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ANTIOCH (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― Nineteen years before Phillip Garrido allegedly kidnapped and raped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard, he faced charges for drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl in an Antioch motel room, police said Thursday.

Garrido was accused of sexually assaulting the girl at a motel on East 18th Street, now the Riverview Motel, in April 1972 after giving her barbiturates, according to Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman.

Garrido was set to be prosecuted in the case but the charges were dropped when the girl refused to testify, Orman said.

The girl and a friend met Garrido, then 21, and another man near the public library on West 18th Street and joined them in a car, where they were given drugs, he said.

Details on the case were spotty because so much time had passed.

However, authorities recently reinterviewed the victim, now an adult, and were able to piece together that she awoke at the motel and was raped repeatedly before her parents found her and police arrested Garrido, Orman said.

Orman said the woman wanted to be sure that police knew Garrido may have had multiple incidents involving attacks against girls and women. 

It was the third sexual assault linked to Garrido by authorities, who fear that he may have been involved in multiple attacks against girls and women.

Antioch police urged any other possible victims of past attacks to come forward.
 
Garrido, 58, and his wife, 54-year-old Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the disappearance of Dugard 18 years ago. Both suspects were being held without bail in El Dorado County.

Dugard was abducted on the morning of June 10, 1991 near her South Lake Tahoe home as she waited for the school bus.

Police said the Garridos held Dugard captive in an encampment of tents and sheds in their Antioch backyard until last week, and Garrido fathered two children with Dugard.

Susan Gellman, Phillip Garrido's public defender in El Dorado County, did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the 1972 case.

Orman said the chances of Garrido being charged again in the 1972 case were "very slim."

But just four years after his arrest in Antioch, Garrido was convicted in the 1976 kidnapping of a casino worker in Reno, Nevada, who said Garrido raped her in a storage locker before police found them. He spent about 11 years in federal prison and was paroled in 1988 in California.

The victim in that Reno attack, Katherine Callaway Hall, said she thinks Garrido deserves the death penalty.

Hall said in an interview Thursday that the federal prison term Garrido served for attacking her in Reno only made him a smarter criminal.

She added, "Don't let this happen to anyone else."

Hall was 26 at the time. She's 57 now. She called Garrido dangerous, a liar, and said authorities shouldn't ever let him out.

Court documents show Garridos had blamed drugs for his "downfall" in a plea to reduce that previous kidnap sentence in the 1970s. 

After being sentenced in 1977, he wrote a federal judge asking to have his sentence reduced.

Garrido said in the letter he was "ashamed" and had changed his ways. He also said he finished high school behind bars and was prepared to take college classes at Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

The letter was among court documents in that case made public this week.

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