Child killing and
molestation trial delayed
SAN JOSE, Calif. >> A judge delayed a plea hearing yesterday for the man accused of killing former Hawaii resident 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild.
Curtis Dean Anderson, 43, faces charges of murder, kidnapping and molestation in the 1999 disappearance and death of Fairchild. A Santa Clara County judge postponed the hearing until July 22 to give Anderson's public defender more time to prepare.
Fairchild disappeared while on her way to school in December 1999. Her fate remained a mystery until her skull was discovered more than a year later.
After Anderson was arrested in 2000 on charges he kidnapped another girl, he boasted that he had killed Fairchild. He's serving 251 years in prison for the kidnapping and molestation of another little girl who escaped.
Fairchild grew up in Hawaii and Colorado before she went to Vallejo months before her disappearance.