Sep 21, 2009 6:32 pm US/Pacific
Digging To Continue Tuesday In Garrido Backyard
ANTIOCH (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ―
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Police officers clear debris from the property of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
CBS
Police investigating two East Bay child abductions said digging would continue Tuesday on the property where a couple allegedly held a girl captive for 18 years.
Police were trying to determine if the couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 are linked to similar cases in nearby cities.
Officials said the search in Phillip and Nancy Garrido's backyard near Antioch had not yet revealed any connections to the 1988 abduction of Michaela Garecht or the 1989 disappearance of Ilene Misheloff.
Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said search dogs "alerted" officials Monday in the same vicinity where cadaver dogs picked up a scent last week, but Orrey discounted the alert because crews were in the process of digging in the area.
Crews also found several additional bone fragments, but experts determined they were too old to be relevant to the investigations and were most likely animal bones, Orrey said.
Last week and again Monday, investigators used ground-penetrating radar equipment to search the backyard and found about a dozen areas of possible interest. But many of the those areas were later eliminated.
Orrey said police had finished searching inside the Garridos' house, but did not find any evidence to suggest that the Garridos were connected to the other kidnappings. Investigators are still going through evidence collected by their agencies and other law enforcement agencies since the Garridos were arrested Aug. 26.
They were charged with 29 felonies, including rape, kidnapping and false imprisonment for allegedly abducting the 11-year-old Dugard from South Lake Tahoe in 1991. Dugard, now 29, was allegedly forced to live in a series of tents and sheds in the backyard for 18 years, where she gave birth to two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido.
The Garridos both pleaded not guilty to the charges and were being held without bail in El Dorado County Jail.
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