In 2001, police and FBI officials searched the crawl space of a Salisbury Drive home near the house Campbell had lived in. The theory was Campbell had been lured there, killed and buried in the crawl space. Nothing came from the search...
Last year, law enforcement officials learned about a shrine of sorts with photos and clippings of Campbell in another part of the region, Hurlbut said. It looked suspicious, but law enforcement officials couldn’t track down who set up the shrine in a fairly remote area inside a shed of some type, he said.
Acting on a tip that they may find the kidnapped girl's body underneath the tri-level white stucco house on Salisbury Drive, police conducted the search with the consent of the current occupants, who did not live there in December 1991, when Nikki was last seen alive...
The tipster said Nikki's body may be buried under the house, which Baird characterized as information that police had never heard before. In their "initial" search, police found no evidence to link the house to the girl.
"It may turn out to be the break we were looking for, or it may be a complete waste of time," said Baird, who indicated that police would conduct further searches of the house...
Nikki's mother, who has remarried and now goes by the name Ann Campbell- Javier, is holding little hope that the tip would solve the crime and give her closure to almost a decade of agony.
"I'm sure they investigated all that when Nikki was taken," she said in an interview at her Vallejo home. "I'm sure they were all checked out then."
A Martinez man convicted of killing his 16-year-old son is asking for a new trial because a juror once was a suspect in the still-unsolved disappearances of four Bay Area girls.
Timothy Bindner misrepresented himself to get on the jury that convicted 43-year-old Turkish businessman Erhan Kayik earlier this year, Deputy Public Defender Rebecca Brackman said in Contra Costa County Superior Court this morning...
“I answered all the questions (asked during jury selection) honestly,” said Bindner, whose role in the kidnapping investigations was the focus of the 1997 book, “Stalemate.” “What did they want me to do, bring them the book?”
Police in Vallejo, Calif., investigating the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl who cunningly escaped her captor on Saturday said a number of other police departments believe the same suspect might be involved in the disappearance of other little girls as far away as Las Vegas...
Curtis Dean Anderson on Tuesday appeared in Solano County court handcuffed and was charged with 11 crimes...
Hayward police are looking for clues in the abduction of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, 9 while Fairfield police are checking for links to the December 1991 disappearance of Amanda ‘‘Nikki’’ Campbell, 4.
Leprikawn, are you talking about Bindner? Is there an article about this? She escaped Bidners's car?