![]() ![]() Crackpots called often over the years, reporting Amber was “fed to pigs or pushed out of a plane.” He told the agents that he learned from “mistakes” he made with Amber that refined his child-abduction techniques.ĭespite the investigators’ determinations, Kim Swartz said Monday that she and her family feel little sense of closure. He seemed puffed up a bit to be speaking to the FBI. Police searched for Amber’s remains but never found them authorities did find Xiana’s skull near Los Gatos in 2002.Īnderson described Amber as his first slaying “victim,” Clancy said. He said left Amber’s body exposed so animals would scatter the remains, police said, a tactic he repeated in 2000 with Xiana. He eventually left Amber in an isolated stretch of desert beside Highway 10, near Benson, Ariz., where his aunt owned a ranch. He stuffed Amber’s body in the trunk and headed south to the U.S.-Mexico border, but Mexican police turned him back because he was drunk. He claimed he suffocated her in a hotel in or near Tuscon about a day after the abduction. But he told investigators that he seldom visited Pinole and that he chose the Pinole Valley Road exit on a whim while driving down Interstate 80 on his way to Arizona.Īfter grabbing Amber, he hopped right back on the freeway and headed south, before authorities even knew of the abduction. ![]() Paroled in March 1988, Anderson spent plenty of time between Richmond and Vallejo, police said, working as a driver and delivering lost airline luggage. The former taxi driver went to prison 10 times from 1986 to 1999 for three convictions and numerous parole violations. “If there is no pursuit of the death penalty, I will freely admit my role in being responsible for the death of Amber Swartz-Garcia,” Anderson wrote in his statement, witnessed by two FBI agents. The FBI profiler called him a true psychopath, bereft of emotion or remorse for his deeds. ![]() The FBI obtained a signed confession only in Amber’s case, and police spent 18 months trying to verify or disprove his story, which he told matter-of-factly and in disconcerting detail, police said. Investigators hoped to return for more interviews and more specific details, but Anderson, already frail, died Dec. Parker would not discuss other investigations spawned by Anderson’s disclosures. During that five-hour session, he described “numerous” child abductions and sexual assaults, both before and after Amber, and also confessed to several more killings, “possibly involving children,” Special Agent Marty Parker said Monday. 5, 2007, while serving a sentence of 301 years at Corcoran State Prison. “Curtis Dean Anderson had never been a subject of interest in Amber’s disappearance until his arrest in 2000 for the Vallejo abductions,” Clancy said.Īfter pleading guilty in 2005 to murder, kidnapping and sexual assault charges, Anderson granted an FBI request for an interview Nov. I just have to learn to be thankful for what I did have.”Īnderson also abducted, raped and murdered 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild, of Vallejo, in 1999 and he could have killed 8-year-old Vallejo resident Midsi Sanchez in 2000 had she not escaped after two days shackled inside his car. ![]() “I hang on to the fact that I had her for seven years, at least. “The fact we can’t have her means it’s not as final as I’d like it to be,” said Kim Swartz, Amber’s mother. ![]()
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