I'm sure Tim Allen, Norma Ortiz, Irma Perez, Steve Coutrens (sp?), Tiffany Tran, and Deepal Karunaratne are just loving this. I also have to think today is the first time anyone beside the webmaster has ever logged into this site.

Good for you for preserving the blog. Things like this get taken down so quickly. Maybe it'll help someone recognize the crackpot in their life sooner rather than later.

Local TV (S Calif) was covering a news conference a few minutes ago where it was revealed that Jaycee has a couple of young children by the suspect, then the news cut away to network programming. I thought Fox or CNN would be covering this very unusual press conference but for some reason, they aren't. Thank God Jaycee is alive and apparently healthy, at least physically. It will no doubt give hope to other families.

I'm sorry to say but a bullet in the head for this sick human would be too good.

This blog is just an attempt by a sick, twisted, evil, horrendous individual who is going to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. When will this country learn that child molestation should be a capital crime punishable by life imprisonment or death? They steal a child's innocence and ruin their life. What's the difference between that and murder. I say hang him high.

Pam: I don't think Rev. Chester the Molester was trying to set up an insanity defense for himself--I think he is genuinely nuts, but in a personality-disorder sense, not a clinically acceptable one. Guys like this become delusional because it's the only way they can deal with being monsters. The fact he got caught at all was because he had finally stepped completely over the edge, to the point where he thought he was unstoppable and could talk his way out of anything. I suspect we'll find out he had recently started raping his daughters by his victim, and that is what triggered the final disconnect.

At the very least life imprisonment or death, that is waaaayyy too lenient even. Hope he gets f_____ daily in prison until he is killed. Also deserving of the SAME punishment are those who paroled him! Something must be done about a defunct criminal system that breeds and then releases these predators back into our society. How are these repeat offenders not continually watched and searched when any children go missing? But....it's always the parents first that are suspected?? Does anyone know the counnt of the cases similar to this? I know I've heard of at least 10, repeat sex offender, find kidnapped child after several long years of torture, police never searched their homes or land, why do we not seek out and find these poor helpless victims!! why are we so afraid of violating these criminals rights?? what about the rights of inocents!!what can we do as neighbors?

Check out the address (1554 Walnut Ave. Antioch CA) on Google Maps. You can zoom in via satellite to a remarkable degree. It's the yard with all the blue tarps . . . . sickening.

He's the remax agent

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=54608@kpix.dayport.com

Wow, just wow. God bless that girl and her children. I hope he rots in He!!. Those blue tarps are just freaky. If she had her first child at 14, where is that child now?? He/she would be about 15 by now, right?

KCRA has been able to interview Garrido by phone:

http://www.kcra.com/news/20591281/detail.html

According to Garrido's interview, we're going to find in this "the most powerful, heartwarming story" from all of this?

Seriously, this is absolutely disgusting and mind boggling.

Mm - wow, that interview is amazing, frightening. Thanks for posting. People's ability to twist reality is incredible.

Very weird that none of the neighbors wondered what those tents and traps where for in there back yards.

You can see the whole thing in satellite images on google maps.

Most images on google maps are over 2 years old, wounder why no one found her or the hidden yard sooner.

John & Ken of KFI 640 interviewed some of the people mentioned on the blog, including Deepal Karunaratne. Apparently Garrido had a printing business, and a lot of the work was done by Jaycee. Deepal used Garrido's printing business to print documents for his business and had many interactions with 'Allison' the 'daughter' of Phil. Apparently they did go out in public as a big old happy family. The people who signed the affidavit thought he was nutso but did it to get him off their back.

I want to know how a registered predator was able to dupe the authorities for 18 years!!! There should be an investigation and some people should lose their jobs and go to prision. How can such a sick B*****D live among people and hide these 3 girls for so long??? Why didn't the neighbors look over their fence which was apparently 6 feet high??? VERY DISTURBING!!!

Did I see somewhere that he was incarcerated at some point in 1993? And Nancy kept that poor little girl there while he was locked up? I can't find the reference now, though I've looked through quite a few stories again. Perhaps it was an error that's been corrected.

The crew on KFI after J&K, Kennedy and Suits had details that they went throufh...said the rape conviction was for 50 years, but he was paroled after 11 years or 7 (hard to hear). Then Garrido was arrested again after Jaycee had been kidnapped, like 93 maybe, and that yes his wife kept Jaycee there...and this would have been the time Jaycee was pregnant with teh first kid, like 94.

