Suspects in Dugard case investigated in two more disappearances-9 and 13 year old girl.

Nancy and Phillip Garrido arrested for the kidnap of Jaycee Lee Dugard. While Garrido where in prison for a short while for parole violation .Nancy continue to imprison Jaycee.



Missing girl Michaela Garecht and an artist's conception of her kidnapper which look like Garrido in his younger days.

Michaela Garecht, left, and Ilene Misheloff, right.


An investigator with the Hayward, Calif., police department carrying a shovel walks toward the home of Phillip Garrido in Antioch, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. Police investigating two child abductions in the 1980s searched the Northern California home of a man charged with kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. The Hayward and Dublin police departments went through Phillip Garrido's Antioch property and a site next door on Tuesday, seeking evidence in the disappearances of Michaela Garecht in 1988 and Ilene Mischeloff in 1989, authorities said.


Lt. Kurt von Savoye, left, of the Dublin, Calif, police department and Lt. Chris Orrey, right, of the Hayward, Calif., police department hold a news conference as a search takes place in the background at the home of Phillip Garrido in Antioch, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. Police investigating two child abductions in the 1980s searched the Northern California home of a man charged with kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. The Hayward and Dublin police departments went through Garrido's property and a site next door on Tuesday, seeking evidence in the disappearances of Michaela Garecht in 1988 and Ilene Mischeloff in 1989, authorities said.


An FBI agent walks to the backyard of Phillip Garrido's home as investigators resumed their search in Antioch, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. Police investigating two child abductions in the 1980s searched the Northern California home of a man charged with kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. The Hayward and Dublin police departments went through Phillip Garrido's Antioch property and a site next door on Tuesday, seeking evidence in the disappearances of Michaela Garecht in 1988 and Ilene Mischeloff in 1989, authorities said


Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy are seen during a bail hearing on charges related to the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif


Authorities in California have been searching the home of Philip and Nancy Garrido for clues into the decades-old disappearances of two young girls.

The couple has already been charged with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and keeping her captive for 18 years.

Police spent Tuesday scouring the Garrido property and a site next door for possible links to the abductions of Michaela Garecht in 1988 in Hayward and Ilene Misheloff in 1989 in Dublin.

Investigators from two Bay Area police departments said this morning that they have launched an exhaustive search of the home of accused kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido and a property next door in connection with the kidnappings of two girls from the Bay Area.

Michaela Garecht, 9, was kidnapped in front of a Hayward grocery store in 1988. A year later, Ilene Misheloff, 13, disappeared after she was seen getting into a sedan on her way home from school in Dublin.

“Our aim is to very methodically, systematically search the property with our cases in mind,” said Hayward Police Lt. Christine Orrey. ”We’re taking another shot at the property to see what we can find.”Police from nearby Hayward said they planned to use ground-penetrating radar and other equipment to search for clues in the abduction of 8-year-old Michaela Garecht, a blond girl kidnapped from a grocery store in 1988.Officials said they were looking for clothing the girls were wearing, DNA evidence, or human remains. Investigators will use underground scanners to locate evidence or possible grave sites on the Garrido property and a neighbouring lot to which they had access. The search could take several days.

The similarities between those cases and the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard have prompted the search. It's also giving hope to family members. Michaela's mother says that if Jaycee Dugard "can be found alive and come home after 18 years," then maybe her daughter can too.

Police say they went to the Garridos' home because they noticed several similarities between Michaela's abduction and Dugard's.

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty in the Dugard case. Bail set for $30 million in this Dugard case.Garrido and his wife Nancy, 54, have both pleaded not guilty to 29 criminal counts that include kidnapping for sexual purposes, forcible lewd acts and rape.

The pair snatched Dugard from a street near her South Lake Tahoe home on June 10, 1991, when she was 11, and kept her captive in the makeshift compound behind their home for nearly two decades, police say.

Authorities say Phillip Garrido, who served 10 years in federal prison for the rape of another woman, fathered two girls with Dugard, who also lived in the backyard sheds.

