescued-earlier-according-neighbours-phillip-garrido.htm

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The full transcript of her kidnapper's bizarre interview from jail

By Julie Moult
Last updated at 1:54 PM on 28th August 2009


Phillip Garrido conducted a rambling, nine minute 58 second phone interview on Thursday afternoon from his prison cell after getting in touch with the local TV news station KRCA 3.


Interviewer: Ok..thank you for getting in touch with us. So how are you doing? Can you tell me what happened. Are you doing ok?


Phillip Garrido: Yes..I'm doing fine. Erm..in the end….Mr Ross? (?)In the end this is going to be a powerful, heartwarming story, one that you're going to be really impressed.

It's going to take world news, the first thing I'd like to tell you and the only thing I'd like to tell you right now...er.. just because for some reason I didn't get to speak with you today and I asked to speak with you…is this… contact..go to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, 15th floor in San Francisco and ask for a copy if the documents that I left with them three days ago.


'This is for you, the news media, that was left in their hands, there's something powerful going down they have a jurat in them, they have an investigation in them and they have powerful witnesses concerning my situation.


'I would like to stop right there so that when we could sit across from each other and then you'll have that in your hands because what you will have in your hands will take world news immediately.


Interviewer: Philip we're recording this I hope you don't mind?


PG: 'Oh No sir I do not.



Int: 'Ok can you tell us the circumstances surrounding what happened back in1991 the whole deal that leads us to today?'
PG: 'I haven't… I haven't talked with a lawyer yet so I can't do that but I can tell you that those circumstances will begin to come to light as soon as you grab those documents, that's why they are in the Federal Government's hands.
Int: 'Ok does this have anything to do with your place of business?
PG: 'No'
Int: 'Ok'
PG: 'Place of business?
Int: 'Well just in terms of the listing of your home….it's God's something?
PG: 'Oh, that's the church.
Int: 'OK is this all flow under that Phillip?
PG: 'Yes it does'
Int: 'OK'
PG: 'Thats why... the reason it's in the Government's hands will state right on the front of it...that they accepted it from me very, very happily.
Int: 'Back in 1991, why was it that you selected this girl?
PG: 'I'm so sorry…I'm going to….er..em…let me help you as soon as I can sit down and do this correctly because I have no desire to hold back these things in fact when this takes place you are going to be really surprised at what happened…it's a powerful heartwarming story. If you would just co-operate with me you can make the decisions as you get the information, I'm so sorry because I don't mean to disappoint you right now I just want to do this in orderly fashion.
Int: 'No I completely understand and I do appreciate you talking to me at this time. What situation do you think you're in right now?'
PG: 'Well Im in a very serious situation. Er..what it is…er I can't speak with you about it I have to wait. But I guarantee you as each time goes on you will get the pieces of the story and in a very…er… powerful manner. When you get these documents in your hands you are going to fall over.
Int: When can I get these documents Phillip?
PG: Well the Federal Government on the 15th floor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I gave them to one of the agents and so they have them there and er speak to them tomorrow immediately and ask them for a, a copy of those.
Int: 'Two days ago when you were in Berkely and you were contacted by some people with law enforcement can you tell me what you said to them? Did you feel somewhat relieved that they had found you how did you feel Phillip ?
PG: 'Im feeling much better now this is a process that needed to take place, please go ahead and grab those documents cos they ... and like I said they are going to be a part of the trial because this is going to turn into a major trial.'
Int: 'Phillip, what do you hope happens once the documents are out once the trials begins or is over, what do you hope comes from this for you?
PG: 'Well let me tell you this when I went to the San Francisco bureau - and I'm not avoiding confession and just trying to make sure you understand something - I was accompanied by two children that are Jaycee's two children what we have had, so and to really start this off please get those documents. They will not disappoint you, they will absolutely tell you right away that you are in control of something that is going to take world attention.
Int: 'I know you served some time in the nineties, what have you been doing all this time in terms of employment? What have you been doing? What keeps you busy?
PG: 'Er…what's kept me busy the last several, several years I've completely turned my life around and er..you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witnesses, from the victim.
'You wait…you just If you just take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backward and in the end you're going to find the most powerful, heartwarming story and er..revealing to something that needs to be understood and that's about as far as I can go.
'I really want to help you but I need to make sure that the media is also protected correctly
Int: 'I understand that, will we be getting most of this, what you're saying, from Jaycee?
PG: 'Jaycee will also handle that with her love...this is what we're going to do, we're going to co-ordinate this because the department are absolutely for a law enforcement….wait till you read that document, my life has been straightened out, wait till you hear the story of what took place at this house.'
You are going to be absolutely impressed.'It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there.
'I'm so sorry Mr Ross. I would like to help you further but I also need to protect the sheriff's office and the federal government and I need to protect the rights of Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Int: 'I understand that...can you at least share with me what you have told law enforcement?
PG: 'I haven't told them anything. I will not speak to them until I have a..err...what I have shared with law enforcement you have in those documents I didn't tell them anything else but what is on those documents and they were really impressed.
Int: 'Did you, when they first met with you recently, did you tell them that you did have a hand in taking Jaycee back in 1991?
PG: Oh no, no, no....that was just a beginning of what I was preparing which is going to lead to what happened, actually happened and it's going to explain something that humans have not understand well.
Int: I understand that Phil, I'm just saying you're mentioning it is going to be a heart-warming story.
PG: It is
Int: 'Can you give me an overview, as to is it a love story? is it a story about children?
PG: No, no it's a constructive story of turning a person's life around and having those two children, those two girls, they slept in my arms every single night from birth...(breaking down) never did I harm them, I never touched them.
'You just have to take this a step at a time and do what I asked you to because you're going to be so happy that you did.
'I'm not going to get too far into it but wait until you find out. There's going to be people coming forward at this trial - and that's not all - you're going to be in a state of shock when you see how many hundreds of thousands of people are going to come out of the woodwork to start testifying about something.
'Please just do me a favour and follow the first part that I ask you to do because you can make your own decisions from that and what you want to do.
'This is not for me, you'll find out this is not a play or a way of me monopolising on anyone.
'It's a very, very well constructed and powerful written disclosure, please do that and then we'll work from there.
Int: 'Let me ask you this before I go, are the children ok?
PG: 'Absolutely, since the youngest one was born…from that moment on everything turned around and these people are going to testify to these things.
Int: We were just somewhat concerned about the lack of, perhaps, some sound medical attention?
PG: 'Absolutely, that is absolutely because we just didn't have the finances and so forth and we were very concerned and you have to get into the actual thing...the Government in the end, the federal government, ended up being involved because they are being pursued by hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who are suing them with lawsuits...just read the documents and we'll go from there.
'Thank you sir and I thank you, God bless you for allowing me to call you.'
Int: Phillip, thank you for the phone call.
PG: I wanted to see you today but I don't know what happened you know? I don't know. But thank you so much for allowing me to talk to you and I'm not going to call any other media, I'm going to leave this with you right now because you're the first person here that I was able to talk to, I've got other numbers but I'll stop right there.'


Audio of interview.
http://www.kcra.com/video/20591978/index.html

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Read this---------

Kidnap suspect's father: son 'out of his mind'

The father of a man suspected of kidnapping a girl 18 years ago and hiding her in his backyard says his son is "absolutely out of his mind."

Manuel Garrido told The Associated Press Friday that his son Phillip Garrido fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD.

The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person.

Speaking by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido says he hasn't seen his son in years and has never been to the house where Phillip Garrido allegedly lived with the missing girl Jaycee Lee Dugard, their two children and his wife, Nancy Garrido.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are being held for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy. Phillip Garrido also has been accused of various sex crimes.

http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1411063.html

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Kidnap suspect's home searched for murder evidence
By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer
Friday, August 28, 2009
(08-28) 13:53 PDT Antioch, Calif. (AP) --

The twisted kidnapping case of a woman held captive for 18 years in a secluded backyard compound took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of her alleged captor for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes and new evidence surfaced of missed opportunities to arrest him years ago.

Officers executed a search warrant at Phillip Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings, Contra Costa sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry said.

Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido, a sex offender, worked during the 1990s.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged Friday with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Authorities said they held her and two children she had with Garrido as prisoners in a backyard encampment.

Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said a neighbor reported three years ago there were people living in tents in a backyard encampment at the home of Garrido.

The deputy who interviewed Garrido in November 2006 gave him a warning that people living outdoors was a code violation. The deputy did not go into the backyard of the house located in an unincorporated area of Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco, Rupf said.

More suspicion and curiosity on the deputy's part could have uncovered the secret encampment where Dugard allegedly was held, he said.

They "missed an opportunity" and there are "absolutely no excuses," Rupf said, apologizing to the Dugard family.

Phillip Garrido, 58, was arrested Wednesday and is also facing sexual assault charges, Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.

Dugard reunited with her mother, sister and another relative Thursday. They are at an undisclosed San Francisco Bay area hotel, and Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said Dugard is doing well under the circumstances.

"She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said on "The Early Show" on CBS.

The neighbor who called authorities three years ago also told them Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction. Rupf said the deputy who visited the home did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender, even though the Sheriff's Department had the information.

Garrido's father, Manuel Garrido, also told The Associated Press Friday that his son is "absolutely out of his mind." He said Garrido fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD.

The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person.

Speaking by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido said he hasn't seen his son in years and has never been to the house where the encampment allegedly was set up.

He said his ex-wife, Phillip Garrido's mother, has dementia and is not well. She also lived in the Antioch house

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/27/national/a095621D41.DTL&tsp=1

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A Young Girl is Killed

Lisa Diane Norrell, a 15-year-old Mexican-American girl, was the adopted daughter and only child of Minnie Norrell, an Italian-American woman living in Pittsburg (See NORRELL). On November 6, 1998, as she had every evening that week, Lisa attended a rehearsal for a quinceañera at the IDES hall on 111 West 10th Street in the nearby town of Antioch.

The quinceañera is a Mexican coming-of-age party, marking a 15-year-old girl's entry into society. It includes a lavish celebration with specific dances and formal attire, similar to a wedding. The night Lisa disappeared, she was practicing for the quinceañera party of a friend.

According to participants at the rehearsal, Lisa angrily left the hall between 10:30 and 11 p.m. that night. Witnesses saw her walking on the Pittsburg-Antioch highway, presumably to get to her home on East 12th Street in Pittsburg. The highway is a lonely, poorly lit stretch of road. Lisa was wearing a long gray sweatshirt and blue jeans, and carrying the dark blue velvet dress and black dress shoes she had taken to the party. At 2:45 a.m. Minnie Norrell awoke from her sleep, and realized that her daughter had not come home. She and other members of her family spent hours looking for Lisa. It was a rainy and windy night, with temperatures only in the high 40s.

"We got out, walked around in the rain looking everywhere. There was nothing anywhere," recalled Tony Quesada, Lisa's 17-year-old biological brother, who was adopted by one of Minnie's good friends.

The circumstances in which Lisa left Antioch's IDES dancing hall that night remain unclear. All the community knows is that she left in anger.

One of the Norrells’ neighbors, 75-year-old Julia Passmore, reported that Lisa left after "the dance partner she was supposed to practice with refused to dance with her." But Minnie's version of the facts is different: "I know my daughter; she probably got embarrassed because she couldn't learn the steps and then she did get mad."

