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Cops find bone in kidnap case; SEARCH: Fragment discovered next door to accused's home.


Byline: Mail Reporter

US POLICE said today they had found a bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his back garden for 18 years.

Authorities revealed the discovery after FBI and law enforcement agencies in the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
 finished combing Phillip Garrido's property in Antioch, Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , and the one next door for possible links to unsolved crimes in the area.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and charged with 29 counts connected to the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment Imprisonment
See also Isolation.

Alcatraz Island

former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218]

Altmark, the

German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist.
 of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched outside her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991. They have pleaded not guilty.

The bone fragment was found in the next door neighbour's garden, said Contra Costa Contra Costa can refer to:
  • Contra Costa County, California
  • Contra Costa (railroad ferryboat)
 County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jimmy Lee. Garrido once lived on that property in a shed.

Neighbours say he once worked as the property caretaker and helped out an elderly resident.

Lee said it would take several weeks of testing to determine if the recovered shard belonged to an animal or a human.

Antioch and Contra Costa County authorities have released no details about what they are seeking at the properties. The land includes the garden compound of tents and sheds where Garrido and his wife allegedly hid Jaycee and her two daughters, fathered by Garrido.

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Hunt: Police search the neighbouring property to the home of a man charged with the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard (inset).
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