one was saying he was a danger, one was saying that he was treatable and recommended inpatient treatment for 90 days, and probation. this is a guy who had been seen once in five years. but he examined him just as much as the guy who saw him for an hour. he had actually treated him. but that report was only one factor in the sentencing decision, there were glowing character references. i know in my heart of hearts, john gardner is a rare and could breed. i dated him for a year and a half. john is the one person who made me feel completely safe in the world. i believe john will become a great man, husband, father. he was 20 years old, no prior record, and the presumption of the law was, the middle term. six, years out after, five and no, this went on hold for the moment because just now, there was a far bigger issue, what had john gardner down with
him he would get if he went to trial. but before he was sentenced, a court ordered a forensic psychiatrist to evaluate gardner, to help determine whether he should receive probation or, how long he should be in prison. there were very serious offense, even though it was the first time, this was a man who started out being violent. forensics like high trist marc read in the documents on this case, he was also a colleague of the doctor who wrote the evaluation, that dr. matthew delight at the request for an interview. it is a rare case where the individual starts out in their first defense by assaulting the victim. and so, that was a warning sign to doctor care role, that this was not a typical case, this was a man who was on a very steep trajectory for future violence. the psychiatrist warnings
guilty. it was after john gardner stood in the san diego courtroom, and pleaded guilty. to the murders of chelsea king and amber dubois. it was as he waited for the formal sentencing, life in prison, that he knew was coming, from the san diego counting jail cell, gardner gave an interview to a local tv station. and said he would only talk to the families about what happened to chelsea and amber. as soon as i heard those words, it s all i focused on. because carey, remember, was determined to know what happened to her daughter. during the last minutes she was alive. i think, if you re a parent, you want to know what happened. you want to know how they took her child. if a lesson can be learned from amber, then i wanted out there. so, early in may, she began trying to arrange a visit. i want you all the correct legal channels to try to get it in insisting that i would meet with him after sentencing.
the chelsea case would begin to consider those calls and emails from those fellow cops looking for amber dubois. was there a connection? maybe. we realized that john gardner was a resident of escondido, and was one of our registered sex offenders back in the time that amber disappeared. that is when the light bulb went off. coming up. i was watching all the drivers, going through the mud, i m nervous of course when they are doing this. the race to find amber. she is alive. what detectives getting hopeful, and was this just suspect number one? we are looking at all 1200 tips, seeing if there was anything around jon gardner. when dateline continues. ontinues
are concerned that there is a connection. and though no one had proved john gardeners guilt, around san diego, he had become infamous. public enemy number one. as people hear learned more about that 2000 case of the psychologist report of the failure review where he the outrage boiled over. i think pretty much all of san diego county is completely disgusted. during the week before the attack on chelsea, gardner has been staying with his mother, a few blocks from the park in which chelsea was murdered. in fact, it was the very same house in which he attacked that 13-year-old back in 2000. but when police had gone around the neighborhood looking for sex offenders, they did not come to this house, no reason to. he was actually registered at his grandmother s house, so gardiner would not come up in that search, because he was registered in