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Phillip Garrido sends first letter from jail
A hand-written jailhouse letter reveals Phillip Garrido is making an appeal to get legal help for Jaycee Dugard.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 7:36 PM
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In the letter, it appears Phillip Garrido still sees himself as Dugard's protector. The rambling letter was addressed to a local Sacramento-area television station and it was postmarked September 29th and received on Wednesday.

It came from the El Dorado County jail where Garrido is being held on bail and addressed to attorneys at KCRA TV. It appears to be authentic and it expresses concern that an attorney is not present during Jaycee Dugard's questioning.

In the letter, Garrido wrote: "JC Dugard's free speech rights are being violated. Please consider this request to contact her at your earliest possible date."

He also added: "Her two children were witnessing the same treatment for them as well."

Video: Phillip Garrido sends first letter from jail
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7041876

Video: Lawyer: Jaycee Dugard Has Mixed Emotions
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7031869

Article:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7041728
 
Police: Bones On Garrido Property Likely Animal
Posted: 12:41 pm PDT October 1, 2009
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Northern California investigators probing two old kidnapping cases say bone fragments found on the property of a man charged in a separate abduction are likely from animals.

Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said Thursday that preliminary test results from the fragments collected on Phillip Garrido's property show they are likely not human.

Hayward police searched the Garrido property last month for any links to the kidnapping of Michaela Garecht in 1988. Dublin authorities also combed for evidence as part of their probe into the 1989 disappearance of Ilene Misheloff.

Video: SACRAMENTO: Attorney For Jaycee Dugard Discusses Client's Frame Of Mind
http://www.ktvu.com/video/21110897/index.html

Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/21173824/detail.html
 
Garrido's Attorney Breaks Silence
Public Defender Susan Gellman Comments On 'Sensitive Nature' Of Case
POSTED: 4:59 pm PDT October 1, 2009
UPDATED: 6:49 pm PDT October 1, 2009
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Phillip Garrido's attorney broke her silence Thursday, outlining the sensitive nature of the case and her client's communication with KCRA 3.

Public Defender Susan Gellman had so far refused all requests for interviews about a case that's drawn worldwide attention.

Garrido alleged in a letter postmarked Sept. 29 that Dugard's civil rights have been violated and asked KCRA 3's Walt Gray to contact Dugard at the "earliest possible date."

Jim Maddock, a former agent in charge of the FBI office in Sacramento, what Garrido's motives are.

The former agent said he believes Garrido's letter to KCRA 3 was "written with a purpose, and the purpose to me is just to engender sympathy for himself and ultimately to try to get that sort of sympathetic portrayal of himself out in public, so that when the trial comes, it will put himself in the best possible light."

Both are due back in court for an Oct. 29 hearing.

Video: Expert Analyzes Garrido Letter
http://www.kcra.com/video/21166017/index.html

Video: Garrido's Letter To KCRA
http://www.kcra.com/video/21165720/index.html

Video: Full Interview: Phillip Craig Garrido
http://www.kcra.com/video/20602756/index.html

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/news/21176671/detail.html
 
Sheriff: Admit Flaws In Garrido Case
'Dateline NBC' Speaks To Officials In Jaycee Lee Dugard Investigation
POSTED: 6:20 pm PDT October 1, 2009
UPDATED: 6:53 pm PDT October 1, 2009
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Pressure is growing on California parole officials to release records for the Phillip Garrido case.

However, a top law enforcement official is now saying it's time to fess up.

"My first thoughts were, 'My God! How could any of us, how could the system have have let these kids down?'" Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren Rupf said.

Rupf has already apologized because one of his deputies once visited the Garrido home in Antioch, but never went inside.

"He did not know that the resident was a sexual predator," Rupf said.

In an interview with "Dateline NBC's" Keith Morrison, Rupf said it's time for other agencies to admit their mistakes as well.