Minnie's only direct contact with the family that hosted the quinceañera was a few days after Lisa had disappeared. "[The father] said, 'I'm sorry that your daughter is missing,'" Minnie recalled. "'My wife thought she was with me, and I thought she was with my wife. I looked everywhere and couldn't find her.'"

Many people don't understand why Lisa risked walking alone in the night. "The funny thing is, I don't know what got her to be walking out there," said City Councilman Frank R. Quesada, who is Tony's uncle. "It's not a heavily used road, it's very dark and it's not a city incorporated area."

The Pittsburg-Antioch highway has no sidewalk, just gravel on the sides of the road. On one side are fields, and on the other side, occasional industrial businesses. The distance from the dancing hall to the Norrells’ house is about four miles.

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The Coroner's Report

The morning after Lisa's disappearance, her black shoes were found on the side of the Pittsburg-Antioch highway. Police began scouring the area with infrared video cameras. One week later, on November 14, Lisa's body was discovered at the Nav-Land landscaping site, which faces the highway. The manager of the company still remembers hundreds of policemen inspecting the area, sending the staff home once they found the body and closing down three blocks for about three days.

According to the coroner's report, which the police heavily censored for investigative purposes, Lisa died of asphyxia (See RECORDS). Because of the censoring of certain details of the report, it is not clear whether she died of suffocation or strangulation. She had cuts and bruises on her chin and neck, and some blood and body fluids had been found on her sweatshirt. Police would not comment on whether Lisa had been sexually assaulted.

Although Lisa's body was found on the side of the landscaping yard, between some parked cars and the building, none of the workers had noticed the body during the week she was missing. Police would not say if the body was hidden or buried in any way.

During the week of Lisa's absence, Minnie relied on the support of her friends and family. "I had a lot of family here," said Minnie. "My family came and they just stayed. Their friends came and they stayed. The police came right away." Minnie also had to deal with a relentless media. "The press didn't let up, but at the same time, I needed them to have Lisa's name out there," she said. (See ETHICS)

More Killings Ensue

Within two months of Lisa's murder, three more women were killed. All of the victims' bodies were discovered within miles of the industrial site where Lisa's corpse was found. Three of the victims were known prostitutes.

Twenty-four-year-old Jessica Fredericks was found on Harbor Street in Pittsburg on December 5. She died of multiple cut and stab wounds. Rachael Cruise, 32, was found on California Avenue on December 15; she died of asphyxia and manual strangulation. The coroner's report on her death suggested that her body had been dragged along the road for a short period of time. Valerie Dawn Schultz, who was found on Willow Pass Road on January 8, died of multiple stab wounds. Evidence showed that she had also been strangled. She was almost 28 years old. Another victim, 38-year-old Tammie Davis, was found on December 15, severely beaten in a portable toilet in Bay Point, formerly called West Pittsburg. She is currently recovering from her injuries, although according to the officer in charge of her case, Detective Michael Costa of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, "she'll never be at full capacity again."

Out of the five crimes, only one suspect has been charged: Mohammed Niaz, who was taken into custody last March and is currently on trial for Fredericks' murder.

Though police had leads on Niaz as early as December, concern nonetheless rose in the community and spread through the media that the killings were all connected. Were women being targeted? Was there a serial killer on the loose?

Deputies even went so far as to approach prostitutes in the area to warn them to stay off the streets. Police, searching for similarities with past cases, looked at the 1992 unsolved murders of two prostitutes in the Pittsburg area, Sharon Mattos and Andrea Ingersoll.

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/lisa/case.html

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By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer Terry Collins, Associated Press Writer – 20 mins ago

ANTIOCH, Calif. – The twisted kidnapping case of a woman held captive for 18 years in a secluded backyard compound took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of her alleged captor for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes and new evidence surfaced of missed opportunities to arrest him years ago.

Officers executed a search warrant at Phillip Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings, Contra Costa sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry said.

Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido, a sex offender, worked during the 1990s.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged Friday with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Authorities said they held her and two children she had with Garrido as prisoners in a backyard encampment.
The couple pleaded not guilty to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment. A judge ordered them held without bail.

Phillip Garrido appeared stoic and unresponsive during the brief arraignment hearing. His wife cried and put her head in her hands several times.
Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said a neighbor reported three years ago there were people living in tents in a backyard encampment at the home of Garrido.

The deputy who interviewed Garrido in November 2006 gave him a warning that people living outdoors was a code violation. The deputy did not go into the backyard of the house located in an unincorporated area of Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco, Rupf said.

More suspicion and curiosity on the deputy's part could have uncovered the secret encampment where Dugard allegedly was held, he said.
They "missed an opportunity" and there are "absolutely no excuses," Rupf said, apologizing to the Dugard family.

Phillip Garrido, 58, was arrested Wednesday and is also facing sexual assault charges, Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.

Dugard reunited with her mother, sister and another relative Thursday.

They are at an undisclosed San Francisco Bay area hotel, and Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said Dugard is doing well under the circumstances.
"She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said on "The Early Show" on CBS.

The neighbor who called authorities three years ago also told them Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction. Rupf said the deputy who visited the home did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender, even though the Sheriff's Department had the information.

Garrido's father, Manuel Garrido, also told The Associated Press Friday that his son is "absolutely out of his mind." He said Garrido fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD.

The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person.

Speaking by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido said he hasn't seen his son in years and has never been to the house where the encampment allegedly was set up.

He said his ex-wife, Phillip Garrido's mother, has dementia and is not well. She also lived in the Antioch house

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Calif. couple plead not guilty in 1991 kidnap

(AP) – 1 hour ago

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A Northern California couple have pleaded not guilty in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a girl who was abducted when she was 11 years old and held captive for 18 years.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arraigned Friday on 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.

They both entered their pleas in El Dorado Superior Court, A judge ordered them held without bail.

Phillip Garrido appeared stoic and unresponsive during the brief hearing. His wife cried and put her head in her hands several times.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991. Authorities say she gave birth to two children by Phillip Garrido while she was held in a secret encampment in his Antioch backyard.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gV-KPNRrd3VmIlaX2zoWleSdV4gwD9AC4MMG0

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First look into yard that was a prison

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2613437/Sun-journalist-takes-first-look-into-Jaycee-yard-prison.html

From DAVID WILLETTS
in Antioch

Published: Today
I WAS the first journalist to see into the compound where Jaycee was held - and it chilled me to the core.

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Nightmare home ... tent where Jaycee lived

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Vision of hell ... pool, slide and boarded-up prison shed

Peering through a crack in the fence I saw teddy bears, bikes and kids' toys littering the cluttered back yard.



Sick Phillip Garrido had clearly tried to transform his yard into a childrens' paradise.


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Poignant ... trike in vile compound

Screened by a wall of tall trees there was a paddling pool complete with slide, a trampoline and a rusty swing.



And behind these signs of normality was a low-roofed derelict shed held together by tarpaulin and broken wood. The windows were boarded-up and the doors sealed tight.



Jaycee spent part of her time locked in a 10ft by 10ft shed in this yard hidden at the back of Garrido's rear garden.

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Clutter ... Garrido's rubbish-strewn backyard

It was soundproofed from neighbours and could only be opened from the outside.



She later shared the outhouse, another shed and two tents with her two daughters - guarded by two pitbulls.


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Power to the secret compound came from leads from the house and there was a "rudimentary" shower and toilet.



Police have also found a car in the yard matching the description of the vehicle used to snatch Jaycee in 1991.




It seems stunning no one realised they were there - but in the dust-bowl town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, residents keep to themselves.
Neighbour Damon Robinson, 38, lived directly next door to the compound for three years.



He said: "It's scary what happened back there.
"I always had a bad vibe out of him. We just thought he was strange - we had no idea what he was doing."



Robinson had assumed the three girls were all Garrido's daughters, and mistook Jaycee for a teenager.


He said: "I only saw her on a couple of occasions. I saw the two little girls though. They looked soulless."

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Alleged Kidnapper Probed In Deaths

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Authorities in Contra Costa County, Calif., have expanded their search and investigating whether Phillip Garrido may be linked to several unsolved slayings.

Garrido and his wife have pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

As an 11-year-old, Dugard was snatched from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop. Now 29, she was reunited with her family last week.

Yesterday, officers combed Garrido's backyard, where Dugard and her two daughters, allegedly fathered by Garrido, were said to have lived in a wooded compound of tents and sheds.

Investigators also used cadaver dogs and searched an adjoining property where neighbors say Garrido served as caretaker for a time.

Police in the nearby city of Pittsburg say they are investigating whether Garrido may have been involved in the slayings of several prostitutes in the 1990s.

Meanwhile, police in Antioch say they, too, are looking into a number of unsolved cases.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was reunited with her family over the weekend, and the meeting went well.

FBI Special Agent Chris Campion discussed the reunion between Dugard and her mother, Terry Probyn, on an FBI podcast.

"It was a very emotional scene -- both of them were just overjoyed to be with each other again," he said. "The two daughters are probably as happy as Jaycee is to be part of this family; there's going to be a period of adjustment, no doubt, but they're doing very well at this point."

The details about her time in captivity emerged after Jaycee Lee Dugard surfaced at a police station in Northern California, nearly two decades after she vanished outside her home.

Police said Garrido, 58, held her the entire time as a virtual slave, sheltered from the outside world in tents, sheds and outbuildings in his backyard in suburban Antioch.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if you will."

There was electricity from electrical cords, rudimentary outhouse, rudimentary shower, "as if you were camping," he said.

Prison officials said Garrido later admitted the kidnapping after meeting with his parole officer. He brought Dugard and the two children, ages 11 and 15, to the meeting.

Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said.

Phillip Garrido is also being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.

Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1999, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Dugard was in good health when she came into a San Francisco Bay area station.

Dugard's stepfather, the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her.

"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

California corrections officials said they called in Garrido for questioning Wednesday after receiving a report that he was seen with two small children at the University of California, Berkeley.

"The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female," the department said in a statement. "It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, and that the children were his."

A house in the city of Antioch was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.

"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather watched on June 10, 1991.

Probyn said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy. I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!" he recalled.

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he

was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.

"I have a million questions, but I'm just delighted," he said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since the abduction and new leads had surfaced over time.

"You bet it's a surprise. This is not the normal resolution to a kidnapping," he said.

The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/national/0831809_Cops_Probe_Girls_Kidnapper_In_Deaths

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Jaycee: 'Death Dogs' Search For Child Bodies
1:06pm UK, Monday August 31, 2009
Police have brought in so-called death dogs to search the home of Phillip Garrido - as they reportedly look for the bodies of three missing girls.

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(L-R) Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff and Amanda Campbell

The cadaver dogs are trained to sniff out human remains - and are being used to help officers find out if Garrido is linked to the disappearance of the children two decades ago.

He and his wife Nancy are charged with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her in a compound in their back garden for 18 years. They deny the charges.

Ms Dugard, now 29, was allegedly confined in a makeshift prison of sheds and tents in what police have described as a "backyard within a backyard".

The 58-year-old is accused of fathering two children with her, who are now aged 11 and 15. They apparently cried when he was arrested.

Investigators have also expanded their search to a property next door in Antioch, California, which Garrido used to look after.

Police officers at Phillip Garrido's home

The three schoolgirls vanished within three years of Ms Dugard's abduction and disappeared within 40 miles of his home.

