SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Curtis Dean Anderson lured 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild into his car with the promise of a visit to Disneyland, then held her captive for three weeks, raping her and renting her out to other child molesters before killing her and burying her body, investigators recounted at his preliminary hearing.
Anderson, 44, already is serving a life sentence for kidnapping another girl who escaped and helped lead police to him. He's pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual assault in the death of Xiana, who disappeared in Vallejo in December 1999 while on her way to school.
Anderson told police that after he got Xiana into his car, he knocked her out and drove her to the room he rented in a San Jose boarding house.
"He said he had sex with her every day, and when she started to cry, he would whip her," Vallejo police officer James Mathews testified Monday. "He said the first time she fought back, and he gave her drugs to subdue her."
Ray Medved, a retired district attorney's investigator who was a member of the task force that cracked the case, said that at one point Anderson began "renting out" the girl for drugs and money.
During a 2001 interview, Anderson referred cryptically to a chilling "snatch, murder and toss" scenario, said another prosecution witness, Deputy Richard Rutman of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department. Rutman said Anderson neither confirmed nor denied killing Xiana.
Rutman testified that in another interview he asked Anderson what could possibly justify the molestation and murder of a 7-year-old girl. Anderson's response: "Depends on what she did. Sometimes they have it coming."
Anderson's public defenders, Ken Mandel and Miguel Rodriguez, tried to show that Anderson's brother, Zack, and a friend, Brian Goodan, also had access to the room where Xiana was held.
Anderson, who was diagnosed with colon cancer last year, sat in a wheelchair a few yards from Xiana's relatives in a Santa Clara County courtroom.
Take this SOB out behind the court house and shoot him, or throw him in with the general population in prision, they know how to deal with his kind.
This is my own personnal opinion.
Gun Runner
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