If the Berkeley officer, Ally Jacobs, never exposed Phillip Garrido in the Jaycee Dugard case, he may have been apprehended by authorities anyhow. According to Contra Costa County records Garrido stopped paying property taxes in 2004. Technically the property, 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch, is still deeded to Phillip’s mother Patricia Franzen. Franzen has allegedly been heavily influenced by dementia. Since she was left in Garrido’s care it’s safe to assume that payment of the taxes would have been Phillip Garrido’s responsibility.

Currently, there is a secured tax lien on the property in excess of $7,000. With the current housing recession in mind, Garrido may or may not have been able to repay the tax lien. If the tax lien was never paid the County would have eventually taken and sold 1554 Walnut Avenue. Even if Garrido had over $7,000 to repay the full redemption amount, the pattern of non-payment for the past 5 years casts serious doubt on whether payment plans were in the property’s future.

Since the deed is still recorded in Patricia’s name any legal civil lawsuit claims to the property by the Dugard family will be met with legal uncertainty. Did Franzen know that Jaycee was being held captive? Can Patricia’s claim of dementia be proven or disproven? These are the types of questions that must be answered in order for a Dugard civil lawsuit to successfully acquiescence the property.

It’s still unclear on how Patricia plans to dispose of the estate. Hopefully Franzen will sell the property and give the proceeds to the Dugard Family Trust. Still, the $7,000 tax lien will have to paid before any proceeds could be contributed to the Dugard family. The property is currently assessed at $114,931. The Grove recently published an estimate that the home might be worth anywhere between $700,000 to $1,200,000. This amount might be a bit over estimated now that the initial shock of the whole situation has been realized. Still, a starting bid of about $350,000 is not far fetched.

Some news media blogs have recently speculated that ex-criminal homes often sell for less than fair market value. Garrido/Franzen’s home is a bit different and would probably sell for more than fair market value. Since the estate would normally be appraised at about $200,000 or less it’s hard to imagine a price drop because of the ‘Ex-criminal celebrity factor’.

Some famous criminal celebrity homes might actually sell for less than normal fair market value. However, because the Garrido house isn’t worth very much to begin with it’s doubtful the property would sell for less. Considering how successful recent ‘fringe Vloggers‘ have been it’s not hard to imagine what kind of ad revenue might be generated by broadcasting live from Jaycee’s ex prison.

The haunting question about the home’s deed remains, why wasn’t the deed in Garrido’s name? If Franzen is truly an invalid it could be argued that the home should be transferred by (or to) her legal guardian. However, Phillip Garrido, the likely guardian, never recorded the home in his name. Could this be yet another tactic by a creepy child molester to hide his identity? If Garrido’s plan really was to start an elementary home school it makes perfect sense why he would want to have Franzen remain on the deed.

That’s right folks, the same guy who admitted to visiting local elementary schools just so that he could masturbate was able to get a business license to run his own elementary school just outside of Antioch. While there is no evidence to suggest that Garrido ever enrolled students in the school, the mere existence of the business license raises troubling questions about the safety of California’s private school system.

According to the Contra Costa County recorder’s office, Garrido filed two applications for his school. The first was filed on Jan 31, 2006 and used the name of “The Phillip C Knight” for the business. In August, he filed a second application and used the name Phillip C Knight Institute.

Phillip C Knight Institute Aug

‘Phillip C. Knight’ is an alias that Garrido also used on his website, ‘Voices Revealed‘. The website also lists his e-mail address as ‘phillipcknight@yahoo.com‘. One purpose of using the alias may have been to hide the fact that his private school was being run by a registered sex offender.

At the time of the business filing, Jaycee’s two children would have been 12 and 8 years old. While the exact nature of the “institute” isn’t known, there seems to be two different schools of thought on Garrido’s possible motivations. The first is almost too terrible to imagine, that he intended to run his own elementary school in order to groom future victims.

Given his religious beliefs, it’s not too difficult to imagine a scenario where he could have convinced followers to enroll their kids into an academy where he was head principal. The mere fact that he was able to get this kind of business permit to begin with raises some serious questions about what type of screening takes place, when someone wants to start their own private school in California. If sexual predators are able to get around the criminal background checks by starting their own business, what safeguards are in place to protect our children?

The second school of thought is that the “institute” was created as part of an attempt to legitimatize the home schooling of Jaycee’s two kids. Reports have already confirmed that Jaycee and her children never visited a doctor or attended a public school. Given his desire to keep the kids off the grid, we are a bit puzzled as to why he would take the steps to officially create the “home school” and then fail to register it with the State of California. According to their 2006-07 private school database, there is no record of the Phillip C. Knight Institute ever being listed. The idea of a ‘home school’ would be appealing to Garrido because it would limit the outside attention that a regular public school would bring. Pictures of the Garrido residence confirm that there were many books and instructional tools lying around the compound, so it’s possible that the DBA application was intended to get discounts on textbooks.

