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Nancy Garrido Misses "Family," Lawyer Says
Attorney Says Garrido "Appeared To Be a Little Lost" Following Arrest On Kidnap, Rape Charges
Sept. 2, 2009
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The attorney for Nancy Garrido, accused along with her husband of the kidnap and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard, said she felt that "they'd become a family."

During the 18 years since her abduction at age 11, Dugard gave birth to two daughters by Phillip Garrido and lived with them in a backyard tent complex behind the Garrido's California home. The girls had reportedly been told that Dugard was their sister.

Gilbert Maines, Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney, said she missed the girls and "was distraught, frightened, [and] appeared to be a little lost.

"I would describe her like a ship without a rudder," he told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith.

Ironically, Nancy Garrido once worked at a children's center as part of a child abuse prevention program, reports CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman.

Video: Nancy Garrido's Lawyer Speaks
[ame="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5281443n"]Nancy Garrido's Lawyer Speaks - CBS News Video[/ame]

PHOTO ESSAY: Jaycee Lee Dugard Found Alive
Officials believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991.
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/08/27/crimesider/photoessay5270062.shtml

PHOTO ESSAY: Inside Jaycee's Terror Tent
A look inside the tent compound where the kidnapped woman spent 18 years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/08/31/crimesider/photoessay5276725.shtml

VIDEO: The Girl in the Box and Jaycee
The Woman Who was Kidnapped and Held as a Sex Slave in a Box Skypes with Crimesider about Her Ordeal
[ame="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5279887n"]The Girl in the Box and Jaycee - CBS News Video[/ame]

Article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/02/earlyshow/main5281452.shtml?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel
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Why Was Garrido Released on Parole?
Alleged Kidnapper of Jaycee Dugard Was Sentenced to 50 Years for Previous Kidnapping and Rape
September 1, 2009
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Fifteen years before he allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Dugard in 1991, Phillip Garrido was sentenced to a 50 years to life sentence for kidnapping and raping Katie Callaway.

Today Callaway still can't believe he was out of jail.

"Not human. That would be the word," Callaway said. "I don't think he knows reality. I don't think he knows right from wrong. And if he does, he doesn't care."

The fact that Garrido was paroled 11 years into his sentence and is accused of kidnapping and raping again has raised serious questions about the parole process and just how much supervision actually takes place, reports CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman.

"They may not have violated their own rules, but I think it's pretty clear they violated what would be considered good parole practice," said Jonathan Simon, a law professor with the University of California Law School at Berkeley.

Simon says parole rules were very different back in the 70s when Garrido was sentenced. There was a lot of wiggle room for early release. Guidelines became stricter in the '80s.

VIDEO: CBS EARLY SHOW~ Why Was Garrido Set Free? 6:27am PT
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54844@kpix.dayport.com

VIDEO: Parole Process Probed
Phillip Garrido was sentenced to a 50-year sentence in 1976, but was paroled 11 years into his sentence. As Hattie Kauffman reports, this is raising serious questions about the parole process.
[ame="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5280550n"]Parole Process Probed - CBS News Video[/ame]

Article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/01/eveningnews/main5280552.shtml?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel
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Jaycee's Stepdad: Her New Life "Like Mars"
Jaycee Lee Dugard Reunited with Family; Her Children Believed She Was Their Sister, Stepdad Says
August 31, 2009
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After 18 years, Jaycee Lee Dugard, 29, is now reunited with her family.

Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn said on "The Early Show" Monday, Jaycee and the two daughters she bore while confined are taking in their new life in California step by step.

"It's like being on Mars," Probyn said. "This is a brand new situation. ... It's pretty remarkable what they have to face."

Probyn said it's going to take a long time for his stepdaughter and her daughters to integrate into a life outside of captivity, but they are receiving assistance from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Probyn said Jaycee's daughters believed she was their sister, and didn't know she was abducted.

Jaycee, who was abducted at age 11 from her bus stop, said she feels guilty for bonding with her abductor, Probyn said. He added her children cried when Garrido was arrested.


