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
was, call it the official secret, the fact that gardner had led them to the body. why not tell? because now investigators needed to prove gardner s guilt without using a shred of what he had shown or told them. escondido police and detectives are following a lead in a case when they made this discovery. but, frankly, they were stuck. independent evidence? so far, none. meaning gardner might never be charged with killing amber. unless, unless someone offered an incredible gesture. coming up one heartbroken family reaches out to another. paving the way for a stunning moment in court. do you admit that? yes. when dateline continues.
and went to tijuana, another 60 miles of mexicali scour the streets for amber. i always let law enforcement know what i m doing. they d be light you know dangerous? it is we d advisor not to go, because of somebody down there knew that she had a 40 or 50,000 dollar reward. there be great reason for them to cannot be her and hold her down there. i mean, it s for my kid, acetylcholine when i get back. i went down there for five times. but, no ember in mexico. so at home in escondido, what did she do? she had a list of registered predators, she take a dozen a night. we had a call from an apartment complex manager that a female was yelling at individuals in the apartment complex. and when our apartments yelling at a registered sex offender, and the sex offender
boyfriend at the time, they ve. kids have their own things that they re in, to amber loved animals. she d been campaigning for hit during her regular and frequent visit his with her father, moe. she probably had a name for almost a month, before she got it. well michigan a call? it will let, it s a french name. which made perfect sense to her, because her own surname was very. french dubois. amber do bra. she was 14 years old, in the 14 it was to be her lucky day. the day she s walked those few familiar blocks from her home in escondido, clutching her mothers and receive an exchange a lamb, of all things. she was buying it as part of her high school s future farmers program. and tonight, as she drifted off to sleep, for the last time, every good thing still seem possible. come home, please.
really unlikely. police had also been aware of john gardner, but finding 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, lived 2 miles from the school. police here in escondido had regular contact with him, as they do with all sex registrants, but there was no reason then, said captain bob benton, to suspect him. in every one of the contacts, mr. gardner was in compliance with his sex registration, and he wasn t in the area where she went missing, where the sightings were, and he was not considered to be high risk. not officially at least. though there was, as everybody would discover, much more to learn about that. gardner did have a brush with the law in the spring of 2009 after amberdisappeared. a woman in a parking lot flagged down a police officer to