Background Check: Produces The Arrest Of Johnny Wright

A background check at last nailed Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Plus some astute suspicion and a mother’s protective instincts.

Garrido with his two teenage daughters in tow talked to Liza Campbell, Events Organiser, University of California, Berkeley, about holding an event at the University. Liza Campbell became suspicious and carried out a Background Check on him. His record showed him to be on parole for a rape conviction and to be a registered sex offender.

Liza was unable to conclude their arrangements that day because of a prior appointment and so asked Garrido to return the following day. Meanwhile with the results back from the background check Liza asked Ally Jacobs, Police Officer, to sit in with her at the following meeting the next day .

At this meeting Ally talked separately to the two girls. Her motherly instincts told her something was wrong. She informed Phillip Garrido’s parole officer about the meeting with Garrido and his two daughters .

Back came the shocking news. She felt sick to her stomach. Garrido didn’t have any daughters!
Now Phillip and Nancy Garrido face a combined total of 29 felony charges, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment in connection with the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991.

Garrido is held in custody at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville, California, as he and his wife Nancy Garrido await trial .

This is what a woman’s suspicion, a Background Check and a mother’s instincts can do. Hooray for background checks and suspicion. How great was that result!

Our second story that advocates conducting a background check is the arrest this week of Johnny Wright after a quarter of a century of avoiding the Law.

You couldn’t invent this. Johnny Wright strode into the Police Station in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and applied for a background check be carried out on him. This formed part of a job application for a driver’s job in Atlanta. He returned the next day to pay the 15 dollars and collect the paperwork but found himself in custody. An arrest warrant from 1985 had surfaced in connection with the second-degree murder of Rebecca A Doisy committed way back in 1976!

If only someone in the last 24 years had been suspicious enough of Wright to have carried out a Background Check on him, just like Liza Campbell did with Garrido. Perhaps Background Checks should form part of every job application?


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