Garrido Timeline / Related Cases

[Grande]

Lisa Norrell 15 Pittsburg, CA Sunday, November 06, 1988
Jaycee Dugard 11 Lake Tahoe, CA Monday, June 10, 1991
Rachel Cruise 32 Pittsburg, CA Thursday, December 15, 1988
Tammy Davis 38 Pittsburg, CA Thursday, December 15, 1988
Valerie Schultz 27 Pittsburg, CA Friday, January 08, 1988
Michaela Garecht 9 Hayward, CA Saturday, November 19, 1988
Ilene Mishelhoff 13 Dublin, CA Monday, January 30, 1989
Amanda Campbell 4 Fairfield, CA Friday, December 27, 1999
Sharon Mattos
Andrea Ingersoll

[Grande]

Cops: Kidnap suspect looks good for other cases
Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Police investigating a possible connection between Antioch kidnapping and rape suspect Phillip Craig Garrido and the serial killing of 10 prostitutes in the 1990s are operating on more than just a hunch.

A Contra Costa law enforcement source said the body of one slain prostitute - and evidence linked to two others - was found at the eastern Contra Costa County dismantling yard where Garrido once worked and sometimes preached.

Inspector John Conaty, the Pittsburg police investigator originally assigned to the prostitution killings, is still with the department. And when news came of Garrido's arrest in connection with the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Conaty jumped on the case.

"Every law enforcement agency in sight is looking at this guy," said a second source close to the case. "It's safe to say that the closer you get to where he is or was, the more interest there is."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/29/BA3619F9NO.DTL#ixzz0PnXc4oIN

[Grande]

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek - January 10, 1999 - A01 News
SERIAL KILLER MAY BE AT WORK

With Pittsburg's leaders urging calm, investigators said Saturday that the fourth female to be found dead in the area since early November had been stabbed to death and for the first time conceded a serial killer could be at work. Officials said they still have no direct evidence linking the killings of four young women and the severe beating of another in the Pittsburg area but said they will explore the possibility that someone is targeting prostitutes or women walking

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Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek - January 9, 1999 - A01 news
5TH BODY IN PITTSBURG AREA

The layer of fear spreading over Pittsburg thickened Friday when the body of another young woman was discovered in an industrial area within a few miles of where four bodies have been found in the past two months. Contra Costa sheriff's investigators, who are handling the case, and Pittsburg police would not say how the woman died or whether the death was a homicide. Officials also refused to speculate on whether a serial killer is preying on East Contra Costans. Officers...

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Ledger Dispatch (CA) - February 14, 1999 - A33 news
PITTSBURG, BAY POINT QUIET AFTER KILLINGS

An uneasy calm has settled over Pittsburg and Bay Point. More than five weeks has passed since Valerie Dawn Schultz's body was found in Bay Point, the last of four women mysteriously slain in the area since November. It's the longest stretch of quiet here since the first victim, Lisa Norrell, was discovered three months ago today. While no one has been charged with any of the killings, some people hope the killer or killers have moved on. Police are not sure...

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[Roamer]

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By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press Writers Terry Collins, Associated Press Writers – Mon Aug 31, 11:50 pm ET

ANTIOCH, Calif. – Police said Monday they found one small bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

Authorities revealed the discovery after FBI and local law enforcement agencies in the San Francisco Bay area finished combing Phillip Garrido's property in Antioch and the one next door for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and charged with 29 counts connected to the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched outside her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991. They have pleaded not guilty.

The bone fragment was found Sunday in the next door neighbor's backyard, said Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jimmy Lee. Garrido once lived on that property in a shed. Neighbors say he once worked as the property caretaker and helped out an elderly man who lived there several years ago.

Lee said it would take several weeks of testing to determine if the recovered shard belonged to an animal or a human. Investigators recovered several other pieces of evidence during the four days they spent searching the two parcels with shovels and cadaver-sniffing dogs.

Antioch and Contra Costa County authorities have not provided many details about what they are seeking at the properties in relation to other cases. The land includes the backyard compound of tents and sheds where Garrido and his wife allegedly hid Dugard and her two daughters, now 11 and 15, fathered by Garrido.

