SAN FRANCISCO AND ORINDA — Phillip Garrido's kidnapping and rape of a young woman in 1976, as described in federal court documents, bore eerie similarities to his alleged abduction and captivity of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.
The trial transcript and court-ordered psychological evaluations reveal a deeply troubled man who craved violence for sexual satisfaction, meticulously planned the rape and was developing an obsessive interest in religion.
And they show that Katherine Callaway, 25, may not have been his first victim. According to the transcript in his kidnapping trial, prosecutors tried to introduce evidence that Garrido attempted to kidnap another woman.
That alleged assault happened shortly before he abducted Callaway on a November night in South Lake Tahoe and drove her to a Reno storage unit that had been outfitted with multi-colored stage lights, a stack of pornography and a bed covered in a hole-riddled red satin sheet.
He also said on the stand that he masturbated outside of elementary schools and exposed himself to girls he thought were between the ages of 7 and 10.
Garrido, 58, and his 54-year-old wife, Nancy, were arrested last week and charged with 29 felony counts of rape and kidnapping in the 1991 abduction of Dugard, who authorities say bore Garrido two daughters during her captivity.
In 1977, Garrido was found guilty of abducting Callaway and transporting her across state lines. He was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. He later pleaded guilty to a Nevada rape charge and was sentenced to life in state prison.
In all, however, he spent 10 1/2 years in federal prison for the kidnapping and about seven months in a Nevada prison. He was paroled to California in August 1988, three years before he allegedly kidnapped Dugard.
Thomas W. Hutchison, a spokesman for the U.S. Commission on Parole, said the law at the time of Garrido's conviction made him eligible for federal parole after 10 years. For sentences 30 years or longer, a convict had to serve at least a third of 30 years. Federal parole was abolished in November 1987, but that applied only to crimes committed after that change.
The federal commission would have held a hearing and considered the rape as well as the kidnapping in deciding whether to parole Garrido, the spokesman said. Hutchison said he did now know why the commission paroled Garrido.