VIDEO: Jaycee's Stepdad: Her New Life "Like Mars"
[ame="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5276199n"]Jaycee's Family Reunion - CBS News Video[/ame]

Article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/31/earlyshow/main5276887.shtml?tag=pop
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Prior Victim "Horrified" Over Jaycee Story
Woman Abducted, Raped in '76 by Dugard's Alleged Kidnapper, Rapist Says He Approached Her Again After Getting Out of Prison
Sept. 2, 2009
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Katherine Callaway Hall was abducted and raped by Phillip Garrido in 1976. She was 25.

He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years behind bars, but served only 11.

Now, Garrido stands accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and repeatedly raping her while keeping her captive for 18 years, during which Dugard bore two children authorities say are Garrido's.

On "The Early Show" Wednesday, Hall said she was "shocked" when she learned what police say Dugard went through.

"I was stunned," Hall told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "I started shaking. ... I had some sense of relief, because he had finally been caught and he was going to be put away. But at the same time, I had overwhelming feelings of the fact that my fears (that he might strike again) had always been justified."

As details emerged of Dugard's ordeal, "I was horrified," Hall says. "I couldn't believe he went after a child. I could and I couldn't, because he went after an easier prey, but I thought it was horrible, absolutely horrible."

VIDEO: CBS EARLY SHOW~Reliving The Nightmare: Garrido's Victim Speaks Out 6:43am PT
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54847@kpix.dayport.com

Article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/02/earlyshow/main5281454.shtml?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel
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Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?
August 31, 2009 3:55 PM
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They say she would have done anything he asked her to.

Nancy Garrido, the woman some say is the "real monster," faces the same 29 charges and life imprisonment as her husband Phillip Garrido in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Nancy seemed to have been a key player in keeping 11-year-old Jaycee in secret captivity for nearly two decades, standing by as Phillip raped and even fathered the little girl's two girls.

Phillip's brother, Ron Garrido, claims Nancy was like "a robot," according to an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Phillip Garrido met his future wife while he was serving time at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., for a 1976 rape, according to a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

They communicated through letters and then married in a ceremony held behind prison walls, according to Ron Garrido.

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VIDEO: CBS EARLY SHOW~ Attorney: Nancy Was A Victim 6:35 am PT
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54845@kpix.dayport.com

Article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277289.shtml?tag=pop
 
Some media paying for Jaycee Dugard stories
Posted: 09/01/2009 04:48:41 PM PDT
Updated: 09/02/2009 06:39:33 AM PDT
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The media frenzy in Antioch has led to a mini-payday for residents willing to accept money in exchange for information about the Jaycee Dugard case.

Several media outlets from the United Kingdom were willing to pay Friday for exclusive photos from Damon Robinson's property next door to Phillip Garrido's backyard.

An eyewitness said a journalist gave Robinson $100 cash and a camera as collateral. He left the scene to get a $3,000 check but never returned. After a hours of waiting, and making other news outlets wait for photos, another man from a British media outlet offered Robinson money for access to the same shots, witnesses said.

While the two negotiated a price, another journalist &#8212; from an Irish media group &#8212; scolded Robinson for allowing multiple people to pay for an "exclusive" shot. He'd already paid Robinson $1,000, the journalist yelled.

Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_13247741
 
Experts: Monitoring tools failed to unearth Garrido's secret
updated 3:37 a.m. EDT, Wed September 2, 2009
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Phillip Garrido was registered as a sex offender, required to meet with parole officers and fitted with an ankle bracelet to track his movements -- but nothing prevented him from being around children, according to a victims' advocacy group.

Garrido, who is charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard -- a young woman who police say lived with her two daughters in a huddle of tents and outbuildings hidden behind Garrido's home -- was arrested last week along with his wife Nancy. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Dugard grew up in the compound and raised the girls, now 11 and 15, that she bore and Garrido fathered, police said. Dugard was abducted in 1991 at age 11.

"Here we have a guy who is essentially under every kind of supervision we allow. Law enforcement had every tool available to them, and [the tools] failed," said Robert Coombs, spokesman for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

Garrido "was technically allowed to be around minors," Coombs said, because his parole stemmed from the November 1976 rape of Katie Callaway Hall, who was 25 at the time of the assault.

In 1993, five years after his release from a Nevada prison, Garrido was jailed on a parole violation, but it's unclear what that offense was. Tom Hutchinson, spokesman for the U.S. Parole Commission, said documents have been requested and should be available later this week.

