four months after amber disappeared, the volunteers search on february 13th 2010, they marked the somber anniversary. our biggest fear is going our entire careers, if not our lifetime and not knowing what happened to amber dubois and the likelihood of solving this case is very limited if at all. and then. the search is on this morning for a missing 17-year-old and, then it happened again. coming up. another mystery. finding her car, it was unusual. it made me think that maybe something had gone wrong. and, another anguished mother. please help us bring her home. she is such a good girl. she needs to come home. when dateline continues. keep. coming. back. inflammation in the eye might be to blame. feel the ache and burn!
it hit on the same cell phone tower that covers both embers home in the school. so, police set out with amount to a reverse 9-1-1 call, this is an important message from the police department. regarding a missing youth at risk. the missing juvenile is amber dubois. it s a recorded message that we can send out to all the homes an area that we did it for several miles. around the cell phone tower. dark clothing. if you ve seen her, you know her, please call us. as the new spread, people did. call a classmate reported seeing a number in downtown escondido, saturday the 14th. early evening. local surveillance cameras picked up nothing. then, sunday the 15th, a second classmate says, he saw her walking with a boy. the starting on sunday night, deemed to be as reliable as can be. each siding sent hope
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.
remember, he threw her off? if he goes off this cliff, no one s gonna believe me that he accidentally went off this cliff. he looked around, seemed confused. came up and he went right to here, to the edge, and he says, right there. right about here. he s not exactly certain, then he takes a few steps this way, changes his mind. what were you thinking as you re looking down? this isn t gonna be a fun walk, also, how did you get there? he tried to go here, he can t make it, then he comes back. he resets and then he says, oh, i think it s this way. on a slate, we were frustrated. we don t know, we still don t know if he s doing this to just get out of jail for the day. they were still watching for any escape. then, gardner s found a familiar area. he gets to about here, then he remembers. he says, this is it. he was there say, excited. detectives walked their