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Cadaver dogs turned up a small bone fragment on the property next to the Antioch home where Phillip Garrido is accused of cloistering kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard for 18 years. And Garrido’s shadowy past grew even more disturbing Monday as his first wife and a woman he was convicted of raping in 1976 talked publicly for the first time about vicious attacks.
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee said further investigation is needed to determine if the bone fragment is human or animal, but the search continues today. Detectives have been scouring the property Garrido had lived on in a tent for awhile as well as the ramshackle collection of sheds, tents and out buildings in Garrido’s backyard in Antioch. They are hunting for any evidence that might link him to the murders of several prostitutes in an industrial area in Pittsburg near where Garrido worked in the 1990s.
Authorities don’t know whether bone is human or animal; officials look for link other missing girls, prostitutes.
The Orange County Register
A police search turned up a small bone fragment in a yard next to the home of Phillip Garrido, the convicted rapist accused of kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive in his back yard for more than a decade.
He fathered two daughters with his captive, authorities say.
Officials are also looking at Garrido in connection with at least two other little girls who disappeared within miles of Garrido’s Antioch home just months after he was released from prison. He served 11 years of a 50-year sentence for kidnapping and raping a 25-year-old casino worker in 1977.
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The FBI and local law enforcement agencies spent the weekend combing Phillip Garrido’s Antioch homestead and the one next door looking for any possible links to a string of unsolved killings of prostitutes in the 1990s.
Several of the slain prostitutes were dumped near where Garrido then worked.
See the full article from “OCRegister”
Police say Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago, when she was just 11 years old.
During that time, authorities say she was forced to live in the backyard of her alleged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido.
The property is a complex series of ramshackle sheds and tents, all of which lock from the outside.
There was also a soundproof shack, where Jaycee, and her two daughters Angel and Starlet, fathered by Garrido, were forced to live.
Inside the structures, authorities say there were absolutely deplorable conditions, with trash, and filthy, crude furniture lining the walls.
Detectives also say there is a collection of cat decorations, including figurines lining the dilapidated dressers. Three separate agencies were combing through Garrido’s property in Antioch Monday.
Police said they are investigating whether Garrido was involved in the murders of several prostitutes.
See the full article from “abc7.com”
From November 1998 to January 1999, the bodies of four young women were found dead and one severely beaten within a few miles of one another in the industrial area around Pittsburg. One of the slain women had a history of prostitution, and another known prostitute was found badly beaten in a portable toilet in Bay Point.
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Frederick, who grew up in Antioch, had a history of drug problems. The area where her body was found had been known as a place where prostitutes and their customers have sex, which led police to think at the time she may have been working as a prostitute. She had no arrests for prostitution.
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On Jan. 6, 1999, the body of Valerie Dawn “China” Schultz, 27, who had a history of prostitution, was discovered in a ditch along a barren stretch of Willow Pass Road near the Pittsburg-Bay Point border.
… 08-31) 18:24 PDT ANTIOCH — Searchers picking through a pair of properties outside Antioch connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido reported Monday that they had found a bone fragment, but it is not clear whether it is human, authorities said.
Police want to know whether Garrido, who with his wife, Nancy, is accused of abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard from South Lake Tahoe when she was 11 and holding her captive for 18 years, is responsible for about 10 unsolved slayings of prostitutes in the late 1990s in eastern Contra Costa County. Some of the women’s bodies were found near where Phillip Garrido worked, authorities said.
The search continued Monday on Walnut Avenue on unincorporated land just outside Antioch. It included the Garridos’ property and its shabby compound of outbuildings and tents, where Phillip Garrido, 58, allegedly held Dugard, now 29, and the two daughters authorities say she had by him.
The bone fragment was found Sunday in the next door neighbor’s backyard, said Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jimmy Lee. He said it is not known if it is from an animal or human, and testing will take several weeks.
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.
Antioch and Contra Costa County authorities have not provided many details about what they are seeking at the properties in relation to the 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, 58, was involved in the murders of prostitutes in the 1990s.
See the full article from “ABC News”
Authorities found a bone fragment in the yard next to the Antioch home of Phillip Garrido as they continue to investigate whether the man suspected of raping and kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and holding her for 18 years is involved in other unsolved crimes, including a series of prostitutes’ murders in the 1990s.
The bone was found Sunday in the backyard of Damon Robinson, Garrido’s next-door neighbor, said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department. Garrido once lived on the property when he worked as caretaker for the previous owner, he said.
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Meanwhile, police from Pittsburg, which borders Antioch, are searching the Garrido home for evidence that Phillip Garrido may have been linked to the series of prostitutes’ murders more than a decade ago. Officers with cadaver dogs are inspecting the properties.
ANTIOCH, California (Reuters) – Police in California found a bone fragment on Monday on property neighboring the house of a convicted rapist accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and holding her for 18 years.
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee would not say if the bone was human, but said it was discovered by officers scouring the suspect’s home in Antioch, California, its backyard and a once vacant neighboring property.
Police had erected tents on the neighboring property, blocking views of their work, which included digging and the use of dogs to sniff for cadavers.
Since the arrest last week of 58-year-old Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, officers have been searching his home and an adjacent property looking for evidence related to the unsolved murders of some 10 prostitutes in the 1990s in the area of Antioch, a San Francisco Bay Area suburb.
See the full article from “Reuters”
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was was taken at age 11 from outside her home in South Lake Tahoe on the morning of June 10, 1991.
They allegedly kept her captive in a backyard encampment of tents and sheds. The couple has pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts including kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment.
Antioch and Contra Costa County authorities have not provided many details about what they are seeking at the property.
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 nearby Pittsburg, however, have said they are investigating whether Garrido, 58, was involved in the murders of prostitutes in the 1990s in Pitssburg and Bay Point.
See the full article from “CBS 5″
His son is already suspected of murdering a 15-year-old girl and as many as ten prostitutes who were killed close to a factory where he used to work.
As police continued to search the ramshackle property in northern California where Garrido held Jaycee, 29, and the two daughters he fathered by her, investigations were re-opened into the disappearance of at least three schoolgirls two decades ago.
Photos show that one of them, Michaela Garecht, bore an astonishing resemblance to Jaycee.
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And yesterday, when asked if he thought his son could be capable of murder, Manuel Garrido said: ‘I believe my son killed the prostitutes.’
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Police investigating the 1998 murder of 15-year-old Lisa Norrell and ten prostitutes in the nearby town of Pittsburg in the 1990s were involved in the painstaking search of the Garridos’ home over the weekend.
See the full article from “Daily Mail”
