Kidnap suspect's home searched for murder evidence

The Washington Times ^ | August 28, 2009 | Terry Collins

[Clintonfatigued]

The twisted kidnapping case of a woman held captive for 18 years in a secluded backyard compound took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of her alleged captor for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes and new evidence surfaced of missed opportunities to arrest him years ago.

Officers executed a search warrant at Phillip Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings, Contra Costa sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry said.

Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido, a sex offender, worked during the 1990s.

[colorado tanker]

Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said a neighbor reported three years ago there were people living in tents in a backyard encampment at the home of Garrido. The deputy who interviewed Garrido in November 2006 gave him a warning that people living outdoors was a code violation. The deputy did not go into the backyard of the house located in an unincorporated area of Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco, Rupf said.

Unbelievable.

[The KG9 Kid]

The suspect's property is going to look like a meteor from space dug a thirty foot deep crater on it when the bulldozers and backhoes are through.

[Filo]

Unbelievable.

I'm not sure why that's unbelievable. The typical CA cop can't find his ass with both hands.

[colorado tanker]

This case just keeps getting worse. And he was living with his wife and mother. I understand the mother is senile but how could the wife not know what her psycho husband was doing???

[UCANSEE2]

Alfred Hitchcock is probably (dead, yes, but) ‘spiritually’ noticing that life often imitates art.

[Clintonfatigued]

It is unbelieveable. This could have been a few years ago.

[Ramius]

but how could the wife not know what her psycho husband was doing???

Seems from what I've been reading that not only did she know, she was helping him. She was a participant. This whole story is just seriously messed up.

[Political Junkie Too]

I hate to even think this, but if they suspect this guy of murder, I wonder if he had anything to do with the disappearance of Dublin teenager Ilene Misheloff. She was kidnapped while walking home from school in 1989. Dublin is just over the southern Contra Costa county line in Alameda county. Garrido lives in the northeastern part of Contra Costa county. Misheloff's middle school was no more than a mile from the county line.

Could it be that this guy abducted her, killed her (accidentally or intentionally) at some point, and then needed another girl and ended up kidnapping Dugard a few years later?

-PJ

[colorado tanker]

Sick. Just sick.

I saw somewhere they met when he was in prison. I guess she knew what she was getting into.

[The KG9 Kid]

I remember her.

Absolutely no doubt that every cold case homicide detective from every county in CA and NV have all of their manila folders out and the internet faxes are going back and forth with one another. FBI lending whatever resources are needed, I expect. Triple overtime hours for everybody.

This story isn't over by a damn sight. Welcome to CA's next high profile apalling criminal case feeding frenzy.

[Ramius]

I saw somewhere they met when he was in prison. I guess she knew what she was getting into.

Yah. But it's just baffling what gets into some people's heads.

[colorado tanker]

I have a distant relative who shacked up with a sex offender. The family are good people and are completely baffled by it.