Police in the nearby city of Pittsburg, however, have said they are investigating whether Garrido, who served over 10 years in federal prison for raping and kidnapping a Nevada woman in 1976, was involved in the murders of prostitutes in the 1990s.

Garrido's victim in the rape case, Katie Callaway Hall, said during an interview on "Larry King Live" Monday that she was scared and distressed when she found out he was paroled from prison in 1988. Under the terms of his 50 years to life sentence, she thought the soonest he would get out was 2006.

Callaway Hall said that when Garrido surfaced last week in Dugard's kidnapping, she trembled for hours with relief and anger.

"The only thing I can think of worse than what happened to me, is it happening to my child," she wrote on a blog that accompanied the television interview. "I can't imagine what Jaycee is going through. He had me for 8 hours. He had her for 18 years. I was an adult, with instincts that helped me deal with the situation. She was a child. This is going to be with her for the rest of her life. I can only wish her the best."

Another woman from Garrido's past also came forward with a harrowing tale. Christine Murphy, who said she was married to Garrido from 1973 until after his rape conviction, told "Inside Edition" that her ex-husband was a violent drug abuser who once dug a safety pin into her face in a pique of jealousy.

"I was always looking for a way to get away," Murphy said of her brief marriage to a man she had met in high school in Contra Costa County. The couple later lived in Reno, where Callaway Hall was raped and a stone's throw from where Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe.

Meanwhile, an FBI agent who spent 18 years on Dugard's kidnapping case says the Garridos never were considered suspects.

Special Agent Chris Campion said the bureau exhausted thousands of leads about Dugard's whereabouts, sometimes with the help of confidential informants and court-ordered wiretaps.

Yet Campion said in the interview posted on the FBI Web site Friday that Phillip and Nancy Garrido "just did not come up on the radar screen."

"We've gone through and checked our records and my memory is no, we didn't have any thing that remotely was close to these people," Campion said. "We can tell you several thousands of people that didn't kidnap Jaycee Lee Dugard."

The secrets of the Garrido home began to surface early last week when Garrido arrived for a meeting with his parole officer with his wife, Dugard, now 29, and the two girls. Authorities say he confessed to snatching Dugard in 1991.


Over the years, Campion said he made a point of calling Dugard's mother every year on Dugard's birthday. He was the one who called to give her the news that her daughter was alive and he was present last week when they were reunited.
"It was a very emotional scene — both of them were just overjoyed to be with each other again," he said. "There's going to be a period of adjustment, no doubt, but they're doing very well at this point. And the two daughters are probably as happy as Jaycee is to be part of this family as well."

[Grande]

Garrido in Reno when Tahoe woman vanished in 1970
By Frank X. Mullen Jr. • fmullen@rgj.com • August 31, 2009

The sister of a 25-year-old woman who was abducted from South Lake Tahoe in 1970 said she wonders if the suspect in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard is connected to the 39-year-old mystery.

“As soon as I heard about the (Dugard) case last week I thought that this could be something related to my sister’s disappearance,” said Mary Pilker of Sioux Falls, S.D., the sister of Donna Ann Lass. Lass, a nurse at the Sahara Hotel-Casino who vanished Sept. 6, 1970, after leaving work at the casino and never arriving home.

Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, is charged with the kidnapping and rape of Dugard, who was then 11 years old and waiting for a school bus near her South Lake Tahoe home when she was forced into a car. Garrido allegedly imprisoned Dugard in his backyard in Antioch, Calif., for 18 years.

In 1976, Garrido kidnapped a 25-year-old woman from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot and raped her in a Reno warehouse in a space he prepared for the crime. An hour before that woman was abducted, police said Garrido attempted to kidnap another woman from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot.

Garrido’s relatives, contacted Monday, said Phillip Garrido moved to Reno from California when he was about 19 years old. That places him in the area when Lass disappeared in 1970.

Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said late Monday that Lass’ disappearance “has haunted the Tahoe Basin” for 39 years. He said the news that the suspect in the Dugard case was reportedly in Reno in 1970 may be a good lead.

Lovell said he will discuss the matter with FBI agents assigned to the Lass case.

“There are a lot of similarities among these cases,” Pilker said Monday. “I’ve been trying to get through to the South Lake Tahoe police to look into this.”