They are Michaela Garecht, nine, Ilene Misheloff, 13, and four-year-old Amanda Campbell. They were all snatched off the street in daylight - just like Ms Dugard.
Michaela bore a striking resemblance to Ms Dugard. Both girls had blonde hair and blue eyes.

Garrido was released on parole in August 1988 after serving 11 years of a 50-year sentence for raping and kidnapping a Las Vegas casino croupier.

Three months later, on November 19, 1988, Michaela was thrown into a car by an abductor in a supermarket car park in the town of Hayward, 30 miles from Antioch.

On January 30 1989, Ilene disappeared on her way to an ice skating lesson in nearby Dublin.

Garridos are accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her for 18 years

Amanda, four, vanished in Fairfield, 40 miles from Antioch, on December 27, 1991. Her bicycle was found lying opposite a friend's house. Miss Dugard disappeared on June 10, 1991.

Michaela's mother, Sharon Murch, told The Times: "Of course we are happy for that child and for the family.

"But our first thought is perhaps this is going to lead to our case being solved and to our child being found alive. We really hope and pray that it might."

Scores of police officers have been helping with the search in Antioch.

Jimmy Lee, the Contra Costa sheriff, told reporters: "I will confirm they are cadaver dogs. We'll have them go through the backyard.

"Too early to say what we're looking for. Anything that may be linked to some open cases that we have. At this point, we're going thoroughly through both backyards. It's just too early to say what we might come up with."

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Dad of Accused Jaycee Kidnapper: He's a Killer
"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father said
By XANA O'NEILL and LORI PREUITT
Updated 6:46 AM CDT, Mon, Aug 31, 2009

The father of the accused kidnapper charged with keeping a girl as his sex slave for nearly two decades believes his own son is a sex addict -- and a cold-blooded killer.

Manuel Garrido said he believes his son, Phillip, who stands accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children, is involved in the slayings of other women, according the New York Post.

"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father told The Post. "I believe my son killed the prostitutes."

Nearly two dozen officers spent the weekend combing the Antioch, Calif., property where the couple hid Jaycee -- and the two children she eventually had with Phillip -- in a squalid compound of tents concealed by brush in their backyard for 18 years.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido are accused of turning Dugard into a sex slave after they plucked her from a bus stop near her South Lake Tahoe home when she was just 11 years old.

Cops scoured the property with rakes, shovels and chain saws over the weekend in the hopes of linking the couple to any other cases in the area. Cadaver dogs were unleashed in a yard of the couple's neighbor, where one of the suspects served as a caretaker.

The owner of the property is not a suspect, cops said.

Dugard, now 29, was reunited with her mother, sister and another relative last Thursday. She is said to be in good health, but feeling guilty about developing a bond with Garrido, said her stepfather Carl Probyn. Her two children, 11 and 15, remain with her.

"Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She really feels it's almost like a marriage," said Probyn, who was there when little Jaycee was snatched from a bus stop in 1991 and has been in contact with her mother since they found out the girl was alive.

"Hi, mom, I have babies," was Dugard's first words to her mother when they were reunited Thursday, Probyn said.

The couple pleaded not guilty last Friday to 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.

There were several close calls in the past. In 2006, neighbor Damon Robinson's then-girlfriend called police after she saw tents and children in the backyard. The responding officer failed to discover the encampment where authorities say Dugard was kept captive.

Police in Pittsburg are investigating whether Phillip Garrido, whose home is in nearby Antioch, is linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the early 1990s. Antioch police are also looking into unsolved cases but declined further details.

Garrido seemed incoherent and mentally unstable, and the girls wore drab-colored dresses, were unusually subdued and had an unnaturally pale complexion, said Lisa Campbell, a special-events unit manager with UC Berkeley's police department.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/breaking/FBI-Expands-Search-of-Garrido-Property-56212097.html

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Police in Jaycee Dugard Case Focus on Spate of Unsolved Killings
Search of Garrido home and neighboring house relates to nine murders, say authorities

Police from Antioch, the town near San Francisco where Jaycee Dugard was held hostage for 18 years by a sex offender until her dramatic release last week, will meet tomorrow to discuss reopening more than 10 cases concerning murdered and missing women in the area.

Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts, including kidnapping, rape and unlawful imprisonment, after they were discovered last Wednesday to have been hiding Dugard and the two children she had borne her attacker, in tents and sheds in their garden.

Dugard had been missing since being snatched in 1991, when she was 11, outside her house in South Lake Tahoe, about 170 miles away.

Detectives are now homing in on killings and missing persons reports in and around Antioch, in the suspicion that Garrido – known by neighbors as "creepy Phil" – might have been involved in many more incidents. Police have indicated they have reasons for pursuing the investigation, but have declined to give details.

Throughout the weekend forensic and homicide officers searched the Garrido home in Walnut Avenue, Antioch, using metal detectors. They dug holes in the backyard, pored over scrap heaps and used a chainsaw to clear vegetation. They also extended the search to the next door house where Garrido, 58, is understood to have been caretaker until its current occupant moved in three years ago.

Local authorities have indicated that the search of the Garrido property and the house next door relates to a string of nine murders that occurred between 1998 and 2002 in Pittsburg, a town of almost 60,000 in the San Francisco Bay area just seven miles from Garrido's home.

The victims' bodies were all found in a remote industrial zone in Pittsburg and neighboring Bay Point. It is understood that the methods of killing bore similarities and that Garrido used to work in an industrial park on the waterfront close to where several bodies were discovered.

A number of women were found beaten, strangled or stabbed and dumped in the area within a two-month period in 1998-99. They included three women alleged to be working as prostitutes, Jessica Frederick, 24, Valerie Schultz, 27 and Rachel Cruise, 32. The body of a 15-year-old, Lisa Norrell, was also found at around the same time. Norrell, who was adopted from Mexico as a baby by a Californian family, had been in Antioch to attend a rehearsal for a friend's coming-of-age party. Walking home along the short, dark, stretch of highway a few miles from Garrido's house, Norrell was attacked and asphyxiated. Her shoes were found the next morning by the side of the road, and her body was discovered eight days later near a landscaping firm further along the highway. Police did not say whether she was sexually abused.

Lisa's mother, Minnie Norrell, said on local television that police had told her they were now searching for clues to her daughter's death. "I think I started shaking. I'm hopeful that's who it is, just so there's an end. There will never be closure but there will be an end," she told KTVU.

John Conaty, one of two detectives who led the Norrell case, is now an inspector and is believed to be involved in the investigation into Garrido's activities. The other detective, Raymond Giacomelli, was killed in a shoot-out with a drug dealer in 2003.

Other cases in which the police have shown renewed interest since Garrido's arrest include that of Michaela Garecht, who, in 1988, was kidnapped, aged nine, from Hayward, about an hour's drive from the Garrido home, and has not been seen since. There is also the unsolved case of a 17-year-old girl murdered a few months before Garrido kidnapped and raped a woman in 1976, for which he was imprisoned for 11 years.

Over the weekend details began to emerge about the conditions in which Dugard and her children were kept. They lived in an area about the size of a tennis court with an earth floor under tents and sheds. The "backyard within a backyard" was kept obscured from neighbors by an intricate system of tarpaulins, with entry only through a narrow opening shielded by shrubs. Part of the construction was sound-proofed and this section is where it is believed the two daughters, now aged 11 and 15 and called Scarlett or Starlite and Angel, were born.

Photographs have been released showing women's clothes hung on a makeshift rack inside a tent, and a cluttered work area with haphazard shelves and food containers and objects strewn over chairs and on the floor.

Among the 20 or so books on the shelves were several volumes dedicated to cats, and a self-help book on raising families called Self-Esteem: a Family Affair. There were toys and crayons dotted around, a children's swing outside one of the tents, and a vase of flowers.

The possibility that Garrido could be linked to a much greater series of tragedies has caused consternation, mixed with hope of new leads, across the Bay area. In South Lake Tahoe, where Dugard used to live until her abduction, banners and ribbons have been tied to hundreds of trees and posts, all in pink, the color of the clothes she was wearing that fateful morning of 10 June 1991.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/302113.html

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Revealed: Jaycee's 'polite' emails which show key role she played in pervert kidnapper's family printing firm
By David Gardner and Julie Moult
Last updated at 2:00 PM on 31st August 2009

Customers of Gurrido's company, Printing for Less, which sold business cards and fliers, knew Jaycee as 'Allissa' and described her as professional, polite and responsive.

Ben Daughdrill, who used to own a junk hauling business, told CNN: 'She was always good at getting us what we wanted - you got the feeling she was doing all the work.'

James and Cheyvonne Molino used Garrido's printing firm for a decade and also got to know 'Allissa'.

Cheyvonne said: 'Phil couldn't design anything. Allissa was the one designing the cards, working the computer, emailing people.

'Allissa came out to see customers, delivering cards, talking to people.'
There have been reports in the last few days that Jaycee, who was held captive for 18 years, was effectively 'brainwashed' by Gurrido, who fathered two girls by her.

Emails sent to Daughdrill, allegedly from Jaycee, are compact, and using lowercase letters throughout. They also contain a few spelling errors.
One email, sent in May 2007, reads: 'i will take a look at the price sheet and send you over a copy of the revised brochure tomorrow. as to the pictures sorry ... but we don't have a digital camera ... hopefully you can find a way to get me those pictures you want so i can add them to them brochure.
'i can get the brochures to you pretty fast within the week of final approval of the brochures. How many are you going to order and do you want them on glossy or matte paper, thick or thin?"

Daughdrill, who told CNN he met 'Allissa' on two occasions, said: 'Nothing stood out. Obviously there was some brainwashing going on. That's all I can think.

'She had access to a phone and a computer, so obviously something went on that no one knows about.'

Estate agent Deepal Karunaratne, 54, said '[Allissa] was very good at her job. I thought she was very smart, well-dressed, handling the business for him.

'I regarded her as his daughter.'

Meanwhile the first picture of Jaycee Lee Dugard's two daughters, fathered by Garrido, have emerged.

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The girls, Starlet and Angel, were pictured at a neighbour's 16th birthday party a fortnight ago - just days before their father was arrested for the kidnapping of Jaycee.

Their home is now swarming with detectives, who are digging up Garrido's garden - and that of a neighbour - amid fears that they are dealing with a serial killer.

Days before their mother was discovered, the first picture released of Jaycee's girls Starlet and Angel show them attending a birthday party
Possible links are being examined between up to ten murdered prostitutes and the monster who kept Jaycee Lee Dugard in a back-garden prison for 18 years.

Garrido's father, Manuel, believes his son may have killed prostitutes.
He told reporters: 'He was a sex addict, that was his problem. I believe my son killed the prostitutes.'

Police believe Garrido might also have killed 15-year-old schoolgirl Lisa Norrell, whose body was discovered in 1998 dumped in a remote industrial area close to where he used to work.

And there could be more victims they do not even know about, which is why a dog trained to sniff out corpses was working in Garrido's garden last night.

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Suspicions: Cadaver sniffer dogs arrive to search the Garrido garden in Antioch yesterday to see if there are any links to open cases

Police also fear three more schoolgirls who lived just a few miles from his home may have been his victims.

Michaela Garecht, nine, Ilene Misheloff, 13, and four-year-old Amanda Campbell were all snatched from the street in daylight and their bodies have never been found.

