Calif. kidnap case prompts look back at cold cases (AP)

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AP - Police are scouring old records of major unsolved cases in northern Nevada to determine if any match the profile of the man charged in the abduction and assault of a California girl 18 years ago.

The cold cases include the 1989 murders of two Reno children who vanished near their school bus stop.

Investigators are looking for similarities between numerous cases and Phillip Garrido's method of operation in the case of Jaycee Dugard, Reno police Lt. Mike Whan said. Dugard resurfaced last week in California after being snatched near her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991 at the age of 11.

"There might not be any link between the cases and him, but we'd be crazy not to look at the possibility," he said.

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A federal prosecutor testified at Garrido's 1977 trial that Garrido had tried unsuccessfully to kidnap yet another woman just an hour before he approached Hall.

Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison but was paroled after serving less than 11 years. He was arrested and jailed from April 4, 1993 until May 10, 1993 for violating parole terms, said U.S Parole Commission vice chairman Cranston Mitchell. Garrido was then confined to his home until Aug. 31, 1993, and remained on federal parole until March 1999.

Mitchell declined to discuss the details of the violations except to call them "minor."

Garrido's parole file shows that Garrido was convicted in state court of marijuana possession in 1970 and 1973 and was sentenced to probation both times, Mitchell said.