If Garrido established the school as a way to legally home school Jaycee’s kids, then it raises the disturbing question of why sexual predators would even be allowed to home school their kids to begin with. Don’t get me wrong, parents should absolutely have the right to teach their kids on their own, but we take away the right to vote and the right to own firearms from felons, so why would it be unreasonable to take away the right to home school from convicted sex offenders? Two years ago, home schooling was almost declared illegal in California after a father who was accused of being abusive to one of his kids was sued to make him put his kids back in school. The California supreme court eventually ruled that the State had the right to make this request, but that families still had the right to educate their own kids.

Why should it take years of litigation in order to prevent children from being locked into an abusive prison? Garrido’s case is clearly not the norm, but if he was able to create a legal home schooling entity, then something is clearly broken with the system. For the sake of parents who want to know that private schools are safe and for the kids who may be stuck in an abusive home schooling environment, there needs to be some ground rules in place for those who do want to engage in alternative education.

There should be rules that require background checks on people trying create private schools. People convicted of sex crimes should be barred from establishing their own private institutions. What about the whole home schooling industry? How is the government suppose to regulate what goes on behind closed doors? It’s obvious by looking at the Garrido case that the State needs to have more control and oversight of the home schooling industry.

COMMENTS

Keith

Rove. pushed for his sex offender law and “O” the Bam Bam Obama just gave him sex czars.

Putting money in the human meat grinder we call Society.Should churches or our federal government be held libel for the murder of sex offenders?

Sex laws have been built on misconceptions and myth.

The Supreme Court just ruled on sex offender laws where some factions of our government think by some inert reasoning that sex offender should be quarantined or executed. Video taken in another country shows where sex offenders were placed on a pole much like the Catholics use to use a pyramid shaped object and have them sit on it and spin, the pole travels through the body looking for the throat but if not found its ok because the sharpened end of the pole will come out somewhere to the delight of these very strange people who think such thoughts are a bit barbaric.

The heritage of the act is in its self a brutal throwback to violent uneducated people who are so obsessed with any sex & the only way to deal with this kind of “hierarchy” of historic hysteria. A word taken from hysterectomy, hysteria is tied to castration, we are supposed to be the most advanced nation and we still have a death penalty when the rest of the world except for some nations we are still warring with/selling weapons too, while other nations went home our weapons dealers and torture lovers delighting in support for the death of people they don’t know or want to simply because they don’t know how to get money with out taking it from someone by force.

Is that supposed to include mutilations? In my humble opinion this alone “is” terrorist activities as much as severed hands, ears, heads, or making a case with nothing more than an obsession justified by lies.

The registry’s origin in the Jim Crow hang~um laws that brought disgrace to our nation allowing thieves and murderous societal bigots who have trashed any shot at making good of a program in its design to make money destroying our nation and its people. We can not survive using this behavior model because we are compounding the problem since the numbers are increasing to include the children they purport to protect.

The doctoring, castration/hysterectomy/health care/physic care of people through sex laws that have damaged everyone it has touched. What about the people who are being used by the Medicare programs that requires these mutilations for both men and woman after they take their means of support? Digging around in someone’s genitalia because you want what a weaker nation? Can’t you see? You have created the model and it is worthless! Why don’t we just indiscriminately kill people we don’t know? That is statically the next sex offender, because over 90% of all new offences are committed by someone “not” on the sex offender registry and the numbers are increasing not decreasing so as a behavior model this is really worthless.

So what is the use of such laws as the sex offender registry other than to terrorize people? With the murder of so many sex offenders and the continued disregard for life by the use of the registry it will be no time at all before the federal government will be held liable for their deaths through federal court.

There are ridiculous laws built for people unaware of what they do because of these misconceptions and fear creating an environment of mistrust where life has no meaning for both side of an issue that is made important by the same people who enjoy watching/participating in the torture/suffering of both sides for what touching someone?

Simon King

With the lack of State regulation power enforcing supervision of these ‘private small homeschooling groups’ is spotty at best. The problem still remains, what’s to prevent an abusive parent from keeping kids in a bad homeschooling situation? If they really are required to submit an ‘R4′, who is the one that is actually doing the submitting? It’s certainly not the kid (although, it probably should be!). What about truancy laws? These laws are so hard to enforce that many groups just ‘live off the grid’. Who really cares about the R4 anyhow, Garrido had so many strings attached to his mother that he could make her dance anyway he wanted…”R4 regulations? no problem I’m sure good o’ Mom will sign…”

It’s all a very gray area. What exactly, does ‘less than six students’ really mean? When I grew up my parents home schooled me, but we met regularly with other parents that independently home schooled their own kids. Often times we would go on trips to places like a science museum. Instead of all the parents going sometimes they took turns watching the kids. Is this against State law? What if we went on a Saturday during non-school hours? What’s to prevent a rotating supervising group like this from forming? It’s all fine and dandy until some boogyman parent, like Garrido, starts supervising the group and eventually totally destroys a child’s life…

Sheryl

Apparently the author of this article did not bother to do any research on home schooling children in California.
Is this supposed to be an opinion piece or a straight news article?