A senior officer in the El Dorado Sheriff 's Department confirmed the girls' abductions in the San Francisco Bay area were identical to Jaycee's kidnap.

But a spokesman would say only: 'Unfortunately, there is a larger story to it that we can't go into right now.'

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Phillip Garrido's old workplace: A recycling centre about seven miles from his home

Michaela went missing three months after paedophile Garrido, 58, was freed from jail after serving ten years of a rape sentence in August 1988.

The blonde nine-year-old was forced into a man's car as she went to the shops near her home in Hayward, 30 miles from Antioch.

Her mother Sharon Murch said the discovery of Jaycee gave her fresh hope.
Two months later, Ilene was abducted while walking home from school in the Dublin area, 25 miles from Garrido's home.

Six months after Jaycee's kidnap, Amanda was snatched in Fairfield, 40 miles away, while cycling to a friend's house and her bike was found dumped in a field.

The police officer said: 'Within months of Garrido's release on parole, a girl is abducted and then two more follow in quick succession.

'These cases have never been solved.The question we have to ask is, "Was Garrido the beast responsible for taking these three girls?"

Police used a 'cadaver' dog to check if there were any human remains on Garrido's property or in the grounds of the house next door.

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Antioch police officers cover up the outbuildings of the property next door to Phillip Garrido's home

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Police continue to search the Garrido home and the grounds of their neighbour's house seeking connections to other open cases

Police spokesman Jimmy Lee said it was still too early to say whether any of the evidence collected in the search linked Garrido to a series of murders in the area dating back to the early 1990s.

He said Garrido had access to the next-door house, which was vacant in 2006.
'He lived in the property in a shed. That is why we are taking a closer look,' he added. 'We are going thoroughly through both back gardens.

'There are still a lot of unanswered questions here. This is a process that may take weeks or even months. It is an exploratory investigation to see if there are any links between Phillip Garrido and these open cases,' added Lee.
Another police source said: 'If he brought one girl to his home, who is to say he didn't bring more? No stone can be left unturned.'

Garrido is under investigation for the murder of 15-year-old Lisa Norrell found strangled in November 1998 as she walked home from a party in Antioch.
Police also suspect that he may be linked to the disappearances of three more women, prostitutes who went missing in late 1998 and they are said to be reopening files on up to seven more.

Custody: Phillip Garrido has been questioned over the killings

With Garrido and his wife Nancy in custody, Jaycee and the daughters she had with her captor - now aged 11 and 15 - spent time getting to know her family at a secret location.

Her stepfather Carl Probyn, 60, said Jaycee, who was 11 when she was snatched from the street, was 'fragile' but was 'a great mother'.

Her daughters, named Starlet and Angel, were photographed at a birthday party only days before their shocking story was discovered.

The picture was taken on August 15 by Cheyvonne Molino, a client of Garrido's printing business, at a party she threw for her daughter's 16th birthday.

Mrs Molino said Garrido asked if the girls could go to the party and left them unattended there.

The girls did not appear anxious or desperate to get away from Garrido. Mrs Molino described the younger girl as very talkative and always asking questions, with her older sister more reserved.

'He left the girls with us at the party. It wasn't like he was standing guard over them.

'The 11-year-old was everywhere, asking lots of questions. The 15-year-old was a little more passive.

'At the party, a girlfriend of mine pointed out to me how clingy the older girl was to Phillip. It was almost like she was sending out a message, "That's my man". At least that's how it looked to us.

'The young girl did say a couple of things that seemed a little strange at the time. She told me her daddy had a church in the basement of their house.'
At Garrido's home in Antioch, northern California, police with shovels, rakes, hoes and even chainsaws were searching for clues.

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Squalid: The garden quarters Jaycee and her daughters were forced to live in

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A headless doll is pictured among the clutter and rubbish

Until three years ago, Garrido, 58, acted as caretaker of the house next door to his property, which also has a number of sheds and outbuildings which have now been cordoned off by police.

Damon Robinson, who now lives in the house, said all the locks were turned around so people could be locked in, rather than locked out.

'It took me a while to realise, but Garrido had access to all of these buildings. At first I didn't even realise they were part of my land because there are wire fences splitting up the yard.

'When I moved over in one of the sheds there was a music player, a couch, a mattress and a VCR. He really wanted the VCR back when I found it.

'There had been times when I could hear music coming from there at night. Maybe he was taking the girl over there for a change of scenery or something a little nicer than he had in his yard, I don't know.'

Lisa Norrell's mother, Minnie, said she was visited by a murder squad officer on Saturday and he told her police were looking at the possibility that Garrido was involved in her daughter's death in November, 1998.

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An officer photographs a well on the property next door to Phillip Garrido's house

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Piles of rubbish were left to rot around the garden

'I'm really excited about that. It's the first glimmer of hope we have had since my daughter passed away. I'm hopeful that's who it is, just so there is an end. There will never be closure, but there will be an end.'

The schoolgirl's body was found in an industrial park in Pittsburg, California, close to where Garrido used to work and close to where the bodies of several prostitutes were also found more than a decade ago.

Valerie Schultz, 27, Rachael Cruise, 32, and Jessica Frederick, 24 - were found beaten, strangled or stabbed to death in the same area in 1998 and 1999 and thrown into a ditch. Seven other known prostitutes were also killed in the area in the early 1990s.

Contra Costa County police spokesman Jimmy Lee last night confirmed the expanded search is tied to investigations of unsolved cases in the area. He refused to give any further details, saying the investigations are 'preliminary'.
Garrido has been quizzed over the killings, but said nothing to indicate he was responsible.

One theory is that Garrido abducted the women, took them back to his compound and raped and killed them before dumping their bodies.
Photographs of his sinister lair emerged yesterday, showing the appalling conditions Jaycee was forced to live in for 18 years.

Incongruously, a hand-painted Welcome sign was nailed to a tree, leading to a filthy compound of ragged tents and ramshackle sheds.

A former neighbour, Patrick McQuaid, said he spoke to Jaycee through the fence soon after she was abducted in 1991, but did not realise she was a missing girl.

Mr McQuaid, 27, was a child when he saw the pretty blonde girl through the chicken wire that then separated their homes.

She told her she was living at the house and that her name was Jaycee, but before she could say any more she was ushered back into the house by Garrido.

'I didn't think anything of it - I was young,' he said, adding that a tall fence was put up days later.

WERE TWO MORE GIRLS HELD CAPTIVE?

Two girls aged about four were spotted at the house where Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two daughters were held captive, it was revealed yesterday.
Police were warned two years ago that the children were living with convicted rapist Phillip Garrido.

But according to a neighbour, officers failed to follow up the call because they said they did not have a search warrant.

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Spotted: One of the Garridos' neighbours claim they saw two other children in the garden of the couple's unassuming house

Now detectives in Antioch, northern California, are desperately trying to discover if any more children were living with the Garridos apart from Jaycee, now 29, and her two daughters, aged 15 and 11.

Erika Pratt, who was living next door to the Garridos two years ago, claimed: 'He had little girls and women living in that backyard and they all looked kind of the same. They never talked and they kept themselves to themselves.'

Miss Pratt, 25, said the core group consisted of two girls aged about four, one about 11, another about 15 and a young woman aged about 25. 'They were all blonde.'

She said she called the Contra Costa County sheriff's department to investigate but officers said they were unable to help.

'They told me they couldn't go inside because they didn't have a warrant. So they just told him they'd keep an eye on him.'

Miss Pratt said she was 'freaked out' by Garrido's behaviour and said she saw his secret compound. As well as the sheds and tents in the garden, she said there were pit bull dogs.

Police said they were investigating 'all possible leads' concerning the case. A spokesman said the only people living in the garden when the Garridos were arrested were Jaycee and her children.

Sheriff Warren Rupf admitted on Friday that police bungled by failing to find Jaycee on two visits to the Garrido house in 2006 and 2008.

DEATH-SCENTING DOGS SEARCH FOR CLUES

Cadaver dogs are brought in by the police to detect the odour of dead bodies rather than living victims.

Used at crime scenes and the wreckage of disasters, they are rigorously trained to follow the scent of decomposing flesh whether buried in soil encased in concrete or even underwater.

The dog's skill is their ability to sniff out the chemicals emitted by the human body during decomposition to find the location of a corpse, body part or even blood drops.

Smelling death, they should also be able to smell where a corpse has been even for a short period.

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Officers are combing the scene for connections to other crimes, also using cadaver dogs to check for human remains

Trained for up to a year, their accuracy rate is very high and police prize them alongside new techniques such as ground-penetrating radar.

German Shepherds, Labradors and Golden Retrievers are favoured for their obedience, and a dog will be trained in various other search techniques - for living remains or narcotics for example - before training for cadaver searching.

Cadaver dogs are distinct from Canine Search and Rescue Dogs who are used to locate survivors of natural and man-made disasters, but the two can work in conjunction.

Death-scenting dogs are trained using a chemicals which gives off the scent of decomposition, although he smell is very difficult is recreate or used decomposed animals.

Britain's top cadaver dogs Eddie and Keela were used to sniff out a fragment of bone found at the horror Jersey care home Haut de la Garenne, and taken to Praia da Luz to help police with the inquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

It has been known for centuries that a dog's sense of smell is infinitely more acute than a humans. A German shepherd's nose contains about 200 million olfactory cells, while a human has just 20 million.

A study at Bern University in Switzerland in which cadaver dogs were directed to pick out one of six squares of carpet which had been exposed to a corpse for 10 minutes found a 98 per cent accuracy rate in hundreds of trials.

HE'S A MONSTER, SAYS FIRST RAPE VICTIM

Monster: Garrido's first victim broke her silence to condemn him
Phillip Garrido's first known victim broke her public silence yesterday to say: 'He's a monster.'

Kathleen Callaway was a 25-year-old casino worker in 1976 when she agreed to give a lift to Garrido as she travelled home to Reno, Nevada.

High on LSD, he overpowered and handcuffed her before driving to an isolated warehouse which had been kitted out with sex aids, pornographic material and stage lights.

The terrified young woman was stripped naked and raped. Miss Callaway, now 58 and living in Las Vegas, said she was 'shocked' when she learned that the suspect in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case was the same man who attacked her.

Her ordeal came to an end when a policeman on a routine patrol noticed a light on in the storage facility in the early hours of the morning and went inside to investigate. Clifford Conrad found Garrido shirtless and wearing jeans. 'I asked him what he was doing in there', said officer Conrad, who is now retired.

Before Garrido could answer, a female voice cried out from inside the warehouse, and a woman emerged from behind a curtain naked. She told the officer she had been kidnapped and raped. 'Garrido didn't seem nervous or anything,' said the officer. 'He just said they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and they were just having consensual sex.'

Garrido was taken to the police station where he was questioned by Detective Dan De Maranville. The detective recalled: 'I said, "What the hell are you resorting to this for?"

'He said that's the only way he gets sexual gratification. The guy should have been castrated while he was in prison.'

Garrido, who was 25 at the time of the attack, was given a 50-year sentence for kidnap and rape but served only 11 years. Three years after his release he snatched Jaycee, then aged 11, from a bus stop.

Mr Conrad, now 66, said he was outraged that Garrido was free to kidnap Jaycee Dugard. 'Someone dropped the ball,' he said. 'How he got out I'll never know. I guess a lot of people dropped the ball his whole life.'