Previous reports on the Lass case have linked her disappearance to the Zodiac killer, but no connection has ever been proven. The Zodiac was a serial killer who terrorized the Northern California in the late 1960s.
The Reno police detective who worked on the 1976 kidnapping and rape case that put Garrido in federal prison in Kansas for 11 years said he recalled Garrido’s name as soon as he heard it on the news last week.

“I looked him up and there he was in my ‘attaboy’ file” said former Reno police Detective Dan DeMaranville, now a federal security officer. “I remember (Garrido). He was a tall, nice-looking young man but he was one sick puppy.”

Garrido, who was 25 in 1976, had prepared a space in a Reno mini warehouse with rugs, a spotlight, a movie projector, pornographic magazines and sex toys. He kidnapped a 25-year-old casino worker, brought the victim to the warehouse and raped her.

He was arrested when Reno police Officer Clifford Conrad, who saw a car parked next to the warehouse and a broken door lock, entered and interrupted the crime.

“(Conrad) was on the ball,” DeMaranville said. “I was proud of him. I’m still proud of him today.”

He said the Garrido didn’t strike him as a killer, but it was uncertain what Garrido planned to do with his 1976 victim after he raped her.
Ron Garrido, the suspect’s brother, told the San Francisco Chronicle this week that the brothers grew up in Brentwood, Calif., with their parents, Manuel and Pat Garrido. Their childhood was relatively unremarkable, he said, until Phillip Garrido began acting out, using LSD and dealing drugs.

Phillip Garrido graduated from Liberty High School in 1969 and moved to Reno shortly afterward, his brother said. He fled California after learning that fellow drug dealers “had a contract out on him,” Ron Garrido said.

Phillip Garrido would have been 19 years old when Donna Ann Lass disappeared. By 1976, he was living on Market Street in Reno, court documents said.

Authorities in California are looking at Garrido in connection with the murders of prostitutes in the 1990s and also in connection with abductions of young girls that occurred after Garrido was paroled in Nevada in 1988. He served seven months in Nevada State Prison for the sexual assault connected with the 1976 kidnapping.

He came back to Nevada to serve a 5 years to life sentence after serving 11 years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. He was eligible for parole before he arrived in the state, officials said, and was released in 1988 as a federal parolee.

“I doubt if (the 1976 kidnapping) was his first sex crime,” Pilker said. “If he was in Reno in 1970, you need to see if he was connected to my sister’s disappearance.”

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090831/NEWS/90831044/1321/news

[5boxersmom]

Why is the suspects sketch the same in Michaela Garecht case and Johnny Gosch the same?


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/garecht_michaela.html


http://www.johnnygosch.com/

[Emyo]

Why is the suspects sketch the same in Michaela Garecht case and Johnny Gosch the same?


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/garecht_michaela.html


http://www.johnnygosch.com/

Wow! They are exactly the same! I know that Michaela also has a revised suspect sketch, but these two are the same. Great question, wish I had the answer.

[Emyo]

I found a pdf link from Johnny's mom. It is about 32 pages of her story. At the end is the suspect sketch. It is not the sketch that is linked above that is also linked to Michaela. Somebody messed up.

http://www.johnnygosch.com/images/chap.pdf

[Grande]

Garrido was incarcerated at the time of Johnny Gosch's disappearance fwiw.

[Grande]

I found a pdf link from Johnny's mom. It is about 32 pages of her story. At the end is the suspect sketch. It is not the sketch that is linked above that is also linked to Michaela. Somebody messed up.

http://www.johnnygosch.com/images/chap.pdf

Thanks Emyo!

[Emyo]

Garrido was incarcerated at the time of Johnny Gosch's disappearance fwiw.

Yea, and I do not think Michaela's is related. Too close in time from when Garrido got out, and the suspect age and look is wrong. But you just never know. Contra Costa investigators will be all over this, and for that I am thankful.
jmo

[5boxersmom]

Wow! They are exactly the same! I know that Michaela also has a revised suspect sketch, but these two are the same. Great question, wish I had the answer.

Thanks. Now I have another mystery for you. :waitasec:

Doesn't that sketch of the car look like the car that took Jaycee?

