In 1976, Garrido abducted a twenty-five-year-old woman named Katherine Callaway from South Lake Tahoe—the same community from which he would later take Jaycee Dugard—and raped her in a warehouse in Nevada. He was caught, convicted, and sentenced to fifty years in federal prison for kidnapping, plus five years to life on state sexual assault charges.
He served approximately eleven years. He was released on parole in 1988.
Within three years of his release from federal custody, Garrido was back in the South Lake Tahoe area with his wife Nancy. On June 10, 1991, they abducted Jaycee Dugard.
The gap between Garrido’s release in 1988 and Jaycee’s abduction in 1991 was the first in a long series of periods during which systems that should have flagged Garrido’s risk failed to do so. His parole conditions required supervision. His violent and predatory history should have placed him under close scrutiny. His eventual parole record in California—once he had transferred his supervision to the state system—would reveal decade after decade of inadequate monitoring, missed home visits, ignored GPS alerts, and a risk classification so low it approached absurdity given the documented facts of his criminal record.
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## The Property at Antioch
The property at 1554 Walnut Avenue in Antioch was not a remote location. It was a residential neighborhood, a house on an ordinary suburban street. Garrido and Nancy lived in the main house. Behind it, concealed by fences and overgrown with vegetation, was an expanding complex of sheds, tents, and outbuildings that Garrido had constructed over the years.