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
learned about the plea deal. this is a special news report. san diego television stations interrupted their afternoon programs. hearing is scheduled in the program for jon gardner. it was news, a lot of it. all at once. let us take you live, there s jon gardner right there. would you tell the truth about the issues? yes. a stunning admission of guilt. first, for chelsea king. you are getting on the november the 25th, 2010, you attacked chelsea king while she was running, you dragged her to a remote area where you raped and strangled her. you then buried her in a shallow grave. do you admit that? yes. you also admit that the killing was done with premeditation and deliberation. yes. and the border took place within an hour of your initial contact with chelsea king? those facts as well? yes. then the jogger in december.
might have gotten hurt and charbel. so she was going to blame the neighbor, being john. she and their circle friends all believed him, she says, jon gardner they knew was a good friend, always helpful. you confided in her that he had been diagnosed as bipolar. he did display the symptoms of it, really a high highest, and low lows. on one of the occasions he was in a low, he started telling me about things that happened in his childhood that family member had molested him. gardner and his mother moved to san diego from the mountains, in 1998, according to court records he was working at a sporting goods store when he was arrested in 2000. he was about to turn 21. he wanted to become a math teacher. his arrest button and to those plans. gardner always proclaimed his innocence, but agreed to a plea deal telling his probation officer, three attorneys warned
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
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