"Other than being outraged at our failure in this case, I'm most outraged with others that have not stood up and accepted responsibility," Rupf said

Video: Attorney: State Failed Jaycee Dugard
http://www.kcra.com/video/21109487/index.html

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/news/21177247/detail.html
 
Today Show video: How is Jaycee Dugard coping? 4:11
Oct. 1: TODAY's Ann Curry talks to Ernie Allen, head of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, about how kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard is doing and how to protect your kids from abduction.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/33118721#33118721

Today Show video: Garrido said to express concern for Dugard 2:04
Oct. 1: Phillip Garrido, the man accused of the 18-year abduction of Jaycee Dugard, reportedly has written a letter from jail expressing concern for Jaycee. NBC's Michael Okwu reports.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/33116016#33116016
 
Phillip Garrido Asks for Help for Jaycee Dugard in Jailhouse Letter
Garrido Claims Alleged Kidnap Victim, Jaycee Dugard, Has Been Denied Legal Counsel
Oct. 1, 2009
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In a handwritten jailhouse letter full of misspellings, accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido expressed concern for his alleged victim, Jaycee Dugard, saying he believes her "civil rights have been clearly violated."

The four-paragraph letter is addressed to Walt Gray, news anchor for NBC California affiliate KCRA and was written in pencil.

In it, Garrido wrote that Dugard's "free speach [sic] rights are being violated, also she has been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning."

Garrido urged Gray to "take this to a privet [sic] attorney who will look this matter over for her best interest."

Video: Phillip Garrdio Calls For Jaycee's....10/01/09 1:32
In A Letter Garrdio Claims That Dugard's "Free Speech Rights' Were Violated
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8721597

Related Article:
http://www.kcra.com/news/21165267/detail.html

Article:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/phillip-garrido-asks-jaycee-dugard-letter/story?id=8717607
 
Read Phillip Garrido&#8217;s letter to news station claiming Jaycee Lee Dugard&#8217;s rights violated
October 1, 6:04 PM
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A Sacramento area news station reports it received a handwritten letter this week from convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, claiming the rights of kidnap victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, have been violated.

In the letter, he also asked KCRA 3&#8217;s Walt Gray to contact Jaycee as soon as possible. He wrote that Jaycee&#8217;s right to free speech was violated and she was denied access to an attorney when questioned by law enforcement.

Shortly thereafter, Garrido&#8217;s attorney, Public Defender Susan Gellman, arrived at the jail and read the letter sent to Gray. She said she had instructed her client not to contact the media.

Article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crim...n-claiming-Jaycee-Lee-Dugards-rights-violated
 
Sen. Wants Answers In Garrido Case
DeSaulnier Sends Letter To CDCR Secretary
POSTED: 4:08 pm PDT October 2, 2009
UPDATED: 5:19 pm PDT October 2, 2009
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Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, wrote the letter to secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Matthew Cate.

DeSaulnier represents Antioch and chairs a subcommittee that oversees corrections.

In the letter, DeSaulnier asks for "a full investigation of Garrido's supervision."

He wants a report "explaining how these three captives could have been missed by Mr. Garrido's parole agent &#8230;"

Former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who was once based out of Northern California, represents Dugard and her family.

Terry Probyn, Dugard's mother, also wants answers in regards to her daughter's case.

"Terry Probyn genuinely wants to focus going forward to make sure that people like Phillip Garrido are held accountable," Scott said.

The Department of Corrections refuses to release records to the public, but told KCRA 3 two days after Dugard was discovered, their agent acted appropriately.

PDF: State Sen. DeSaulnier's Letter To CDCR Secretary
http://www.kcra.com/download/2009/1002/21186650.pdf

Article:
http://www.kcra.com/news/21186793/detail.html
 
General Assembly should provide more money to confine sexual predators
October 2, 2009
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There's no easy answer to what to do about sex offenders. Two developments, on opposite coasts and from opposite ends of a continuum, illustrate how complicated, and how serious, this issue is.