Garrido was released later that year.

The California Coalition Against Sexual Assault's Coombs said Garrido was required to meet regularly with parole officers, who unearthed nothing about Dugard's abduction or Garrido's backyard secrets.

Another visit by law enforcement was the direct result of a 2006 call a neighbor made to 911, reporting that women and children were living in tents behind Garrido's house.

Had Garrido's parole officer spoken to the neighbor who made the 911 call in 2006, authorities might have found Dugard three years earlier, Coombs said.

"We know where this guy is, so we think we're safe," he said, "but the place where we knew he was was the place where he was offending. GPS just tells you where they are. It doesn't tell you what they're doing."

VIDEO: Garrido gave chilling history 2:26
[ame]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/09/02/lavandera.garrido.history.cnn[/ame]

VIDEO: Nancy Garrido's lawyer speaks 1:47
[ame]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/09/02/bts.maines.nancy.garrido.atty.cnn[/ame]

VIDEO: Monitoring failed to stop Garrido
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/01/california.garrido.monitoring/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/01/california.garrido.monitoring/index.html
 
Bay Area child kidnapping cases during era of Jaycee Lee Dugard abduction
Posted: 08/27/2009 02:52:30 PM PDT
Updated: 08/27/2009 02:53:00 PM PDT
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A number of high-profile child abudction cases gripped the greater Bay Area around the time of Jaycee Lee Dugard's abduction in South Lake Tahoe in 1991:

Angela Bugay, Antioch, Murdered

On Nov. 26, 1983, the body of 5-year-old Angela was found in a shallow grave in Antioch several miles from the apartment complex where she was reported missing a week earlier. Larry Christopher Graham was found guilty following his arrested in 1996 when DNA evidence linked him to the murder.

Kevin Collins, San Francisco, Missing

In one of the first highly visible child disappearance cases in the Bay Area in recent years, 10-year-old Kevin vanished without a trace after basketball practice at St. Agnes School in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 1984. The case remains unsolved.

Amber Swartz, Pinole, Presumed murdered

Amber, 7, was last seen June 3, 1988, in her front yard in Pinole. On July 7, 2009, Pinole police announced the case was closed, noting a signed confession by convicted killer Curtis Dean Anderson a month before his death in 2007.

Michaela Joy Garecht, Hayward, Missing

Michaela, 9, was abducted in plain view Nov. 19, 1988, by an unidentified man with long, blond hair in the parking lot of a convenience store two blocks from her home. Witnesses said the man grabbed her and forced her into his car. Neither have been spotted since, and the case remains unsolved.

Ilene Misheloff, Dublin, Missing

Ilene, 13, vanished while walking to an after-school ice-skating lesson Jan. 30, 1989. The case remains unsolved. Her family holds a vigil in her honor every year on the anniversary of her disappearance.

Polly Klaas, Petaluma, Murdered

In one of the most well-known child disappearance cases of the past two decades, Polly, 12, was kidnapped from her bedroom during a sleepover party Oct. 1, 1993. Her body was found two months later near U.S. Highway 101, 35 miles from her home. Richard Allen Davis was convicted and sentenced to death for her murder.

LeZhan Williams, Vallejo,

Abducted and returned her home, which had been set on fire. Latasha Ann Brown was convicted of murdering Boyden and kidnapping LeZhan. Brown raised LeZhan as her own for six years until her arrest in 2002.

Christina Williams, Seaside, Murdered

Christina, 13, disappeared June 12, 1998, while walking her dog at the former Fort Ord army base, where her family lived. Her skeletal remains were discovered seven months later at a secluded spot on the former base. The case remains unsolved.

Lisa Norrell, Pittsburg, Murdered

The body of 15-year-old Lisa Norrell of Pittsburg was found Nov. 6, 1998, eight days after she abruptly left a girlfriend's quinceanera practice in Antioch in a huff. Her body was found near a landscaping business along the Pittsburg-Antioch Highway. Her death certificate says she died of asphyxiation. Her killer has never been captured.

Xiana Fairchild, Vallejo, Murdered

Xiana, 7, was kidnapped while on her way to school in downtown Vallejo on Dec. 9, 1999. Her fate was unknown until her skull was discovered more than a year later in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Her killer was later determined to be Curtis Dean Anderson, who by that time was already in prison for another high profile case: The 2000 kidnapping of Midsi Sanchez. He died in prison in 2007.

