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Law enforcement personnel inspect the backyard of the Phillip Garrido residence Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, in Antioch, Calif. Police have resumed searching for any links to unsolved crimes at the home of the Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

Police mugshots released by El Dorado police in California shows Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Sniffer dogs have unearthed a bone fragment near the home of Garrido, who is accused of keeping a girl captive for 18 years, possibly linking him to murders, police said.

A helicopter makes a water drop on the fire line in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.

Firefighters Andrew Peterson, from left, Andrew Minor and Mark Smith chat as they gather around a fire truck at the Station Fire Incident Command Post in the Lake View Terrace area of Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.

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Spanish Education Minister Angel Gabilondo (L) and Spanish Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez arrive for a meeting with education officials from the different Spanish regional governments to devise new measures to deal with the Influenza A, H1N1 flu virus, in Madrid September 1, 2009.

Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 at the age of 11, in an undated photo.

FILE - In a Wednesday, April 30, 2003 file photo, Ed Smart walks with his daughter Elizabeth Smart to the Rose Garden of the White House. Elizabeth Smart told AP Radio Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 that said he's horrified by the parallels between the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, found this week after an abduction in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. that lasted nearly two decades, and his own daughter's nine months with an alleged kidnapper in 2003.

Katherine Callaway Hall listens during an interview in New York, Thursday Sept. 3, 2009. Hall was abducted and raped in 1976 by California kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido and says he deserves the death penalty. Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and face 29 charges in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard.