Calif. kidnapping spurs review of cold cases

“There might not be any link between the cases and him, but we’d be crazy not to look at the possibility,’’ Whan said.

Jennifer and Charles Chia were kidnapped on the 100-yard walk from the bus stop to their home in 1989, Whan said.

The remains of the 6- and 7-year-old siblings were found nine months later near Blairsden, Calif., about 60 miles northwest of Reno.

Whan said the cases under review occurred either about 1976, when Garrido kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 25-year-old woman while living in Reno, or in the several years after Garrido was paroled from a Nevada prison in 1988.

The 1976 victim - Katherine Callaway Hall - told police after that attack that Garrido said he had abducted two other girls.

Another unsolved Reno case involves 7-year-old Monica DaSilva, who was snatched from her bedroom in 1990. Her remains were found three weeks later.

Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 54, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of kidnapping, rape, and false imprisonment in Dugard’s disappearance.