Julia @ The Frugal Find

The misinformation here is that the state of CA DID NOT know he was home schooling and the state DID NOT know there were children in that home. Yes he got a business license, but that was not state issued. The fact is that when you home school your children you are required each year to register with the state by filing an R4 Affidavit. You are required to let the state know how many children are in the home and what ages. You’re also required to keep health records, attendance, etc. Had he done that I am convinced that this situation would have been discovered much sooner. This isn’t the typical home schooling family. You can’t compare apples to oranges.

Pam Scott

California state law already prevents convicted sex offenders from owning, operating, or being employed by private schools. When a private school files the annual private school statement, the school acknowledges that it is in compliance with Ed Code 44237, which requires background checks on all private school staff (except parents working with their own children) and specifically prohibits anyone with a sex offender history having any position at all at the private school. Business licenses, like the one shown in the article, are neither required nor have any legal effect on whether a private school is legitimate. The reason Mr. Garrido’s school wouldn’t have shown up on a CDE list for the school year in question is probably due to the fact that his school would have had less than six students. The CDE is not required to include small private schools (those with five or fewer students) on the database that is available to the public.

If Mr. Garrido was “homeschooling” the children through having established his own private school, it would be an illegal school, solely because of his background. Anyone investigating the children for truancy would discover this, and the children would not be considered exempt from public school attendance. Whether other children were enrolled in his school depended solely on the parents of those prospective students. It’s the parent’s responsibility to verify the qualifications of any person who runs a private school that the parent is considering for his/her child. If a parent is suspicious, then the local school district can be contacted, who would, in turn, investigate the private school and discover (in this case) that the person operating the private school is a convicted sex offender.

As anyone can see from a quick study of the law, California already has all the necessary legal safeguards, while at the same time protecting each parent’s right to freely choose his child’s educational environment.

JP

I’m not trying to condemn all home schools. I was home schooled until sixth grade! I just think that there is something wrong with a convicted child molester who can “home school” his/her children. In that small of an environment what’s to stop an abusive relationship to form? At least in most public and private schools there is accountability for actions because of all the peer witnesses. I think the Jaycee case presents a perfect example of how in some instances an authority figure can completely control/brainwash a subordinate.

I wonder how many home school kids are afraid to speak out about an abusive situation because they fear repercussions from a parent/authority figure. It has already been reported that horrible things were done to Jaycee, but still she stayed for over 18 years…

LI_Mom

I fully agree with the author here. Nobody’s “rights” are being jeopardized if society takes precautions to insure that ABUSIVE PARENTS are not allowed to keep their children from having contact with the outside world.

What more could a pedophile or abuser wish for than to never have to worry that a doctor, a neighbor or a teacher notice signs of abuse in their victim?

It’s not at all intrusive to insure that children who are homeschooled are indeed SAFE and that they are actually getting an adequate education. The mere fact that some parents are unhappy with the public school system does NOT automatically mean they are qualified to TEACH.

Lets get real

From Darkness 2 Light’s web site:

* 1 in 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 18.
* 1 in 6 boys is sexually abused before the age of 18.
* The median age for reported abuse is 9 years old.
* More than 20% of children are sexually abused before the age of 8.
* Nearly 50% of all victims of forcible sodomy, sexual assault with a object, and forcible fondling are children under 12.
* An average serial child molester may have as many as 400 victims in his lifetime.

These statistics show an epidemic.

Every year in America an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing, more than 2,000 children each day. Of that number, 200,000 are abducted by family members, and 58,000 are abducted by non-family members. The primary motive for non-family abductions is sexual. Each year 115 children are the victims of the most serious abductions, taken by non-family members and either murdered, held for ransom, or taken with the intent to keep.

