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

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That singing alone should put him in jail for 20 years. Phew!!!!

Boy, you weren't kidding! Sounded like an old worn out cassette when they start to drag! Wow!

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US Fritzl’s mum thought kidnapped victim was his daughter

London Sept 6 (ANI): The horrified mother of Phillip Garrido, the “American Fritzl”, who held a girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her, has said that she thought kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard was his daughter by a former lover.

Frail Patricia Garrido, 88, says she had no idea what was going on in Garrido’s life.

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, Patricia told that her son introduced Dugard as “Allissa” and had no idea of her plight until police raided their California home last month.

She says: “Phillip and his elder brother Ron were good boys when growing up. But I always wished I could have had a daughter.

“So when ‘Allissa’ appeared one day it was amazing. I was pleased she was around. I was ill and in bed.

“She was a real angel. She was hard-working and helped out with Phillip’s printing business at home. I was spending most of my time in bed and Nancy was looking after me.”

Garrido told his mother that the two daughters he fathered with Dugard, who are now aged 15 and 11, were also from a previous relationship.

She says: “I’ve blocked out some of the memories, but I still remember the joy of having the children around. I saw all three girls as my granddaughters.”

She defended her daughter-in-law Nancy, who is accused alongside Garrido, saying she looked after her for two decades, bathing and feeding her.

“Nancy has a heart of gold and everyone seemed happy. Allissa was a very happy girl. I still call her Allissa because he never told me she was called Jaycee. I just didn’t think there was anything wrong with it,” Patricia said. (ANI)

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/us-fritzls-mum-thought-kidnapped-victim-was-his-daughter_100243475.html

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Oprah Winfrey, Top Contender to Interview Jaycee Lee Dugard

There are whispers that Oprah Winfrey would like to land the first TV interview with kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard. The team of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", according to San Francisco Chronicle, has sent a personal note from Oprah to Dugard to convince her in coming and telling her side of story through the show.

Sources also said that Oprah is among the top contenders to have the exclusive deal beside Barbara Walters from "The View" and Diane Sawyer from "Good Morning America". Not only Jaycee, the interview reportedly will also bring in her two daughters, , whom she bore through the rape. There has been no word from the Harpo Studios about this.

Dugard is a victim of kidnapping and years of raping by Phillip Craig Garrido and his wife Nancy. She was abducted at the age of 11 while waiting for a school bus. Ever since her reappearance on August 26, media have been battling to get an inside story. So far, only the close relatives of Dugard and neighbors of Garrido have opened up to the press.

The story of Dugard is taking a huge national interest that there are reports of a possible book and movie deal being offered.

Meanwhile, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will begin a whole new season on September 14 and 15 with Whitney Houston as the first guest.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00026963.html

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Jaycee Lee Dugard police to open 'cold case' files amid claims he may have abducted two other girls

Police are scouring unsolved 'cold case' crime records to try to identify two girls Phillip Garrido may have kidnapped before Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Officers opened the inquiry after another of Garrido's victims claimed he had bragged about abducting two unnamed girls.

Katherine Callaway Hall, a Nevada casino worker Garrido kidnapped and raped in November 1976, said he told her he had come to the Nevada city of Lake Tahoe specifically to abduct a girl.

Miss Hall said Garrido told her that 'the whole scheme had been planned for weeks'.

Garrido, 58, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the assault on Miss Hall but was freed on parole in 1988. Three years later, he and his 54-year-old wife Nancy allegedly abducted Jaycee.

Police Lieutenant Mike Whan said officers were looking into any unsolved murders and abductions in the Las Vegas and San Francisco areas, including the killing of a 17-year-old girl in 1976.

'Anything is possible with this guy,' he said. 'There might not be any link between other cases, but we'd be crazy not to look at the possibility.'

At the same time, a federal prosecutor, who testified at Garrido's 1977 trial, revealed how she warned the court during Miss Hall's hearing that Garrido could be a serial sex attacker.

In an interview on CNN's Larry King Show last week, she said: 'I want to scream from the depths of my soul because my fears were justified.'