SPURNED CHANCES TO ESCAPE

Stockholm syndrome: Jaycee formed a relationship with Garrido to survive

Jaycee Lee Dugard never tried to alert authorities even though she had access to a phone and a computer, it was revealed yesterday.

Jaycee, now 29, has told her family that she regarded her captor, Phillip Garrido, as her husband in many ways.

Her stepfather Carl Probyn, 60, said yesterday: 'Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She really feels it's almost like a marriage.'

Psychologists claim she was brainwashed during her 18 years in captivity.
Using the name Allyssa, she dealt directly with customers for Garrido's home-printing business. Local business owner Ben Daughdrill said he met Jaycee several times and she emailed him details about printing jobs via a Yahoo account.

'Obviously there was some brainwashing going on,' he said. 'That's all I can think.

'She had access to a phone and a computer, so obviously something went on that no one knows about.'

Meanwhile a police source said: 'It seems she accepted she was his wife and her kids accepted him as dad.

'After a while your mind can shut off and you come to accept the situation just to survive.'

Jaycee told her family soon after she was reunited with them that she harbours deep feelings of guilt for forging an emotional relationship with the man who repeatedly raped her.

Such a relationship is known as Stockholm Syndrome, a survival strategy for victims of abuse.

MORE HORROR STORIES

Garrido's bookshelf, pictured above, features a bizarre collection of tatty novels ranging from horror and fantasy to Danielle Steel romances.

However, one author dominates the hundred or so paperbacks - American horror writer Dean Koontz.

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Bizarre: Garrido's book collection ranged from horror to fantasy to romance. Authors include Patricia Cornwall, Dean Koontz and Isaac Asimov

His book Intensity, seen in the centre of the middle shelf, features a delusional character who turns into a serial killer and rapist, at one stage keeping a young girl in the cellar.

Garrido is also a fan of the Psychosphere trilogy by British writer Brian Lumley. The books revolve around a world in which people use their mental powers to control others. Garrido calls himself 'the man who spoke with his mind' and believes he has telepathic abilities.

Also in the collection are a handful of children's favourites including The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis.

Four Danielle Steel romances, more likely to have been read by his wife Nancy, include To Love Again and Star.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210113/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-kidnapper-linked-murders-prostitutes-girl-15.html#ixzz0PloygASF

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Garridos' neighbours reveal 'Creepy Phil's' drug-fuelled orgies with the hillbillies
By Andrew Malone
Last updated at 1:28 AM on 31st August 2009

After work each night, builder Mike Rogers liked to sit on his porch in Antioch, recover from the sweltering heat of the day and relax. But not when 'Creepy Phil' was having one of his strange parties.

The next-door neighbour was a wild-eyed 'crazy' with tents in his garden, odd male guests and a penchant for making the deadly drug crystal meth using household utensils. And, we now know, the kidnapper of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

As details of this dark and troubling story slowly come to light, the question that America is asking itself above all others is: how on Earth was Garrido able to carry out his despicable crimes in the heart of suburban California, without anyone noticing - and for 18 years?

Worse still, could others have known what was taking place there - and even been complicit in Jaycee's torment?

One thing is certain: at the heart of this inquiry lies the nature of the community where Garrido chose to make his home after serving just 11 years of a 50-year sentence for a previous sex attack. For contrary to initial reports, this is far from being mainstream, middle-class, suburban America.

Together with his new wife, Nancy, whom he had met while she was visiting her uncle in jail, Garrido settled in a crime-ridden backwater where nobody pries into anyone else's business - unless they are willing to pay the price.

'The people here are like hillbillies,' says one local film-maker. 'They are all shady and want peace to do what they do. You're liable to get shot if you go into someone else's yard.'

It was the perfect lair for Garrido. Prison had done little to suppress his predatory sexual instincts.

Details of Jaycee's torment have been beamed around the world. Yet according to his neighbour, the full, awful truth about what really took place here might be worse than imagined - far worse.

For with FBI agents now digging-up Creepy Phil's backyard and exploring his neighbour's property, Mr Rogers shudders at the memory of the sounds he heard when it was 'party time' next door.

Mr Rogers says 'perverts' in the area were regularly invited over by Garrido for sex, beer and drug parties and that the Garrido home was, in effect, being used as a brothel.

He watched groups of men arriving at the house on hot summer nights. They carried crates of beer. Mainly of Mexican appearance, they lit bonfires, played music and shouted and laughed late into the night.

They also took it in turns to enter a tent erected amid the junk in Garrido's backyard. 'I saw them entering the tent one by one,' he says. 'I saw them bobbing up and down and I thought, "My God, there is something sexual going on in there".'

Once, he peeped through a crack in the fence separating their land. 'These guys were unsavoury looking men,' he says.

'They were drinking beer and smashing the bottles on the ground. I thought they had a prostitute or something in there. I thought it might have been some kind of sex party or something. It happened quite often. They were different men each time.'

The men gave each other 'high-fives' when they emerged from the tent.
Mr Rogers discussed the matter with his brother Dean, who lives along the street. Both men agreed not to contact the police. They have since agonised over whether Jaycee and her two daughters were being 'pimped out' to strangers. 'I hope to God not,' says Dean.

By way of explanation he says: 'People don't even wave to each other or say hello here. You just pay no attention to what is going on with other people. That way, you don't get shot.'

Certainly, Walnut Avenue is a grubby, primitive and predominantly white area. Many of the homes are little more than wooden shacks with children playing in the dirt outside.

Drug and alcohol addiction are widespread; back yards are littered with cars and fridges. Astonishingly, the area is home to 144 rapists and paedophiles.
'People here live off the grid,' says one local police source. 'That means they use drugs, don't pay taxes and never pay their bills. They live as they want to - and pay no attention to anyone else. And everyone who lives here is very happy with that arrangement.'

The surrounding streets offer another insight into Garrido's twisted mindset as he held two generations hostage for his own sexual gratification. As darkness fell on Saturday, people scurried from dusty yard to yard, buying and selling crystal meth.

Highly addictive and responsible for making users' teeth fall out in a syndrome known as 'meth mouth', crystal meth, also known as crank, is an amphetamine which has swept the U.S. Experts say users experience unstoppable sexual urges.

Locals say Garrido, who had previously been addicted to LSD, was a 'tweaker' - the slang word for crystal meth addicts, whose habit leads to characteristic spasms of twitching - and that he was also reputed to 'cook' the raw materials for crystal meth in an old van in his garden.

This 'laboratory' reportedly exploded last month. Again, neighbours did not call police.

That is the Antioch way. And there may yet be far worse to come. With the FBI diggers now in action, Mike Rogers suspects that murder will soon be added to the long list of sordid secrets emerging from his neighbour's home at 1554 Walnut Avenue.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210151/Garridos-neighbours-reveal-creepy-Phil-drug-fuelled-orgies-hillbillies.html#ixzz0PltyCoQB

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Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapper Phillip Garrido's first wife Christine Murphy says he's a 'monster'
BY Nancy Dillon In Los Angeles AND Corky Siemaszko In New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Monday, August 31st 2009, 3:54 PM

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Philip Garrido's (below) first wife Christine Murphy speaks talks about the 'monster.'

The Monster's first wife says he once "tried to gouge" her eyes out with a safety pin.

Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and raping her repeatedly during 18 years of captivity, went into a jealous rage when he saw another man flirting with his wife.

"He took a safety pin and went after my eyes," Christine Murphy told Inside Edition. "He left a scar on my face."

Murphy, who said she and Garrido were high school sweethearts in northern California, said he "smacked" her around during their brief marriage and that she became his first kidnapping victim when she tried to flee him.

"I was always looking for a way to find out how to get away," said Murphy, who worked at a Reno casino to pay the bills while Garrido tried to launch a musical career. "He'd always told me he'd find me wherever."

Murphy said that when she was finally able to escape, Garrido "found me."

"He pulled up, turned around and forced me back into the car," she said, in part one of the Inside Edition interview that airs Monday night.

Calling Garrido a "good manipulator" and a "monster," Murphy said she was relieved when Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1976 for kidnapping and raping another woman.

Murphy, who remarried and is now a mother a four, said she had no idea Garrido had been released early and reacted with disgust after he was arrested for turning Dugard into a sex slave and fathering her two daughters.

"It makes me sick to my stomach," she said. "He's pretty much capable of anything."

Murphy spoke out as Dugard, who was just 11 when she was abducted in June 1991 from a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was trying to reconnect with her once heartbroken mother.

A team of shrinks were helping Dugard and her daughters, Starlet and Angel, make the painful transition from virtual slaves living in Garrido's backyard to a normal life.

Dugard and the girls, who are 15 and 11, had been kept out of the public eye since they were rescued from their hovel in Antioch, Calif., last week.

Garrido, a 58-year-old convicted sex offender and religious fanatic, and his second wife, Nancy, 54, face 29 felony counts. He is also a suspect in a series of unsolved 1990's murders in nearby Pittsburg, Calif., including a school girl and eight prostitutes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/08/31/2009-08-31_jaycee_lee_dugard_kidnapper_phillip_garridos_fi rst_wife_christine_murphy_says_he.html

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Unassuming Nancy — the woman and wife behind the rapist Philip Garrido
Mike Harvey in Antioch

To the outside world she was plain, modest Nancy, the other half of Phil the printer. Neighbours knew her as a full-time carer for Phillip Garrido’s ageing mother and a part-time accountant for his printing business.

In reality Nancy Garrido provided the cover that helped her husband, a convicted sex attacker, to keep the authorities at bay. When neighbours spotted children at the house they reasoned that it must be OK because he lived with his wife.

But Mrs Garrido, 55, is facing life in prison for being her husband’s alleged partner in nearly two decades of child rape, imprisonment and abuse. Police believe that he could not have done it without her.

Prosecutors have given her equal billing on the 16-page charge sheet. She is accused of forcible rape, committing a forcible lewd act upon a child and of false imprisonment by violence, among 29 other charges dating from the day that Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched from South Lake Tahoe, in California, in 1991.

Police believe that Mrs Garrido was the woman who grabbed the 11-year-old girl and have pointed to how similar she looks to the sketch of a dark-haired, female abductor produced by Jaycee’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, who witnessed the kidnapping.

Mrs Garrido and her husband pleaded not guilty to the charges when they appeared in court last week. She looked distraught throughout much of the short hearing, bowing her head and weeping several times.

Detectives believe that she is the key to unravelling what went on during the 18 years that Jaycee was kept in the hidden compound behind the Garrido house in Antioch. They fear that Garrido, 58, whose mental health is clearly an issue, may prove more difficult to pin down.

Mrs Garrido’s role has stunned America, leading to speculation about her motives, her relationship with her husband and her own mental state. Little has been made public about her early life but it is believed that she was a Jehovah’s Witness when she met Garrido during a visit to her uncle in a prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Garrido was serving time for abducting a 25-year-old woman and raping her in a storage unit that he had converted into a “sex palace” but Mrs Garrido fell for him and they began writing to each other. They were married in a prison ceremony.

On his release in 1988 the couple moved into his mother’s house in Walnut Avenue, Antioch. Helen Boyer, a neighbour, occasionally went over for dinner in the first few years.