[packy]

Thanks. Now I have another mystery for you. :waitasec:

Doesn't that sketch of the car look like the car that took Jaycee?

Along the side it looks a little like it, but there were a lot of styles that had that shape.

[awakening2lite]

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By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press Writers Terry Collins, Associated Press Writers – Mon Aug 31, 11:50 pm ET

ANTIOCH, Calif. – Police said Monday they found one small bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

Authorities revealed the discovery after FBI and local law enforcement agencies in the San Francisco Bay area finished combing Phillip Garrido's property in Antioch and the one next door for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and charged with 29 counts connected to the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched outside her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991. They have pleaded not guilty.

The bone fragment was found Sunday in the next door neighbor's backyard, said Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jimmy Lee. Garrido once lived on that property in a shed. Neighbors say he once worked as the property caretaker and helped out an elderly man who lived there several years ago.

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This is just confusing me.

One article reports he met his wife when she was visiting someone else (Uncle?) at the prison. They married in the prison. When he was released they moved into her mother's house. IIRC that is the same house where he imprisoned Jaycee and her children.

So, why (or when) would he live in the shed in the backyard next door to act as caretaker?

Someone, please straighten me out.

TIA

[Faith]

So the girls thinks Jaycee is their sister?

"They both said that they were home schooled," Jacobs said. "And when I asked about that, they said that the mom and the dad both home schooled them. And then they mentioned an older sister."

Jacobs called Garrido's parole officer to tell him about the meeting. "And he stopped me dead in my tracks," she said. "And he said, 'He doesn't have daughters.' And that's when my heart kind of sunk down into my stomach. And I said, 'Well, he introduced them as his daughters. They had his blue eyes. They were calling him "Dad." They even mentioned an older sister at home. So I had no reason to believe that they were anything but his daughters.' "

I just posted this in the video thread.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/31/missing.girl.officers/#cnnSTCText

[Faith]

This is just confusing me.

One article reports he met his wife when she was visiting someone else (Uncle?) at the prison. They married in the prison. When he was released they moved into her mother's house. IIRC that is the same house where he imprisoned Jaycee and her children.

So, why (or when) would he live in the shed in the backyard next door to act as caretaker?

Someone, please straighten me out.

TIA

I can't help you a lot and I stand corrected by this answer.

The house next door was empty and he took care of the grounds IIRC.

[Faith]

A2L--

Lee would not elaborate on what kind of evidence investigators were seeking or the nature of the possible crimes involving the second property. The link to the kidnapping case is that Phillip Garrido, the man charged with holding Dugard in captivity for 18 years in his own backyard, had access to the neighboring land when the house that sits on it was vacant three years ago.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/states/nv/2009/35/articles/investigators_dugard_kidnapping_case_search_next.h tml

[Faith]

Investigators in Dugard kidnapping case search next door

Source: Reno Gazette Journal | August 30, 2009


Sheriff?s deputies and prosecutors from two counties and officers from two city police departments were using the dogs, shovels and other tools to inspect the neighboring yard, which sits behind an off-white house with a chain link fence.

?We do consider it a crime scene,? said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff?s Department.

Lee would not elaborate on what kind of evidence investigators were seeking or the nature of the possible crimes involving the second property. The link to the kidnapping case is that Phillip Garrido, the man charged with holding Dugard in captivity for 18 years in his own backyard, had access to the neighboring land when the house that sits on it was vacant three years ago.

?It looks like Garrido lived on the property in a shed,? Lee said.

Damon Robinson, who moved into the vacant house in 2006, and another neighbor say Phillip Garrido served as caretaker of the home before Robinson took occupancy. That same year Robinson?s then-girlfriend called police after she saw tents and children in the backyard, but the responding deputy did not uncover the backyard compound.

A third neighbor, Janice Deitrich, 66, said that Phillip Garrido visited and helped to feed an elderly neighbor who lived in the house before Robinson.

Police in Pittsburg, a Bay Area city near where the Garridos lived, have said they are investigating whether Phillip Garrido may be linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the 1990s. Antioch police are also looking into unsolved cases but declined further details.

?We will take a close look at if there are any links to open cases,? Lee said, declining to provide additional details.