Garrido and his wife have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in Jaycee's disappearance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1211485/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-police-open-cold-case-files-amid-claims-abducted-girls.html

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South Lake Tahoe celebrates Jaycee Dugard's return with Pink Ribbon Parade

South Lake Tahoe celebrated the life of Jaycee Lee Dugard on Sunday under a canopy of 1,000 hot pink balloons.

The Pink Ribbon Parade, sponsored by Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, drew about 2,000 people, South Lake Tahoe Police Chief Terry Daniels said.


“I wasn’t surprised,” Daniels said. “The community has been very supportive ... Everyone was excited anticipating this.”


Sunday’s parade traveled from the South Lake Tahoe Branch of the El Dorado County Library on Rufus Allen Boulevard to South Lake Tahoe Middle School, the reverse of the route a Soroptimist commemorative parade took in 2001, the 10th anniversary of Dugard’s kidnapping, when she was 11 years old.


Dugard was found alive in Northern California in August, 18 years after her abduction. Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 55, are being held in the case.


“It’s signifying a full circle,” Soroptomist Sue Novasel said of the parade.


Marchers came from throughout the area and included people who had lived in the area when Dugard was abducted, some who had attended school with her and people who had heard the story and wanted to show their support for Dugard, her friends and family.


“We wanted to celebrate and rejoice,” said. Kelly Tousey of Fair Oaks, Calif., who attended the event with her family. She and her husband have three children, ages 5, 14 and 16.


“We have to watch over them very, very closely,” Chris Tousey said.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090906/NEWS18/90906009/1321/news

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GERALDO SHOW IS talking about this case and Michaela (her mother is on) tonight - right now, EST.  I think it reruns again at 1am EST.

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Cop Seek Link Between Garrido and School Bus Murders

RENO, Nevada (CBS/AP) Police in northern Nevada are scouring old records of major unsolved cases to determine if any match the profile of Phillip Garrido, the man charged in the abduction and assault of Jayce Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped 18 years ago and recently re-appeared.

Reno police Lt. Mike Whan says investigators are looking for similarities between numerous cases and Garrido's method of operation in the case of Dugard.

Dugard resurfaced last week in California after being snatched near her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe in 1991 at the age of 11.

Whan says one of the cold cases under review involves the murders of two children who also vanished near their school bus stop in Reno in 1989 -- Jennifer and Charles Chia. That was a year after Garrido was paroled.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5252631.shtml

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Phillip Garrido Tells FBI He Can Stop Schizophrenics from Turning Violent

NEW YORK (CBS) Phillip Garrido, the man accused of kidnapping and impregnating Jaycee Lee Dugard and convicted of raping another woman thirty years ago, dropped off his personal manifesto with the FBI a mere four days before he was arrested for allegedly holding Dugard prisoner in his backyard for 18 years.

In the document, entitled "Origin of Schizophrenia Revealed," Garrido claims to have a solution to stop schizophrenics from becoming violent.

"There is new insight that has the potential of helping people who hear voices to possibly stop and re-examine their thinking before committing a violent act on themselves and/or other," Garrido wrote.

It states that those who hear voices are not sick, but "have by design the freedom to monitor what others do not detect."

Gariddo gave the manifesto to an agent at the FBI's San Francisco office. That office did return Crimesiders calls Friday to ascertain the circumstances by which the handoff was made.

The manifesto also contains a testament to Garrido’s state of mind by an unnamed doctor, which states he has been under the care of a psychiatrist for the past 18 years for attention deficit disorder.

The document claims local businesses held events which featured Garrido’s voice-hearing skills. There are six "Declarations as Affirmations" in the document, which confirm "several private demonstrations have taken place that allowed others to witness my freedom to speak in a tongue unknown to the medical field, scientific world and the public in general."

Garrido also included two letters in his document: one to the media and another to universities, attorneys and law enforcement agencies telling them of his "powerful new discovery." He says the courts are "filled" with "these types of cases" and that his realization will "allow the educational world to break free of a Cultural Trance," which he later explains in a separate section.

