Police teams say they have found a small bone fragment while digging next to the home of the man accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Detectives with dogs trained to find human remains have been searching 58-year-old Phillip Garrido’s property and the garden next door, where he used to be caretaker, for possible links to other unsolved sex crimes, including the murder of prostitutes.
Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, said that it would be several weeks before tests showed whether the fragment was human or animal.
The bone was found on Sunday in the next door neighbour’s garden in Walnut Avenue in Antioch, he said, adding that several other pieces of evidence were also removed.
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