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NEW YORK - The defense attorney for Nancy Garrido, who allegedly held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years while her husband allegedly raped and impregnated her, has been removed from the case.


Court documents show that Gilbert Maines was removed during a closed hearing in El Dorado Superior Court on Thursday. However, Judge Douglas Phimister immediately stayed the decision until another hearing Nov. 30.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Phillip Garrido, civil rights crusader?

The man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago, then raping and hiding her in his backyard, has contacted a Sacramento television station to voice concerns about Dugard's legal rights.

Really.

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NEW YORK - Eighteen-year kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard initially had mixed emotions regarding the arrest of her alleged captors, but now acknowledges that "some terrible things were done to her," according to a lawyer for the Dugard family, who held a press conference last Thursday.

Dugard was 11 when police say Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped her from her South Lake Tahoe, Calif. bus stop and held her captive in their Antioch, Calif. backyard. Police say the couple raped Dugard, now 29, and Phillip Garrido fathered her two daughters. The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to a combined 29 charges.

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NEW YORK - A 33-year law enforcement veteran who sat in Phillip Garrido’s living room and may have met Jaycee Lee Dugard, said the man accused of kidnapping and holding Dugard captive for 18 years, was "normal in every which way." And he had spoken with Garrido only two weeks before his arrest.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Three decades ago, a convicted kidnapper named Phillip Garrido stunned a Leavenworth Prison psychologist by turning down an offer most prisoners would leap to take — help with a transfer to a mental health facility.

Instead, Garrido opted to spend at least three more years doing hard time so he could complete his religious studies.

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ANTIOCH, Calif. - Authorities, including an archaeologist, continue to search the dilapidated property of Nancy and Phillip Garrido for traces of evidence linking the accused kidnappers to the abduction of two girls in the area during the late 1980s.

Several bone fragments have been found in the Garridos’ yard and the adjoining property where Phillip Garrido occaisionally spent time, however investigators say it is too early to tell whether those are crime-related.

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ANTIOCH, Calif. - Jaycee Dugard says her alleged captor and rapist, Phillip Garrido, did not touch her two daughters, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

"She's saying he didn't touch her kids," one law enforcement source told the Chronicle.

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ANTIOCH, Calif. - You might think that after spending 18 years in Phillip Garrido’s squalid house and backyard, Jaycee Lee Dugard would want to get rid of everything associated with the experience.

Not so, says Dugard’s advocate, who told authorities that Dugard wants her five cats, two dogs, three cockatiels, a pigeon and a mouse back after animal services removed them from the home.

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NEW YORK - As investigators continued their detailed search of Phillip and Nancy Garrido's property, the first photos from inside their northern California home give another glimpse into what could have been Jaycee Dugard's life in captivity.

Photos of a messy kitchen, living and dining room reveal a household in disarray.

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ANTIOCH, Calif. - Is evidence of foul play about to be unearthed in a place already believed to have been a house of horrors for at least one kidnapped child?

Authorities investigating two missing girl cases said Thursday that cadaver dogs picked up a scent in the backyard of Philip and Nancy Garrido that could indicate buried remains on the property of the couple already charged with the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard.

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