Authorities on Sunday removed two paper grocery bags filled with papers from Garrido?s primary residence, which he shared with his wife and mother, and boarded up the structure?s windows. Searches of both parcels were expected to continue on Monday, Lee said.

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Investigators also continued clearing brush from the scruffy backyard compound of tents and sheds where Garrido and his wife, Nancy, allegedly took an 11-year-old Dugard in 1991 after abducting her. Dugard and the two daughters, now 11 and 15, she had by Garrido lived in the secret encampment, authorities allege.

The compound was concealed by thick foliage, trees and tall fences, and authorities say it was equipped with a makeshift shower and an outhouse. The structures were lit by lights powered by extension cords, and one shed was soundproofed and set up with access controlled from the outside.

Karen Walker, 58, who has lived two doors down for the last five months, said the Garridos had a fire recently in a van parked on their property. When neighbors went to investigate, Phillip Garrido ?shooed people away,? Walker said.

Like many others on their street, Walker could not recall ever see Jaycee Dugard, but remembered seeing two shy young blonde girls.

Walker said her 9-year-old grandson once asked the younger of the two girls if she wanted to play.

?They asked if they could ride bikes with her, just being friendly, but she said she couldn?t,? she recalled.

Other neighbors said they pointedly kept their distance from a man they nicknamed ?Creepy Phil,? partly because he ranted about hearing voices from God, and because some knew that he was a registered sex offender. But they assumed parole authorities were keeping a close watch on their eccentric neighbor, who was convicted three decades ago of abducting and raping a casino worker in a Nevada warehouse that a former detective described as a ?sex palace? for playing out his fantasies.

But even though Garrido wore an ankle bracelet tracking device and received visits from his parole officer, they did not find out about Dugard or the secret compound. And a sheriff?s deputy, following up a neighbor?s complaint that there were girls and tents in the backyard, left after concluding there was nothing more than minor building code violations.

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Neighbors said they did not see Dugard but they saw two shy young blonde girls who, it turned out, were Dugard?s daughters.

The customers of Garrido?s business card and brochure company knew Dugard as Allissa, the polite, efficient assistant and the business owner?s daughter. They talked with her on the phone and exchanged emails.

At least one customer, Ben Daughdrill, also saw her in person twice in the last six months when he drove to the Garrido home to pick up office supplies and pay for them.

She came out alone to Daughdrill?s vehicle and conceivably could have escaped or asked for help.

?There was a reason she did not say anything,? said Daughdrill.

By then, she was mother of two girls, now ages 11 and 15, sired by Garrido.

The secrets of the Garrido home began to surface early last week when he and his two daughters went to the University of California at Berkeley. He wanted to leaflet and hold an event on the campus, but the events coordinator and a campus police officer thought he behaved strangely and were concerned about the robotic behavior of his daughters.

When the officer found that Garrido was a registered sex offender with a rape conviction in Nevada, she contacted his parole officer.

At a meeting with his parole officer, Garrido brought along his wife, Dugard and the two girls. Authorities say he confessed to snatching Dugard from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop in 1991 and was arrested along with his wife.

Dugard, now 29, was reunited with her mother, sister and another relative Thursday. Her stepfather says her two children remain with her and she is healthy although she feels guilty about developing a bond with Garrido.

?Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She really feels it?s almost like a marriage,? said Carl Probyn, who had witnessed the her kidnapping and tried to give chase.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.

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Associated Press writer Terry Collins in Antioch contributed to this story, with reporting from Cathy Bussewitz.

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[packy]

Ok, thanks, because the article I quoted and several news stations have reported he lived in the shed in the backyard next door and acted as caretaker to those grounds.

It confused me because if he married in prison and they moved in the current house with his mother in law, why he would need to live in a shed in a neighboring yard.

So, you are saying he didn't live in the shed in the next door neighbors back yard.

Thanks, it was very confusing.


The media can be confusing, because I heard that more than once too that he lived for awhile in a shed on the next door property.

[Auburnmommyof2]

Maybe this has already been mentioned. I thought I'd throw it out there and see what you all thought. I noticed several old vans in the yard. I wonder if these vans were used in other crimes. He had hidden the grey car in the yard so it would make sense. Just my opinion.

