suspected attacker here at the park. now, john gardner, 30 years, old was behind bars. how did he react to being arrested? very unhappy. wondering why he was being arrested. believed the accusations were false. the detectives had brian, and scott palmer confronted him in an interrogation room. we believed in hope that chelsea will still live someplace, so we just kept asking where is chelsea king? how did he respond to that? he denied everything. he denied ever coming into contact with her. he basically said the only information he had was from the television. but you are able to say, listen pal, we have your dna. we did. we are portion with a dna, he called this liars. what was his demeanor? he was all over the place. he was calm one minute, angry when, minute on the verge of crying the other minute. he thought part of it was humorous to him, and part of it was just defensive. how dare we even consider him
three days of searching, no chelsea king. but, there was an arrest, and john gardner in custody was at least some kind of comfort for chelsea s parents. i was relieved that this monster is no longer out there and able to do this to anyone else. who was john gardner? by the time they arrested him, police had assembled some disturbing information. this would not go down well. san diego county he had been a convicted sex offender, he was convicted for six years for sexual assault in 2000 i believe it was. in fact, he had served five years of that sentence for sexually assaulting and brutally breathing is a 13 year
and despite those warnings, the prosecutor, probation officer, and judge, all decided that john gardner should get a mid level sentence of six years, rather than ten years, which would have been at the maximum under the plea deal. i have reviewed this case with the losses of having been a prosecutor, having been a municipal court judge, superior court judge, and now da. sat down sent diego county da, she was not the da in 2000 when this crime occurred. we asked to speak to the prosecutor in that case, but we re told would answer our questions. what happened in this case was appropriate, under the law that existed. if this was what, a mid-range sentence as opposed to a maximum? that is correct. that was in spite of a psychiatrist report that said this guy is really dangerous, and he always will be dangerous. now why would that not object into a full ten year sentence? well, first, well there were two psychiatric reports.
he had nothing to do with amber s disappearance. this morning, his lawyer offered a deal. and it was huge. gardner would lead detectives to amber. and he d only do it on one condition. if they couldn t use it against him. if we didn t use the fact that he took us there as evidence in any court proceeding, and that his attorney had to be present and we couldn t question him in any way. she took the deal. insurgent brown s phone rang. we got told to go down to the jail and we were going to go on a field trip with gardner. sergeant brown and his men were told the rules. this was not his confession, he was gonna show us where it was. they had 30 minutes to prepare. they called the swat team for backup. why? this could be an acidic escape attempt. come on.
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