Jaycee Dugard kidnapped 18 years ago So Lake Tahoe, CA FOUND ALIVE / 2 arrested

[Northern Rose]

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?

ANTIOCH, California (CBS/AP) 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.

Phillip Garrido served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled in 1988.

Neighbors who have met Nancy Garrido say her disturbing non-communicative behavior was even stranger than her husband's religious rants, according to the Telegraph.

"In some ways to me she is the real monster," Cheyvonne Molino, an aquentance of the Garridos, told the British paper. "She is a woman and should never have let this happen."

Molino said she saw Nancy Garrido and Dugard shopping together in a local supermarket this year.

In 1993, a violation of Phillip Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August.

The role that Nancy Girrado played in keeping Dugard in captivity while her husband was in prison for four months is not yet fully clear. But what is clear, is that when Phillip Girrado returned, Dugard was still imprisoned.

He impregnated her shortly thereafter, according to the age of Dugard's first child, 15.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277289.shtml

[Northern Rose]

Jaycee Lee Dugard: 120 sex offenders live within five miles of Philip Garrido's house

More than 120 sex offenders live within five miles of the house where Philip and Nancy Garrido held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

Dozens of men with convictions for offences against children live only walking distance from the property where Miss Dugard was forced to live in a ramshackle collection of tents and sheds in the back yard.

The run down working class suburb near Antioch, 50 miles east of San Francisco, has become a refuge for convicted paedophiles and residents with children and grandchildren regularly scour a public website which details where they live.

Polly White, 65, whose house backs on to Garrido's, said: "We found out there's a predator living up the road and that's not even Garrido. We were less worried about him than the other one."

Police are visiting other registered sex offenders in the area to see if any of them attended wild sex parties that neighbours reported hearing in Garrido's garden.

Neighbours have described how unsavoury looking men arrived by car at his house, got drunk, took the drug crystal meth and lined up outside a tent.

Antioch, a town of 100,000, has a significantly higher proportion of sex offenders than other similar areas, according to police.

Contra Costy County, which encompasses it, has a population of one million and more than 1,700 registered sex offenders. A single police officer is responsible for monitoring 350 of those.

The area where Garrido lived is not incorporated as part of Antioch, meaning it is not serviced by local government, is sparsely policed and crime-ridden, a backwater where people mind their own business.

One police officer said: "It's not really on the map. If you're a sex offender it's an attractive place to try and hide."

Dawn Cordy, 52, a resident. said the area was "Boonieville" and paedophiles lived there "because they can".

Garrido's garden is now being dug up by police looking for any evidence connecting him to the murder of 10 prostitutes in the Antioch area stretching back 20 years.

They also brought in sniffer dogs to search for human remains. They were searching for three girls who went missing within 40 miles of Garrido's home between 1988 and 1991.

No trace of Michaela Garecht, nine, Ilene Misheloff, 13, or Amanda "Nikki" Campbell has ever been found. Michaela bore a striking resemblance to Miss Dugard.

Police also searched a house next door to Garrido's where he was caretaker until 2006. It was found to have had locks on the outside so that people could be kept inside.

Garrido's father Manuel Garrido acknowledged that his son could be a killer.

Mr Garrido, 87, said: "He was a sex addict, that was his problem. I believe my son killed the prostitutes."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6118478/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-120-sex-offenders-live-within-five-miles-of-Philip-Garridos-house.html

[Wyks]

Dad of Accused Jaycee Kidnapper: He's a Killer
"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father said

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/breaking/FBI-Expands-Search-of-Garrido-Property-56212097.html


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Manuel Garrido said he believes his son, Phillip, who stands accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children, is involved in the slayings of other women, according the New York Post.

Scary stuff... the father of this guy, as well as his brother, knowing beforehand what one of the problems with him is... and they did what??  Turn their heads and look the other way, hoping the worst wouldn't happen?   Guess that's easy for me to say.  Maybe it wasn't easy for them to ignore, or whatever. 