I had posted this the other day in the main thread about Jaycee but decided to put it here since it has to do with other possible missing persons

[Grande]

Maybe this has already been mentioned. I thought I'd throw it out there and see what you all thought. I noticed several old vans in the yard. I wonder if these vans were used in other crimes. He had hidden the grey car in the yard so it would make sense. Just my opinion.

I had posted this the other day in the main thread about Jaycee but decided to put it here since it has to do with other possible missing persons

Very likely IMO. Time will tell I suppose.

Pittsburg PD stated last night that there is no link at this point to Garrido and the slayings of the prostitutes near the industrial complex in Pitt.

[Grande]

No Evidence Found Between Garridos, Unsolved Murders
4-day search yields no clues
Updated 6:45 AM PDT, Wed, Sep 2, 2009

An extensive search of the house of suspected kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido does not appear to have yielded any evidence to connect the couple to several unsolved murders in Pittsburg in the late 1990s, Pittsburg police Lt. Brian Addington said Tuesday.

Several items, including a bone fragment that may or may not be human, will require further forensic examination before they can be completely discounted, Addington said.

Pittsburg police, along with Antioch police, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI, searched the Garridos' house and an adjacent property on Walnut Avenue in unncorporated Contra Costa County just outside of Antioch for four days.

They tore down trees, dug up the ground and brought in cadaver dogs to help sniff out possible murder victims. Among other things, they were looking for evidence that could connect the couple to the unsolved murders of Lisa Norrell, 15, Jessica Frederick, 24, and Rachel Cruise, 32, Addington said.

Antioch police and the sheriff's office were also looking for evidence that would connect the Garridos to crimes in their jurisdictions.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/No-Evidence-Found-Between-Garridos-Unsolved-Murders-56717122.html

[Grande]

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[Grande]

Possible Garrido link to cold case
September 3, 2009

US AUTHORITIES are exploring the possibility that predator Phillip Garrido could be behind the abduction of another missing girl, Michaela Garecht.

They say Michaela, who had long blonde hair, blue eyes and a friendly, big-toothed grin, could pass for Jaycee Dugard's sister.

An investigator looking into Michaela's disappearance is struck by the fact both she and Jaycee were kidnapped about two decades ago and the cars in both abductions were similar. Garrido was released from prison a few months before Michaela was taken.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/possible-garrido-link-to-cold-case-20090902-f8e9.html

[Grande]

Re: Michaela Garecht abduction details and similarities;

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The abductor drove a large older model American-made sedan. It was possibly a four-door vehicle and was cream, gold, or tan in color. The car may have had cement splatters on the sides and lights set into the rear bumper. The front bumper was battered; the vehicle may have previously been in an accident.

Source: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/garecht_michaela.html

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[Grande]

Authorities investigating possible link between Jaycee Dugard and Michaela Garecht kidnappings
By Linda Goldston
lgoldston@mercurynews.com
Posted: 09/01/2009 07:02:52 PM PDT
Updated: 09/02/2009 02:30:32 AM PDT

Authorities are exploring whether Phillip Garrido could be behind the abduction of another high profile missing girl, Michaela Garecht — with long blond hair, blue eyes and a friendly big-toothed grin, she could pass for Jaycee Dugard's sister.

But they share more than a similar physical appearance. An investigator looking into Michaela's disappearance is struck by the fact both she and Jaycee were kidnapped about two decades ago, yanked from the street into a stranger's car — Michaela from Hayward in 1988, when she was 7; Jaycee from South Lake Tahoe in 1991, when she was 11.

The cars in both cases are also similar, a large sedan. And in 1988, Garrido reportedly was living in a halfway house in Oakland, a short drive from the Hayward store where Michaela was pulled into a car after going to the store with a friend.

Hayward police said the similarities are too close to ignore.

"The fact both kidnappings happened in broad daylight, the similarity of the car, the area, the fact he was released from prison a few months before Michaela was taken," said Hayward Police Lt. Chris Orrey. And, "if you look at the pictures of Jaycee and Michaela, they could be sisters."

