find her, so i m not going to think about who he is, what he is an incredible amount of rage that boils, but right now focus on chelsea. rachel, yes, of course, but imagine what brent king might have thought when he learned just a little more, as you will to about the history of mr. john gardner. the man was evaluated ten years previously by a board certified psychiatrist who found that he was the danger and continuing danger to the public, and apparently that warning was not listened to. i was shocked. coming up. who was john gardner really? john told us what had happened. or scientists will this was a man who started out being violent. two very different pictures coming into focus. when dateline continues. en dateline continues.
of john gardner, the defining evidence now that he was somehow involved in amber s disappearance was not going to be easy. yes, gardner was a known sex offender who in fact lift two miles from the school, police here in escondido edward about contact as they do with all sex registers. but there was no reason, said captain to suspect him. in every one of those contacts, he was in compliance with a sex registry requirements. he was not in the area of where she went missing. he was not in the area where the sightings were. and, he was not considered to be high-risk. unofficially at least, though there was as everybody would discover, much more to learn about that. gardiner did have a brush with the law in the spring of 2009, after amber disappeared. a woman in a parking lot flagged down a police officer to complain he had been following her in the car.
old neighbor. this is where in march 2000, gardner became a sex offender, it was daytime ice on mother s house, he was 20 than, invited a 13 year old to watch videos with him, he began groping, her she back to, stop he intensified his attack. she resisted. he began beating her severely. the incident left her so traumatized, her family had to move to a different part of california. but gardner denied all. he even blamed the beating on the victim s mother. jennifer was a friend of gardeners back then. i remember john had come up to the mountains, and told us what had happened, and that he was gonna have to go to court for this. they went to high school together in the san bernardino mountains 100 miles from san diego. he told us it was not him, the girl had a boyfriend, and he thought that the girl just didn t want to admit to her parents that she was having sex with her boyfriend because it
for chelsea king, suspect jon gardner was as he sat in jail, the search for the team continue to scour the russians waterway of the park where chelsea went missing. they would do shoulder to shoulder, go underwater, look, and come back up, check to make sure they weren t in, line because they have to do it systematic. how many times did they do that? i want to say we did it six times. six or seven times we searched this entire area here. the shoreline here has particular interest, because, chelsea s shoe had been found just a few feet from here. so the shoe was basically in this area. just laid on top of the brush. then from here, we go north straight to the water. that afternoon, downtown, the homicide team was called to a meeting, the da once he was arrested, we knew that it was going to be a