Midsi Sanchez, Vallejo, Escaped from abductor

A rare happy ending to a child disappearance happened for 8-year-old Midsi, who was abducted Aug. 10, 2000, by convicted child killer Curtis Dean Anderson. She escaped after spending two days chained inside his car. Anderson, who died in prison in 2007, was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison for the Sanchez case and for his involvement in another high-profile Bay Area child killing - the 1999 kidnapping and murder of Xiana Fairchild of Vallejo.

Sandra Cantu, Tracy, Murdered

Sandra Cantu, 8-years-old, went missing on March 27, 2009. Her body was found April 6, 2009. Melissa Huckaby is currently awaiting trial on murder charges.

Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_13217024
 
[ame]http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/09/01/finnstrom.garrido.parole.cnn[/ame]
 
Jaycee Lee Dugard's Picture on Cards
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Sep 2009, 11:47 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 02 Sep 2009, 11:45 AM EDT
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The 29-year-old fronted a printing company owned by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and run from their home in Antioch. Dugard even included a picture of herself on business cards she made for her alleged abductor.

Some believe that she put that picture on the cards as a cry for help, according to the Telegraph .

Garrido used the cards to solicit business and told people the girl on the card was his daughter "Allissa."

"Allissa did all the graphic design for him and she put her photo on the cards," one local businessman said. "Maybe she was trying to reach out to us but nobody recognized her as Jaycee."

Article:
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Jaycee_Lee_Dugards_Picture_on_Cards_mb_09022009_3291951
 
Garrido's Wife Kept Jaycee While He Was in Prison

"Nancy Garrido, the wife of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnapper, has a serious legal problem in her defense: She apparently kept the girl prisoner for a five month period while her husband Phillip Garrido went to prison for violating his parole, her lawyer acknowledged today."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8468178
 
Police Seek Garrido Link To Michaela Garecht Case
Sep 2, 2009 3:39 pm US/Pacific
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Hayward police are looking into whether Phillip Garrido, who was arrested last week along with his wife for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991, could have also snatched 9-year-old Michaela Garecht in 1988, Lt. Chris Orrey said Wednesday.

Hayward police, working with the FBI, have investigated well over 13,000 leads in Garecht's case, Orrey said, but there are some striking similarities between these two cases.

Dugard, a blond-haired, blue-eyed 11-year-old, was walking from her South Lake Tahoe home to the school bus stop on the morning of June 10, 1991 when a man and woman in a car pulled up to her. The woman, believed to be Nancy Garrido, now 55, pulled her inside the vehicle and the man drove away.

Three years earlier, on Nov. 19, 1988, Garecht, who also had blond hair and blue eyes, 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, Orrey said.

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, Orrey said.

Investigators believe Garrido, now 58, was out on parole and living in the Bay Area when Garecht was taken, Orrey said.

Michaela Garecht
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Article:
http://cbs5.com/crime/michaela.garecht.kidnapping.2.1160574.html
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UC Officer To Be Honored For Role In Kidnap Case
Sep 2, 2009 2:51 pm US/Pacific
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The Brentwood City Council on Tuesday will honor University of California Berkeley police Officer Ally Jacobs for her role in catching suspected kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Brentwood Mayor Robert Taylor said Wednesday.

Jacobs, a 33-year-old Brentwood resident, "went the extra mile to proceed with a little more perseverance and I think the city should honor her for that," Taylor said.

On Aug. 24, Garrido showed up on UC Berkeley's campus with two young girls. He was seeking a permit for a religious event he wanted to hold on the campus.

Lisa Campbell, manager of the Berkeley Police Department's special events division, thought Garrido's interaction with the girls was suspicious, Campbell said at a news conference last week.

She said she told Garrido she was too busy to arrange a permit that day but asked him to come back the next day. He agreed to do so and gave her his name.

Campbell said she expressed her concerns to Jacobs because she's a sworn officer.

Jacobs said she did a background check on Garrido and found that he was a registered sex offender on federal parole for kidnapping and rape.

"Red flags went up," Jacobs said.

She described the two girls as "extremely pale," and "like robots." The younger of the two girls "had an eerie smile on her face," Jacobs said.