Ms Boyer, now 78, never knew Mrs Garrido well but said that she had always thought of her as a “caring person”. “She looked after [Garrido] and his mother and then, when the mother became bedridden with dementia, she did all the caring,” she said.

Ms Boyer said that she knew of their past but had no inkling of the horrors that went on a few yards away. “I’d holler ‘hello’ at her and she would holler back. We had no idea at all. They should throw the book at them,” she told The Times.

Police particularly want to question Mrs Garrido about the four months in the summer of 1993 when her husband went back to prison for breaking parole. Jaycee was 13 and, according to court documents, already the victim of multiple rapes at the hands of both Mrs Garrido and her husband.

The timing is unclear but it was about this time that Jaycee became pregnant with her first daughter, now 15. What hold did Garrido have on his wife so that, even with him in prison, Jaycee did not escape? Or was Mrs Garrido much more than simply the little girl’s jailer?

Psychologists have speculated that Mrs Garrido was a victim of catastrophically low self-esteem and, once under her husband’s spell, would do anything to hold on to her man.

After she had obtained a victim for him, her anger at having a rival for his affections could have driven her to even greater depths of cruelty and abuse.

A 2007 study for the US Department of Justice of female sex offenders found that there was a type of offender labelled “male-coerced”. It found that these women “tended to be passive and dependent individuals with histories of sexual abuse and relationship difficulties. Fearing abandonment, they were pressured by male partners to commit sex offences”.

Garrido’s brother, Ron, said that Mrs Garrido was a “robot”. “She would do anything he asked. I told my wife, ‘It’s no different from [Charles] Manson and those girls’. She was under his control.”

Police believe that Mrs Garrido helped Jaycee to give birth to her two daughters, to raise them and to keep them quiet. She created a second family for her husband, for whom she did not produce any children of her own, and became their mother figure.

She was at her husband’s side on Wednesday last week when they went to see his probation officer — a meeting that finally led to their arrest.

Now they face the rest of their lives in separate prison cells.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6816431.ece

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August 31, 2009 4:07 PM
Is Jaycee Just the Beginning? Three More Girls Vanished When Phillip Garrido Got Out of Jail
Posted by Sammy Rose Saltzman

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(MySpace Photo) MySpace photo of Michaela Joy Garecht, 2, left, with baby brother, Alex. Michaela was kidnapped in 1988.

NEW YORK (CBS) As police uncover gruesome details of Jaycee Lee Dugard's nearly 20 years spent in captivity, three eerily similar cases have re-surfaced. In each case, a young girl was taken in a similar way as Dugard within a 20-mile radius of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's Antioch, Calif., home.

The disappearances began just months after Phillip Garrido was released from federal prison in Aug. 1988.

Even more disturbing, the mother of a nine-year-old victim told Crimesider that the car she saw removed from the Garrido's home on television matched a description of the car that kidnapped her child 21 years ago.

Sharon Nemeth Murch says that when her nine-year-old daughter Michaela Garecht was taken in broad daylight in Nov. 1988, her daughter's friend Trina watched in horror and witnessed the get-away-car which she described as "large, boxy, square-ish sedan, the color was tannish-gold."

Hayward Police Investigator Rob Lampkin, who remains the local lead on Michaela's case, said the gray car found in on Garrido's property does match the description Trina gave years ago although not in color. But he cautioned that the description could match many cars.

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(CBS)Map: Shortly after Phillip Garrido's release from prison, three little girls were kidnapped within 20 miles of his Antioch, Calif., home.

The astonishing break in Dugard's case has certainly piqued Lampkin's interest. "There’s similarities in Jaycee’s and Michaela’s disappearances," he said. "At this point we’re not going to ignore anything."

According to Murch, her nine-year-old daughter and her best friend rode their scooters just a few blocks away to the store to pick up some candy and soda on Nov. 19, 1988 in Hayward, CA.

The two girls parked their scooters by the door and when they came outside, one had been moved a few parking spaces away. Michaela spotted it first. She ran to get it and as she bent over, a man jumped out of the car parked next to the scooter, grabbed her and whisked her, screaming, into the car and then drove off, her mother said.

Trina watched in horror as her best friend disappeared.

Twenty years later, Trina saw authorities recover a gray sedan from Phillip Garrido’s Antioch, Calif., backyard on television and called Murch to tell her.

Murch told Crimesider that after hearing that Jaycee had been found alive, her hopes are "fairly high," and that the possibility that her daughter could be linked to Garrido has "ramped up" her anxiety as she waits to hear if her daughter has been found.

Murch's case is not the only one that has been recharged by Dugard's re-emergence.

Two other girls disappeared within less than one year of Garrido’s return to his mother’s Antioch home after he was released early from a 50-year prison sentence for rape. He served less than 11 years. Like Michaela, the other girls lived less than 20 miles from Antioch.

Two months after Michaela was snatched, Ilene Micheloff, 13, was abducted in broad daylight while walking home in Dublin, Calif. News outlets at the time reported that the blue backpack she was carrying was found abandoned in a creek bed near where she was last seen.

Leutenant Kurt von Savoye of the Dublin Police Department said that finding Jaycee alive has caused this case to resurface, and the department “will certainly explore any possible connections there.”

“It certainly is concerning,” he said of the timing of Garrido’s release from prison and the disappearance of these four girls so near to his Antioch home.

The third, and youngest, girl is Amanda Campbell, who was only four when she was taken from her family in Fairfield, Calif., according to media reports at the time. The chubby-cheeked girl was taken only six months after Jaycee disappeared when she rode her bicycle to a friend’s house around the corner. Amanda never arrived at her friend’s house and her bicycle was found abandoned nearby.

A spokesman for the Fairfield Police Department said that while investigators are keeping an eye on the Dugard case, they have been looking into Campbell's cold case for some time now and do not believe the two are related.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277707.shtml

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Van Exiting Driveway of Kidnapping Suspect Caught on Google Maps
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

A rusty van was caught on Google Maps emerging from the driveway of a sex offender and convicted rapist accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 and holding her captive for 18 years.

As Google's 360-degree camera car travels through Antioch, Calif., the van can be seen pulling out of the driveway of 1554 Walnut Avenue, home of Phillip Garrido — who is now behind bars with his wife Nancy in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, MyFOXHouston reported. (ETA: As seen here > http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showpost.php?p=656901&postcount=3)

The van follows the Google vehicle down the street and around the corner.

It isn't clear whether the van driver knew the car belonged to Google, or whether the Google car was deliberately targeting Garrido.

Google's camera cars have been snapping photos along public roads and posting the images on Google Maps for the past couple of years.

Garrido snatched Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991 while she was waiting for the school bus.

He held her captive for 18 years in a backyard compound of tents and sheds at his Walnut Avenue home, raped her repeatedly and fathered her two children.

Last week, Dugard was rescued and Garrido was imprisoned with his wife.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545141,00.html?test=latestnews

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Media offer cash for interviews in CA kidnap case
(AP) – 16 minutes ago

ANTIOCH, Calif. — Revelations that Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly imprisoned for 18 years at a convicted sex offender's home have sparked cash-for-interviews offers from a few of the hundreds of journalists digging for information.

Manuel Garrido, the father of suspect Phillip Garrido, said he was given $2,000 from an overseas media agency but declined to say which one.

On Monday, the elder Garrido, who lives in Brentwood, refused an interview with The Associated Press unless he was paid.

"I'm not giving any more free advice, interviews," Manuel Garrido said. He had previously talked to an AP reporter without payment.

Many news organizations prohibit so-called checkbook journalism, but paid interviews are not without precedent and not illegal. The AP does not pay sources.

Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 54, have pleaded not guilty to kidnap, rape and imprisonment charges related to Dugard's 1991 abduction. Police say Garrido fathered Dugard's two daughters and lived with them in a backyard encampment of tents and sheds.

The house is in a ramshackle neighborhood of modest single-family homes in an unincorporated area of Antioch hit by the foreclosure crisis and job losses.

Garrido's next door neighbor Damon Robinson was interviewed several times by the AP, Los Angeles Times and other media. During those conversations, he revealed his ex-girlfriend, Erika Pratt, had called police in 2006 to report Garrido had children living in tents in his backyard.

While Robinson was being interviewed by the AP and others, three members of a British media group walked onto his property without his permission.

When Robinson asked what they were doing, a British reporter told Robinson his deadline was coming quickly and offered him $2,000 if he would quit talking to everyone else and provide them an exclusive showing of his backyard.

The reporter flashed $100 as an apparent sign of good faith. Robinson, who acknowledged that another British outlet had also paid him, agreed. Robinson, who is unemployed, did not disclose what outlets paid him and it was not clear from the interaction.

Robinson led the crew deep into his backyard, where a hole in his fence provided a glimpse of the shambled compound next door.

Robinson said he would use the money for his two children and might also give some to Dugard's daughters.

Building contractor Mike Rogers owns a home with a backyard fence abutting part of Garrido's yard. He said he got offers for money from about three media organizations ranging from about $500 to $5,000, which he declined.

"You can't profit off of someone else's grief," he said.

But Rogers said he did not fault the neighbors who did accept money, saying the neighborhood has fallen on hard times and he can understand why the offers would be attractive. Still, he hoped they would find a way to give a portion of the money to Dugard's children or charity.

"If they gave it to the kids, that's one thing," he said.

Rogers said the offers were from a U.S. talk show and overseas media organizations he did not name.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJbAIMkQEY23SLBrwK2uKwI5eQawD9AFCMOG0

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Mom 'Enjoying Every Minute' with Jaycee Dugard

Originally posted Wednesday September 02, 2009 03:00 PM EDT

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The call to Joan Curry came just after midnight. It was her daughter, Terry Probyn, and Curry could barely believe what she was hearing.

"Jaycee's alive! Jaycee's alive!" Curry yelled, waking up her husband.

Now, a week later, the task of rebuilding granddaughter Jaycee Dugard's life after she was abducted for nearly two decades is well under way – and Jaycee's mother Terry is not letting her out of her sight.

"She's like a little mother hen right now. She's got them all gathered around her and that's the way it's going to stay for a while," Curry tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Curry adds, "Terry's in the clouds. They're doing very well. She's very encouraged, very encouraged, very optimistic about the outcome of all of this."

Jaycee, who had missing since 1991 when she was abducted as an 11-year-old just blocks from her South Lake Tahoe home, was found Aug. 26 by police and reunited with her family the next day.

"We were elated. I don't think it had sunk in. We were so elated," she says. "There's not a word for how we felt. We laughed. We cried. We hugged each other. All the things that you do when something like this happens."

Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, of Antioch, Calif., were arrested for the abduction. Phillip also allegedly fathered two girls with Jaycee. The girls, who thought Jaycee was their older sister, have just been told she's their mother.

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• 1991: Jaycee is abducted by strangers in front of her stepfather (http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111362,00.html)


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Garrido's wife, accused of abducting and raping Jaycee Dugard, worked as nursing aide

By John Simerman and Linda Goldston
Bay Area News Group
Posted: 09/02/2009 07:35:08 PM PDT
Updated: 09/02/2009 09:52:51 PM PDT

Nancy Garrido, the woman behind the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard, lived a life of contradictions.

She married a man serving time for kidnapping and rape but became a nursing and physical therapy aide to help the disabled. She quit her job to care for the elderly mother of Phillip Garrido but helped him keep Dugard — and the two children Phillip Garrido fathered with Dugard — captive in tents and sheds in the backyard of a ramshackle property in an unincorporated area of Contra Costa County near Antoich.