Lois

Everything that human beings do can be undermined.
Public school teachers have occasionally been known to molest their students.
Occasionally, we will find that private or home schooled children will be the victims of sexual abuse from those who should protect them. This is not a reason to blindly state that (for instance) a person who was half of a Romeo/Juliet case should not be able to home school their children.
Indeed, the number of things that can now cause you to be placed on the sex offender registry is growing. Sexting is causing teens across the country to be placed on the sex offender registries with truly violent offenders.
False accusations are occasionally uncovered before the damage is done, as was the case in the Duke University accusations and the more recent ones in NY state. However, surely there are others out there who have been falsely accused, yet can not prove it. Why would you want to subject the children of these people to the bullying and other horrors that go on in the public schools to children whose parents are on the sex offender registry?
And it won’t stop with this group, either. As there are now more registries, soon there will be rules saying that those convicted of other crimes can’t home school.
DUI parents, for instance, should not be allowed to home school. After all, if they had to get their kids to the hospital, they could be a danger to the kids and other drivers…
Just a sample folks. Remember, the rules you set for one group of folks will sooner or later be imposed on other groups.

ohmygod

The writer of this article definitely needs to wake up and smell the roses.
Why on earth would you want to punish the rest of the world for what ONE PERSON DOES.

This guy is one person, just one! How on earth can you write such an inflamitory article like this trying to get a knee-jerk response?

People like you are the exact reason we have so many ineffective and abusive laws in this nation.

I would strongly advise you, the writer of this article to GET A GRIP.

Do you even know what effect on millions of lives implementing what you are saying should be done would have???

Why on earth would you want to force parents to have to let their children be brain washed by the public schools? Then, the parents, under current laws, would not even be allowed to go to their children’s own school activities as once a person is labeled a sex offender for what ever reason, they are not allowed to attend sporting events with their children.
Also, those families who have a person who is labeled sex offender in the family, are most likely homeless and jobless any ways.

Yeah, that is what we need, more laws… more government, more laws…
I am sure you voted for and support Obama.

You now have a guy, Mark Foley, do you know the name. Mark foley, State Representative for Florida… got caught in sexual situations with little boys, aides under him in office… he now lives in California and has his own radio station! What you going to do, get a new law all Politicians who molest little boys who work for them cannot have a radio station?

Taking this ONE case, and sensationalizing it and making laws which punish millions for the crime of one is, ? OMG, So ignorant I cannot even hardly speak.

All this said with due respect… just, please get a grip.. before you go off spouting, MORE LAWS, MORE LAWS, Take away more freedoms fom Americans. Please.

…In Monopoly’s Google City Street View game. The Quincy Cove’s very own Davis Freeberg has purchased the now famous Antioch residence this last week for a cool $1.2 million dollars of Monopoly Street View money. Although, Davis only purchased the residence in a online game website, the real value of the property is now estimated to be between $700,000 and $1,200,000

In determining a price tag for this home we have to take into consideration several factors. First off, what have other famous criminal homes sold for? Analyzing these other ‘comparable’ properties will give us an estimate to what the Garrido residence is now worth.

For example, Al Capone’s famous Wisconsin hideout was recently listed by a foreclosure bank with starting bids set at $2.6 million. Capone’s place boasts of over 400 acres (something that Garrido’s residence can’t really compare to), however Garrido’s residence is located in a part of the Bay Area where home prices are known to be very high. If location is truly the most important feature of buying real estate than a San Francisco area home is prime property.

Bernard Madoff’s Montauk home is estimated to be worth over $3 million. “The Montauk home is right on the ocean, 120 miles east of Manhattan…The home is estimated to be worth $3 million dollars. The Corcoran Group Real Estate has listed the home for $8.75 million dollars.” (celebforeclosures.com)

Although, Michael Jackson is not ‘technically’ a criminal his house is estimated to be worth at the very least $120 million. “On November 11, 2008, Michael Jackson transferred title of Neverland Ranch to the Sycamore Valley Ranch Company LLC, in which Jackson held an unknown stake….According to the Santa Barbara County Assessor’s Office, Jackson sold an unknown portion of his property rights for $35 million. Neverland may be worth as much as $120 million.” (www.pajamadeen.com)

Based purely on local home comparables, without regard to the Garrido’s ‘celebrity factor’, the home is worth around $200,000. Now if we were to calculate a ‘celebrity factor’ based upon what the ratio of Madoff’s estimated home value to list ratio is; Garrido’s residence is worth between $700,000 and $1,200,000.

Although, Contra Costa County has the power to take the home by means of eminent domain and give the sales proceeds to the Jaycee Dugard Trust, this is just an invitation for disaster. The type of investor that would pay anything above fair market value is the type of person that Antioch is trying to keep out of the area. The house will likely end up being de-constructed for evidence with the land being sold off for redevelopment.

Although, when the property is eventually resold the sales price will likely be above fair market value based purely upon the parcel’s now famous history.

Of course Jaycee Dugard, her children, and possibly her parents now have the ability to sue Garrido with a civil action lawsuit; seeking monetary damage rewards (i.e. force the sale of his former residence to the highest bidder). If Jaycee was able to obtain $1.2 million from the sale of the property that would at least be a starting point for the road forward.