Investigators also found a sliver of bone that may be human in a neighboring yard where Garrido once lived and will compare the DNA to a list of unsolved murders.

Garrido aroused the suspicion of police while trying to proselytize at the University of California at Berkeley.

The Garridos are afforded constitutional protections because they are criminal defendants in the Dugard case, and have declined to submit to interviews. Garrido has previously been imprisoned for sex crimes and was on parole when he was arrested in the Dugard case. Police said he was free when Garecht and Misheloff were taken.

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Kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido are being held in isolation behind bars for their own safety, John Blackstone reports. Nancy are held in isolation for her protection after been threaten by other prisoners with rape and murder.
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Philip Garrido's wife Nancy considered Jaycee Dugard and girls as family, according to her lawyer who spoke to Harry Smith. Hattie Kauffman reports on the neighbors' reactions to Garrido's arrest.

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Feds didn't clear brush in wildfire area alleged can prevent the current disaster.

Firefighters monitor a fire in the suburb of Glendale on the outskirts of Los Angeles city, California, 01 Sep 2009

Firefighters watches over the fire.


Left over after the bush fires swepts across the California hills.



Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.

Months before the huge blaze erupted, the U.S. Forest Service obtained permits to burn away the undergrowth and brush on more than 1,700 acres of the Angeles National Forest. But just 193 acres had been cleared by the time the fire broke out, Forest Service resource officer Steve Bear said.

The agency defended its efforts, saying weather, wind and environmental rules tightly limit how often these "prescribed burns" can be conducted.

"This brush was ready to explode," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, whose district overlaps the forest. "The environmentalists have gone to the extreme to prevent controlled burns, and as a result we have this catastrophe today."

Prescribed burns are intended to protect homes and lives by eliminating fuel that can cause explosive wildfires. The wildfire that has blackened 140,000 acres — or nearly 219 square miles — in the forest over the past week has been fed by the kind of tinder-dry vegetation that prescribed burns are designed to safely devour.

Government firefighters set thousands of blazes each year to reduce the wildfire risk in overgrown forests and grasslands around the nation. Prescribed burns can also be used to improve overall forest health and increase forage for wildlife.

Obtaining the necessary permits is a complicated process, and such efforts often draw protests from environmentalists.

"Our air quality, for a variety of factors, doesn't need to be further reduced by these controlled burns," she said.

Setting pre-emptive fires can be especially risky near heavily populated urban areas like Los Angeles because of the danger of flames burning out of control. Last month, a 90-acre prescribed burn near Foresta, on the edge of Yosemite National Park, jumped fire lines and consumed more than 7 square miles in the park.

Meanwhile , The blaze moved toward suburban homes and Mount Wilson, home of the space observatory and dozens of mobile phone, radio and television transmission towers about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Smoke was visible throughout the city. Crews returned to Mount Wilson today to defend it, the Forest Service said. May cause disruptions to thousands of residents.

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• California School Close after Kid with 8 pipe boms attack

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A teacher being hailed as a hero said Tuesday he had no time to think when he encountered a 17-year-old boy who detonated two pipe bombs at a Northern California high school while armed with a chain saw, sword and explosives.

Teacher Kennet Santana, 35, is one of a number of Hillsdale High School staffers credited with subduing the bombing suspect. He told The Associated Press he was walking cautiously toward the disruption on Monday when he found himself face to face with the boy.

"He had a black tactical vest on with lots of pockets," Santana said by phone Tuesday. "We were maybe six feet away from each other at this point, we're talking seconds, there was not time for a lot of thinking."

The explosions caused neither serious damage nor injury, but the 1,270-student school was evacuated, and Santana and the other staff members were credited with stopping a situation that could have played out much more tragically.

Evidence collected so far suggests the boy had planned the attack for months, and that he had a number of specific targets on the school faculty whom he believed had wronged him, San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said.

