Kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido is a "person of interest" in late 1990s prostitute killings.
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Phillip Craig Garrido, arrested this week and charged with the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard some 18 years ago, is also being looked at as a “person of interest” in a string of prostitute killings in the Bay Area in the 1990s.
Officers searched Garrido’s Antioch California compound for clues in the killings of about 10 prostitutes in the Pittsburg California area, according to Capt. Dan Terry of the Contra Costa County sheriff’s office.
Pittsburg is a small town about six miles west of Antioch, some 40 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Terry said some of the women’s bodies were found in 1998 and 1999 in an industrial area close to where Garrido worked at the time.
Three victims were found strangled, stabbed and dumped in ditches over a two-month period: Rachael Cruise, 32, Jessica Frederick, 24, and Valerie Schultz, 27.
A month earlier, in November 1998, the body of 15-year-old Lisa Norrell, who clearly was not a prostitute, was found in the same area.
Garrido has been interviewed about the killings, Terry said, but has said nothing to indicate he was involved.
So in addition to the current charges against him Garrido may emerge as a serial killer suspect. That would explain why publications have thrown in his middle name, almost a requirement for serial killers, in stories about the case. He is Phillip Craig Garrido.
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