Terry Collins with AP wrote, “The property where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years became the site of an archaeological-style dig Friday as authorities revealed the discovery of another bone and a soil “anomaly” that could indicate something lies buried in an area where cadaver dogs earlier picked up a scent.

Police from the cities of Dublin and Hayward have been searching the land to see if Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple charged with kidnapping Dugard in 1991, can be tied to two other Northern California child abductions from the late 1980s.”

“It could be a lot of different things. It could be significant, and it could not be significant, but it’s helping us target where we might do some digging,” said Hayward Police Lt. Chris Orrey.

Orrey said Dugard, who was snatched outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, has not supplied any information to indicate the Garridos were involved in the 1988 kidnapping of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht outside a Hayward market and the 1989 disappearance of 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff in Dublin.

“She’s not saying anything that helps us solve our case,” Orrey said. Hayward and Dublin authorities have not directly interviewed Dugard, but have asked other law enforcement agencies involved in her case to ask questions for them, she said.” (Breaking News)

There is no indication yet that the bones found are connected to another kidnapping or the death of area prostitutes. Still, likely human bones being discovered at the Garrido’s house raises some very serious questions about the accused pedophiles past.

“Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded innocent to the 29 charges stemming from their alleged kidnap of Dugard in 1991, when she was just 11. They are alleged to have kept her hidden for 18 years, and forced her to bear Garrido two daughters. Dugard and the girls, aged 11 and 15, have been reunited with their family at a secret location.

Police launched the new search Wednesday, saying they were looking for evidence linking Garrido, a convicted sex offender, to two other kidnappings of young girls that happened in the years before Dugard was snatched.” (DPA)

Police just announced last week that they had found bones that have now be identified as human

Since the news about Jaycee’s miraculous recovery broke, Antioch has been at the center of a media firestorm. While many are quick to blame the authorities for Phillip Garrido’s despicable actions, it hardly seems fair to blame the police and local politicians for the sickness that Garrido brought into our community.

Nonetheless, journalists have blamed everyone from the Antioch PD to Garrido’s neighbors. Of all the articles I’ve seen though, the LA Times has managed to inflict the most damage on Antioch’s reputation by pointing out that over 100 registered sex offenders live in the 94509 area code. In the article, they talk a bit about the cheap rents attracting those out of prison, but clearly there is something about Antioch that seems to have attracted an undesirable element. While I believe that people should be given second chances in life, when it comes to sexual predators, I have much less sympathy. By making our community hospitable to this form of pond scum, we’re placing the lives of our children at risk and hurting neighborhood property values in the process.

With the national media attention, Antioch will need to spend years of education to erase the biases that outsiders have about our community. Given the seriousness of this issue, it was good to see Mayor Davis come out and defend how the city of Antioch has handled this.

While Garrido did live less than a stone’s throw from city limits, his home was actually in an unincorporated part of town. What this means is that instead of having our fine police force patrol the area, the county sheriff was responsible for policing Garrido’s neighborhood.

This loophole helped him to avoid city laws designed to discourage predators from moving to the city, as well as the supervision that would have occurred had the Antioch PD been in charge. While I don’t find any blame with the Sheriff’s department for overlooking such a well hidden dungeon, I do think that it’s crucial for Antioch to try and get ahead of this story and to restore the faith that residents and outsiders have in the safety of our town.

Because of these concerns, I was pleased to see Mayor Davis address this particular black hole in our community and express a desire to annex it into Antioch, so that the city can keep closer tabs on our neighbors that are currently outside of city limits. From the LA Times article,

“Mayor Jim Davis acknowledged the economic pressures his city has faced. But he was quick to note that Garrido’s neighborhood is not part of Antioch proper, although the city would like to annex it and “be able to get out there and police it properly.”

“There’s a lot of building out there violating code,” he said. “If the city were out there, all the sheds and tents out there would not have been tolerated. . . . There are lower-priced rents out there. It allows those who are on probation and can’t find good employment to congregate.”

My first thought when I read Davis’ quote was that another politician was trying to cash in on national media attention, but the more I thought about what he was saying, the more I was convinced that Davis’ desire to annex Garrido’s unincorporated neighborhood into our own, was the right thing to do.

This move would make sense on several levels. First and perhaps most importantly, it would help to bring a lawless area under control. Instead of relying on lax building permits and liberal county rules, residents would need to respect the standards that we have in our community. Secondly, this move would send a strong signal to the world that Antioch won’t put up with sexual predators in our neighborhood and while it’s unfortunate that Garrido managed to find a loophole in our city lines, we won’t allow it to happen again. By taking strong action to respond to this terrible tragedy, Davis has an opportunity to communicate to the world that Antioch is not a sex offender hub.

