Paroled despite 50-year term for rape and torture
Nevada Division of Parole and Probation chief Bernie Curtis said on Thursday that records indicate that in November 1976, Phillip Garrido kidnapped a California woman from a convenience store parking lot in South Lake Tahoe.
He took her to a storage shed in Reno where he raped and tortured her.
Mr Curtis said Garrido left the victim in the shed where she was found by a Reno police officer.
“That officer heard her muffled cries and saved her life,” Mr Curtis said.
Garrido was 25 and a musician at the time. He also was arrested for investigation of rape and infamous crimes against nature.
According to a Nevada State Journal story published the next day, Reno detectives said the victim, a 25-year-old casino worker from South Lake Tahoe, was forced into a car at a market parking lot.
According to the Reno Evening Gazette, the victim told police Garrido had knocked on her car window that night and had asked for a ride. She told police she drove him a short distance and then he grabbed her. Police said he handcuffed her, taped her mouth, tied her and drove to Reno.
At the time, Detective Dan DeMaranville commended Reno police officer Clifford Conrad for his police work. Mr Conrad was on patrol at 2.30am and spotted a car parked in front of a miniature warehouse.
He stopped, knocked on the door and when Garrido opened the door, a woman screamed inside.
Det DeMaranville said the mini-unit had rugs on the floor and walls, pornographic magazines, a movie projector, a spotlight, wine and hot water.
In 1977, Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for kidnapping and from five years to life on a state charge of sexual assault after the case was heard in Washoe County District Court.
Garrido started his federal prison sentence on June 30, 1977 for transporting a victim over the state line and was turned over to Nevada authorities on January 22, 1988 to serve state time, Pardee said.
The federal government prosecuted Garrido on the kidnapping charge, while Washoe County prosecuted him on the rape charge, with the sentences to run concurrently, said Curtis.
After serving about 10 years in a federal prison and receiving parole, it appears from the Nevada Parole and Probation records that Garrido was brought to Nevada and served just a few months in a Nevada prison before receiving parole.
He was released on August 26, 1988, and moved to Antioch. After completing the 10-year federal parole, Garrido asked that his lifetime supervision under the Nevada sentencing be transferred to California Parole and Probation. The request was granted, said Curtis.
He said reports submitted to Nevada Parole and Probation from California Parole and Probation indicated “he was being a successful parolee”.
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