Jacobs said she left a message with Garrido's parole officer after the meeting and he called her back the next morning.

She said the parole officer told her that Garrido didn't have any daughters, but she told him that the girls looked like Garrido.

The parole officer had Garrido come to his office in Concord on Wednesday and he arrived with his wife, the two girls and a woman who said her name was "Allissa".

Article:
http://cbs5.com/crime/UC.officer.jacobs.2.1160427.html
 
Former Prosecutor: Stunning Similarities In Dugard Case
Posted: 2:02 pm PDT September 2, 2009
Updated: 2:25 pm PDT September 2, 2009
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A former Washoe County prosecutor said Wednesday he sees stunning similarities in the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case and a Reno-area rape case he prosecuted alleged abductor Philip Garrido for back in 1977.

Michael Malloy, a former Washoe County District Attorney who now is in private practice, told KTVU that Garrido&#8217;s alleged kidnapping of Dugard in 1991 and the years of alleged sexual assault that followed the same pattern as the 1976 case.

&#8220;I think it (the Dugard case) was somewhat predictable given his behavior in 1976 for which he was convicted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are certainly parallels.&#8221;

Malloy recalled the 1976 case as particularly horrendous.

&#8220;I remember it as a egregious case,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All sexual assault cases are terrible and horrific but this one was particularly so because he was willing to use violence, he took her 50-60 miles from South Lake Tahoe all the way across the state line down to Reno.&#8221;


VIDEO~ NEAR ANTIOCH: Police To Analyze Bone Fragment, Other Evidence Found At Garrido Home
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20657448/index.html

Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20691983/detail.html
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Police Investigate Possible Link Between Garrido And Garecht Kidnapping
Posted: 3:05 pm PDT September 2, 2009
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Police were looking into whether Phillip Garrido, who was arrested last week for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991, could have also snatched 9-year-old Michaela Garecht in 1988, Lt. Chris Orrey said Wednesday.

Hayward police, working with the FBI, have investigated well over 13,000 leads in Garecht's case, Orrey said, but there are some striking similarities between these two cases.

Dugard, a blond-haired, blue-eyed 11-year-old, was walking from her South Lake Tahoe home to the school bus stop on the morning of June 10, 1991 when a man and woman in a car pulled up to her. The woman, believed to be Nancy Garrido, now 55, pulled her inside the vehicle and the man drove away.

Three years earlier, on Nov. 19, 1988, Garecht, who also had blond hair and blue eyes, 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, Orrey said.

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, Orrey said.

Investigators believe Garrido, now 58, was out on parole and living in the Bay Area when Garecht was taken, Orrey said.

VIDEO~ ANTIOCH: Attorneys Comment On Similarities In Dugard Case And 1977 Garrido Rape Case
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20692089/index.html

Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20693231/detail.html
 
 
As Google's 360-degree camera car travels through Antioch, Calif., the van can be seen pulling out of the driveway of 1554 Walnut Avenue, home of Phillip Garrido — who is now behind bars with his wife Nancy in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, MyFOXHouston reported.
The van follows the Google vehicle down the street and around the corner.
It isn't clear whether the van driver knew the car belonged to Google, or whether the Google car was deliberately targeting Garrido.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545141,00.html
 
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13256245

Phillip Garrido had her fooled.

He printed Gomes' business cards for 15 years and created fliers for her nonprofit work with the National Community Empowerment Program.

On a job in 2000, a kidnapping-prevention fact sheet, Garrido chimed in with suggestions for Gomes.

"He said, 'Children should never go to a bus stop alone,'" Gomes said. "He said — what were his exact words — 'They're no match for an adult.'" Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 while she was waiting for a school bus in South Lake Tahoe.
 
MissOtk said:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13256245

Phillip Garrido had her fooled.

He printed Gomes' business cards for 15 years and created fliers for her nonprofit work with the National Community Empowerment Program.

On a job in 2000, a kidnapping-prevention fact sheet, Garrido chimed in with suggestions for Gomes.