[Nut44x4]

Jaycee Lee Dugard was not only a kidnapped captive of Phillip Craig Garrido, living for 18 years in his backyard in unincorporated Antioch, but also the creative force behind his specialty printing business, according to the firm's customers.

They knew the 29-year-old Dugard as "Allissa" and believed Garrido when he said she was his grown daughter. Mostly, they knew her as the courteous, professional young woman who, in telephone calls and e-mails, helped them order business cards, flyers and posters.

"He told us up front he works with his daughter. He said Allissa did all of the graphic design and he did all of the printing," said J.P. Miller, who hired Garrido this month to advertise his Orinda-based company, A&J Hauling.

Miller said the woman never gave any indication that she had been snatched from a South Lake Tahoe street at age 11 and forced to bear two children with Garrido, as police say. If Miller sent her a suggestion over e-mail, he said, "she'd fire it right back to me with the changes."

The interaction that Miller and others had with Dugard, while limited, sheds light on the living arrangement in a squalid compound on Walnut Avenue, where police say the kidnap victim resided with Garrido and their daughters, ages 11 and 15, along with Garrido's wife and elderly mother.

Dugard apparently developed emotional ties with her attacker, Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said in a telephone interview Sunday. Experts say Dugard probably suffered from Stockholm syndrome, a condition in which captives become sympathetic to their captors.

'Like a little family'
"We had Jaycee for 11 years, and they had her for 18. After that long, you bond," Probyn said from New York, where he was doing a series of TV appearances. "That's probably what kept her alive - the fact that they all bonded. It was almost like a little family."

Probyn said Dugard is with her children, her mother, her sister and her aunt at an undisclosed location, where they are receiving help from counselors. Probyn said he was told by Dugard's mother that his stepdaughter looks similar to how she looked at age 11, that she is an excellent mother, and that she and her daughters face a difficult adjustment.

"They've never been to school, never been to a doctor, never been to a dentist," Probyn said. "They're just hugging and holding each other. This will take months, if not years."

Meanwhile, in unincorporated Antioch, three police agencies continued searching Garrido's property Sunday, in an effort to determine if he might be linked to any unsolved homicides in eastern Contra Costa County. Police said some of the victims' bodies had been found near Garrido's printing clients.

The search included dogs trained to find dead bodies and extended onto a neighboring property where, according to police, Garrido lived in a shed for a time. The adjacent home was vacant for a period in 2006, police said.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, pleaded not guilty Friday in El Dorado County to a total of 29 charges of rape and kidnapping.

They were arrested Wednesday when Dugard told a state parole officer that she had been kidnapped 18 years ago. The officer was interviewing the family after being told that Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, had behaved strangely with his two young daughters on a visit to UC Berkeley.

Photos shot in yard
Also Sunday, dozens of photographs of Garrido's backyard compound appeared in British newspapers, two days after a freelance photographer from Hollywood shot them when he sneaked over a fence.

The pictures show tarps and large tents, under a thicket of tree branches, outfitted with beds and dressers, toys and knickknacks, and an odd collection of books - some about crime and many about cats. A "Welcome" sign hangs from one tree.

The photographer, Nick Stern, told The Chronicle that he obtained the photos "through unconventional means" but said they were important journalistically. Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jimmy Lee said the photos were unfortunate but that there were no plans to prosecute Stern.

Ben Daughdrill of Oakley, who used to run the hauling business now owned by J.P. Miller, was another customer of Garrido's who had dealings with "Allissa," speaking with her and even seeing her at Garrido's house. He, too, said she gave no indication she was a kidnap victim.

"She was very professional, very polite, just like any other secretary or anyone you'd meet at a place of business," said Daughdrill, 37. "If I was requesting something, he'd say he'd have his daughter send it over. He'd say, 'I'll get Allissa right on that.' "



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/31/MNKJ19G5FB.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0Pmqh6YLN

Thanks Edward

[N2WISHN]

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?

