Jaycee Lee Dugard Found After 18 years
Phillip and Nancy Garrido Charged
Jaycee Lee Dugard was only 11-years-old when she was abducted as she walked to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991.
Carl Probyn, Jaycee's step father, was with her and heard her scream. Then he saw her get pulled into a grey Ford with a man and a woman. He even chased them down on his bike, but couldn't catch them.
A massive search effort was launched, and Probyn even came under scrutiny. The Probyn's lives were shattered. They moved from their home and their marriage broke up, though they are still legally married.
Jaycee Dugard was found on August 26, 2009, after 18 years of isolation in a registered sex offender's back yard. Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have both been arrested and charged with conspiracy and kidnapping. Garrido has also been charged with rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.
Garrido is on parole from a Nevada state prison on a conviction of rape by force or fear. He was paroled in 1999.
Dugard's ordeal began to come to an end after California parole officials received a report that Garrido was seen with two young children. They called him in for questioning.
"The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female," the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. "It was further revealed by Garrido that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, and that the children were his."
Garrido brought Dugard and the two children to the parole meeting. He admitted kidnapping after meeting with his parole officer.
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."
Dugard had been imprisoned in a maze of 6-foot sheds and tents hidden by fences and shrubs in the backyard of the home in Antioch, Calif., where Garrido and his wife lived with his elderly mother, Kollar said.
During Jaycee's 18 years of captivity, Garrido impregnated Jaycee with two girls now 11 and 15. The girls have never been to school or seen a doctor.
Jaycee, now 29, is largely uneducated, having spent the majority of her life relegated to a series of backyard sheds in Antioch, Calif.
(snapped from recent video) Jaycee, who had been renamed Alyssa, and her two daughters are now with her mother, Terry Probyn, in Northern California.
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09-09-09
Bone Fagment Possibly Human
A bone fragment found next door to the property of sex offender Phillip Garrido is "probably human," authorities said Tuesday.
Additional tests are needed on the piece of bone found Aug. 31, said Contra County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jimmy Lee.
Garrido, 58, lived in a shed on the neighboring property before the current owners moved in, authorities said.
Garrido and his wife Nancy have been charged with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, and keeping her captive in their Antioch home for 18 years.
A forensics expert contracted by county officials made the determination that it was probably human, Lee said. The fragment will now be sent to a state laboratory for DNA testing, Lee said.
It is not uncommon to find the bones of American Indians in the Bay Area, Lee said.
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lee-garrido-bone-2556730-county-human
09-04-09
Other Possible Victims
(1978 arrest photo) Garrido was arrested on suspicion of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl in 1972.
Garrido was accused of sexually assaulting the girl at an Antioch motel in April 1972 after giving her barbiturates, Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman said.
Garrido was set to be prosecuted in the case but the charges were dropped when the girl refused to testify.
The girl and a friend met Garrido, then 21, and another man near the public library and joined them in a car, where they were given drugs.
Details on the case were spotty because so much time had passed.
However, authorities recently reinterviewed the girl and were able to piece together that she awoke at the motel and was raped repeatedly before her parents found her.
Police were looking into whether Garrido could have also snatched 9-year-old Michaela Garecht in 1988.
Hayward police, working with the FBI, have investigated well over 13,000 leads in Garecht's case and there are some striking similarities between these two cases.
Like, Jaycee Dugard, Garecht, also had blond hair and blue eyes. She rode her scooter with a friend to the Rainbow Market on Mission Boulevard in Hayward.
When the two girls came out of the store, they noticed that Garecht's scooter had been moved. When she went to retrieve it, a man grabbed her and pulled her into a car.
In both cases, strangers abducted the girls in broad daylight.
The two victims were also very similar in appearance and the general description of the kidnapper and the car used in the two kidnappings were also similar.
Investigators believe Garrido, now 58, was out on parole and living in the Bay Area when Garecht was taken.
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09-03-09
Creepy Phil
Here's what JurorThirteen has found out since Friday, August 28, to date.
Last Friday, August 28, Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy were charged with more than two dozen criminal counts in connection with the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.
Both pleaded not guilty last Friday, to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.