"He said, 'Children should never go to a bus stop alone,'" Gomes said. "He said — what were his exact words — 'They're no match for an adult.'" Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 while she was waiting for a school bus in South Lake Tahoe.
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Gee, how helpful!:furious::furious::furious: And he oughta know!:behindbar:behindbar:behindbar
 
Networks battle for Jaycee Dugard story!
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Her homecoming has sparked hope in the hearts of families with missing children all over the world. For now people will have to wait to hear from Jaycee herself, while the different networks battle for the exclusive rights to her first interview.

Sources say that the top contenders for Jaycee and her two daughters Starlight and Angel are “Queen of Daytime” Oprah Winfrey, “The View’s” Barbara Walters and GMA’s Diane Sawyer. There are also reports of a possible book, and movie deal being offered. Whoever lands this exclusive story will most likely have the eyes and ears of the world.
 
Aunt Of Jaycee Dugard Shares Story Of Reunion
Posted: 2:27 am EDT September 3, 2009
Updated: 2:36 am EDT September 3, 2009
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The aunt of Jaycee Dugard is sharing her story of her reunion with the kidnapped girl.

Tina Dugard, the sister of Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mother, told the Orange County Register for a story published online Wednesday that she spent five days with Probyn, Jaycee and her two daughters.

During the reunion in Northern California, Dugard says she watched as Probyn stroked Jaycee's hair and played mother again to her.

The 42-year-old Dugard described Jaycee and her girls as "happy."

Dugard would not comment on the investigation of Jaycee's disappearance, or how Jaycee and her daughters were treated over the years.

She says she has not pressed Jaycee or her daughters for details about their lives.

An after-hours call to a California phone listing for Tina Dugard was not immediately returned Wednesday.

Article:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/20699587/detail.html
 
Garrido's Wife Watched Over Dugard, Police Say
Sep 3, 2009 12:02 am US/Pacific
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Nancy Garrido spent years caring for her elderly, bedridden mother-in-law while a girl kidnapped in 1991 was allegedly held prisoner in the backyard of the home she shared with her husband.

When Phillip Garrido went to prison for six weeks on a parole violation, the former nursing assistant watched over Jaycee Dugard, authorities said.

"You can reasonably infer from the charging document that the wife was doing that," said former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who is acting as a special spokesman for the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

The emerging details paint a conflicting portrait of the 54-year-old woman charged with her husband in the kidnapping and rape of Dugard, who authorities say had two children with Garrido during her 18 years in the backyard in Antioch. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said Nancy Garrido fit the description "dead-on" of the woman who pulled his stepdaughter into a car in South Lake Tahoe nearly two decades ago.

It was unclear if the lawyer would claim Garrido was coerced into aiding her husband. But such a claim could be undermined by her silence about Dugard's captivity while her husband was held at a jail facility for six weeks in 1993 on a parole violation, said criminal defense attorney Michael Cardoza, a former San Francisco Bay area prosecutor.

"There are too many facts in the case and too many opportunities for her to make it right that she did not take advantage of," Cardoza said. "No jury will believe that for those 18 years she was under duress that whole time."

VIDEO: Garrido's Wife Watched Over Dugard, Police Say
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54888@kpix.dayport.com

VIDEO: Police seek Link To Michaela Garecht Case
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54889@kpix.dayport.com

Photo/Graphic: Inside Look At The Secret Backyard Compound
http://cbs5.com/reference/antioch.tent.compound.2.1154810.html

Eye On Blogs: Jaycee Lee Dugard Trust Fund
http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=kpix_eyeonblogs&entry=6577

Article:
http://cbs5.com/crime/jaycee.dugard.case.2.1160990.html
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Cops Probe for Garrido Connection in 1988 Hayward Abduction
September 3, 2009/6 hrs ago
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Hayward police are looking into whether Phillip Garrido, who was arrested last week along with his wife for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991, could have also snatched 9-year-old Michaela Garecht in 1988, Lt. Chris Orrey said Wednesday.

Hayward police, working with the FBI, have investigated well over 13,000 leads in Garecht's case, Orrey said, but there are some striking similarities between these two cases.

Three years earlier, on Nov. 19, 1988, Garecht, who also had blond hair and blue eyes, 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, Orrey said.

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, Orrey said.

