Posted by The Quincy Cove on Friday, August 28th, 2009

News Update Jaycee Dugard Released After 18 Year Kidnapping

*Updated Friday, August 28th 7:30pm*
*Updated Friday, August 28th 10:30pm*

More developments break in the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case. The kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been arraigned. Bail was calculated out to be over $26,000,000 for Nancy and was denied by the superior court. More developments about Phillip Garrido’s strange religion have emerged. Details were reported about how Garrido thought he could talk to God through a box. More past victims of Philip Garrido have spoken up and given their reactions to the arrest. Police have revealed today that they will be initiating an investigation in the death of 10 prostitutes that were found where Phillip Garrido had worked. Police reports indicate that allegations of Phillip Garrido as a serial rapist and killer are highly probable.

“A Las Vegas woman raped by kidnap sicko Phillip Garrido said Friday she was relieved the “monster” is behind bars again. “I am overwhelmingly relieved,” Katherine Callaway told The Daily News. “He’s a monster.”

Callaway said she was “shocked” when she learned that the man arrested for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard was the same man who attacked her in the 1970s.” (NY Daily News)

More about Phillip Garrido’s made up religion

“Phillip Garrido, the man suspected of abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard and keeping her prisoner for 18 years, believes that he has God-given powers to speak in an “unearthly” language used by angels.” (Telegraph)

Interview with the neighbors

“The San Francisco Chronicle reported late Friday that yet another police agency is now investigating Garrido as a suspect in the slayings of 10 prostitutes in 1998 and 1999. The bodies were discovered at the time in an industrial area near where Garrido was then working.” (Washington Post)

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UC Berkeley Police Officers who sparked investigation speak out today

UC Berkeley Police Officer, Lisa Campbell (manager of the University of California Police Department Special Events) and UC Berkeley police officer Ally Jacobs who set events in motion that led to the capture of Phillip Garridos speaks out today

“There were some things about him and the kids that were really alarming, that just didn’t settle right with me,” said Campbell, who previously worked as a police officer in Chicago and a background investigator for the Los Angeles Police Department.” When Jacobs asked the girls about school, she said they responded “like robots” that they were in 4th and 9th grades, were home-schooled by their mother and had a 29-year-old sister at home.

When Jacobs asked the younger girl about a bump on her head, the girl said it was a birth defect. “They seemed a little out of touch with reality and robotic,” said Jacobs, 33. “I just got a weird uneasy feeling.”(Associated Press)

Detailed pictures of where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years emerge

“Garrido and his wife Nancy appeared in court in California on Friday and pleaded not guilty to 28 charges of rape, kidnap, lewd acts and false imprisonment. The couple did not speak during the five-minute hearing but Nancy Garrido sobbed throughout.” (Sky News)

Commentary on events from Antioch Mayor and similar events in the past

“Antioch city officials are quick to point out that this neighborhood lies in an unincorporated part of the county — outside their jurisdiction. Antioch Mayor Jim Davis spent much of Thursday night on the phone with international news agencies trying to heal the black eye Antioch has been getting in the media. “It definitely does not do anything for our image,” Davis said. “It is a good community. There’s a lot of positive things in Antioch, and just one story like this can change people’s minds instantly.”

However, Antioch proper, a city of 100,000 that has been battling rising violent crime rates for years, has had its fair share of high-profile incidents in the past year. In September 2008, 15-year-old Jazzmin Davis was found starved and beaten to death in her aunt’s Antioch home. The aunt has been charged with her murder and is awaiting trial. And in January, Antioch residents Zion and Glenda Dutro were arrested on more than 20 counts of alleged sex abuse against female family members.” (Hilary Costa From the Contra Costa Times)

Exclusive video of the Garridos in court for pre-trial bail hearing and arraignment

Video of the Garrido’s Arraignment (Washington Post)

Phillip Garrido’s FBI Manifesto

FBI released today Phillip Garrido’s strange spiritual manifesto. The documents clearly portray a very disturbed individual. (Antioch Grove)