ANTIOCH, California (CBS/AP) 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.

Phillip Garrido served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled in 1988.

Neighbors who have met Nancy Garrido say her disturbing non-communicative behavior was even stranger than her husband's religious rants, according to the Telegraph.

"In some ways to me she is the real monster," Cheyvonne Molino, an aquentance of the Garridos, told the British paper. "She is a woman and should never have let this happen."

Molino said she saw Nancy Garrido and Dugard shopping together in a local supermarket this year.

In 1993, a violation of Phillip Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August.

The role that Nancy Girrado played in keeping Dugard in captivity while her husband was in prison for four months is not yet fully clear. But what is clear, is that when Phillip Girrado returned, Dugard was still imprisoned.

He impregnated her shortly thereafter, according to the age of Dugard's first child, 15.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277289.shtml

Cheyvonne Molino was just interviewed on Fox News by Shepard and she was saying that she has known the whole family for 10 years. She has her printing done by the monster and says she could just show up at the house anytime and everything seemed normal. Even Jaycee and the 2 children. She said she thought they were all monster and his wife's kids. She also said they seemed happy and normal, wore jeans like other kids and that they lived in the house. I find that hard to believe!

[Edward]

As far as professionals go.. This is a tragedy for all professionals involved in law enforcement.
It sends a message for ALL Americans, that you are truly "On Your Own" to solve crimes such as abductions of your children.
18 years !!
She was right here in Concord the whole friggin time !! Less then 3 hours away from where she was taken from.. Suffering from the effects of her abduction at such a young age..

Anyone of the missing but never found could be in the same situation and You/We can not trust one professional for help.. They are all full of crap. They did nothing to find her, they have spent years convincing society to let the professionals handle it.. Oh ya they handled it.
She was found on a fluke and not the professionals are very busy covering there asses with words..


There are many good things that have come of all of this..
Number 1.. She is alive..

[N2WISHN]

Dad of Accused Jaycee Kidnapper: He's a Killer
"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father said

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/breaking/FBI-Expands-Search-of-Garrido-Property-56212097.html


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Manuel Garrido said he believes his son, Phillip, who stands accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children, is involved in the slayings of other women, according the New York Post.

Scary stuff... the father of this guy, as well as his brother, knowing beforehand what one of the problems with him is... and they did what??  Turn their heads and look the other way, hoping the worst wouldn't happen?   Guess that's easy for me to say.  Maybe it wasn't easy for them to ignore, or whatever. 

Well, that father also said that monster's mother, whose house he lived in, should have done something. I've read she was SENILE and needed care herself. This mess is too much.

[Catbert]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6816434.ece

Jaycee Lee Dugard tells daughters the truth about their rapist fatherMike Harvey
 
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Jaycee Lee Dugard has finally told her daughters that she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by their father.

Relatives said that she broke the news because the two girls, aged 15 and 11, were upset that Phillip Garrido was in prison.

As police searched the Garrido family home for links to other murders and missing children, psychologists were helping Ms Dugard and her children to begin the process of adjusting to a new life.

Carl Probyn, Ms Dugard’s stepfather, who separated from her mother after the kidnapping, told ABC: “It’s going to take a lot of therapy for them. We’ re going to have to take it minute by minute. These girls are so fragile.

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“Jaycee had to explain to them, like two days ago, that she had been kidnapped. They didn’t even know that. They are upset about this because that’s their father and he’s in jail.”

Ms Dugard, 29, and her daughters have begun counselling with a psychologist sent by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. The first steps will include in-depth interviews. Experts said that Jaycee had to come to terms with the fact that she had been forced to live as someone else for the past 18 years. Relatives also had to realise that she was no longer the 11-year-old girl who disappeared 18 years ago. The adjustment was further complicated by the children fathered by Mr Garrido.

