Posted on 08/31/2009 5:20:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Late Monday, investigators say they found a bone fragment on the property next door to kidnapping and murder suspect Phillip Garrido. They had been searching the property since Saturday searching for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area.
Few details on the bone were released, but NBC Bay Area's Jodi Hernandez reported that cadaver dogs were brought to the property in the afternoon.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. They allegedly kept her captive in a backyard encampment of tents and sheds. They have pleaded not guilty. Garrido ran a printing business out of the Antioch, home.
Investigators Search Home Next Door to Garrido Property
A Glimpse Into the Jaycee Lee Dugard Mystery
Customers say the young woman whom they knew as Garrido's daughter "Allissa" designed business cards and helped with the family business. Garrido's printing business customers described Dugard as a polite and efficient aide who straightened out orders on the phone and by email.
They never suspected that "Allissa" was a South Lake Tahoe girl kidnapped in 1991 at age 11.
Carla Kirkland was a customer of Garrido's printing business and says she spent time at his home. Knowing what she does now, Kirkland says, she wishes she had paid more attention.
"It's heartbreaking to know that I was here four months ago," Kirkland says, "and knowing that something was going on at that house and in the backyard."
Kirkland said she attributed Garrido's behavior to schizophrenia, based on pamphlets he distributed.
"Just knowing the weirdness and the bizarre literature he would leave," Kirkland says, "the things he would say and singing songs. Now that I look back I think -- something was definitely wrong."
Several other business owners described Garrido as odd but said there was nothing to indicate he may also have been dangerous. Another customer, Ben Daughdrill, said he saw her twice in the last six months when he drove to the Garrido home to pick up office supplies and drop off payment. She had an opportunity to escape or seek his help when she came out alone to his car. "There was a reason she did not say anything," said Daughdrill. "The only thing is, it looked like her clothes didn't fit her very well, like they were secondhand," he said. He said that seemed to fit with Garrido's occasional comments that the family was short on money.
News of Garrido's arrest has left Daughdrill reeling, particularly because Garrido had visited his home several times and crossed paths with his children. Brentwood real estate agent Carla Kirkland did business with Garrido while working for Delta Bay Mortgage Center in Antioch, and also mentioned that he would pass out religious literature.
She said one time Garrido brought a girl with him to the office.
"He told us she was his daughter and she was learning the business," Kirkland said. The girl shadowed him as he moved around the room, she said. Kirkland stopped by Walnut Avenue today, where investigators are searching the Garridos' property and a home next door, in part for evidence that would link Phillip Garrido to a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in Pittsburg and Bay Point in the 1990s. Standing outside the Garridos' home, Kirkland began to tear up. "It's kind of hard to know that they went through that," she said of Dugard and her daughters. "Only because I felt I could have paid closer attention when the little girl was at the office."
"It's just very alarming that we missed it," she said. "We came into very close contact and we missed it." Police in Pittsburg are also investigating whether Garrido had anything to do with the murders of several prostitues in the area.
Police say it could take weeks, even months, to complete their investigation.
Both Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts in the Dugard kidnapping case on Friday.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this victim of kidnapping was made to be involved in the sick freak’s crimes to survive and that these crimes lay at the root of the guilt she feels.
Family members say she feels guilty for not escaping from him but I think it is probably more than that.
Once she had children, she wouldn’t have left without them.
Then you make the victim totally dependent on you for every normal purpose ~ eating, drinking, going to the toilet, bathing, dressing, etc.
This gradually induces a feeling of dependency backed up by a powerful feeling of depression.
It can take as little as a month ~ we call that Stockholm Syndrome. It may take 6 months to a year ~ and if it takes longer you send the victim down the line to a tougher master who might start inducing depression with torture, or by cutting off fingers or toes.
You could probably use electric shock to speed up the process
Absolutely. Once Jaycee had the first baby, she wasn’t leaving without them.
Are you talking about the Democrats?
It usually involves a touch more interpersonal contact than the Democrats are used to giving, but slavery is now and always has been the aim and ambition of that party.
“Once Jaycee had the first baby, she wasn’t leaving without them.”
You nailed it. That baby was the only thing in her small world.
Or, you could always make them pay taxes and rig the district to insure perpetual re-election of the "Massah".
Actually passionfruit nailed it and I was agreeing. Those kids were her anchor.
If she only bore him two children in about 16 or so years, then she’d be on the low end of fertility. Very low end. On the other hand, if she had baby boys, he might have disposed of them.
The more this notion gets talked up, the more defense will try to make a case of not guilty by reason of insanity.
That or maybe the prosecution will make the same bad judgment call that was made elsewhere with the Green River killer getting "life" in a plea bargain deal on all of the other charges.
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