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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
CRIME
Couple charged in kidnapping
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Garrido spent years caring for her elderly, bedridden mother-in-law while a girl kidnapped in 1991 was allegedly held prisoner in the backyard of the home she shared with her husband.
When Phillip Garrido went to prison for six weeks on a parole violation, the former nursing assistant watched over Jaycee Dugard, authorities said.
"You can reasonably infer from the charging document that the wife was doing that," said former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who is acting as a special spokesman for the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.
The emerging details paint a conflicting portrait of the 54-year-old woman charged with her husband in the kidnapping and rage of Dugard, who authorities say had two children with Garrido during her 18 years in the backyard in Antioch. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said Nancy Garrido fit the description "dead-on" of the woman who pulled his stepdaughter into a car in South Lake Tahoe nearly two decades ago.
Nancy Garrido's attorney, Gilbert Maines, did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
But on CBS's "The Early Show" Wednesday, he said his client loves and misses the two girls her husband fathered with Dugard and said she saw them all as a family.
It was unclear if the lawyer would claim Garrido was coerced into aiding her husband. But such a claim could be undermined by her silence about Dugard's captivity while her husband was held at a jail facility for six weeks in 1993 on a parole violation, said criminal defense attorney Michael Cardoza, a former San Francisco Bay area prosecutor.
"There are too many facts in the case and too many opportunities for her to make it right that she did not take advantage of," Cardoza said. "No jury will believe that for those 18 years she was under duress that whole time."
Garrido looked haggard when she appeared in court last week wearing an orange jail jump suit. She cried and put her head in her hands several times.
Public records provided no clear picture of her life before she met Phillip Garrido, a divorced former musician who had worked odd jobs and had a history of drug abuse.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering holds a press conference near the entrance of the New Hope Plantation mobile home park Monday. Guy Heinzen was charged shortly after making a 911 call to police about the deaths of his entire family. Heinzen remains in police custody.
Police withhold details of mobile home murders
CRIME
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A Georgia man who reported "My whole family's dead!" in a frantic 911 call, then was arrested on charges of evidence tampering, lying to police and drug possession, was granted bond Wednesday in his first court appearance.
Guy Heinze Jr., 22, was taken into custody hours after police Saturday found the bodies of seven people inside the family's mobile home. An eighth person later died at a hospital and the lone survivor, a young child, remains in critical condition.
Police have not called Heinze a suspect in the case, although the police chief said Sunday that he hadn't been ruled out either.
Police have released little infor
mation on the killings, including the cause of death, saying they do not want to jeopardize the investigation. A recording of the 12-minute 911 call has provided some of the only details of the crime. Heinze told the 911 operator his family members appeared to have been beaten to death.
the mobile home where his relatives died.
Under the judge's order, Heinze will be placed under house arrest with an ankle monitor once he makes bond. It was uncertain where Heinze would serve his house arrest since he was living at
Ashley Strickland, a friend who attended high school with Heinze, was at the court hearing.
"Knowing his whole family died, if he knew who did it, he would say something." Strickland said. "Guy's very sweet. Guy does not deserve this. His whole family did not deserve this, not at all."
Heinze Jr.'s attorney has said his client is distraught over the slayings and was not involved.
"My client believes the killer is still on the loose," attorney Ron Harrison said Tuesday, adding Heinze Jr. has been cooperating with police.
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