VIDEO: Cops Probe for Garrido Connection in 1988 Hayward Abduction 2:46
http://www.news10.net/video/default...stId=playlist&maven_referralObject=1238756482

Article:
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=66245&catid=2
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Old police records foreshadow kidnappings
Thursday, September 03, 2009 | 6:15 AM
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On Wednesday Reno Police released documents showing that Phillip Garrido had planned to abduct a girl from Lake Tahoe 15 years before he kidnapped Jaycee Dugard.

The documents are transcripts of a 1976 police interview with a woman he grabbed in Tahoe and took to Reno, where he raped her.

Katie Callaway Hall says he went to Tahoe specifically to kidnap a girl.

Hall also told police that Garrido admitted to her that he had abducted two other girls, one from the Bay Area and another possibly from Las Vegas.

He told her he never had to hurt any of them.

Garrido's 1976 Reno rape police report (88 pages)
http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/Garrido+Case+File+1976.pdf

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Phillip Garrido's criminal history timeline (2 pages)
http://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/Garrido_timeline.pdf

LINK: FBI podcast about solving Dugard's case
http://www.fbi.gov/inside/archive/inside082809.htm

Article:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6996639
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Tahoe Parade To Mark Return Of Jaycee Dugard
Sep 2, 2009 4:28 pm US/Pacific
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A "pink ribbon" parade is planned Sunday to celebrate the return of Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years after she was kidnapped at the age of 11.

The 11 a.m. parade will reverse the route walked on the 10th anniversary of Dugard's disappearance, South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Kathy Lovell said Wednesday.

Participants were asked to wear pink because that was Dugard's favorite color. Her classmates at Meyers Elementary School started a pink ribbon campaign at the time of her abduction to show their hope for her safe return.

"It was pretty devastating, for those of us who had children and the community as a whole," said Lovell, who is also a member of Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, which is sponsoring the event.

Sunday's event "is the part where we get to celebrate that Jaycee is alive," she said.

Sunday's parade will begin at the El Dorado County branch library and proceed along Highway 50 to the South Tahoe Middle School track.

Lovell said pink T-shirts and cupcakes will be sold at the school, with proceeds going to the Jaycee Dugard Family Fund.

Information also will be available on the Fighting Chance Program, which the Soroptimist group helped create after Dugard's abduction to teach children how to avoid being kidnapped and escape from captors.

Article:
http://cbs5.com/crime/jaycee.dugard.parade.2.1160695.html
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VIDEO~ ANTIOCH: New Details Emerge In Role Of Garrido's Wife In Dugard Kidnapping
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20695952/index.html
 
Jaycee Dugard's aunt describes the family's reunion
Posted: 09/03/2009 07:19:12 AM PDT
Updated: 09/03/2009 07:23:53 AM PDT
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The aunt of Jaycee Dugard, who spent time with Jaycee during her reunion with family members in the Bay Area, is scheduled to make a statement to the media in Southern California at 10 a.m.

Tina Dugard, the sister of Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mother, will read a statement at the Westwood Federal Building in Los Angeles. Tina Dugard told the Orange County Register for a story published online Wednesday that she spent five days with Probyn, Jaycee and her two daughters.

During the reunion at an undisclosed location, Dugard says she watched as Probyn stroked Jaycee's hair and played mother again to her.

The 42-year-old Dugard, who was 13 when Jaycee was born, described Jaycee and her girls as "happy."

"People probably want to think that it's been this horrible, scary thing for all of us," Tina Dugard said of the past several days as the family sought to reconnect in cloistered rooms, with law enforcement officials and counselors hovering &#8212; and media from around the world trying to interview them.

"(But) the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago, and continued to happen for the last 18 years. The darkness and despair (has lifted.)"

She said Jaycee's daughters "know what's been going on," but they have not been allowed to watch television or read any coverage of the Garrido story.

"Right now, it's about reconnecting," she said.

While in captivity, Jaycee was able to teach her girls to read and write. Dugard said she's not sure how, although photos of the compound show the three had access to books.

"They are educated and bright," she said of Jaycee's children, whose names have been reported as Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11. Dugard would not comment on whether those names are accurate.

"It's clear they've been on the Internet and know a lot of things," Dugard said. "It's clear that Jaycee did a great job with the limited resources she had and her limited education."

Tina said Jaycee and the girls looked healthy &#8212; although she declined to detail their appearances, saying she wanted to respect their privacy.

Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/jayceedugard/ci_13260895
 
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