Tara Cossey, missing since 1979

[anthrobones]

http://doenetwork.us/cases/834dfca.html



Tara Cossett Cossey
Missing since June 6, 1979 from San Pablo, Contra Costa County, California
Classification: Endangered Missing



Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: August 24, 1966
Age at Time of Disappearance: 12 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'11; 65 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Native female. Black hair; brown eyes. Dark complexion.
Clothing: Cutoff Levi's jeans, a blue tank top and thong sandals.
Dentals: Not available


Circumstances of Disappearance
Cossey was last seen in San Pablo, California on June 6, 1979. She was walking to Pirelli's Liquor Store to purchase a bag of sugar for her mother at the time of her disappearance. Cossey never returned to her family's residence and has not been heard from again.
Authorities announced that a suspect had a possible connection to Cossey's case, as well as the disappearances of Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff, Amber Swartz-Garcia and Amanda Campbell.

[Richard]

The first post in this thread indicated that:
>>Authorities announced that a suspect had a possible connection to Cossey's case, as well as the disappearances of Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff, Amber Swartz-Garcia and Amanda Campbell. <<

There is no further amplification, but below is a little more information on those cases that are supposedly related to Tara's 1979 Disappearance:

Amber Jean Swartz-Garcia, 8, Pinole, CA Missing 3 June 1988

Michaela Joy Garecht, 9, Hayward, CA Missing 19 November 1988

Ilene Misheloff, 13, Dublin, CA Missing 30 January 1989

Amanda Nicole "Nikki" Campbell, 4, Fairfield, CA Missing 27 December 1991

In the case of Michaela, there is a sketch of a man believed to be her abductor. But the suspect that is referred to would have to be a guy named Tim Bindner.

Tim Bindner (born about 1953), a former cemetery worker and crematorium operator would visit graveyards four or five evenings a week. In 1986, this Berkeley Graduate lost his job at the Social Security Administration because he was (by his own admission) sending unsolicited gifts of money and birthday cards to some girls in Colorado whose names he got from their Social Security files. More on him later...

[meggilyweggily]

I have a book about the missing girls' cases and Tim Bindner's connection to them, and Tara Cossey isn't even mentioned. All the other girls were Caucasian and, except Ilene, fair. The book said Ilene's case probably wasn't connected to the others because she was a teenager and the others only children -- Nikki Campbell was just 4.

[Richard]

This unsolved case is 30 years old and Tara is still missing.

http://doenetwork.org/cases/834dfca.html (http://doenetwork.org/cases/834dfca.html)

(http://doenetwork.us/cases/834dfca.html)

[anthrobones]

Bumping up.