US girl’s captor suspected in prostitute serial killings

Police investigating the kidnap of Jaycee Lee Dugard have expanded their search to include a neighbour’s property. Phillip Garrido, who was arrested along with his wife Nancy, is understood to have been the caretaker of the property before current owner, Damon Robinson, moved in in 2006.

Offices are looking for evidence linking the couple to other open cases in the area, including the unsolved murders of up to 10 women, including some prostitutes.

Pittsburg police this morning have sealed off the house in Antioch to investigate potential connection between a series of murders of prostitutes in the Bay Area in the early 1990s,” Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Capt. Daniel Terry told The Sacramento Bee. Several bodies were found in an industrial location where Phillip Garrido supposedly worked, Terry said.

The authorities called the property in Antioch, California, a crime scene but declined to elaborate.

The Garridos are suspected of abducting Dugard 18 years ago and subjecting her to nearly a lifetime of torment in a squalid backyard compound. They pleaded not guilty on Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.