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Christopher Michael Finney was a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from Isla Vista, California, on June 15, 1980. Witnesses saw him with a blond man in shorts who was riding a red motorcycle. Three months later skeletal remains recovered from a lagoon near the University of California, Santa Barbara were identified as Christopher’s; a coroner determined he died of a broken cervical vertebra.

Authorities later named Malcolm Joseph Robbins as a suspect. Robbins, a convicted serial killer and sex offender arrested in November 1980 in New Jersey for the murder of 9-year-old Evan Bailey, confessed to killing Christopher. In his confession he said he had lured the boy onto his motorcycle, taken him to a wooded area, assaulted him and strangled him after the child kicked the bike’s tires. Investigators found Christopher’s T-shirt at Robbins’ former residence; the shirt had been given to Robbins’ partner.

Does anyone remember Christopher, the red motorcycle, or seeing a blond man in Isla Vista that June?