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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office identified at least two new South Shore victims of Phillip Garrido Tuesday.
A map showing the location and dates of Garrido victims “known to law enforcement prior to the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard,” is part of a collection of videos and documents released by the District Attorney Tuesday.
The map identifies five incidents connected to Garrido, including four at the South Shore.
The first victim on the map is listed as a rape and kidnap in Antioch, Calif. on April 14, 1972.
Garrido was accused of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl in an Antioch motel in April 1972, but charges were dropped when the girl refused to testify, according to an article by the Associated Press.
Victim two is listed as a rape and kidnap on June 6, 1976 near the intersection of Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail near Stateline.
Victim three is listed as an attempted rape and kidnap at the site of the former Crescent V shopping center on Nov. 22, 1976.
Victim four is a rape and kidnap on the same day in the Harrison Avenue area.
Garrido served 11 years for the rape and kidnap of Katherine Callaway, who he abducted on Nov. 22, 1976 from in front of a South Lake Tahoe supermarket after asking her for a ride, according to a CNN article. Garrido then drove Callaway to Reno, where she was bound and raped in a storage unit.
Victim five is Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Garrido pleaded guilty to raping, kidnapping and holding Dugard captive for 18 years in June. He has been sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. His wife, Nancy Garrido, has been sentenced to 36 years to life after also pleading guilty to kidnapping and rape of Dugard.
El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson was not immediately available for comment and additional details of the previously unreported incidents were not available Tuesday evening.
The documents were released following numerous public records requests from media outlets, according to a Tuesday statement from the District Attorney's Office.
The information includes videos of parole searches of Garrido's home, Garrido's activity videotaping children in public and various documents related to Garrido's conviction and parole.
According to the statement, “It is hoped that these details begin to shed some light on several lingering unanswered questions, such as: How did Phillip Garrido get paroled from a 50-year Federal sentence and a five-to-life Nevada sentence after only 11 years? How did Phillip Garrido, a repeated kidnapper and rapist, with a history of kidnapping and raping in Lake Tahoe, who was on Federal parole, and was registered sex offender, avoid becoming a suspect in the disappearance of Jaycee in 1991? How did Phillip Garrido keep Jaycee hidden for 18 years while on Federal and State Parole?”
All of the information released will be discussed at an Aug. 3 public meeting in Sacramento with Pierson, California Sen. Ted Gaines, various law enforcement leaders and victims' rights organizations “as they seek to explore deficiencies in state law and identify potential legislative solutions to prevent these kinds of tragedies from ever occurring again,” according to the statement.
A map showing the location and dates of Garrido victims “known to law enforcement prior to the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard,” is part of a collection of videos and documents released by the District Attorney Tuesday.
The map identifies five incidents connected to Garrido, including four at the South Shore.
The first victim on the map is listed as a rape and kidnap in Antioch, Calif. on April 14, 1972.
Garrido was accused of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl in an Antioch motel in April 1972, but charges were dropped when the girl refused to testify, according to an article by the Associated Press.
Victim two is listed as a rape and kidnap on June 6, 1976 near the intersection of Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail near Stateline.
Victim three is listed as an attempted rape and kidnap at the site of the former Crescent V shopping center on Nov. 22, 1976.
Victim four is a rape and kidnap on the same day in the Harrison Avenue area.
Garrido served 11 years for the rape and kidnap of Katherine Callaway, who he abducted on Nov. 22, 1976 from in front of a South Lake Tahoe supermarket after asking her for a ride, according to a CNN article. Garrido then drove Callaway to Reno, where she was bound and raped in a storage unit.
Victim five is Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Garrido pleaded guilty to raping, kidnapping and holding Dugard captive for 18 years in June. He has been sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. His wife, Nancy Garrido, has been sentenced to 36 years to life after also pleading guilty to kidnapping and rape of Dugard.
El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson was not immediately available for comment and additional details of the previously unreported incidents were not available Tuesday evening.
The documents were released following numerous public records requests from media outlets, according to a Tuesday statement from the District Attorney's Office.
The information includes videos of parole searches of Garrido's home, Garrido's activity videotaping children in public and various documents related to Garrido's conviction and parole.
According to the statement, “It is hoped that these details begin to shed some light on several lingering unanswered questions, such as: How did Phillip Garrido get paroled from a 50-year Federal sentence and a five-to-life Nevada sentence after only 11 years? How did Phillip Garrido, a repeated kidnapper and rapist, with a history of kidnapping and raping in Lake Tahoe, who was on Federal parole, and was registered sex offender, avoid becoming a suspect in the disappearance of Jaycee in 1991? How did Phillip Garrido keep Jaycee hidden for 18 years while on Federal and State Parole?”
All of the information released will be discussed at an Aug. 3 public meeting in Sacramento with Pierson, California Sen. Ted Gaines, various law enforcement leaders and victims' rights organizations “as they seek to explore deficiencies in state law and identify potential legislative solutions to prevent these kinds of tragedies from ever occurring again,” according to the statement.
