California child kidnapper stalked Street View van

Whether the van's driver really is Garrido remains to be seen. What is pretty well certain is that Jaycee Lee Dugard Dugard, now 29, bore Garrido (pictured) two daughters during her captivity, now 11 and 15. Despite neighbours' concerns, the law enforcement officials failed on several occasions to search the property.

In 2006, one local called 911 "to report that people were living in the yard and said Phillip Garrido was 'psychotic and had a sexual addiction'".

An officer visited the property but didn't enter the house. Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf "expressed dismay that a deputy had visited the squalid home after a neighbor's ominous 911 call three years ago and found no evidence of the crimes".

He said: "No one knows that we could have found Jaycee or the other children on that day in 2006, and I cannot change the course of events. But we are beating ourselves up over this and will continue to do so."

Although police received thousands of tip-offs as to Dugard's possible whereabouts over the years, it wasn't until last week that "a sharp-eyed UC Berkeley police officer encountered Garrido on campus, accompanied by two young girls she described as robotic and unusually submissive".

Last Wednesday, Garrido "went to his parole officer's Concord office with [his wife] Nancy Garrido, Dugard and Dugard's daughters". The Garridos were arrested later that night.

Police are now investigating a bone fragment unearthed at Garrido's home, "amid fears they could be dealing with a serial killer". They're also "searching for traces of three missing schoolgirls who vanished around the time of Jaycee's abduction within 40 miles of Garrido's home".

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 55, were last week charged in El Dorado County Superior Court "in connection with 29 felony kidnapping and rape counts". ®

Bootnote

CBS News has some interesting psychological insight into Garrido here.