Has there ever been any resolution to the missing children cases in N California in the 1980s and 1990s?

Answer 1

The prime suspect, an Oakland, CA man named Timothy Bindner, is still walking around a free man. Bindner brought attention to himself by his odd behavior, his searching for the victims and injecting himself into the separate investigations, and his habit of sending letters and gifts to very young girls that he doesn't know.

The bloodhound detected several of the girls' scent in Bindner's vehicle and to a cemetery of another victim where Bindner was known to visit often. He flunked his polygraph and refused to take a private one.

So far there has been only 1 victim that has been found and identified, and it seems she may have been killed by a different man. Bindner has his own theory as to why the girls have never been found. He suggested that since graves are dug the night before a funeral that the murderer jumped down into a ready dug grave, dug a little deeper, and covered up the first body. The next day after the funeral, the coffin is lowered into the ground without anyone ever knowing there was a second body buried beneath the rightful owner of the grave. This could have been the reason that no bodies have ever been found. Bindner spent hour after hour sitting in cemeteries visiting graves of children he never knew. He also had found employment at several cemeteries after he was fired by the local Social Security office twice for using SS computer data to find young girl's addresses and sending them letters and money.

The police have never been able to arrest him for these disappearances for lack of evidence. Knowing and proving in a court of law can be miles apart. Ironically, Bindner sued the City of Fairfield, CA for $90,000 and in May 1992 a settlement was reached.

Hopefully someday the families of the abducted children will find out where their girls are and give them the buriel they deserve.

Interesting fact:The Polly Klaas abduction was thought at first to be the work of the same person as the east Bay crimes.