Been looking for more of a firmed up timeline on this, but there isn't too much right now - maybe in a few more days.

So so what is going on with those (transcripts) he keeps referring too?? I hope the younger ones were never touched.

Oh yeah! He turned his life around. Slept with those babies in his arms every night from the day they were born. I guess turning his life around included the second child!

I really wish Jaycee and her family the best. I hope she is a strong person, she must be to have made it this far. Imagine being 14, pregnant for the first time, no medical attention and delivering your baby without a doctor. I wonder if either one of the perverts were even there with her.
We can assume all sorts of stuff. Like maybe she was afraid if having a chance to escape, they would kill her or the children. Maybe she was kind of, shall I put it brain washed...told her parents didn't want her any more. Who knows. I feel so bad for her and her 2 children. I hope to God he didn't do anything to them.
As for the neighbors not seeing, if you look on google maps you can see that it is further out back. I have just moved to another state lived in my house for almost 6 months and don't know my neighbors. Since he appears to be a freak, who would want to pay attention to him. No one noticed the car sitting in the way back either, so why would anyone question his sheds which they thought probably contained junk.
I think in situations like this especially, the death penalty should be a consideration. People have to be stopped from hurting our children. Life in prison or what ever CA law allows is not enough. Maybe Jaycee and her girls should be asked what they would consider fair play. Of course that depends on their mental situation through all this...God only knows what issues that has caused.

I HOPE THIS VERY STRANGE SITUATION IS INVESTIGATED THOROUGHLY AND THESE PEOPLE ARE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PER THE LAW AND SET A PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS,CLEARLY SOMETHING WAS AMISS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AND I'M SURE THEY DID DO EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO FIND THIS YOUNG WOMAN. THANK GOODNESS THE POLICE OFFICER AT UC BERKLEY WENT WITH HER INSTINCTS AND PURSUED THIS FURTHER AND NOW THIS YOUNG WOMAN AND HER FAMILY CAN BEGIN TO HEAL FROM THIS ORDEAL.

Why wouldn't the parole officer "keeping track" of any of these sex offenders look at Google Earth for a shot of their residence before they check in with them at home? How many of these predators have kept people locked up in a shed in the backyard or something similar.
Check out his residence for yourself on Google Earth at 1554 Walnut Ave. Antioch Ca. 94509
Wouldn't you be suspicious of a registered sex offender that had a bunch of shelters in a concealed area of his backyard?

To be fair, I suspect Garrido's PO has several dozen, if not a 100+, other clients on his lists. When they do home checks they're looking for either signs of 1) drug use, 2) alcohol use, 3) firearms, 4) fraternization with other felons & 5) child pornography & other contraband. That's it. That's the only things that can (usually) get you thrown back in the pokey. And looking at the Google map, it's hard to tell if those tents/tarps are part of his property or that of the neighbors on either side. Just because Google Earth says it's part of 1554 doesn't necessarily make it a fact.

Nancy,
The POs job is to make sure they know what these sex offenders are doing with their time.
For sex offenders I would surely add checking to make sure they look at every part of their property to make sure they aren't keeping someone against their will. Isn't that what many of them do?
Checking to see if those tents were part of this predator's property when they made a visit should surely be a part of the PO's job.

Found some more detail about that 93/94 time when maybe he was in prison.

quote: He was granted parole in 1988, but a violation landed him back in prison from April to August 1993. In 1999, he was out on parole again for a rape conviction, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Details about that conviction were not available.
source:

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/news/ci_13219426

The parole officer keeping tabs on him should be jailed. It's just not possible that he should have been 'duped' by a fence. I mean, isn't he part of the long arm of the law with all kinds of information on sex offenders and where they live? Should he not have at some time have noticed that the lot was subdivided in back? Didn't he notice some extension cords or have even once peered over the fence while visiting the house? It's just plain negligence in my mind. She could have been saved much earlier from this unbelievable pervert. Hang them all high. Take all of their assets and give them to the girl to help her adjust to society.
I find it so funny that some think it's not right to publicly list sex offenders online for everyone to keep an eye on, yet stuff like this happens right under the noses of people who live on small lots right on top of each other. Violent criminals and white collar crime are eating away at the fabric of society and yet they seem to have the most lenient laws possible. Rehabilitate my butt, these people should just be pruned from the genetic tree.