Garrido understood his discoveries would be met by skepticism by the majority of the public, and asked the media to keep an "open mind" and air the "awareness" with "accountability and respect." He even goes as far as saying that he "will not continue to disclose to individuals who are not capable of considering this matter appropriately."

The "book," as he calls it, also contains photocopies of pamphlets he handed out for his church, God’s Desire, as well as the documents necessary to incorporate the organization.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/04/crimesider/entry5288269.shtml

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Kidnap suspect used bondage, captivity in past

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Fifteen years before the girl in the shed, there was the woman in the warehouse -- and at least one other woman who escaped capture. CNN reviewed the court file in Phillip Garrido's 1977 rape trial, and it shows a pattern of sexual fantasy, abduction and bondage. Garrido and his wife are charged in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, who police say was f
found to be living in his backyard 18 years later

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/03/garrido.rape.kidnap.pattern/index.html

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Kidnap suspect morphed into alleged sex predator

SAN FRANCISCO — Attending high school in a rural suburb east of San Francisco, Phillip Garrido stood apart from the crowd that studied hard, played sports, basked in popularity and set sights on college.

Feeling the drumbeat of the 1960s San Francisco acid rock scene, he was one of the first to let his hair grow long and to smoke marijuana. With a few friends, he formed a band that played hit songs from the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Credence Clearwater Revival. And he painted his bedroom black, covered the walls with psychedelic music posters and illuminated them with black lights.

"He was in the background, not one of the most popular," recalled former classmate Steve Lucchesi. "I thought he was weird, but not that weird... I'm not sure if he was high all the time or saw things differently. But something went haywire."

The clean-shaven young man with flowing hair and a nice smile began violent sexual attacks in the 1970s and is now accused along with his wife of kidnapping, raping and imprisoning Jaycee Lee Dugard for 18 years in his backyard. Both have pleaded not guilty.

His father blamed drugs and a head injury from a motorcycle accident. During his 1977 rape trial, Garrido blamed drugs and a lack of discipline at home. But psychiatrists concluded his problems were more complex than that.

The second son in a working class family, Garrido was raised in Brentwood, a suburban community near Antioch, where he and his wife lived with Dugard until last month.

At Liberty High School, he earned mediocre grades, did not participate much in school activities and was known as one of the students who started smoking marijuana and looking a little like hippies.

"They were just different," said Lucchesi, who was a basketball player and was part of a competing band called the Village Drunks. "It was almost like they were trying to keep up with the psychedelic scene, the drug scene."

Leaving high school in 1969 with a desire to make it big in music, Garrido soon married his high-school sweetheart, who later would divorce him. He worked odd jobs and played bass guitar with his band at small gigs.

By then, he had been using not only marijuana but also LSD and other drugs.

"In 1969, marijuana was reaching out to the rural area of Calif.," Garrido later would recount in a letter from prison. "From that point on, my life was slowly changing."

In the early 1970s, according the U.S Parole Commission, he was arrested twice for marijuana possession and placed on probation both times.

But his own court testimony shows, Garrido also began to act on his sexual compulsions, including public masturbation, exposing himself to children and peering into women's windows as they changed.

He was arrested in 1972 on suspicion of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl in Antioch, a case dropped after the victim declined to testify.

By 1977, he was serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for the kidnapping of a casino worker in Nevada. He was convicted in Nevada state court of raping the same woman after taking her to a storage facility, which an investigator described as a "sex palace" with stage lights, a bed, pornographic pictures and wine.

Three decades later, on Aug. 26, the registered sex offender was arrested in connection with Dugard's abduction from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop in 1991. Authorities said he had sired two daughters with Dugard during her years of confinement in a makeshift compound in the backyard of Garrido's home in Antioch.

Garrido's father, Manuel, blames the transformation in his son on a 1968 motorcycle accident that resulted in a serious head injury. And Phillip Garrido, in a letter seeking a sentence reduction in the Nevada case, said copious amounts of marijuana, LSD, cocaine and prescription drugs were to blame for his sexual misbehavior.

