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
Come home, please. He says amber never made it, and i knew Nothing Ghmatters anymore. A teenager disappears. I knew right then, someone had her. Going over in our heads, what happened in front of the school . Then, another gone. She such a good girl. She needs to come home. Maybe she is being held captive. Took missing girls. One man. Did you get any sense of the personality you are dealing with . Yes. Psychotic. Two journeys for justice. If a lesson can be learned from amber, then i want it out there. There. The negotiation was finally complete. On the evening of february 12, 2009, and a Hillside House north of san diego, california, the negotiation was finally complete. I made her right a onepage letter to me, but she wrote a two page letter she repeated things multiple times. She pestered her mother, carrie, and her mothers boyfriend at the time, dave. Our kids have their things they are into. Amber loved animals. She had been campaigning for it with the riegler and frequent visits
chelsea s disappearance, they re working on, unions trucks, four wheelers, hundreds and hundreds of folks coming from southern california, people for hours and hours. the county sheriff meant the phone. calls from the agent in charge of the fbi, says have 25 agents. water patrol got a call, and they were there. the fbi canvassed some 300 homes around the park, and 600 tips. the areas known sex offenders were tracked down as well. why that weekend, two days missing. a five foot five, 150-pound girl. thousands came to look for chelsea, amber s parents among them. it was huge, the line of people a wide went around the whole building, all the way to the street. this was not like the search for amber. there were no sightings of chelsea. this case was pretty specific, we believe she was
else as well, the most important discovery yet, inside that clothing was a second person s dna, and the lab got a hit. it came back to a sex registry. chelsea s parents were standing beside him. did you tell them that? no i didn t. but the tour was not over, sort of ground gathered his team. we have the name, and a prison number, and we need to find out everything we can about this person. the dna match was to a convicted sex offender, named john gardner, a man who had spent five years in prison for a sex assault back in 2000. is it a mixed blessing that it comes back to a sex register? don time in prison? that is not a positive note, but at least we knew who and where he was. we knew we were going to close in. the search for gardner began that afternoon, we sent undercover people to watch the houses that might be
it certainly had. so seeking is described as having strawberry blond hair. now another nightmare began. anybody out there, you know anything, just please help us bring her home. she is such a good girl. she needs to come home. word got around fast. we immediately felt what they were going through. i was ready to that was my instinct. one it was a san diego california district attorney, and one of the first to get abused. everybody began thinking of amber, right from the beginning, i think. that is what made everybody so scared about chelsea, was knowing that this had happened with amber. amber who was in some ways so similar. beautiful both that very thursday afternoon, within hours of chelsea s disappearance, friends fanned out around the park, the neighborhood around, it even total strangers joined in.