Garrido handed out the cards as he solicited clients for his printing business and told people the girl on the card was his daughter “Allissa”.
A local businessman, who saw one of the cards, said: “Allissa did all the graphic design for him and she put her photo on the cards.
Another client, Cheyvonne Molino, 35, who owns a wrecking business, said: “Her picture was all over his business cards for the last 10 years. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a beautiful young lady and was aspiring to do modelling.”
Garrido would also tell his clients that he could read their minds. He would then ask them to sign an affidavit saying he had done so successfully.
Andy Dryer, 41, who runs an auto business and fixed Garrido’s car, said: “He was weird. He said he could read my wife’s mind. He asked her what she was thinking and then said it was God. It wasn’t.”
Garrido brought the two daughters he fathered by Miss Dugard – Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11 – to the shop.
Mr Dryer said: “I saw them both and they seemed find. He gave me a bunch of literature about a church or cult he was trying to open up.”
Details emerge of Phillip Garrido’s violent history
Phillip Garrido, the religious zealot who allegedly kidnapped an 11-year-old girl and imprisoned her in his back garden for almost two decades, had previously attempted to gouge out his first wife’s eyeballs with a safety pin, it was claimed last night.
The attack on his wife is one of many new details to emerge about Mr Garrido, known as “Creepy Phil” to his neighbours, raising more questions about why the serial rapist, church founder, business card printer and former LSD dealer had not been brought to justice earlier — or kept in prison for the full 50 years of his 1970s rape sentence.
“He’s a monster,” Christine Murphy, who eloped with Mr Garrido in 1973, said in an interview with CBS’s Inside Edition. She said that she had fallen in love with Mr Garrido at high school — in spite of her sweetheart having been accused of raping a teenage girl.
Not long after they had exchanged wedding vows, Mr Garrido is alleged to have turned violent. “He started to get controlling, he started hitting me,” she said. “He smacked me, he told me to grow up.”
At the time Ms Murphy worked at a casino in Reno, Nevada, to pay their bills because Mr Garrido was an out-of-work musician. He would take LSD or smoke marijuana every day, she said, and he flew into a rage when she told him she did not want to have sex with multiple partners. Her most terrifying encounter with her husband came after he saw another man flirting with her.
“He took a safety pin and went after my eyes,” she said. “He tried to gouge my eyes out with it.”
The first time Ms Murphy tried to run away, Mr Garrido pulled up his car in front of her and dragged her inside — perhaps his first kidnapping. Ms Murphy finally escaped Mr Garrido only when he was convicted of kidnapping and rape and sentenced to 50 years.
She has since remarried and had four children. She thought that her former husband was still in jail until she heard the news last week about the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard. After allegedly kidnapping Jaycee at the age of 11, Mr Garrido had fathered two children with her, the first being born in her back garden prison when she was only 14. “It made me sick to my stomach,” Ms Murphy said.
Mr Garrido, 58, now faces life in prison, as does his wife and alleged accomplice, Nancy, 55. He is also under investigation for the murder of as many as ten women, and yesterday detectives took a bone fragment from land next to his house.
Meanwhile, Mr Garrido’s father, Manuel Garrido, 87, has described his son as being “absolutely out of his mind” and believes him to be capable or murder.
Mr Garrido’s brother has compared him to the serial killer Charles Manson.
While the police in Antioch, California, where Mr Garrido allegedly held Jaycee in squalid conditions for almost two decades, have already apologised for failing to respond to neighbours’ complaints — an officer who knocked on Mr Garrido’s door didn’t bother to search the property because he didn’t know he was a registered sex offender — attention has now turned to why he was let out of prison in the first place.
It also emerged that more than 100 registered sex offenders live in Mr Garrido’s postal code, perhaps because it is an “unincorporated” area and therefore gets little police attention.
The retired police officer who in 1976 apprehended a strung-out Mr Garrido in the process of raping a 25-year-old woman in a Reno warehouse — which he had equipped with rugs and pornographic magazines, alcohol and theatrical spotlights — told a local newspaper that he was astonished when the man he had put away for life was set free decades before his sentence was due to run out.
And although Mr Garrido allegedly kidnapped Jaycee from South Lake Tahoe — the town where he had snatched his previous victim — detectives seemingly never considered him a suspect.
“I thought he got sentenced to 50 years to life, so how he got out after 10 years, I’ll never know,” Clifford Conrad, 66, said. “I guess a lot of people dropped the ball his whole life.”
Mr Garrido’s 1976 rape victim, Katherine Hall, told CNN on Monday that Mr Garrido had stalked her when he got out of jail. “I’ve lived in fear ever since,” she said. “I knew he was hunting me.”
Ms Hall had not expected her former attacker to be paroled until 2006 at the earliest. When she made an appointment with Mr Garrido’s parole officer to complain, he told her that there was nothing he could do.
Ms Hall said that she was kidnapped after picking up Mr Garrido as a hitchhiker. He then smashed her head into the steering wheel, handcuffed her and said: “if you do good, you won’t get hurt.” Then he took her to the warehouse in Reno.
She was saved when Mr Conrad drove past at 2am and saw a car parked outside and a light under the door.
Police: No link between kidnap suspects, slayings
PITTSBURG, Calif. — Police in the Northern California city of Pittsburg say they have found no evidence to connect kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido or his wife to several unsolved murders.
Following Jaycee Lee Dugard’s reappearance last week after 18 years missing, Pittsburg police focused on Garrido in connection to the slayings of prostitutes in the 1990s.
Police spokesman Lt. Brian Addington said after four days of searching Garrido’s house, backyard and a neighbor’s yard, they found no clear link.
Addington said authorities will have to conduct further forensic examination on a few items they found to completely rule them out as evidence.
Authorities said Monday they found one small bone fragment in the neighbor’s yard but did not know whether it was human.
Philip Garrido’s first wife claims monster had sick sex fantasies
Christine Murphy met Garrido in high school and was just 19 and working in a casino in Reno, Nevada when they eloped and got married in 1973.
She described how he then allegedly took LSD every day and became violent when she refused to play out his sexual fantasies.
Multiple partners is what he wanted, I wouldn’t go for that,” she told the US television programme Inside Edition.
“He started to get controlling, he started hitting me. He smacked me, he told me to grow up.
“I was always looking for a way to get away. He’s a monster.”
When another man flirted with her Garrido grabbed a safety pin and dug it into her face, she claimed. Her scar is still visible three decades later.
Four years after they married Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping Katie Callaway Hall, a casino croupier and sentenced to life.
Mrs Murphy, who is now remarried with four children, said: “Honestly I was relieved, it was my exit out.”
She did not know Garrido was out of prison until he was charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard, who he is alleged to have abducted from a bus stop and kept prisoner in his garden for 18 years, fathering two children with her.
Ms Murphy said: “It made me sick to my stomach. The only person I have anything to say to is the victims. Just be strong, take it one day at a time.”
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