In 2015, I filed kidnapping police report with the Walnut Creek Police. According to California Law there is no waiting period. After years of battling for access to my legal access to my sons I began emailing FBI, State Attorney General and USDOJ.
Between 2011 and 2016 I called Senators, Assembly Members and Police. In 2017 the SAG charged Contra Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson with a felony. Today I am still waiting who orchestrated the kidnapping of my sons, then totaled my car for the umpteenth time over 40 years.
Between 2011 and 2016 I called Senators, Assembly Members and Police. In 2017 the SAG charged Contra Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson with a felony. Today I am still waiting who orchestrated the kidnapping of my sons, then totaled my car for the umpteenth time over 40 years.
The Pinole Police Department
announced late Tuesday it has reopened a high profile missing child's
case, citing in part, that new technology will allow them to better
process age-old evidence.
The department said it no longer considers the 1988 disappearance of 7-year-old Amber Swartz Garcia closed.
The department's decision also comes after Lea Duel, a family friend, started an online petition at Change.org last month asking authorities to reopen the case, which has more than 1,300 signatures.
"I'm
ecstatic," Amber's mother, Kim Swartz told the Pinole City Council
Tuesday evening. "Thank you. The whole conversation has changed.
Amber disappeared forever from her front yard while skipping rope on Savage Avenue on June 3, 1988.
In
November 2007, convicted child molester and murderer Curtis Dean
Anderson confessed to killing Amber. He told FBI agents he dumped her
body off Highway 10 near Benson, Arizona. Anderson died a month later
before he could be re-interviewed by Pinole investigators. And Amber's
body was never found, and agents could never find corroborating proof
that Anderson was the kidnapper.
Kim
Swartz has never believed that confession; she reiterated to the city
council that she'd rather have her daughter listed as a missing person
forever than have the wrong person be fingered for it.
Even
though a search of the area came up empty, on July 6, 2009 the Pinole
Police Department and the FBI announced that the case was formally
being closed based on Anderson's signed confession. Both agencies said
they were confident that Anderson’s confession was truthful.
In the release announcing the case had been reopened, Pinole police said:
"No information or evidence has been received that would dispute the confession made by Curtis Dean Anderson. However, Amber Swartz has not been located and consequently, effective immediately, the Pinole Police Department is modifying the status of the Amber Swartz case from closed to open."
Investigators
now say they hope reopening the case will bring out new tips that could
give Amber's mom the closure she has been waiting for for more than 25
years.
Anyone with information
regarding Amber’s disappearance, or location is encouraged to call the
Pinole Police Department at 510-724-8950.