And when Phillip Garrido had to go back to prison for 38 days for a parole violation, Nancy Garrido stayed with Dugard — who would have been about 13 years old and two years into what would become an 18 year captivity.

The Garridos were arrested last week and charged with 29 felonies involving the alleged kidnapping and rape of Dugard in 1991. Among them is a charge of forcible rape against Nancy Garrido.

As the harrowing news unfolded this week about the quiet woman who had worked as a state-licensed aide for a nonprofit agency that serves 1,000 adults and children with developmental disabilities, former co-workers were left reeling in disbelief.

She worked full-time for Contra Costa ARC from December 1994 until March 1998, arriving with stellar references as a nursing aide and physical therapy aide, said Barbara Maizie, the agency's executive director.

"The people who received services through her, they liked her very much. She was a good employee and she was well-liked by the people she worked with," Maizie said. "They cannot believe that this is possible. They're totally shocked."

Maizie said Nancy Garrido worked with adults only. She arrived with a valid California Nurse Aide license, a history of nursing home work and a long résumé with both in-state and out-of-state references dating to 1981, Maizie said.

That's the same year 26-year-old Nancy Bocanegra married Phillip Garrido in Leavenworth, Kan., while he was an inmate in the federal penitentiary there, according to a copy of their state marriage license. Phillip Garrido was serving a 50-year sentence for the 1976 kidnapping of a Harrah's casino card dealer he took across state lines to rape in a warehouse, holding her captive and repeatedly raping her before a police officer stopped to check on a missing lock on the warehouse door.

It is unclear how Bocanegra met Garrido, but one report says she was visiting a relative in prison. Property records show Nancy Bocanegra living in Denver, then moving to Leavenworth in the mid-1980s. Officials could not be reached for information about licenses she may have held in those states.

Phillip Garrido was transferred in 1986 to a maximum security facility in Lompoc before his release in 1988 after serving only 11 years, a federal prison spokeswoman said. Three years later, Jaycee Dugard was snatched from a South Lake Tahoe street outside her house. Authorities say Nancy Garrido, now 54, matches the description of a woman seen in the sedan that spirited Jaycee away.

Nancy and Phillip Garrido are being held without bail. Her husband gave a rambling interview by phone to a Sacramento television station but no words had come from Nancy Garrido until Wednesday.

On NBC's "Today" show, her lawyer, Gilbert Maines, suggested that his client, too, was a victim of her husband's suppressive control.

Though Nancy Garrido is suspected as the one who physically snatched Dugard from the street 18 years ago, Maines said he's considering arguing that she may not have been fully aware of the circumstances of the kidnapping.

"The crux of the matter, the argument, I think, goes to maybe her mental condition at the time, and not so much what physically happened," he said.

Maines said his client misses the children, and said she saw them all as a family.

"What she said that I can tell you about is, there came a time that when she felt that they were a family and that she loves the girls very much and loved Jaycee very much, and that seems a little strange given the circumstance but that's what she had said to me," Maines said.

When Nancy Garrido first came to work at the Martinez-based agency for the disabled, Dugard was in her teens and having the first of two girls that Phillip Garrido fathered, living in a hidden backyard lair of tents and shacks behind the Garridos' Walnut Avenue house in unincorporated Contra Costa County, police say.

Among the 29 felony charges that El Dorado County prosecutors leveled against the couple last week is a count of forcible rape against Nancy Garrido from the month she began work at the agency, and six other counts of forcible rape against Nancy or Phillip Garrido during her tenure.

Both pleaded not guilty on Friday.

Maizie declined to detail Nancy Garrido's personnel file, citing privacy concerns. She said the agency ran a state background check when it hired Garrido; it came back clean.

"Just 'shock' and 'disbelief' are the two words that come to mind," Maizie said of the allegations.

Maizie would not to say why Nancy Garrido left the agency. But a neighbor, Helen Boyer, 78, told The Associated Press that she stopped to become the primary caregiver to Phillip Garrido's bedridden mother, Patricia Franzen.

Boyer said she knew Franzen for more than 30 years and often saw Nancy Garrido.

Nancy Garrido's training could help explain how Dugard could deliver two babies and now have two healthy daughters, ages 11 and 15, even though authorities said none of them had seen a doctor.

A spokesman for the state Department of Public Health said Nancy Garrido was certified as a nurse assistant in California beginning in March 1989, until she failed to renew her license in 1995. Her training did not include assisting with childbirth, said spokesman Ken August.

A top El Dorado County prosecutor declined last week to say whether evidence shows that Nancy Garrido physically participated in what police describe as a years-long series of rapes against Dugard, saying they only need to prove she aided and abetted with knowledge of the crimes.

But suspicions are boiling over her role, particularly because Garrido was locked up in federal custody, albeit briefly, on an unspecified federal parole violation in 1993. Felicia Ponce, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Prisons, clarified Wednesday that Phillip Garrido spent 38 days in a secure facility before he was released to home confinement supervision in May 1993.

During that time, his wife watched over Jaycee Dugard, authorities told The Associated Press.

"You can reasonably infer from the charging document that the wife was doing that," said former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who is acting as a special spokesman for the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

One legal scholar said persuading a court to accept a brainwashing theory is particularly difficult when a large group or cult is not involved, though the concept runs through numerous cases, such as Patty Hearst, Elizabeth Smart and many others.

"We have here somebody who's not forcibly abducted, and also with access to outside authorities. So it could be argued she fell under his spell, but it would be an extremely tough sell," said Alan Scheflin, professor of law and psychiatry at Santa Clara Law School and author of "The Mind Manipulators."

"The courts are very reluctant to open up to the idea of a mind control defense. It certainly is, to say the least, a last-ditch defense."

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13257077

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Sep 2, 2009 10:40 pm US/Pacific
Claim: Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips
Mike Dello Stritto

ANTIOCH, Calif. (CBS13) ― In a chilling and ironic revelation, a longtime child safety advocate and former client of Phillip Garrido's printing business said that the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her hostage for 18 years used to give her tips on child abduction prevention.

Janice Gomes said she has known and worked with Phillip Garrido for 15 years, and was sickened to discover that he was accused of holding Jaycee Dugard in his Antioch backyard for nearly two decades.

Missing kids and child safety is Janice Gomes' passion, and she often turned to Garrido to print documents for children safety. Once she hired Garrido to print a tip sheet for families to prevent kidnapping.

Gomes said that Garrido had some extra advice.

"He said, 'Children really shouldn't be walking to the bus stop by themselves. Children are no match for adults,'" Gomes said.

Authorities have accused Garrido of kidnapping Dugard in eerily similar circumstances. The irony is thick and horrific for Gomes, who talked to Jaycee on the phone about printing jobs.

"She was sweet, very professional," Gomes said, adding that there were no indications that there was any sort of problem.

Janice even went inside Garrido's home, which she described as small, with antiquated decoration and no television.

"He invited me in, and I wasn't sure it was a good idea," she said. "He always seemed a little off."

Gomes said Garrido would ramble and break into song, sometimes in mid-sentence.

"One of my daughters told me he sang Madonna songs and she felt one of his favorites was 'Like A Virgin,'" she said. "He would sing very high and very off-key."

Other neighbors have also described Garrido as a strange, eccentric man, but now he has captured the world's attention as a convicted kidnapper and rapist that has been accused of another shocking crime.

"Last Monday, he invited one of my granddaughters to his Bible study on Wednesday," Janice said. "My reaction to that was: God didn't tell him he would be arrested on Wednesday."

Gomes says she has spent much of the past week reflecting on her years of conversations with Garrido. What once seemed inane suddenly has new meaning.

http://cbs13.com/local/garrido.kidnapping.prevention.2.1161080.html

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Aunt shares story of reuniting with abducted girl
Tina Dugard spent 5 days with Jaycee Dugard, her girls and her mother just after Jaycee was set free.
By GREG HARDESTY
The Orange County Register

RIVERSIDE Terry Probyn took a brush to her daughter's blond hair and slowly combed through it – a tender ritual she had not performed in 18 years, when her girl, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was just 11.

Reunited with Jaycee last week in Northern California, Probyn got to play mother again to the girl who was snatched away from her – touching her hair, kissing her face, delighting at the sound of her voice.

Tina Dugard, Terry's sister and Jaycee's aunt, sat and watched – disbelief mingled with joy.

"I remember thinking, 'Wow, she's French-braiding Jaycee's hair for the first time in 18 years,' " Tina Dugard said.

The reunification of Terry Probyn with her daughter – and her interactions, for the first time, with Jaycee's two daughters, 11 and 15 – played out in private as the chilling tale of Jaycee's alleged abductor, Phillip Craig Garrido, seized headlines worldwide.

In an exclusive interview with the Orange County Register, Tina Dugard spoke for the first time publicly about how the reunified family is doing. She spent five days with Probyn, Jaycee and the two girls.

"There's a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness. … Jaycee and her girls are happy," said Tina Dugard, who was 13 when Jaycee was born and very close to her.

Terry Probyn lived with her sister for 10 years before recently moving out.

"People probably want to think that it's been this horrible, scary thing for all of us," Tina Dugard said of the past several days as the family sought to reconnect in cloistered rooms, with law enforcement officials and counselors hovering – and media from around the world trying to interview them.

"(But) the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago, and continued to happen for the last 18 years. The darkness and despair (has lifted.)"

CHILDHOOD HELD CAPTIVE

Dugard pointed to a Barbie doll, still in its box, sitting on a table in her living room.

It was a Christmas present for Jaycee the year she disappeared, 1991 – a present Dugard never was able to give her niece.

Jaycee was kidnapped earlier that year after her family moved to South Lake Tahoe, from Orange County.

"I kept thinking, 'Tomorrow. They'll find her tomorrow,' '' Dugard recalled. "Then it was, 'For sure by the weekend.'

"Then it was, 'By Thanksgiving. I know it won't pass.' And then, 'For sure it will be Christmas.' "

Instead of ripping open the box containing her Happy Holidays Christmas Barbie, Jaycee was thrown into her own airtight container: the squalid Antioch-area backyard of a convicted rapist and registered sex offender who would go on to father Jaycee's daughters, according to authorities.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and charged in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard. The couple has pleaded not guilty.

Tina Dugard would not comment on aspects of the ongoing investigation, such as how Jaycee and her daughters were treated by the Garridos.

She said Jaycee's daughters "know what's been going on," but they have not been allowed to watch television or read any coverage of the Garrido story.

She said she has not pressed Jaycee and her daughters to discuss life in the cluttered backyard collection of tents and shacks.

"Right now, it's about reconnecting," she said.

She wouldn't say whether the two girls, as some media outlets have reported, had believed Jaycee was their older sister.

They know Jaycee is their mother.

'EDUCATED' GIRLS

While in captivity, Jaycee was able to teach her girls to read and write. Dugard said she's not sure how, although photos of the compound show the three had access to books.

"They are educated and bright," she said of Jaycee's children, whose names have been reported as Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11. Dugard would not comment on whether those names are accurate.

"It's clear they've been on the Internet and know a lot of things," Dugard said. "It's clear that Jaycee did a great job with the limited resources she had and her limited education."

During her five-day visit, Dugard recalled staring up at the sky on a starry night with one of Jaycee's daughters, who proceeded to point out the names of constellations.