"He had planned in brutal and chilling detail this action over months," she said. "He clearly was out to demonstrate he could get back at the school administration."

The unidentified boy, a San Mateo resident who had not attended the school for more than a year, was arrested just after the second blast about 8 a.m. at the school at 3115 Del Monte St.

The remaining eight bombs were strapped to his chest in a military-style vest, San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said during a news conference.

The teen detonated the bombs in the north west hallway of the academic wing near the library, police said.

Evidence collected so far suggests the boy had planned the attack for months, and that he had a number of specific targets on the school faculty whom he believed had wronged him, San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said.

"He had planned in brutal and chilling detail this action over months," she said. "He clearly was out to demonstrate he could get back at the school administration."

Santana said the boy, whom police have not identified because he is a minor, could have run toward the street to escape, but instead chose to follow the fleeing students.

"He was trying to go toward the kids, he could have exited to the street," Santana said. "He was trying to go toward the drama."

"I decided to close distance and bear-hugged him and restrained his arms. We were face-to-face, chest-to-chest," he said.

Police quickly arrived and arrested the teen on suspicion of six felony counts of attempted murder, igniting a destructive device with intent to murder, possession of destructive devices, possession of destructive devices on school grounds, possession of destructive devices with intent to injure or destroy property and assault with a deadly weapon.

The boy is being held in San Mateo County's juvenile hall while the district attorney reviews the evidence and decides whether he should be tried as an adult.

Law enforcement officials said the result could have been much worse. They lauded the work of Santana and other staff members who helped subdue the boy.

"The teachers acted heroically and risked their own lives," said police Lt. Mike Brunicardi. "(They) were not taking into consideration their personal safety, they were taking the greater good into mind to save 1,270 students and about 100 school staff members.

Back on campus Tuesday, Santana and other teachers discussed the incident. Students were scheduled to return on Wednesday, and teachers, students and others will gather to discuss the incident in the morning then restart classes in the afternoon.

Santana said the boy did not struggle, only saying "let me go" after he'd been held.

"He was not struggling, it was almost like he was defeated," Santana said.

After stopping the boy with a bear hug, Santana threw him to the floor and was joined by Principal Jeff Gilbert and school counselor Ed Canda. The three held the boy down until police arrived.

"We had more people running to the explosion than we had running away from the explosion," Gilbert said. "So I think that speaks to the staff and just what they feel about the students."

-Police near the school-


Scott Laurence, Superintendent of San Mateo Union High School District, left, watches as workers work near a spot where damage was found after a two pipe bombs were detonated on Monday at Hillsdale High School on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, in San Mateo, Calif. A day after a 17-year-old boy armed with a chain saw, sword and explosives detonated two pipe bombs at a Northern California high school before being restrained, teachers and staff were back at work trying to make sense of it all.



Teacher Kennet Santana, 35, center, with counselor Ed Canda, left, prepares to speak at a news conference at Hillsdale High School on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, in San Mateo, Calif. At right is Scott Laurence, Superintendent of San Mateo Union High School District. A day after a 17-year-old boy armed with a chain saw, sword and explosives, detonated two pipe bombs at a Northern California high school before being restrained, teachers and staff were back at work trying to make sense of it all. Santana is credited with subduing the bombing suspect



Teacher Kennet Santana, 35, left, with counselor Ed Canda, right, speaks at a news conference at Hillsdale High School on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, in San Mateo, Calif. A day after a 17-year-old boy armed with a chain saw, sword and explosives detonated two pipe bombs at a Northern California high school before being restrained, teachers and staff were back at work trying to make sense of it all. Santana is one of the staffers credited with subduing the bombing suspect.



-Alex Youshock has been identified by sources as the suspect in a bombing incident at Hillsdale High School that took place Monday morning. -


-Police arrest the 17-year-old suspect-

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SAN MATEO, CA Hundreds of worried parents in San Mateo rushed to pick up their children Monday morning after an explosion rocked Hillsdale High School.
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