Gregory Sheppard owned a liquor store Garrido frequented during his time in Reno. Sheppard testified at Garrido's rape trial that the two aspiring musicians would often jam together and take drugs. Sheppard testified that Garrido ingested a lot of different drugs.

"I have seen him taking LSD," Sheppard said, "pot, cocaine, downers, uppers."

Medical experts found his problems were too complex to explain so simply. A neurological test ordered before his 1977 rape showed his brain activity to be normal. Every court-authorized mental evaluation concluded Garrido knew right from wrong, though a psychiatrist hired by Garrido's public defender told the jury that Garrido suffered from deep-rooted sexual obsessions.

Dr. Charles Kuhn testified that Garrido's heavy drug use exacerbated his sexual deviance and compulsions, including Garrido's admissions that he exposed himself to young girls and roamed South Lake Tahoe neighborhoods as a Peeping Tom.

"I don't think the drug is responsible for creating either obsession or the content or quality of the fantasy. I don't believe the drug did that," Kuhn testified. "I think the drug permitted it flourish, so to speak, and survive; and ultimately the drug, or the effects of the drug, permitted it to get acted out."

Kuhn said that Garrido had a marijuana and LSD "dependence" and described Garrido as having an "intelligence somewhat better than average."

"Without the influence any of this drug involvement, I think Mr. Garrido would pause before carrying out sexual fantasies," Kuhn testified. "I am describing his inability to use a reasonable degree of self-control or self-discipline when it comes to doing things that are clearly wrong, clearly illegal and clearly self-destructive."

The federal judge presiding over the trial, relying on another psychiatrist appointed by the court, found Garrido sane enough to stand trial in 1977.

Garrido took the stand in his own defense, but appeared to harm his case more than help it.

Garrido said that "had the advantage of being with many of women, with their will."

But he also testified that LSD and cocaine acted as sexual stimulants, and that he masturbated frequently and often in public places including the "side of schools, grammar schools and high schools, in my own car while I was watching young females."

He also told the jury that his parents taught him right from wrong and that "very unfortunately" his parents never used corporal punishment to discipline him.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Sunday he does not care what caused Garrido's problems. "The guy is a sick puppy," he said. "He's going to be my pen pal," if he is convicted and sent to prison.

"I'm going to let him know what his kids are doing, how great they're doing (without him). I'm going to be their surrogate dad."


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBbUgkRg4gaNB7YROg0ym3XaAc7wD9AIMNPG2

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: More Phillip Garrido Classmates Speak Out; "I Got A Really Bad Feeling About Him"EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: More Phillip Garrido Classmates Speak Out; "I Got A Really Bad Feeling About Him"

Former classmates of Phillips Garrido tell RadarOnline.com that they are still in shock over the news that they once walked the halls of Liberty High School in Brentwood, California with the alleged kidnapper.

Irene Thompson, who remembers Phillip from English class said she is stunned by the news.  "I am shocked.  The whole thing just turns my stomach I can't believe that I sat near someone that did the things he has done.

"I've had nightmares ever since I realized it was him.  I didn't really ever talk to him but I definitely remember him, he was sort of strange but I mean who would ever think he'd be this type of crazy.  I just thought he was eccentric not evil.

"I have a daughter and I just can't even fathom what her family must be going through.  My heart goes out to them."

Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy stand accused of kidnapping then 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago and keeping her imprisoned in their backyard.  Jaycee was rescued last month along with the two daughters she had by Garrido.

Carol Harris told RadarOnline.com she remembers sitting next to Phillip on the bus and feeling uncomfortable. "He gave me the creeps the way he looked at me.

"I just got a really bad feeling about him.  You know when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up for no reason, that was the feeling I got sitting next to him.

"Never in a million years would I imagine that he'd do something this depraved but I definitely knew there was something off about him.  I have a really good sense about people and with him I sensed danger.