Joann Behrman-Lippert, a psychologist who has researched child abductions, said: “For these children their father is still their father, no matter what has happened. It’s very complex and not a black-or-white situation.”

Ms Dugard was reunited with her mother last week and is staying at a secret location near San Francisco. Chris Campion, an FBI special agent who worked on the case and witnessed the reunion last Thursday, said: “It was a very emotional scene — both of them were overjoyed to be with each other again. The two daughters are probably as happy as Jaycee is to be part of this family.”

Yesterday it emerged that Garrido, convicted of the brutal kidnapping and rape of a 25-year-old woman in the late 1970s, believed that he had been cured of his sexual anger against women.

He wrote a a four-page manifesto of his philosophy and wanted the world to know how to overcome “aggressive sexual” desires through mind control. Two days before he was arrested he marched into the FBI office in San Francisco and handed over the document, in which he said he could cure other sexual predators.

"This information is designed to send a message to all branches of law enforcement, educators and therapists worldwide to know there is a powerful reason people are unable to control the impulses that drive humans to commit such dysfunctional acts," he wrote. The rambling manifesto, with frequent references to the Bible, says that he felt remorse for "the things I did in the past".

"Out of control behavior is everywhere, in every walk of life undermining the lives of its many victims. The degree to which we vividly imagine an experience determines how it is stored in our subconscious as reality. Here is where a sexual predator (or any poor behavior) reinforces its self (sic) as the negative self-image is moving itself towards the problem.

"Because of my background, I began to examine the issues of how certain behaviors cause a great deal of pain in myself and those who are victimized by those behaviors, especially our family and my wife," he wrote. It is not clear if "wife" refers to Nancy Garrido or to Jaycee.

[Catbert]

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?

ANTIOCH, California (CBS/AP) 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.

Phillip Garrido served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled in 1988.

Neighbors who have met Nancy Garrido say her disturbing non-communicative behavior was even stranger than her husband's religious rants, according to the Telegraph.

"In some ways to me she is the real monster," Cheyvonne Molino, an aquentance of the Garridos, told the British paper. "She is a woman and should never have let this happen."

Molino said she saw Nancy Garrido and Dugard shopping together in a local supermarket this year.

In 1993, a violation of Phillip Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August.

The role that Nancy Girrado played in keeping Dugard in captivity while her husband was in prison for four months is not yet fully clear. But what is clear, is that when Phillip Girrado returned, Dugard was still imprisoned.

He impregnated her shortly thereafter, according to the age of Dugard's first child, 15.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277289.shtml

Cheyvonne Molino was just interviewed on Fox News by Shepard and she was saying that she has known the whole family for 10 years. She has her printing done by the monster and says she could just show up at the house anytime and everything seemed normal. Even Jaycee and the 2 children. She said she thought they were all monster and his wife's kids. She also said they seemed happy and normal, wore jeans like other kids and that they lived in the house. I find that hard to believe!

^^me thinks me smells another example of someone trying to justify why they didn't speak out^^

[A_News_Junkie_Monkey]

Philip and Nancy Garrido on suicide watch in jail      Like anyone cares.

 

Now would be a good time for the police to look the other way.

[Wyks]

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?

ANTIOCH, California (CBS/AP) 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.

Phillip Garrido served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled in 1988.

Neighbors who have met Nancy Garrido say her disturbing non-communicative behavior was even stranger than her husband's religious rants, according to the Telegraph.

"In some ways to me she is the real monster," Cheyvonne Molino, an aquentance of the Garridos, told the British paper. "She is a woman and should never have let this happen."

Molino said she saw Nancy Garrido and Dugard shopping together in a local supermarket this year.

In 1993, a violation of Phillip Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August.

The role that Nancy Girrado played in keeping Dugard in captivity while her husband was in prison for four months is not yet fully clear. But what is clear, is that when Phillip Girrado returned, Dugard was still imprisoned.

