Searching continued today, though with fewer law enforcement officers, at the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, where police say kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and her two young daughters lived for years in hidden backyard squalor.The Garridos are now jailed on suspicion of kidnapping and a host of other rape and abuse charges.
This morning a chain-link fence had been erected at the Garrido's front property line and police had nailed boards over the single-story home's windows to prevent trespassing.
Dozens of media crews remained camped out on rural Walnut Avenue, where they had been since Thursday.
On Sunday police had extended their search to a next door neighbor's yard as they looked for evidence linking the Garridos to a number of unsolved homicides. Neighbors had told police that Phillip Garrido served as a caretaker at one point in the once-vacant home next to his.
The Sunday search for evidence involved more than 20 law enfo
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CONCORD — Lt. Jim Lardieri sat at his desk last week waiting to hear from two of his officers who were helping parole agents interrogate two girls and a woman who had accompanied a sex offender to a nearby parole office.
Several detectives came by his desk, saying they also were on their way to the parole office. They had been told that the woman might have been kidnapped nearly two decades ago. Details were sketchy, they said.
Lardieri decided to log on to the Web site for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to see what he could find about missing children that fit into that time line.
He had just found the page for a girl named Jaycee Dugard, who was 11 on June 10, 1991, when she was kidnapped by a couple near her South Lake Tahoe neighborhood.
Suddenly his phone beeped. It was a message from his sergeant at the parole office.
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Jaycee Dugard Photos:This is an Info101 article on the California kidnapping law that applies in the Jaycee Dugard abduction by Phillip Garrido. California Code 207-210 defines the actions which constitute kidnapping and the range of punishment for each kidnapping crime.
California Penal Code 207-210
207. (a) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping.
(b) Every person, who for the purpose of committing any act defined in Section 288, hires, persuades, entices, decoys, or seduces by false promises, misrepresentations, or the like, any child under the age of 14 years to go out of this country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping.
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