Juror Thirteen says (snipped for length):
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 Garridos 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 wouldnt 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 Garridos 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.