After reading some of the posts, I have some responses. First, Google Earth has not been around forever, and has not been in widespread use by law enforcement Google Earth as it is now known was not released until 2005. Do not forget that some of the technological opportunities available today were nonexistant or non-implemented in the 1990's and early 2000's.

I believe it is safe to say that there were opportunities, most notably in 1999, to capture the suspects which were missed. It is also noteworthy that until this week, the suspects were not suspects in this case. The case had been cold for over a decade.

As for the neighbors, the town of Antioch has learned that you need to know your neighbors, not just to be friendly, but to increase awareness and accountability amoung the neighbors. I live in Antioch from 1992 to 2007, 5 miles from the suspects. My block was neighborly, where we knew everyone and their kids, and there was no lack of neighborly gossip, but we all knew who was safe and who wasn't. We were an exception though.

One more thing, look around Walnut Ave. in Google Earth. There are multiple neighbors with disorganized and messy backyards. The suspects were not unusual.

David: I also think some of the commenters on this topic are not aware of such niceties as "due process" and the requirements needed to get a search warrant. Also, unincorparated areas are hell to police, for numerous reasons, jurisdiction being the biggest. Also, I would iamgine that if most of us looked out into a backyard and saw a 6 foot high fence running across its width, we'd assume that was the property line and anything on the other side belonged to someone else.

I don't buy into letting government agencies off the hook so easily as some of you do.
The problem is the state has decided to let these sexual predators out on parole and the parole agents are obviously not able to do their jobs and keep tabs on what these guys are doing.
How many more Phillip Garridos are out there right now doing the same thing because the POs aren't checking on them with as much detail as they should be?

If you are as outraged as I am here is the guy to email at the State Dept of Corrections/Adult Parole Supervision in direct charge of this area of the state where this guy lived.

Brian.Clay@cdcr.ca.gov

This is at the California Sate Department of Corrections.

How about somemore reason to have confidence in our state government (or make excuses for them).

The local police get a complaint 3 years ago that this guy has tents in his backyard and "the neighbor also told police Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction". The cop visits and writes him a warning for a code violation and leaves. Apparently no request to see the backyard and the tents and doesn't event know the guy is a sexual predator. Great communication of those being paid to "protect" us and our kids.

Wouldn't it have been ironic with all of these POs and police missing it all if some code enforcement wienie had found the "campground".

Again I ask, how many more Phillip Garridos are out there right now with someone else's kid being overlooked and left alone to their deviant behavior?

Read it and weep.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583149/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

Kevin,

"The problem is the state has decided to let these sexual predators out on parole and the parole agents are obviously not able to do their jobs and keep tabs on what these guys are doing."

What is your solution and how do you plan to fund it? In your statement you seem to be implying incompetance whereas the true issue may be in the processes used to evaluate parole worthiness and Parole Agent workload and procedures.

"How many more Phillip Garridos are out there right now doing the same thing because the POs aren't checking on them with as much detail as they should be?"

There are likely more "Garridos" in the public population than we are confortable knowing. However, there is only so much a Parole Officer can do for each individual in their caseload. Also, how far should the details extend? What determines the amount of detail the Parole Officers "should be" investigating? Again, what is your solution and how would you fund it?

David,
I am not trying to "imply" incompetence on the part of the Dept. of Corrections, I am directly stating incompetence. Whether it is because of a lack or resources or a lack of training or a lack of caring, it is still incompetence to allow this to happen with someone under their direct supervision.

Because it is obvious that the Dept of Corrections/Parole Divsion cannot properly monitor these creeps, the answer is that the evaluation for parole needs to addressed so people with his background are permenantly incarcerated, or at least considered for castration which has been shown in the past to be effective in many cases with this group.

Look at his background, he previously kidnapped, bound, raped, and held a woman in captivity, maybe more than one.

Does anyone really believe this behaviour can be changed or rehabilitated? The only safe answer for the rest of us is to seperate them from us permenantly.

The parole officer aided and abetted the continuation of this crime. He/she is either incompetent (in which case he/she should be summarily fired) or a party to the atrocities, in which case he/she should be executed along with Mr. and Mrs. Garrido. Unfortunately, in this case, the crime occurred in California which will probably celebrate the monster (a la OJ) rather than punish him. I only wish that he, his wife, and the parole officer could be tried in tried where true frontier justice would prevail.

Frankly, the only way this crime could have ended earlier than it did was if we lived in a police state. One of the things that seems to have been overlooked in all this is that the house & property do not belong to Garradino. They belong to his elderly mother, who still lives there(!). That's another layer of interference in getting a search warrant. The real issue should be, however, is WHY was this man out on parole in the first place?