"But what can you do, it is not like you can condemn someone for giving you a bad feeling or report them.  I just chose to avoid him in school and then we graduated and I never heard about him again until last week.

"I heard about it and recognized his name and face right away and my stomach dropped.  I know this sounds ridiculous but I feel guilty, like I should have done something or warned someone but who would have believed me?"

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/09/exclusive-interviews-more-phillip-garrido-classmates-speak-out-i-got-really-bad

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Jaycee Lee Dugard: 'Phillip Garrido cut his wife off from family'  By Ryan Parry 7/09/2009

Rapist Phillip Garrido brainwashed wife Nancy and alienated her from her own family, her brother claimed yesterday.

Pete Bocanegra said it was nearly 30 years since he spoke to Nancy - who with Garrido faces charges of kidnapping, raping and keeping Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

Pete said Nancy, 54, tried to contact him two years ago - but when he tried to call his sister back Garrido hung up on him.

"I guess he didn't like her speaking to her family and now we know why," said Pete of Denver, Colorado.

 
"This isn't the Nancy we knew. I can't believe this is what she is involved in."

He last saw Nancy a year before she wed Garrido, who was serving time for another kidnap and rape.

She is now on suicide watch in jail in Martinez, California.

She and Garrido, 58, deny 29 charges of rape, kidnap and imprisonment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/07/garrido-cut-his-wife-off-from-family-115875-21653784/

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Garrido stayed under the radar, despite contacts

(CNN) -- More than two dozen times in the past three years, authorities came to Phillip and Nancy Garrido's ramshackle home at 1554 Walnut Ave. in Antioch, California, a rural property where Jaycee Dugard is said to have been confined for 18 years.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/07/garrido.dugard.missed.opportunities/

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He wants to be a part of his daughers life now.  Where was he all these years.  Did he help search for his daughter.  These girls are asking if Jaycee is their half  sister.  So I guess he didn't tell them they had a sister who was kidnapped 18 years ago.  So now he wants to be the good dad and come forward after all these years.

Did he get paid for this interview.  Because if he did he should turn the money over to his daughter and her two girls because they are going to need all they can get.

This is just my personal opinion but I would not let this man meet my daughter if I were Jaycee's mother.

[San]

Are Jaycee's Biological Fathers words any different than the ones we have spoken.

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He wants to be a part of his daughers life now.  Where was he all these years.  Did he help search for his daughter.  These girls are asking if Jaycee is their half  sister.  So I guess he didn't tell them they had a sister who was kidnapped 18 years ago.  So now he wants to be the good dad and come forward after all these years.

Did he get paid for this interview.  Because if he did he should turn the money over to his daughter and her two girls because they are going to need all they can get.

This is just my personal opinion but I would not let this man meet my daughter if I were Jaycee's mother.

San...I agree with you...I have been wondering throughout all of this about the bio dad since I had not heard anything about him...Now he comes forward? I don't think that Jaycee needs to be any more confused/overwhelmed than she already will be from what she has gone through...However, I supposed since she is an adult it would be her choice if she wants to meet him and his other daughters..just poor timing I would say....

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He wants to be a part of his daughers life now.  Where was he all these years.  Did he help search for his daughter.  These girls are asking if Jaycee is their half  sister.  So I guess he didn't tell them they had a sister who was kidnapped 18 years ago.  So now he wants to be the good dad and come forward after all these years.

Did he get paid for this interview.  Because if he did he should turn the money over to his daughter and her two girls because they are going to need all they can get.

This is just my personal opinion but I would not let this man meet my daughter if I were Jaycee's mother.

San...I agree with you...I have been wondering throughout all of this about the bio dad since I had not heard anything about him...Now he comes forward? I don't think that Jaycee needs to be any more confused/overwhelmed than she already will be from what she has gone through...However, I supposed since she is an adult it would be her choice if she wants to meet him and his other daughters..just poor timing I would say....

I agree Cookie.  She is confused and overwhelmed by what is happening.  Meeting him won't help it will make it worse.  The main priority right now is helping Jaycee and her daughters.  This will take years.