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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Observercast

Cracked Justice Enabled Girl Rape Case

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BY FROMA HARROP Many astounding details surround the story of the California rapist who kidnapped an 11-year-old and kept her captive for 18 years. None shocks more than the raw fact that Phillip Garrido was not locked up, the key lost. In 1976, Garrido abducted and raped 25-year-old Katherine Callaway Hall. The woman says she was taken to a warehouse where Garrido trapped her for eight hours among carpeting apparently arranged to hold a sex prisoner. […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.