Kidnapper married first wife in Carson

Phillip Craig Garrido's connection to Carson City seems to be fleeting.

He was 21 years old and lived in Oakley, Calif., in March 1973 when he married his 19-year-old girlfriend from Brentwood, Calif., in a ceremony on South Carson Street, city records indicate.

The marriage certificate was filed with the Carson City Clerk Recorder on March 16, 1973, five days after Garrido and Christine Marie Perreira were married by Rev. Bonds in a small chapel at 701 S. Carson St.

Three years later, Garrido was working as a musician in Reno when he was arrested in the South Lake Tahoe kidnapping and rape of a woman he held captive for hours in a storage shed.

It was during his incarceration in federal prison on the kidnapping charge that Garrido met and married his second wife and alleged accomplice in the abduction, rape and nearly two-decade imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Reports indicate that Nancy Bocanegra met Garrido while visiting her incarcerated brother.

When they married in a jailhouse ceremony on Oct. 5, 1981, he was 30, she was 26, according to the marriage license filed in the First Judicial District Court in Leavenworth, Kan.

In January 1988, he was transferred from the federal prison into a Nevada prison, according to the Nevada Department of Public Safety. In August that same year, he was released from the Nevada prison to federal probation in Antioch.

Garrido then moved with his new wife into his mother's home.

Three years later, say authorities, the duo made the 159-mile drive to South Lake Tahoe and kidnapped Dugard together.