In addition to Davis’ desire to annex the city, I’d also like to see Antioch put new rules into place that would make it more difficult for these people to move into our neighborhoods. Whether that means increasing the distance that they must live from schools, churches or day care centers or it means extra paperwork and check-in procedures for the predators who choose to relocate here, something should be done to send a strong signal that sex offenders aren’t welcome here.

With the housing meltdown already having given Antioch’s reputation a black eye, I would hate to see the actions of one despicable individual hurt the city more than it already has. Even if new rules didn’t result in less offenders living in the area, by taking a strong and public stance against these scumbags, Antioch might be able to recapture some of the respect that was lost by this unfortunate event.

While Davis’ remarks and desire to annex more land for the city could be interpreted as a power grab, it’s the right move for him to be making. Hopefully, once the media frenzy has passed, Davis’ soundbite will turn out to have teeth in it and Antioch can once again be known for the loving community that we are, instead of having 100 convicted sex offenders tarnish our reputation.

Phillip Garrido is still being investigated for the death of 10 prostitutes near where he worked during the 1990s. New evidence could lead investigators in establishing a link between this child kidnapper and the death of 10 area prostitutes.

“Cadaver dogs turned up a small bone fragment on the property next to the Antioch home where Phillip Garrido is accused of cloistering kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard for 18 years. And Garrido’s shadowy past grew even more disturbing Monday as his first wife and a woman he was convicted of raping in 1976 talked publicly for the first time about vicious attacks.” (Linda Goldston and Paul Burgarino Bay Area News Group)

“Detectives have been searching 58-year-old Phillip Garrido’s property and the garden next door, where he used to be caretaker, for possible links to the other unsolved sex crimes, including the murder of prostitutes. Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, said that it would be several weeks before tests showed whether the fragment was human or animal.” (Jenny Booth Times online)

“The search ended about 6 p.m. Monday at Walnut Avenue on unincorporated land outside Antioch. It included the Garridos’ property and its shabby compound of outbuildings and tents, where Phillip Garrido, 58, allegedly held Dugard, now 29, and the two daughters authorities say she had by him. It also included a neighboring property where, police said, Garrido once lived in a shed.” (Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer)

“Garrido himself testified during the unrelated rape and kidnapping case decades ago that he often prowled through neighborhoods as a Peeping Tom and suffered from strong rape desires.

The disturbing new details of the life of the admitted sexual predator comes from trial transcripts and other court documents — including psychiatric reports — produced in a Reno federal courtroom in 1976 and 1977 and made public Monday. ” (CBS 5)

If the bone fragment matches one of the dead prostitutes murder charges could be added to the long list of Garrido’s felony charges. The Grove had mentioned before that it’s a strange coincident that Garrido used several non-existent landscaping references in his spiritual manifesto and that one of the previous pittsburg murders happened at a landscaping business.

New Pictures of The Garrido Compound where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years emerge

The above picture is a tent in the Garrido’s backyard where Jaycee was held (News of the World)

Full Story can be found here on th Quincy Cove

The Quincy Cove is wondering if there is a link between Garrido and the death of 10 area prostitutes. Police are investigating the possible connection. One detail that might help support the connection is that fact that one of the Pittsburg murdered girls was buried at a landscaping business. In Garrido’s spiritual manifesto which he turned into the FBI, several incidents in the manuscript refer to non-existent local area landscaping businesses.

Phillip Garrido’s Spiritual Manifesto can be found here: Quincy News — Phillip Garrido Manifesto

Connection may exist between Garrido and the slaying of area prostitutes

“Bodies of four women, some of whom were known prostitutes, were found beaten, strangled or stabbed in 1998 and 1999 in industrial areas near the Pittsburg waterfront. Three known prostitutes were also killed in Pittsburg and Bay Point in the early 1990s.

Also, on Nov. 14 1998, Lisa Norrell, 15, was discovered buried under cardboard and rubble at a landscaping business on Pittsburg-Antioch Highway. Norrell, who was asphyxiated, had disappeared on her way home from a quinceanera party in Antioch a week earlier. (Hilary Costa – Mercury News)

New Photos Released

Recently released photos of the backyard where the kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard was held for 18 years before escaping. (NPR)

Why Phillip Garrido Escaped Capture for 18 years

Phillip may have picked his residence to avoid being on police radar. He set up his backyard prison in unincorporated part of Antioch; outside city police patrol. (Quincy Grove)

News about the Garrido’s arraignment

No bail

“Superior Court Judge Doug Phimister ordered the couple held without bail.

They are accused of kidnapping Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, when she was 11, and taking her to their property outside Antioch. There, authorities say, she was kept in a secret, ramshackle compound in the backyard and forced to have sex with Phillip Garrido. She gave birth to two of Garrido’s daughters, now 15 and 11, authorities say.

