By Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee

Phillip Garrido apparently had a way with people.

Repeatedly over the years he managed to charm the prison officials and parole agents supervising him to the point that they lauded him in letters.

Even when they detected him acting “real weird” or “strange” during visits to his Antioch home, they made no effort to conduct thorough searches of the property, admitting in writing they made only

“cursory” checks of the premises.

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