California Birth Index, 1905-1995 about Ann Cosette Ellison
Name: Ann Cosette Ellison
Birth Date: 16 Mar 1954
Gender: Female
Mother’s Maiden Name: Oddo
Birth County: Alameda

California, Death Index, 1940-1997 about Ann C Ellison
Name: Ann C Ellison
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 16 Mar 1954
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 1 Jan 1971
Death Place: Contra Costa

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 about Cosette Ann Ellison
Name: Cosette Ann Ellison
Service Info.: CM1 US NAVY
Birth Date: 16 Mar 1954
Death Date: 3 Mar 1970
Relation: Daughter (Minor Child) Of Ellison, Richard Ruthven
Interment Date: 1 Apr 2002
Cemetery: Eagle Point National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 2763 Riley Road Eagle Point, OR 97524
Buried At: Section 21 Site 293

Think she could have been a victim of Philip Joseph Hughes, because Maureen Patricia Field was also found at Morgan Territory Road. She was offered a ride home by Philip Joseph Hughes, a former neighbor, at pleasant Hill K-Mart. Also, Letitia Fagot was a definite PJH victim, she lived at the Los Cerros apartments. Lisa Dickinson, missing, lived at Los Cerros Avenue, too, which is why she may be to him as well.

Another possibility is Larry Christopher Graham, who killed himself after being convicted (DNA) for Angely Bugay’s murder.

In that connection, Timothy Bindner should be mentioned as he was connected by authorities – possibly – to the cases of Tara Lossett Cossey, Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff and Amanda Campbell. He sent birthday greetings to young girls in the East Bay area. One child´s parents contacted authorities and handed over a letter Bindner had written to their daughter. The note was printed backwards and could only be deciphered by holding it up to a mirror.

Bindner also visited the Oakmont cemetery gravesite of Angela Bugay. Bindner approached many of the mothers of missing girls from the East Bay area offering his assistance, including Amber Swartz-Garcia’s and Michaela Garecht’s families. He introduced himself to Kim (Garcia?) three days after Amber vanished. Investigators asked her to maintain a quasi-friendship with Bindner in hope of learning if he was connected to any of the girls’ cases. She and authorities agreed that Bindner appeared to playing mind games with victims’ loved ones and law enforcement. Many people theorize that he enjoyed taunting families into thinking that he may have been involved in the presumed abductions. He was once arrested for annoying two little girls whom he was trying to lure into his van, but the charges were later dropped. Bindner often drove around in a light blue Dodge van with a license plate that said "Lov You." Inside the van was wallpapered with many pictures of children. Bindner refers to himself as a "good Samaritan." He asked Linda Golston, a reporter for ‘The San Jose Mercury News’, to interview him at Oakmont Cemetery at 4:30 a.m. He played his favorite song on her car stereo, "Jesus, Here’s Another Child To Hold." Bindner told Goldston that he thought of the missing girls as "his children." She asked him how he believed the abductions occurred and he said one child was submissive, but another fought back against her assailant. Bindner added that he was "guessing" about the girls’ reactions. Bindner wrote a letter to a law enforcement agency in the late 1980s, stating that he believed the next girl who would be abducted from the area would be nine years old. Garecht disappeared shortly thereafter; she was nine at the time of her abduction.

Bindner also sent a holiday card to a profiler for the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) in 1990. The card depicted an image of a young girl holding up four fingers. Campbell vanished in 1991 at the age of four. Search dogs traced Campbell and Swartz-Garcia’s scent to Bugay’s grave.

Authorities never had enough evidence to prove Bindner was connected to their cases, although he was known for visiting the cemetery on occasion. Bindner was given a heroism award by the California State Patrol after assisting victims in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. He has never been charged in any of the cases.

In 2009, investigators announced that Curtis Dean Anderson, a convicted child molester and murderer, had confessed to Swartz-Garcia’s murder a month before he died in prison in 2007, and they were closing her case and ending the search for her. Police spent eighteen months investigating his statement and couldn’t find any evidence to refute it. He is also considered a suspect in the 1999 disappearance of Karla Rodriquez.

QT

Thanks for posting that QT. Very interesting and disturbing case. More here on Bidner.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=132655&page=1

Is Ellison the girl who’s jacket button was found nearby? I always thought it was interesting, because Z referenced a button in his next letter, or am I thinking of a different girl?

Is Ellison the girl who’s jacket button was found nearby? I always thought it was interesting, because Z referenced a button in his next letter, or am I thinking of a different girl?

No, that is Elaine Davis. Reread the thread on her as we found additional things, when we researched her at the Library. I find her case one of the most interesting.

Just reminded by a friend of mine, who was also a good friend of Cossette Ellison, that yesterday was the 44th Anniversay, that she went missing. So sad.

TF posted this a while back on t’other place. I thought it interesting, at the time.
http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/forum/ … 5&start=10