Kevin,
Your conclusions

"the answer is that the evaluation for parole needs to addressed so people with his background are permenantly incarcerated, or at least considered for castration which has been shown in the past to be effective in many cases with this group."
"The only safe answer for the rest of us is to seperate them from us permenantly. "

The first answer would violate the US Constitution as it would be considered a "cruel and unusual unishment", regardless of the crime committed. Also, I question your data on the effectiveness of your prescribed method. Where did you find this information?

The second answer would require more funds and resources to incarcerate the entirety of sex offenders. I repeat my question. How do you propose that your answers be funded?

Kirk,

If the Parole Officer failed to perform any of their documented functions in regard to the suspects, then yes, they should be reprimanded or terminated. However, if the documented responsibilities were followed, then it is the procedures which are in need of change.

I do not condone the suspect's alleged behaviors nor do I condone the actions by the involved departments, but I will not let my own anger cloud my ability to look for the real problem, not a person to blame unless it is warranted. Blaming someone doesn't solve a problem. It just helps one feel better. Finding the root of the issue and fixing that will help prevent future travesties like this from occuring.

Nancy
How hard would it have been to ask a neighbor to look over the fence at the "campground" and yell to them? Does that require a search warrant? Come on, they don't need a "police state" to do thier job in this case, they need some brains and motivation and someone caring about doing their job and protecting the public.

As far as I know, no code enforcement agency in the country needs a search warranty to investigate a code violation which is especially a potential health hazard as living in tents in the backyard clearly is.

Sounds like these POs and cops have the same attitude towards their job as you would, no wonder it took 18 years and stupidity on Garrido's part to finally end it.

If it was just up to the government agencies on their own, Jaycee and her 2 girls would still be slaves.

I read the criminal complaint and he has charges of rape in June and July of 1993. I would like to know how that is possible if the Federal Bureau of Prison show they released him in August 1993. They don't have his begin date, which doesn't help things but, something is amiss here.

Does anyone know what the hay is going on other than utter incompetence and brain dead public service officers?

I emailed ABC and asked them to try and clear up the time line, the story will be on 20/20 tonight.

A neighbor called and reported he was psychotic and had little girls living in tents in his back yard and all the deputy did was tell him about building codes and living out side was not allowed. The lazy officer did not even run a check on him when the SO had him on file as a sex offender.

If that deputy is still employed, he should be fired and sued. This really ticks me off. I am sick to death of incompetent law enforcement and no accountability. No ifs or buts about it. I bet a nickel the Parole officer never walked his property, because if he had, he would have seen extension cords leading to the back to this Creeps Slave Sex Camp.

We are no better than a third world country in protecting children!

To Nancy Collins :

I am sick to death of excuses like yours. A neighborly report of little girls living in a tent in the back of a recorded sex offender is cause for the stupid warrant you demand. The deputy didn't even look in the back yard. The Sheriff admits error, but it is just not good enough and you go and add insult to mortal injury.

Dear Kelly,

Nancy makes idiotic, albeit grammatically correct, statements. It is folks such as her who enable horrible acts such as Garrido's happen.

Ignore her, she might leave to feed her enabling-desires elsewhere on the planet.

David,
Since when is life in prison w/o parole unconstitutional? If the law doesn't prescribe this for these types of crimes, the law needs to be changed, I think that is the point. What's "cruel & unusual" is what this creep and his buddies do. Society needs to throw out the whole bunch of liberal, limp-wristed politicians in Sacramento who have passed laws liberalizing these crimes and the punishment for them.
Paying for the cost? It all depends on what our priorities are for our hard earned tax dollars. Let's get some fiscal conservatives in Sacramento and get a real budget with real priorities that work for the people and not for public employee unions and feathering the politician's beds.

kevin, kelly and Trace
THANKS YOU!! you guys are the only ones on here with any intelligence and human decency. Thanks for making such perfect rebukes of the idiotic leftist ramblings of the likes of Kevin and Nancy. (hey wonder if they or their children were kidnapped and tortured for 18 years they would still rant as they do??!!)It is because of them and their kind that we have such an inept and worthless criminal justice system. Did you ever wonder why vigilantism based movie plots (don't have to list any names, it's the theme of about EVERY action adventure film today) are soooo popular in our country?? that is because NOTHING is done to protect us from these monsters and there is no justice when they are paroled because of red tape and funding. I always wonder how parole board members sleep at night knowing how many people they have indirectly murdered through releasing these killers! Ive actually never met one parole board employee, man, if i did a job that evil, I'd keep it a secret too. Anyway, thanks for defending the defenceless ones.