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with abducting Dugard. Once Dugard's identity was confirmed and authorities learned more about Garrido — his conviction for the kidnap and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman in 1976 — several law enforcement agencies launched a four-day search of the Garridos' ramshackle property in Antioch for possible links to a string of homicides in the 1990s.

During the 18 years she was missing, authorities say Dugard and two daughters Garrido fathered with her lived behind his Antioch home, in a motley collection of tents and sheds.

The search, which included the use of cadaver dogs, turned up a small bone fragment on property next to Garrido's that he had access to. But police ended their search late Monday, saying they had turned up no links to the prostitute homicides.

Michaela's mother, Sharon Murch, is hoping the search for links to her daughter's case will be more successful.

"I called the police at 6:30 a.m. the day after Jaycee was found," Murch said Tuesday. She, too, was struck by the similarities — and she wasn't the only one.

The other young girl who had gone to the store to buy candy with Michaela in 1988 is grown now and was one of many watching the news about Dugard and the Garridos unfold last week. As soon as she saw police removing a dirty old car from Garrido's backyard on television, she called Murch,

"That looks like the car Michaela was kidnapped in," she told Murch.

Murch, who recently published a safety manual for children — "Listen to Your Smart Voice and Stay Safe!" — said she is scared and excited at the same time.

"I've been down this path so many times, so I don't want to think positively that this is it," she said.

But even she is allowing for a little hope. If Jaycee made it back home alive, "maybe Michaela is out there somewhere."

Authorities had wondered for years if the string of kidnappings of young girls, mostly blondes, along the I-80 corridor between San Francisco and Tahoe were related, Jaycee and Michaela's cases especially because they looked so much alike and were taken so brazenly.

Michaela and her friend had ridden their scooters to a small market on Mission Boulevard in Hayward to buy sodas and cherry taffy on Nov. 19, 1988.

When they came out of the store, the girls noticed that one of the scooters had been moved, close to a big dark car. Michaela walked over to the car to retrieve the scooter and was grabbed by a man who threw her into the car and sped off. At the time, Michaela's friend said the man had long dirty blond hair and a pockmarked face. The car, she said, was large, believed to be a 1970s sedan with mud or concrete splatters.

"We still feel the answer is out there somewhere," Lt. Orrey said. "We won't close this case until we find Michaela."

Since Michaela was kidnapped, Hayward police have received "thousands and thousands" of tips about the case.

Orrey wonders if this could be the one. She had been a rookie police officer when Michaela disappeared and she remembers being determined to find the little blonde girl.

Now Orrey believes she has another chance.

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Phillip Craig Garrido was suspected of trying to abduct another young woman near South Lake Tahoe in November 1976 - just one hour before he kidnapped 25-year-old Katherine Callaway and drove her to a Reno storage shed where he raped and sodomized her for more than five hours.

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Details of earlier alleged Garrido abductions emerge
By Sam Stanton
sstanton@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Sep. 3, 2009 - 10:05 am
Last Modified: Thursday, Sep. 3, 2009 - 10:38 am

Phillip Craig Garrido, the convicted sex offender charged with abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, may have attacked at least two other victims - one a 14-year-old girl he allegedly drugged and raped repeatedly in an Antioch motel, authorities now say.

Garrido, 58, was arrested in 1972 after the incident, Antioch police said this morning, but the case never went to trial because the girl decided during the preliminary hearing that she did not want to testify.

Garrido also was suspected of trying to abduct another young woman near South Lake Tahoe in November 1976 - just one hour before he kidnapped 25-year-old Katherine Callaway and drove her to a Reno storage shed where he raped and sodomized her for more than five hours.

"It is so horrendous," Leland Lutfy, the former federal prosecutor who won a 50-year sentence against Garrido in 1977, said of the revelations emerging about a man he remembers as someone who never should have been released from prison.

The 1972 incident came to light after the alleged victim, now an adult who does not want to be identified, contacted Antioch police after Garrido's arrest last week on charges of kidnapping and raping Dugard in 1991 when she was 11.

Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman told The Bee this morning that the incident began as the 14-year-old and a friend were walking to the public library on West 18th Street in Antioch.

