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
complain gardner had been following him in a car. when a cop confronted him he asked why he was following this female. he had responded that this woman had cut him off in traffic. as the cop talked to gardner, something else caught his eye. this known sex offender had a 3-year-old in the car with him. that was of obvious concern to the stopping officer. why is this sex registrant with a 3-year-old child. it turned out it was his girlfriend s child. she verified the story. besides, he was off parole, had no restrictions at all about being around small children. but now, after his arrest for the murder of chelsea king, the amber task force went back and reviewed everything. amber s cell phone records, internet hits, all those leads during a year of searching. looking at all 1,200 tips, seeing if there was anything in there on john gardner. there wasn t. there was no connection at all
during the week before the attack on chelsea, gardner had been staying with his mother a few blocks from the park in which chelsea was murdered. in fact, it was the very same house in which he attacked that 13-year-old back in 2000. but when police had gone around the neighborhood looking for sex offenders, they did not come to this house. no reason to. he was actually registered at his grandmother s house in lake elsinore, so gardner wouldn t come up in the search because he was registered in lake elsinore. that was 50 miles away. the mother never forced john to report it. may have met all the guidelines in a certain amount of days, but people felt threatened, not knowing the sex registrant was living that close to them. once the news broke, gardner s mother seemed to be trying her best to hide from the media, the public anger.
2000 for a sexual assault on a minor, has served five years of a six-year sentence, and he s been a sex registrant in san diego county since that time. he was released from parole, we believe, in 2008. jon: he was living in lake elsinore, correct? how far is that from where chelsea disappeared? lis last reg registration was in lake elsinore in riverside county, probably another 40, 50 miles north of here. prior to him moving to lake elsinore an registering in that area in january of this year, his registration was in escondido, california, which is just next to rancho bernardo, probably a couple of miles from where our search is being conducted right now. jon: one of the psychiatrists who examined him after one of the earlier convictions, after one of the earlier cases, said he should be given the maximum sentence at that point, ten years. he was out after six. any comment from you as a