He impregnated her shortly thereafter, according to the age of Dugard's first child, 15.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277289.shtml

Am undecided .. yet .. on how I feel about Nancy.  With reports of her being "like a robot", it's very possible that she herself is a victim of this guy, brainwashed etc. to the point of no action in going against him.  Guess we'll know more as more info on her comes out.  If she is as evil as this guy seems to be, then IMO she should share fully in all the consequences along with him.   And yet, if she is a victim of his as well, then I really don't know what, if any, her consequences should be.  Am torn in my feelings on this.  Guess I need to know more info on her before thinking of her as guilty as he seems to be.  That she is locked up for now while more info is being found out, is ok by me.  Just in case... Ya know?  Sigh. 

[Northern Rose]

Jaycee Dugard's Captor Eyed in Other Missing Girl Cases

The investigation of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple accused of kidnapping and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard for 18 years, has widened and authorities are now looking for links between Garrido and other missing children in the area.

"We are taking very seriously the possibility that he could be connected to some others," San Francisco FBI Special Agent Joseph Schadler told ABCNews.com today.

The revelation that Garrido is being investigated for other missing children is in addition to probes by detectives who say that Garrido is a person of interest in a string of prostitute murders.

Rod Garecht told ABC News that police have contacted him looking for any connection between Jaycee's 1991 abduction when she was 11 and the 1988 kidnapping of his 9-year-old daughter Michaela.

"Anything to keep her in the news and keep people talking about her is good," Garecht said today.

Like Jaycee Dugard, Michaela Garecht was grabbed off the street in broad daylight, pulled into a stranger's car in front of witnesses. His daughter, with her dirty-blonde hair and wide smile, could be Jaycee's twin.

Michaela would now be 30, a year older than Jaycee who was found alive last week at age 29 along with the two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido.

When Garecht saw the story about Jaycee Dugard last week, Garecht said he wondered if the woman police had found was actually Michaela.

"When I saw her, the picture they showed of her as a child looked a lot like my daughter," he said. "I kept thinking it was Michaela and not that other girl."

Though police have confirmed Jaycee's identity, "there's always a glimmer of hope," Garecht said.

Michaela's abduction was witnessed by a friend, Garecht said after the two girls had finally won hard-bargained permission for a scooter trip to the corner store for sweets, about a block away.

Garecht said that one of the girls' scooters was moved from near the store's entrance to leaning against a car in the parking lot. It was his daughter who ran over to retrieve the scooter and when she did, the kidnapper yanked her into the car right in front of her friend.

"There's still a possibility that she's alive," Garecht said, although he added, "not much possibility."

Michaela Garecht and Jaycee Dugard were two in a string of young girls who disappeared in the late 1980s and 1990s. Schadler said that they are looking specifically at abductions that took place after Garrido was paroled in the late 1980s after serving prison time for kidnapping and rape.

"The issue with Jaycee being found is just something that reinforces our hope," Mike Misheloff told ABCNews.com.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8451296

[Northern Rose]

Is Jaycee Just the Beginning? Three More Girls Vanished When Phillip Garrido Got Out of Jail

NEW YORK (CBS) As police uncover gruesome details of Jaycee Lee Dugard's nearly 20 years spent in captivity, three eerily similar cases have re-surfaced. In each case, a young girl was taken in a similar way as Dugard within a 20-mile radius of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's Antioch, Calif., home.

The disappearances began just months after Phillip Garrido was released from federal prison in Aug. 1988.

Even more disturbing, the mother of a nine-year-old victim told Crimesider that the car she saw removed from the Garrido's home on television matched a description of the car that kidnapped her child 21 years ago.

Sharon Nemeth Murch says that when her nine-year-old daughter Michaela Garecht was taken in broad daylight in Nov. 1988, her daughter's friend Trina watched in horror and witnessed the get-away-car which she described as "large, boxy, square-ish sedan, the color was tannish-gold."