After serving 11 years for rape and kidnapping, Phillip Garrido was paroled as a registered sex offender. On the surface, he looked like a perfect candidate for community integration. He had a home, family and business. He fulfilled his obligations as a registered offender and parolee. He met often with his parole officer, was visited periodically by law enforcement, and wore an electronic ankle bracelet so his whereabouts could be tracked.

The goal is rehabilitation. But some of the pathology that leads to violent sexual crime is difficult to treat. Some experts think that those who prey on children are especially resistant to change.

And there you have it: the rationale for keeping them confined as long as psychiatric experts think they're dangerous. If the General Assembly needs a reminder of why it should come up with what it takes to keep this program going, whether money or fine-tuning the law, it need only think of Jaycee Dugard.

Article:
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_sexoffenders_edit_1002oct02,0,1730684.story
 
Don't mess with Texas, unless you're a sex offender
Published: Friday, October 2, 2009
Updated: Friday, October 2, 2009
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The Austin American-Statesman recently published the horrific account of the abduction of a 9-year-old girl by registered Ohio sex offender Charles Eugene Butcher.

This occurred in the wake of the high-profile Jaycee Lee Dugard case, in which an 11-year-old Californian girl was abducted by registered sex offender Phillip Garrido. Both cases have raised serious questions about the effectiveness of parole and sex offender legislation.

But I am puzzled at the direction of the debate. Why is it centered on restructuring our parole system, and not keeping offenders behind bars? Butcher only served eight years in Ohio for abduction and was released on parole and instructed not to be around children. Then he moved to Texas, he failed to register and wasn&#8217;t caught until he abducted the girl. Even then, he was arrested on traffic violations, not in connection to kidnapping.

It is perplexing why the man served only eight years. He served less time in jail for hurting a child than his next victim had birthdays. It is also disconcerting that he moved to Austin in January and wasn&#8217;t detected until now.

In 2003, the Department of Justice reported the average sentence given to child molesters is seven years. Most offenders serve only three or four before being paroled.

Defenses of the actions of sex offenders by human rights groups and the judicial system are abominable. Children are the most helpless members of our society, and their protection should be a priority.

As citizens, we need to be constantly vigilant about the safety of children. Apparently, it will take a village to protect a child.

Article:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/don-t-mess-with-texas-unless-you-re-a-sex-offender-1.1936145
 
In Plain Sight: Jaycee Dugard
Why it took 18 years for a kidnapped daughter to be reunited with family
updated 6:29 p.m. ET, Fri., Oct . 2, 2009
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This report aired on Dateline NBC on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.

The whole world has seen the backyard squalor. Has heard the tale of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard - kidnapped, screaming, from a bus stop, spirited to this forsaken place nearly 20 years ago, has heard now she was pregnant at 14, how she raised two daughters in here. And has seen the eyes of the man beneath the accusing headlines. So many questions, now. How did she survive, how is she now?

Keith Morrison, Dateline NBC: Would you want to see her now?

Kelly Brosnahan: Oh, I would love to. I'd hope she remembers me and all the fun things we did together. I would love to see her.

Timeline of events leading up to, during, and after her 18-year captivity:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33129258/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/

Video: 'I'm so sorry that he got that little girl' 2:39
Katie Calloway Hall, who was raped by Phillip Garrido in 1976, describes learning Dugard was found in the company of Garrido.
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Video: How Phillip Garrido got out of jail after being convicted of rape 2:27
Former Washoe County Chief Deputy District Attorney Mike Malloy explains how Phillip Garrido was paroled in 1988.
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Video: Sheriff: Jaycee's case is changing police protocol 2:01
Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren Rupf talks about changes his department is making to ensure his deputies are aware if they are visiting the home of a registered sex offender.
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Video: String of kidnappings related? 2:14
Retired FBI Agent Mary Ellen O'Toole talks about the "cluster" of child abductions that occurred in the San Francisco Bay area in the years before Jaycee Dugard disappeared.
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Video: Garrido eyed in another abduction 1:09
Hayward, Calif. police inspector Robert Lampkin shares the latest in the investigation into Michaela Garecht's 1988 kidnapping.
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Video: Kidnap witness: 'I'm left with the guilt' 3:53
Katrina Rodriguez, who witnessed the kidnapping of her then-9-year-old friend Michaela Garecht in 1988, talks about life after the abduction.
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Video: Mother of abductee: 'I'm still hoping' 3:11
Sharon Murch, mother of Michaela Garecht, describes coping with life after a child simply disappears.
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Read the Dateline transcript:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33062980/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/

Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33062980/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/
 
CBS13: Were Agents Really Supervising Garrido?

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"... In fact, the U.S. Parole Commission told CBS13 they withheld 92 pages of information from the media about Garrido because they say it would be an invasion of privacy.

"There also could be the privacy of various workers of the prison system or various outsiders that provided information," says McGeorge Law Professor John Sims.

But he also says federal parole agents may be hiding something.

"The instinctive action of a government agency is that potentially guilty of misconduct or ineptitude is to withhold as much information as possible," says Professor Sims.

What is not in these documents may be the real story. The 92 pages that are left out raise even more questions about how federal parole agents monitored Phillip Garrido after he was let out of prison early.

Now, all the CDCR would release to CBS13 was basically the timeline of Garrido's past...."
 
Garrido bones likely American Indian
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7057447

The interesting part to me is:
Sheriff's investigators also confirmed today they are continuing to follow up on an earlier report of two young girls, believed to be 6 or 7 years old, who had reportedly been seen with Phillip Garrido before his arrest.

The girls are not believed to be the two daughters Phillip Garrido fathered with kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard.

Investigators have conducted numerous interviews and probation searches, but still have not been able to find any evidence of the two girls.

Anyone with information about them is asked to call the sheriff's office at (925) 313-2630.
 
Bones found in California kidnap case probably old

Reuters - Dan Whitcomb, Anthony Boadle - &#8206;Oct 9, 2009&#8206;
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bone slivers found near the home of a California man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her for 18 18 years did not yield human DNA and are probably old Native American remains, police said on Friday.

Bones linked to Garridos likely from Indians

San Francisco Chronicle - Henry K. Lee - &#8206;Oct 9, 2009&#8206;
31 at a property next to the home where the Garridos allegedly kept Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years. Phillip Garrido lived in a shed on the neighboring ...

Sheriff: Bones at Garrido home buried long ago

The Associated Press - &#8206;Oct 9, 2009&#8206;
Investigators uncovered the bones while searching for evidence in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, as well as other unsolved abductions and murders. ...

No Human Traces From Bones On Garrido Property

CBS13.com - &#8206;Oct 9, 2009&#8206;
Garrido has been charged for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and holding her captive in his Antioch backyard for 18 years. He and his wife, ...
 
UCPD's Lisa Campbell and Ally Jacobs get their 15 minutes on Oprah
UCBerkeleyNews
By Wendy Edelstein, Public Affairs | 12 October 2009

BERKELEY — "Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell, the two UC Berkeley police employees whose vigilance led to the arrest of suspected kidnapper Phillip Garrido in August, will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 13). The program airs locally at 4 p.m. on KGO-TV, channel 7. Jacobs' and Campbell's intuitive police work led to the return of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped from her South Tahoe home in 1991 at age 11.

Campbell, manager of UCPD's special-events unit, first encountered Garrido on Aug. 24, when he came to the Berkeley campus seeking permission to hold an event relating to a group called "God's Desire." Garrido's odd manner, coupled with the "sullen and submissive" demeanor of the two girls accompanying him, made Campbell suspicious.

She made an appointment with Garrido for the next afternoon. In the meantime, Officer Jacobs ran a background check and discovered Garrido was a registered sex offender on federal parole for kidnapping and rape. A call to his parole officer in Concord led to Garrido's arrest and the rescue of Dugard and the girls."

more this is a good article
 
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