This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

It is not intended for children.

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

This month I've dedicated the whole month to detail the crimes of one of the worst predators

Northern California has ever experienced.

Hurtisine Anderson preyed upon women and children in the San Francisco Bay Area, and may have been

responsible for the disappearance of almost a dozen females beginning in the early 1980s.

If not for the bravery of one eight-year-old girl,

Anderson may have added even more victims to his Grim scoreboard.

I'll continue detailing Anderson's crimes from last week. If you haven't yet

listened to episode 193, you'll want to start there. In the last episode, 7-year-old Ziana Fairchild went missing from her home in Vallejo, California.

Even after a massive search was conducted by police, volunteers, and the FBI, and several suspects were investigated, no trace of

Ziana was yet found. I'll pick up the story after eight terrible months have passed with

Ziana's family still searching for answers. In August 2000,

another Vallejo girl would vanish off the streets. Vallejo residents would find

themselves reliving a nightmare, but this time the story would end very differently

and a predator would be unmasked. This is part two of the case of serial predator,

Curtis Dean Anderson, the abduction of Mitsi Sanchez. 7 year old

old Zana Fairchild had been missing for 8 months.

Even with hundreds of hours of investigations, searches, and police interviews, the trail had gone

cold.

But her great aunt Stephanie Kahalakulu and her mother, Antoinette Robinson, and the entire city of Alejo, had not given up hope and continued to show up to

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