"On the way there the girl tells our victim they're going to meet a couple of guys," Orman said. "The victim assumes these guys are going to be age appropriate, and when they get there it's a couple of guys quite a bit older than they expected.

"They get into the car with these guys and start driving around the city."

One of the men was Garrido, Orman said, and they began giving the girls barbiturates. For some reason that Orman said isn't clear, a police car began chasing the car but the men were able to elude it and ended up at a house near where Garrido lived until his arrest last week. Orman said it may have been the same house but authorities are not certain because many of the records from then are not available.

"Essentially, from there the girl is provided more barbiturates and she remembers next waking up in a motel in Antioch that's on east 18th Street going out toward Oakley," Orman said. "She remembers Garrido being there and she remembers being repeatedly raped, sexually assaulted, by him.

"At some point a day or two later her mother and father find her there ... They get to the motel and find her daughter there who's obviously been raped and Garrido is still there. From what we understand they call law enforcement, an Antioch police officer responds, finds out the basics and from what we can tell arrests Garrido."

Orman said the Contra Costa District Attorney's office began a prosecution of Garrido but "at the preliminary hearing the victim decides she's not going to testify and that charges against Garrido are dismissed."

Orman said police do not know what happened to the other man involved and whether he faced charges, or whether the other girl was assaulted.

The alleged victim in the case called Antioch police after Garrido's arrest to alert them to her case. Orman said that although there may be statute of limitation obstacles to filing new charges, the woman wanted to be certain authorities knew Garrido may have had multiple incidents involving attacks against women.

Another attack is described in federal court documents involving Garrido's kidnapping trial in Reno in 1977, stemming from his abduction of Callaway, who agreed to give him a ride after he approached her at a market parking lot and claimed his car had broken down.

He abducted her and raped her at the Reno storage shed. A passing police officer interrupted the assault and arrested him.

Lutfy, the federal prosecutor who convicted Garrido in the kidnap trial, told The Bee this morning that an hour before Garrido kidnapped Callaway he nearly abducted another young woman.

In that incident, he reportedly approached the woman and also told her his car had broken down.

"She agreed to give him a lift, and they went off on a side street. She stopped the car, and he handcuffed one of her arms, only one," Lutfy said from his Las Vegas, Nev., law office. "She slammed on the brake and literally jumped out of the car.

"He was hanging onto the other end of the handcuff. The vehicle was still moving and she was running alongside of it. She was yelling, 'Let me go! I wont tell anyone!' He took off the handcuff and tried to talk her into getting back into the car."

Lutfy said that when Garrrido's lawyer tried to introduce an insanity defense during the kidnap trial, he tried to introduce evidence of the other abduction attempt to show Garrido had methodically hunted women, "to show motive, opportunity, intent and preparation."

But the judge rejected the effort, saying Lutfy had already provided ample evidence against Garrido.

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Murder of Charles and Jennifer Chia
From Federal Bureau of Investigation, for About.com

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Crime Stats For The Crime:
At approximately 3:20pm on October 18, 1989, Charles and Jennifer Chia, juveniles, exited their school bus near their residence in the Timber Hills apartment complex in Southwest Reno, Nevada. After exiting the bus they walked across the street with a friend and were last seen walking toward their apartment.

Details:
On July 25, 1990 the skeletal remains of Charles and Jennifer Chia were discovered in a shallow grave next to Highway 70 in Plumas County, California, which is approximately 50 miles from Reno, Nevada.

More Details:
Charles Chia, at the time 8 years old with black hair, was wearing a long-sleeve white shirt, a blue pullover, blue jeans and was carrying a dark blue and red backpack. Jennifer Chia, at the time 6 years old with black hair, was wearing a white dress with black dots, white socks, light green shoes and was carrying both a blue tote bag and a "Miss Piggy" lunch pail.

Information Needed:
Authorities would like to speak with anyone who may have information concerning the murder or abduction victims, Charles and Jennifer Chia, at or near the Timber Hills apartment complex in Southwest Reno, Nevada on October 18, 1989.

Authorities are also interested in any information that could confirm the possible sighting of Charles and Jennifer Chia in the Northern Nevada area, or in Sierraville or Loyalton, California.

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Garrido still a suspect in Garecht abduction
Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 7:50 AM

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7066018