Another daughter happened upon a plant.

"That's a nasturtium!" she blurted out. "It's edible. Do you want to eat it?"

FOUND

Dugard, 42, was making a dinner salad when she got a call from a sheriff's investigator in El Dorado County last Wednesday. He was looking for Terry Probyn.

She then received a call from Terry's other daughter, 19-year-old Shayna, who told her Jaycee had been found.

"I don't know what I felt … I just said, 'What?' I'm sure I repeated that word several times … we both started crying hysterically."

Dugard's heart raced and her stomach churned all night.

She finally fell asleep for an hour, almost missing the early-morning flight from Ontario Airport with Terry Probyn and Shayna to reunite with Jaycee and meet her daughters.

FBI officials met the three at an undisclosed location.

Probyn, 50, was the first to meet Jaycee and the girls – separately, in a room.

Then it was Tina Dugard's turn.

Jaycee Dugard threw open her arms.

"Auntie Tina!"

The two instantly recognized each other.

"I looked at her and I knew right away. After 18 years, you have a sense of, 'Could this possibly be true?' "

Jaycee instantly recognized her, she said.

"She absolutely knew who I was," Tina said. "She remembered me right away. … It was one of the happiest moments of my life."

Tina can't remember what she told Jaycee.

"I went forward and cried and hugged her and held her as tight as I possibly could. It was surreal, and it was fabulous."

Tina said Jaycee and the girls looked healthy – although she declined to detail their appearances, saying she wanted to respect their privacy.

"She does seem like a 29-year-old woman," she said of Jaycee. "She's fabulous, and she's beautiful."

The girls have their mother's blond hair and bright blue eyes and big smile, she said.

Shayna told her sister, Jaycee, that she was so happy to meet her – a girl she had known until then only through old photographs and family movies, and media accounts of her abduction.

There was an "instant connection … it was almost a genetic connection … an instant sense of family, for all of us," Tina said.

NORMAL THINGS

Over the next several days, the six – Tina and Terry, Jaycee and her daughters, and Shayna – did "normal" family things.

"(There was) laughing and crying and sitting quietly and holding hands," Dugard said.

"All three are very tight. There was a lot of sitting next (to each other)."

She recalled the youngest daughter sitting beside her sister on a love seat and throwing her legs over her – just like a sister would do.

One night, they played the board game "Apples to Apples."

Tina and Jaycee watched the movie "Enchanted" on DVD, on another night. They talked about recent movies, and Jaycee said she wanted to see the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy, "The Proposal."

Jaycee read a lot.

"She likes mysteries," Tina said.

Tina drew pictures with Jaycee's girls.

They also played Nintendo DS. One of the girls loves the "Zelda" games, and both love "Super Mario Smash Brothers."

One day, Tina and one of Jaycee's daughters lay on the grass.

They stared at the clouds and saw fluffy cotton shapes.

"It was a beautiful day," Tina Dugard said.

The girls talked of their love of animals, and climbing trees.

Dugard, a teacher for 18 years who now teaches third-graders, would touch Jaycee and her girls a lot – as if to say, "you're real – you're really here."

HEALING AHEAD

Dugard declined to speculate on how Jaycee and her daughters will fare over the coming weeks, months and years – though she said counseling will play a part.

She is optimistic about the girls.

"I'm a teacher. I know kids. And I can tell you that they are a normal 11 and 15 year old."

For now, the family is focusing on the moment – and getting to know each other.

"It's all about strengthening those bonds that really didn't weaken, but needed to be brought back together," Dugard said.

"We are all so overjoyed. My sister has spontaneous moments of joy. We'll be talking, and she'll just suddenly burst into happy tears, with a big smile on her face…

"The fact that (Jaycee) is home sinks in in little pieces…she's there, and we know she's there, but sometimes you're just taken aback by the joy, and it bursts out.

"I've had a lot of happy things happen in my life, but it's a different kind of happy, because it's a happy you don't expect."

For now, Dugard doesn't want to dwell on the dark, horrible things that authorities believe happened in Garrido's back yard.

"I may never know what happened (to Jaycee)," she said. "But she's home."

Register staff writer Kimberly Edds contributed to this report.

A trust fund has been set up for Jaycee Dugard and her daughters. Send money to the Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund, c/o View Tech, at P.O. Box 596, Atwood, CA 92811.

Contact the writer: 949-454-7356 or ghardesty@ocregister.com

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jaycee-dugard-tina-2550469-girls-daughters

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Garrido's Sexual Spree May Date to '72
14-year-old victim refused to testify and charges were dropped
By JOSH KLEINBAUM
Updated 8:00 AM PDT, Thu, Sep 3, 2009

Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 and imprisoning her in a shed for nearly two years, may have started his spree of sexual crimes as far back as 1972, police said.

Garrido, then 21, gave a 14-year-old girl drugs and then sexually assaulted her multiple times, Antioch Police Lt. Leonard Orman told NBC's The Today Show on Thursday. The victim refused to testify about the incident, and the charges against Garrido were dropped, Orman said.

Officials believe this is the third victim that Garrido has raped in the last 37 years -- and they're looking for more. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, are accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and using her as a sex slave her for 18 years. Garrido fathered two of Dugard's children. Dugard and her children were reunited with her family last week.

In 1976, Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping Katherine Hall, who says Garrido handcuffed her and imprisoned her in a storage unit for eight hours.

His ex-wife described him as "a monster," a sex addict who once tried to gouge her eyes out with a safety pin.

"It would not surprise me at all if more victims are located," Orman told NBC's "Today" show. All agencies in the county I'm in, Contra Costa, we are all looking at cold cases that we have that this person may be responsible for. We have a long way to go."

In April 1972, Garrido met two teenage girls at the public library in Antioch, Calif., Orman said. He took the two girls on a joy ride around Antioch, then brought him to his house, where they partied in a shed in the backyard and he gave them drugs. Then he took one of them to a nearby motel, where she says he sexually assaulted her multiple times, Orman said.

"It's certainly an indication that this all started early in his life," Orman said.

Garrido, a registered sex offender, held Dugard captive for nearly two decades despite regular visits from parole officers and police.

"We try and identify those (sex offenders) that we think are going to reoffend and pay a lot of attention to those folks," Orman said. "But obviously, the numbers are overwhelming."

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Garridos-Sexual-Spree-May-Have-Started-in-1972-Police-56922542.html

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Police release '76 Garrido arrest report in Reno rape
By David Jacobs • September 2, 2009

Reno police Wednesday evening released 88 pages of their 1976 investigation of the rape of a 25-year-old woman in Reno by Phillip Garrido, charged in the 1991 abduction and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard after her discovery last week in Northern California.

Included were a lengthy interview of the victim, witness statements and a written statement from with a neighbor who lived in another storage shed on the Mill Street property where the woman was raped.

The documents add more details and support previous information about the 1976 kidnapping and rape of Katherine Gayle Callaway.

Garrido was convicted in 1977 and served 11 years in federal prison and less than seven months in Nevada state prison for the crime.

Callaway, who identified herself as the victim this week on national television shows, said she gave a man, later identified as Garrido, a ride the evening of Nov. 22, 1976, from a South Lake Tahoe market because he said his car was not working.

He eventually handcuffed her, tied her with a belt, taped her mouth, put a coat over her body and stopped at a gas station before driving to his storage shed in Reno.

“He told me he was taking me to a shed that he had been fixing up for a couple of weeks for this purpose and that he had gone to Lake Tahoe specifically for the purpose of abducting a girl, any girl and that if I did everything to please him sexually that I would not get hurt, but he would hurt me if he had to,” she told police.

“He said that he had abducted two other girls prior to yesterday, one from the Bay area and one possibly in (Las) Vegas, I can’t remember, but that he had never hurt any of them,” she said.

Though the crime was planned, not everything went smoothly. At the gas station, Garrido had trouble getting the gas nozzle in the car’s tank. He had to untape her mouth to learn the car took unleaded gas, she said.

Garrido lost the key to the shed and decided to pry off the lock with a crow bar. They drove to what may have been his house. He couldn’t find his crow bar but later learned Callaway had one in her car.

The shed included a mattress, a torn red satin sheet and possibly an old fur. He had colored stage lights to reflect on the mattress and a projector to show pornographic films.

He sexually assaulted her for several hours.

Just after 3 a.m., a Reno officer stopped at the shed where he saw a car parked in front of an open and unlocked door.

“He let the guy go back in there with me to get my clothes and I was afraid my abductor was going to use me as a hostage,” the victim said in the report. “But he made no moves and pleaded with me not to tell them anything to say that we were sweethearts having a good time, please don’t turn him in. I ran back out to the policeman.”

The neighbor in the nearby shed said he had met Garrido about a week after moving into the property. Garrido had seemed a friendly, good-natured musician, the neighbor said.

But the neighbor said the relationship changed “in the nature he was more ... forward with sexual statements. ... All times it was of extreme nature and never of a beautiful relationship between a couple...,” the neighbor said in a handwritten statement.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, face 29 felony counts related to the kidnapping of 11-year-old Dugard in 1991. Dugard was allegedly held prisoner in Garrido’s backyard in Antioch, Calif., and had two children, now 11 and 15, by him.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090902/NEWS/90902065&theme=

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Woman Says Garrido Raped Her In 1972

By: Matthew Keys FOX40 News

September 3, 2009

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A woman has come forward to authorities accusing registered sex offender Phillip Garrido of raping her in 1972.

The Sacramento Bee reports the unidenitifed woman, age 14 at the time of the alleged incident, told Antioch police Garrido drugged and repeatedly raped her in a motel.

The woman apparently came forward after recognizing Garrido from recent media reports. Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, are accused of kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Dugard was found living with her two daughters, supposedly fathered with Phillip Garrido, in a backyard compound located behind Garrido's Antioch home.

Both Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arrested as suspects in the kidnapping case. Authorities say Nancy Garrido was with Phillip Garrido at the time of the abduction and matches the suspect's description obtained by eyewitnesses in 1991. The Garrido's Antioch home was searched for evidence last Thursday morning.

Authorities with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Adult Parolee Operations report a parolee agent helped crack the 18-year-old kidnapping case while following up on a tip that Garrido was seen with two small children on the campus of UC Berkeley. The diligent questioning of the parolee officer led Garrido to reveal the kidnapping of Dugard. Further questioning revealed Dugard and Garrido were the parents of the two children.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department said at a press conference the two children were kept in "complete isolation" and had not been to school or a doctor.

Shortly after Dugard was discovered, authorities with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department admitted they missed an opportunity to crack the 1991 kidnapping case of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 2006 after receiving a tip from a neighbor that suspect and convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido had a backyard compound made from sheds and could possibly be having other people living with him.

"The caller said Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction," Sheriff Warren Rupf told reporters on August 28th. "I'm first in line to offer organizational criticism and to offer my apologies to the victims and accept responsibility for having missed an earlier opportunity."

Sheriff Rupf said an officer with their department did investigate the claim made by the caller, but did not realize Garrido was a sex offender and did not investigate a claim of a living space in Garrido's backyard.

"This is not an acceptable outcome," Rupf admitted. "No one should have failed to recognize a sexual registrant, including law enforcement. Our work product should have resulted in a better outcome. We have a responsibility to report people living in a backyard."

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