a teenager disappears. come home. police. amber never made it right then. somebody had her. kept us up at night. going over in your head, what happened in front of the school? then another gone. she s such a good girl. she needs to come home. there s a lot of desperation. maybe she s tied up somewhere. maybe she s being held captive. two missing girls, one man. a secret. did you get any sense of the sort of personality you are dealing with? yes, psychotic. he came up and it came right here, the edge and he says, right there. two families, two mysteries. two journeys for justice. if 11 can be learned from amber, then i wanted out there. on the evening of february 12th, 2009, in a hillside house north of san diego, count fournié. the negotiation was finally complete. the girl had one. i made her writer one page letter to me, and she made it two pages but repeat yourself multiple times to make it longer. i m like, okay. she pestered her mother, kar
every business and story go into. so, you know, here i am. and he s walking me to the grave. here was a spot where he claimed to have buried amber dubois in february 2009. in the thicket of trees on the hillside, in the middle of nowhere, no houses anywhere. accessible by one dirt road. i don t believe anyone would ve ever found the site. then, a small army was called. still in secret to that lonely hill. the detectives, a forensic archaeologist, medical examiner, 12 hours, they shifted meticulously through the dirt to find, we ll, it had once been a person. up on the hill, kept the captain made the next decision. we didn t want to notify the family, not knowing whether it truly was amber or not. the next day, saturday, the medical examiner had made a positive identification. gardner had indeed led them to embers remains.