**Biography.com — Phillip Garrido**
URL: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/phillip-garrido
Status: Fetched this session. Used for: 1972 arrest (dropped charges), 1976 conviction details (50-year federal sentence plus 5 years to life state), release approximately 1988, sex offender registration status at time of 2009 arrest. Note: Biography.com did not mention Katherine Callaway by name; Wikipedia and South Lake Tahoe Now sources referenced her.
**Unresolved discrepancies and uncertainties:**
– The August 25 parole contact: multiple accounts describe Jacobs reaching the parole office by voicemail. The parole office’s immediate order for Garrido to appear suggests the voicemail was returned and acted upon promptly, but the exact sequence of callbacks is not fully documented in the available sources.
– The August 25 evening parole visit to the Antioch property: documented in Wikipedia and OIG as having occurred, with agents finding Nancy and Garrido’s mother but not the compound or Dugard. The precise sequence of who was handcuffed and what was searched is not uniform across sources; this article describes the event in general terms consistent with multiple accounts.
– The 2016 federal case: the Ninth Circuit ruling is described as 2-1; sources confirm this but the article did not access the full text of the opinion.
– Current prison status and parole eligibility: as of the time of this article’s drafting (October 2026), Phillip Garrido’s 431-years-to-life sentence makes any near-term parole essentially inaccessible; Nancy Garrido’s eligibility date of August 2029 comes from the 2011 sentencing records. Current CDCR status of both individuals was not independently verified against a live state database as of this drafting.
– The 1992 gas station sighting: described in general terms based on secondary reporting. The article does not specify investigators, dates, or outcomes beyond the fact that it was not pursued effectively.