To those who wish he be raped in prison for the rest of his life: You guys (or gals) have some issues you need to address... Is this some kind of fetish you have? Need to cut down on the porno... Just a suggestion... True, the guy has what he has coming to him. But is it really up to you what the punishment will be? If so, what would your punishment be for your sins?

Street view in Google Earth shows a van pulling out of the yard following the google vehicle.

To RW,
No, it is a fetish that Garrido and his wife have! why dont you concern yourself with their porno? And no, unfortunately none of us will be able to decide their punishment, nor the punishment they never received for all their previous crimes, thanks to the corrupt parole board, who does get to decide their punishment.
Oh, and try to remember who the victims are and who the perpetrators are, think you are blurring them. It is also not only about punishment but keeping our children safer by keeping these off the street!!

RW, you are perfectly right. The primary societal issue is prevention rather than punishment, and healing for the victims. Prevention includes indefinite incarceration sometimes, and it certainly includes fostering a culture of nosiness in suburban neighborhoods. However, presuming that you are christian, as you sound, Jesus did get angry when people without power got hurt.

I don't know who screwed up the most, and it doesn't matter much at this point.

What _does_ matter is doing everything possible to make sure it never happens again. Sickos like Garrido cannot be "rehabilitated", as study after study has shown (and many of these predators admit). Putting these people away somewhere for the protection of others, and keeping them put away, would seem to be the only sane solution.

How to fund it? Simple - eliminate the laws covering victimless crimes, which is what the bulk of this nation's prisoners are locked up for in the first place. It is truly insane.

Most importantly, I hope and pray that this girl and her kids will receive all the love, attention and counseling they need to rebuild their lives and find some happiness. God bless them and their family.

Steve-
You got it! It is that simple, prisons are full of people that have committed victimless crimes!! And the ones that should remained locked up are the one's being paroled. The increased incarceration of such offenses as drug offenders and DUI's,has greatly increased the prison population and to make room for them they parole rapists, murderer's, sex offenders and child molesters...does not make any sense. The majority of drug offenders and alcoholics can be rehabilitated,therefore alternative programs should be utilized before carceration. I'm just going to say our entire judicial system is a joke.

It was also stated that this backyard was a "backyard within a backyard" extremely overgrown and not visible. Nancy does have a point about the property not being in his name and the search warrant, although him being a registered sex offender and parolee there should of been regular checks at that residence,the police are supposed to be keeping track of these people, all sex offenders should have to remain on some type of tracking device or even castration,including having to register, they can not be rehabilitated period end of it! the system failed Jaycee and the many other victims of this monster.

But all in all this is a miracle for Jaycee,her children, and family for them to be alive!I hope they receive the help and whatever else it takes necessary to live the rest of their lives happy and fulfilled!! This also gives hope to parents of other missing children that they too might be reunited with their missing loved ones.

Even death penalty is too good for Garrido!

Sucks for him he will never know what sex + love is only sex + rape(the worst sex possible and the sickest) , i agree that people that kidnap children or anyone especially for that many years should be put to death or kept there for very very long time. Shit i sell hundreds of pills and sell weed a week and cops are after my a$$ for selling drugs, they should spend more time looking for these people than drug dealers. After all , some people admire the drug dealers. I don't know anyone who says, wow phillip is my hero i just want to be like him. This whole country has turned up-side down. We should be looking out for faggs like that not people who try to make a little of money to pay for rent.I atleast get my pu$$y by flirting with girls, not by raping it.

Please remember that the number one person to place blame on in this case is PHILLIP GARRIDO.
Does the Criminal Justice system in the State of California need to be imporved, YES. More severe penalties for Sex Offenders, YES.
What the public needs to realize is that Phillip Garrido is a Sex Offender,but there where no orders for him to stay away from children at the time. Because his crime occurded with an ADULT. So even if he would have had children with him ALL of the time, he was not violating his parole, because he was not ordered to stay away from children. Maybe this law needs to be changed. Maybe as a society we should not point the finger at who we think is the blame. And hold that MONSTER responsible for his actions. It's a blessing that Jaycee and her daughters where discoved alive. It's unfortinate that is took 18 years. We are not privy to all of the details of this crime so should we really judge the PO, or the SO???