The Disturbing Crimes Of Kidnapping Couple Phillip Craig Garrido And His Wife Nancy

Police searched the Garridos' Antioch home and adjacent yards looking for clues to other possible abductions of young girls, and while they found no evidence on the property linking Phillip Garrido to two kidnapping cases from the 1980s, they didn't rule him out as a suspect, either. In August 2011, El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, who handled the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case, released several videos shot by Nancy Garrido of young girls playing at the park and one in which they'd lured a child into their van and had her do splits for the camera (per NBC News). Nancy told investigators she'd made 10 to 20 such videos for her husband. 

Pierson also put out a report castigating parole officers for failing to properly supervise Garrido over the years. "Had the federal parole agents searched the Garrido residence, they would have found her," the report states (via NBC News). Edward Santos Jr., Garrido's state parole officer, to whom he eventually confessed about Dugard's kidnapping, later went on record about the case. "I searched the entire house and never found anybody else," he told KCRA in 2022. "I looked in the backyard and it was a typical backyard. A typical backyard that was just, it wasn't atrocious. It wasn't well kept. A lot of debris and a lot of appliances left on the lawn, overgrown shrubbery and grass. Nothing unusual about that."

If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available. Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN's National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).

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