Dugard, now 29, and her daughters are in a motel in the Antioch area. Her reunion with her parents has gone well, according to statements made by her stepfather, Carl Probyn.” (SF GATE)

More About the Murdered Prostitutes

Officers searched Garrido’s Antioch California compound for clues in the killings of about 10 prostitutes in the Pittsburg California area, according to Capt. Dan Terry of the Contra Costa County sheriff’s office.

Pittsburg is a small town about six miles west of Antioch, some 40 miles northeast of San Francisco.Terry said some of the women’s bodies were found in 1998 and 1999 in an industrial area close to where Garrido worked at the time.

Three victims were found strangled, stabbed and dumped in ditches over a two-month period: Rachael Cruise, 32, Jessica Frederick, 24, and Valerie Schultz, 27. A month earlier, in November 1998, the body of 15-year-old Lisa Norrell, who clearly was not a prostitute, was found in the same area.” (EXAMINER)

Outraged Citizens Comment on Phillip Garrido’s Blog

“During the month of July 2009 JM’s Enterprises, 1215 Willow Pass Road * Pittsburg CA,(925) 439-8118 was the host to a powerful demonstration, the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.” (Phillip Garrido – Voices Revealed)

“For years, neighbors knew something was off about Phillip Garrido, the registered sex offender now accused of abducting an 11-year-old girl and holding her for 18 years, much of the time in an overgrown backyard filled with sheds and tents. One neighbor even called 911, worried about children living in the yard.” (LA TIMES)

Authorities may have had several chances to catch Phillip Garrido, who had imprisoned Jaycee Lee Dugard for the past 18 years. However, suspicion that Phillip Garrido was holding Jaycee Lee Dugard hostage just wasn’t great enough to elicit more intensive investigations. Garrido’s residence was located outside the patrol area of local authorities. The authorities should definitely not be blamed for missing a few ‘chances’ to rescue Jaycee Dugard. The local departments have highly trained officers who were just confronted with a very unusual case. Phillip Garrido had anticipated potential investigations and had taken preemptive ‘sneaky concealing tactics’ to fool police. Not only did Garrido fool authorities, but he fooled his neighbors too.

Yes, one neighbor did call authorities concerned that “children were living in the backyard”, but did not press the issue any further. There was just no way to know that these children where actually being held captive by a sexual monster.

“In addition to parole officers’ regular visits, Rupf said law enforcement officials went to the home on several occasions but never searched the backyard where Dugard lived. In 2006, a neighbor called 911 to report that people were living in the yard and said Phillip Garrido was “psychotic and had a sexual addiction,” Rupf said. But the deputy never entered the house.

Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf expressed dismay that a deputy had visited the squalid home after a neighbor’s ominous 911 call three years ago and found no evidence of the crimes. No one knows that we could have found Jaycee or the other children on that day in 2006, and I cannot change the course of events,” Rupf told reporters in a televised mea culpa. “But we are beating ourselves up over this and will continue to do so.” (LA TIMES)

“Rupf added, “I offer my apologies to the victims and accept responsibility for having missed a chance to rescue Jaycee.” Rupf outlined a deputy’s 2006 visit to the Walnut Avenue home of Phillip Craig Garrido. A caller had reported suspicious circumstances involving young children in the home’s back yard, and said Garrido was psychotic and had a sex addiction. Rupf said the deputies who responded to the call spoke with Garrido in front of the home but did not find any cause to search the home. The deputy, Rupf said, apparently had no knowledge that Garrido was a sex offender.” (Robert Salonga from Mercury News)

Even when searches were conducted of Garrido’s residence no one could have known there was another back lot on the property. Garrido had taken precautions to seal off the back portion of his lot. The main house itself had a total living space of 1457 square feet. There were 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a covered garage that blocked views from the street of the backyard. The total lot size was 22,680 sq ft. so it’s easy to see how a separate subdivision could exist.

“Mr. Garrido was under federal parole supervision when he allegedly kidnapped Ms. Dugard, according to a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety. Mr. Hinkle, the California corrections department spokesman, said Mr. Garrido was transferred to the custody of California’s parole system in 1999.

Since then, state parole agents went to his home two or three times each month, sometimes unannounced, Mr. Hinkle said, and met with him at other locations. Mr. Garrido was “under pretty strict supervision,” he said.

“If everything seemed to be in order, [parole officers] take a quick look around and move on,” he said. “It’s not like you’re going into a search situation where you’re going to be throwing up mattresses and tearing up the refrigerator.”