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.
The question about how Garrido went unnoticed became more pressing Friday when Garrido came under suspicion in the unsolved murders of several prostitutes in the 1990s, raising the prospect he was a serial killer as well. Several of the women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido worked during the 1990s.
Phillip Garrido’s father, Manuel Garrido, said he believed that his son was a serial killer. "He was a sex addict. That was his problem," Manuel Garrido told The New York Post. “I believe my son killed the prostitutes.”
Authorities acknowledged that they blew a chance three years ago to rescue Dugard from the backyard labyrinth of sheds, tents and outbuildings that were concealed from the outside world.
A neighbor called 911 in November 2006 and described Garrido as a psychotic sex addict who was living with children and had people staying in tents in his backyard.
The investigating officer spent a half-hour interviewing Garrido on his front porch but did not enter the house or search the backyard, Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said. The deputy, who did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender even though the sheriff's department had the information, warned Garrido that the tents could be a code violation before leaving.
Several neighbors were aware that Garrido (nick-named "Creepy Phil") was a registered sex offender, but never contacted authorities thinking the parole board must have the situation under control.
Deepal Karunaratne, an Antioch real estate agent, said he worked with Phillip Garrido for a decade. He said Garrido printed business cards and signs for his business.
Karunaratne said he also frequently worked directly with a woman who called herself "Alyssa" and claimed to be Garrido's daughter. It turns out that "Alyssa" was actually Dugard, authorities said.
When shown a photo of Dugard at age 11 when she was abducted, Karunaratne reacted by saying: "That's her."
Karunaratne claimed "Alyssa" did the design work for Garrido's small printing company. He said he was often over at the Garrido house and interacted with Garrido's wife Nancy as well as the other kids.
He said he always thought it was a bit strange that "Alyssa" never called Garrido "Dad."
On Sunday, armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, about 20 officers combed the Garrido's backyard and used cadaver dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbors say one of the suspects once served as a caretaker.
Searchers reported finding a bone fragment on the adjoining property but it isn't known if it's human or not.
Investigators cleared 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.
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.
More than 100 dog-eared and heavily-thumbed paperbacks sit on the bookshelf inside Phillip Garrido's home in Antioch.
In another part of Mr Garrido's sprawling property, among the tents and outhouses where he kept Jaycee and the two daughters he fathered with her, is another bookshelf - this one bearing witness to the isolation and loneliness endured by his victims.
Garrido's collection is dominated by crime and horror, science fiction and fantasy, ranging from the novels of the best-selling science fiction writer Isaac Asimov to works by fantasy writer Roger Zelazny and British horror fiction author Brian Lumley.
But one name dominates the collection – that of Dean Koontz, the prolific American author whose disturbing novels incorporate horror, crime, science fiction and mystery and whose main protagonist is frequently a sociopathic monster.
Koontz's novel Intensity, a copy of which has been placed at the center of Mr Garrido's bookshelf, features a delusional character called Edgler Vess, whose warped beliefs and sociopathic tendencies have made him serial killer and rapist. At one stage Vess keeps a young girl prisoner in his basement.
Phillip Garrido was convicted of the 1976 kidnapping of Katherine Hall and given a sentence of 50 years. He was released after 10 years which begs the question, "What the hell is the California justice system been doing?"
Katherine Hall was kidnapped and raped for 8 hours by Phillip Garrido in 1976. Katherine Hall was 25 years old at the time of her brutal attack. She was transported from California to Reno, NV.
While shopping at a grocery store in South Lake Tahoe, California, Hall was approached by Garrido and he asked her for a ride. She obliged but before she was able to drop him off, he had slammed her head against the dashboard, overpowered her, and then handcuffed her.
Hall described how Phillip Garrido then brought her to a mini warehouse.
Once Phillip Garrido had handcuffed Katherine, he used a leather strap to tie her head to his knees. She stated that he retrieved the strap from his hair.
When they were in the area of the warehouse, he threw a coat over her head so that she could not see her location. Katherine described the mini storage, but stated that she has mentally blocked out the majority of the actual physical rape that spanned over a course of 8 hours.
