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… When I first met him(Garrido) I thought he was a nice guy. Now I’d just like to see him shot or hung.”
Police in Contra Costa County admitted on Friday that they had received a tip in November 2006 that children were living in Garrido’s backyard, but failed to follow it up properly.
Sheriff Warren Rupf issued an apology over the missed opportunity to rescue Dugard, saying law enforcement officials were distraught over their failure to discover Garrido’s crimes earlier.
“I can’t change the course of events, but we are beating ourselves up over this and are the first to do so,” Rupf said.
Meanwhile police searched Garrido’s home on Friday for evidence of a possible link to the unsolved murders of several prostitutes in the early 1990s, local media reported.