The parole and probation systems — designed to keep close track of offenders — have limitations, said Richard Wood, a former federal probation officer.” (Wall Street Journal)

*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)

*Update Friday August 28, 7:00am*

Full KCRA Audio Interview with Phillip Garrido on Dugard case

Transcripts of the audio file can be found here (Telegraph)

*Update Friday August 28, 11:00am*

Missing Antioch Girl Jaycee Lee Dugard was found after being abducted 18 years ago from the Tahoe area. This is such a tragic event that all of the Antioch Grove staff are going to be pulled from other projects in order to provide comprehensive news coverage.

“Jaycee Dugard walked into the office of the Concord, Calif., Police Department on Wednesday, about 200 miles from where she was abducted, said Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. (LA TIMES) After interviews and DNA tests it is thought that Ms Dugard’s story has been confirmed, bringing an extraordinary end to a missing person case that in 1991 attracted the same kind of media frenzy that the disappearance of Madeleine McCann generated more than two years ago. (Times Online)”

(1554 Walnut Ave Antioch, CA 94509 – The site where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive for 18 years)

An Antioch couple was arrested for this horrible crime, “El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said today that woman was Nancy Garrido, 55, who was arrested Wednesday along with her husband, Phillip Craig Garrido, 58. The couple live in a home on Walnut Avenue in an unincorporated pocket of Antioch. (Local Wire) Philip Garrido, 58, a convicted rapist and the suspected father of her children, and his wife, Nancy, 55, are being held by police on suspicion of kidnapping to commit rape. Bail has been set at $1 million.”

Sheriff and Police video can be seen here – Video Feed

“According to a Web site called Voices Revealed, Garrido believed that God had given him “the ability to speak in the tongue of angles in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.”

The site includes what he said are affidavits of people who were allegedly interview by a private investigator and signed a declaration that they witnessed Garrido demonstrate his ability to control “a voice or set of voices that are unearthly in nature.”
More about the strange religion the Garrido’s founded – RGJ

In 2008, Garrido was suspected of bilking an elderly neighbor out of his life savings. A complaint was lodged on the man’s behalf when he moved to Friendship Residential Care in Antioch, Aguinaga said. The elder care home relayed allegations that from late 2007 to March 2008, Garrido swindled Dilbert “Jack” Medieros, now 79, of nearly $18,000. In the end, prosecutors cited insufficient evidence in declining to file charges this past April. Garrido explained to police that Medieros had given him money to help start a church. He also told investigators that he had known Medieros for years and took him places such as the zoo.

“He said Jack never wanted him to pay him back,” Aguinaga said. “He said he did not ask for the money. Jack gave it to him anyway.” – SF GATE

Other missing girls that have been ‘brought back from the dead’ -Times Online

Additional News Coverage
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KCRA Interviews the original Detective in the case

KCRA Interview with Phillip Garrido

BBC Coverage of the story

SFGate has more background on Phillip Garrido in an interview with his brother,

“The brothers grew up in Brentwood with their parents, Manuel and Pat Garrido. Their childhood was relatively unremarkable, he said, until Phillip Garrido began acting out, using LSD and dealing drugs. Phillip Garrido graduated from Liberty High School in 1969. When he was about 20, he fled to Reno after learning that fellow drug dealers “had a contract out on him”

America’s Most Wanted gets to cross another case off their list,

“The series of sheds and tents had electricity that was powered by extension cords that ran from the house. Furthermore, police say that there was a makeshift outhouse and shower. One of the sheds was soundproof.”

BBC News gives a detailed time line of the dugard case

“August 1988: Phillip Garrido was released from prison on lifetime parole after being given a 50-year sentence for the sexual assault of a woman in Nevada in 1976.” Time line of the event: BBC NEWS

Jaycee Lee Dugard, has said she “feels guilty” for bonding with her alleged kidnapper.

“Carl Probyn, the stepfather of abducted girl Jaycee Lee Dugard, has said she “feels guilty” for bonding with her alleged kidnapper. Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, are being held in custody in California.” – BBC NEWS

Family makes plans for future and copes with the present situation

“Dugard’s mother Terry Probyn rushed from her home in southern California after she was told that her missing child had finally been found. According to Dugard’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, she was struck by how little her daughter, now aged 29, had changed. “She looks very young, she looks very healthy. She told me that [she] feels really guilty for bonding with this guy. She has a real guilt trip,” Probyn said.” — More on the abuse, and family plans on rebuilding (Guardian)

Explanation on why Jaycee feels remorse for abductors

“Jaycee Lee Dugard may have succumbed to “Stockholm Syndrome” as a way of surviving her ordeal, which could explain why she failed to break free for nearly two decades….” (Telegraph)

*Update Friday August 28th, 12:00pm”

Lack of criminal defense for the accused

“There may be some valid legal defense for the man and woman who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago. But the argument that the statute of limitations has run out on any prosecution won’t be one of them. ” (CBS NEWS)