SFGate: 18 Years of Missed Chances to Find Kidnap Victim. This guy was definitely very elusive, very stealthy in what he was doing,” said Gordon Hinkle, spokesman for the state parole agency, which was charged with monitoring the 58-year-old sex offender for the last decade. “He had a fence, basically a false front where he had a secret yard.”
He had a “secret” yard, providing that you don’t use the Satellite view on Google Maps. After this slip up, I think parole officers might be using Google Maps a bit more to make sure that no one else has a “secret” yard in plain view.
2 replies on “Phillip Garrido and the Plain View Secret Yard”
You know most of these so called “police/ parole officers” always have a chip on their shoulders, and even when they fail at their jobs they appear arrogant like saying “what are you going to do”, let’s face it, she saved herself, she was not saved by the authorities. Does anyone believe that the authorities were still investigating her disappearance? The car used in her kidnapping was in the backyard, the lazy ass cops didn’t even bother to go through the backyard when the information indicated that kids were living back there, they didn’t check local schools to see if the kids were going to school or even asked to see the kids, no report to child protective services, boy how lazy can you be and still pick up your public service check, not to mention the parole officers who failed to visit and find out where this freak was living and what he was doing. I guess she was taken in 1991, and in 1993 (only two years later) after violating probation he spent for 4 months in federal prison (California have yet to release any details of that violation or explain why he was again released into the community). Nevada officials said they were never notified of Garrido’s parole violation, which would have allowed the state to revoke his parole. Had California parole inspected his home in 1993, we would not be here now asking questions, we would be saying our system works, now I am not sure of anything. Because now I wonder how many more of these freaks are in our country doing the same thing under the noses of our so called authorities.
Yes, I agree he should have served all the time for his first offense, but don’t let our authorities off the hook. I can only say if you have a neighbor that fits this profile, call and call again to try to ensure that this does not happen again. Simply amazing.
This should be a reality check for the authorities. The next time a sex offender is brought back to the community, extreme caution should be observed. Weekly if not daily trips to their homes must be done to ensure that this will not happen again.