Christie & Bobby Baskin – Children Kidnapped 20 Years Ago Found!

Posted on February 5, 2009

Two children abducted over 20 years ago, Christie and Bobby Baskin, were found Monday with their grandfather Marvin Maple in San Jose, CA.

An anonymous woman reported that Marivin Maple, who went by the name John Bunting, said that he was wanted.

Back in 1980, Christie and Bobby Baskin’s grandparents Marvin and Sandra Maple said the children’s parents were sexually abusing the children. There was no evidence to support those claims but in March 1989, their grandparents kidnapped them and disappeared.

“I can’t go into details about psychological stability, but obviously you don’t run off with your children’s kids like this unless there is something wrong with you,” the children’s father, Mark Baskin, told us in January.

Debbie and Mark Baskin have been searching for close to 20 years for their children.

“They have known all this time how to blend in and not do things to electronically alert themselves,” Mark said.

A few sightings of the children were reported in the Bay Area in the ’90s after the children appeared on the TV show “Unsolved Mysteries.” In December, 2008, Tennessee authorities got a tip from that they may have been spotted in San Diego, according to Mark.

San Jose police arrested Maple Monday night. Maple is in custody charged with kidnapping his grandchildren March 1, 1989 when Christie was 8 and Bobby, 7, the Murfreesboro Post reported. Grandmother Sandra Maple died about two years ago.

Wow! What a story huh?

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