Hayward Police Investigator Rob Lampkin, who remains the local lead on Michaela's case, said the gray car found in on Garrido's property does match the description Trina gave years ago although not in color. But he cautioned that the description could match many cars.

The astonishing break in Dugard's case has certainly piqued Lampkin's interest. "There’s similarities in Jaycee’s and Michaela’s disappearances," he said. "At this point we’re not going to ignore anything."

According to Murch, her nine-year-old daughter and her best friend rode their scooters just a few blocks away to the store to pick up some candy and soda on Nov. 19, 1988 in Hayward, CA.

The two girls parked their scooters by the door and when they came outside, one had been moved a few parking spaces away. Michaela spotted it first. She ran to get it and as she bent over, a man jumped out of the car parked next to the scooter, grabbed her and whisked her, screaming, into the car and then drove off, her mother said.

Trina watched in horror as her best friend disappeared.

Twenty years later, Trina saw authorities recover a gray sedan from Phillip Garrido’s Antioch, Calif., backyard on television and called Murch to tell her.

Murch told Crimesider that after hearing that Jaycee had been found alive, her hopes are "fairly high," and that the possibility that her daughter could be linked to Garrido has "ramped up" her anxiety as she waits to hear if her daughter has been found.

Murch's case is not the only one that has been recharged by Dugard's re-emergence.

Two other girls disappeared within less than one year of Garrido’s return to his mother’s Antioch home after he was released early from a 50-year prison sentence for rape. He served less than 11 years. Like Michaela, the other girls lived less than 20 miles from Antioch.

Two months after Michaela was snatched, Ilene Micheloff, 13, was abducted in broad daylight while walking home in Dublin, Calif. News outlets at the time reported that the blue backpack she was carrying was found abandoned in a creek bed near where she was last seen.

Leutenant Kurt von Savoye of the Dublin Police Department said that finding Jaycee alive has caused this case to resurface, and the department “will certainly explore any possible connections there.”

“It certainly is concerning,” he said of the timing of Garrido’s release from prison and the disappearance of these four girls so near to his Antioch home.

The third, and youngest, girl is Amanda Campbell, who was only four when she was taken from her family in Fairfield, Calif., according to media reports at the time. The chubby-cheeked girl was taken only six months after Jaycee disappeared when she rode her bicycle to a friend’s house around the corner. Amanda never arrived at her friend’s house and her bicycle was found abandoned nearby.

A spokesman for the Fairfield Police Department said that while investigators are keeping an eye on the Dugard case, they have been looking into Campbell's cold case for some time now and do not believe the two are related.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/31/crimesider/entry5277707.shtml

[A_News_Junkie_Monkey]

Jaycee Lee Dugard: 120 sex offenders live within five miles of Philip Garrido's house

More than 120 sex offenders live within five miles of the house where Philip and Nancy Garrido held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

Dozens of men with convictions for offences against children live only walking distance from the property where Miss Dugard was forced to live in a ramshackle collection of tents and sheds in the back yard.

The run down working class suburb near Antioch, 50 miles east of San Francisco, has become a refuge for convicted paedophiles and residents with children and grandchildren regularly scour a public website which details where they live.

Polly White, 65, whose house backs on to Garrido's, said: "We found out there's a predator living up the road and that's not even Garrido. We were less worried about him than the other one."

Police are visiting other registered sex offenders in the area to see if any of them attended wild sex parties that neighbours reported hearing in Garrido's garden.

Neighbours have described how unsavoury looking men arrived by car at his house, got drunk, took the drug crystal meth and lined up outside a tent.

Antioch, a town of 100,000, has a significantly higher proportion of sex offenders than other similar areas, according to police.

Contra Costy County, which encompasses it, has a population of one million and more than 1,700 registered sex offenders. A single police officer is responsible for monitoring 350 of those.

The area where Garrido lived is not incorporated as part of Antioch, meaning it is not serviced by local government, is sparsely policed and crime-ridden, a backwater where people mind their own business.