She stated that the mini warehouse was approximately 6x12. There were boxes in the front part of the warehouse, but behind it was a sex den, equipped with carpeting on the ceiling and heavy rugs. At the back of the warehouse was a mattress. Katherine said that the warehouse was set up in a manner as if to hold someone there for a long period of time.
According to Hall, the warehouse was part of the police officers beat.
Phillip Garrido had lost the key to the warehouse in Hall’s car when they arrived so he opened the door to the warehouse with a crowbar. The officer noticed the lock and saw the car. He pounded on the door to the warehouse and Phillip Garrido went to answer the door.
Hall stated that Garrido came back inside and said to her, “It's the heat, am I going to have to tie you up or are you going to be good?” Hall answered him and said that she had been good and not to tie her up. It was then that she decided this was her chance for escape. She bolted off the mattress, across the rugs, and past the boxes into the parking lot and to the police officer, she was nude.
She begged the officer for help while Phillip Garrido lied and said that Katherine Hall was his girlfriend.
During the 1977 trial, Phillip Garrido admitted that he used LSD and cocaine as sexual enhancers. He also stated that he masturbated in public places including areas such as grammar schools and high schools while he remained in his car. He also admitted to exposing himself to girls as young as 7 and 10 years old. Garrido also confessed to being a peeping tom that routinely went through residential neighborhoods.
Hall was not informed of Garrido's release in 1988 and was surprised when he showed up at the casino where she worked at Lake Tahoe.
She said she's lived in fear for the past 21 years.
One hour before Phillip Garrido kidnapped Hall, he tried to kidnap another woman in a similar manner, but she got away, according to officials and court records.
Garrido stopped the woman and asked her for a ride on the night of Nov. 22, 1976, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lealand Lutfy told a judge during Garrido’s 1978 trial for kidnapping Katherine Callaway. He got into the car and rode a certain distance before directing her down a different street, as he had with Callaway, Lutfy said.
When they stopped, “Garrido grabbed this woman, put one handcuff on this woman, (but) was unable to put the other one on,” Lutfy said. She struggled with Garrido and jumped out of the car, he said. Garrido agreed to loosen the cuffs if she promised that she wouldn’t tell the police, Lutfy said.
“She refused to get into the vehicle, the vehicle was moving,” Lutfy said. “He undid that one handcuff that was on her, attached to her, jumped out of the car and ran up the street and took off.”
Lutfy tried to introduce the alleged attack as evidence during Garrido’s federal trial in 1978 to show that he was on a mission to abduct a woman on that November night, and was not insane, as his lawyer was suggesting.
Attempted kidnapping charges were pending in California, but he was never convicted, so U.S. District Judge Bruce Thompson ruled against letting Lutfy tell the jury about the alleged crime.
The FBI was given a letter by Garrido describing how he had "cured" his disturbing sexual behavior TWO days before his arrest. The pedophile claimed he had used mind control and wanted the world to know how he did it.
An FBI spokesman said the rambling letter was very similar to postings on his religious blog.
And Garrido had planned to turn himself in all along in a bizarre attempt to spread his weird beliefs.
Garrido knew the story about Jaycee would spark headlines and hoped to capitalize on the publicity.
A friend said: "Phil is smart and kept the truth about Jaycee a secret for 18 years. You don't think him suddenly coming forward was a mistake, this is calculated. In recent weeks he has talked of getting his teachings out to a wider audience."
The day after his arrest he rang a TV station from prison and, in a rambling interview, told them to check the papers held by the FBI.
Police are looking more closely at Nancy Garrido’s role in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping. She appears to have played a key part in the abduction, and she helped her husband, Phillip Garrido, throughout Dugard’s imprisonment. At one point, when Phillip was sent to prison for 4 to 5 months for a parole violation, Nancy Garrido kept Dugard locked up and hidden.
Nancy 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.
Detectives believe that Mrs Garrido 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.
It also emerged that dozens of men with convictions for sex offences against children live within walking distance from the Garrido property. Garrido’s 94509 ZIP Code is home to more than 100 registered sex offenders, according to a register of sex offenders.
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