One police officer said: "It's not really on the map. If you're a sex offender it's an attractive place to try and hide."

Dawn Cordy, 52, a resident. said the area was "Boonieville" and paedophiles lived there "because they can".

Garrido's garden is now being dug up by police looking for any evidence connecting him to the murder of 10 prostitutes in the Antioch area stretching back 20 years.

They also brought in sniffer dogs to search for human remains. They were searching for three girls who went missing within 40 miles of Garrido's home between 1988 and 1991.

No trace of Michaela Garecht, nine, Ilene Misheloff, 13, or Amanda "Nikki" Campbell has ever been found. Michaela bore a striking resemblance to Miss Dugard.

Police also searched a house next door to Garrido's where he was caretaker until 2006. It was found to have had locks on the outside so that people could be kept inside.

Garrido's father Manuel Garrido acknowledged that his son could be a killer.

Mr Garrido, 87, said: "He was a sex addict, that was his problem. I believe my son killed the prostitutes."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6118478/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-120-sex-offenders-live-within-five-miles-of-Philip-Garridos-house.html

Wow, I said that earlier - now I hope they are collecting DNA from them if they don't already have it.
Anyone get the idea we are leading this investigation?
Nut - her find is now being investigated
Several of us - more children (possibly boys were burried)
Now this.   Seems like other things we have been onto - then we see an article that they are!  Great minds.............think alike!

[Wyks]

Thanks to those who post the links, articles, pics and maps, etc.   

[A_News_Junkie_Monkey]

Dad of Accused Jaycee Kidnapper: He's a Killer
"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father said

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/breaking/FBI-Expands-Search-of-Garrido-Property-56212097.html


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Manuel Garrido said he believes his son, Phillip, who stands accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children, is involved in the slayings of other women, according the New York Post.

Scary stuff... the father of this guy, as well as his brother, knowing beforehand what one of the problems with him is... and they did what??  Turn their heads and look the other way, hoping the worst wouldn't happen?   Guess that's easy for me to say.  Maybe it wasn't easy for them to ignore, or whatever. 

Well, that father also said that monster's mother, whose house he lived in, should have done something. I've read she was SENILE and needed care herself. This mess is too much.

Wonder where she is?  If she is not senile - she should be charged.

[Wyks]

Dad of Accused Jaycee Kidnapper: He's a Killer
"He was a sex addict, that was his problem," his father said

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/breaking/FBI-Expands-Search-of-Garrido-Property-56212097.html


snip
Manuel Garrido said he believes his son, Phillip, who stands accused of abducting Jaycee Dugard and fathering her two children, is involved in the slayings of other women, according the New York Post.

Scary stuff... the father of this guy, as well as his brother, knowing beforehand what one of the problems with him is... and they did what??  Turn their heads and look the other way, hoping the worst wouldn't happen?   Guess that's easy for me to say.  Maybe it wasn't easy for them to ignore, or whatever. 

Well, that father also said that monster's mother, whose house he lived in, should have done something. I've read she was SENILE and needed care herself. This mess is too much.

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about his mother.  Wonder if she really is senile or whatever as has been reported, and if so, for how long.  18 years is a long time, surely she must have known about what was going on.  Can you just imagine the kind of "care" he may have been providing to her?  Yikes! 

[Catbert]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=8451296&page=1

This ABC

[Catbert]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=8451296&page=1

This ABC

sorry I hit post too soon... this is a good update although too long to paste.  It mentions Jaycee's dad saying he had to stop his wife from telling him details Jaycee has told her because they were too upsetting.

::sigh:: I think NOW there can be quality of life for these three angels - healing and pain and a long long road, but perhaps they will now understand real love and real life.

[Edward]

Michaela g. was one of the most disturbing cases I can remember because it happened in Hayward on a busy street with witnesses and complete description of the male involved as well as the vehicle he drove..

Nobody was ever arrested ... He got away with her.

It was and IS and always will be disturbing.