Part 3:
Video: Suspect held without bail in case of missing California teenager Chelsea King 1:25
http://www2.wnct.com/nct/video/detail/03a27c2c-7901-102d-a6fd-001ec92a4a0d/115876/
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POWAY: Chelsea King's family establishes new Facebook page
Posted: March 4, 2010 9:39 am
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Chelsea King's family plans to communicate with supporters on a new Facebook page called "Chelsea's Light," a family spokeswoman said Thursday.
"Our sorrow and loss runs unspeakably deep, yet the inspiration of everyone's love and encouragement lifts us up," reads a Wednesday statement posted on the page by Chelsea's parents, Brent and Kelly King. "Our Chelsea set out to change the world and throughout our lifetime we will work to ensure that through us, Chelsea will create the enormous change she was determined to see. With your help, Chelsea's light will never dim."
Chelsea was an environmental activist and a humanitarian, according to one family member. "Chelsea's Light" will replace the "Chelsea King Search Center" page where the Kings communicated with thousands of people who had been following the search for the missing girl.
Article:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/poway/article_bcdce7f6-a19c-58db-9916-e8f3431da682.html
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Chelsea King's parents say they want justice for their daughter
Posted: Mar 04, 2010 2:56 PM EST
Updated: Mar 04, 2010 2:56 PM EST
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Brent and Kelly King are saying they want justice for their daughter. Chelsea King's parents sat down with News 8 just one day after looking their daughter's accused killer in the eye. It's one week to the day the King's 17-year-old daughter went missing. "I think we've experienced emotions we never even knew existed," Kelly King said.
The body of a young woman investigators believe to be Chelsea was discovered Tuesday off the Southeast end of Lake Hodges. "Yes, we found Chelsea. Yes, we found the horrible man that did this, but this is just the beginning," Kelly King said.
Despite a psychologist's recommendation that Gardner never see the light of day, he was sentenced to six years and was out on the streets in five. "Are the laws miswritten? We're going to solve this," Brent King said.
Brent and Kelly King are now dedicated to changing the laws. "The rest of our lives, this is what we do,"
Wednesday in court, for the first time the couple looked their daughter's accused killer in the face. "I won't even say his name. He doesn't deserve a name," Brent King said.
According to prosecutors, semen found at the scene matched that of John Gardner. They also say if found guilty, Gardner is eligible for the death penalty. "I always told my children if anything happens to you I'll make sure, and I am letting the courts and the DA make sure for me," Brent King said.
The Kings told News 8 they also plan on contacting the parents of Megan Kanka and Jessica Lunsford to gain some knowledge on how to re-write laws against sex offenders.
Video: Chelsea's parents say they want justice for their daughter 1:56
http://www.cbs8.com/global/category...default&clipId=4594508&flvUri=&partnerclipid=
Chelsea King: Related Stories, Videos & Links
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/category.asp?C=183482
Article:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12084870
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State says Chelsea King suspect found through DNA
Posted: Mar 03, 2010 10:10 AM EST
Updated: Mar 04, 2010 10:47 AM EST
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A convicted sex offender charged Wednesday with murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King while raping or attempting to rape her was linked to the crime by DNA found in her clothing, a state Justice Department spokeswoman said.
The break led to the weekend arrest of 30-year-old John Albert Gardner III as thousands of people still held out hope that an extensive search would find the teen alive even though she had not been seen since last Thursday. Prosecutors declined to answer questions about the evidence against Gardner.
However, California Department of Justice spokeswoman Christine Gasparac told The Associated Press Gardner was identified after the semen from clothing found by investigators was run through a national database.
Early Wednesday, a spray-painted message was found on the garage at the home of the suspect's mother. It said, "Chelseas blood is on you. Move out." Police did not know who painted it.
Gardner lived at the Rancho Bernardo home in 2000 when he molested a 13-year-old neighbor. The home is down the street from an elementary school and near the park where King was last seen Thursday wearing running clothes. A piece of paper taped to the front door told visitors to leave.
Video: Gardner faces judge, cameras and Chelsea's parents 6:20
http://www.cbs8.com/global/category...default&clipId=4592277&flvUri=&partnerclipid=
Video: Bonus Video: John Gardner arraignment pt. 1 10:26
http://www.cbs8.com/global/category...default&clipId=4591779&flvUri=&partnerclipid=
Article:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12075781
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Defendant in Chelsea King murder charmed some
Posted: Mar 04, 2010 10:08 AM EST
Updated: Mar 04, 2010 1:47 PM EST
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A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Matthew Carroll, urged the "maximum sentence allowed by law" in 2000 for Gardner for molesting a 13-year-old neighbor at his home, according to court documents. He called him "an extremely poor candidate" for treatment because he refused to admit any responsibility.
Dr. Mark Kalish, who shares an office with Carroll, said his colleague was saddened and angered by the news about Gardner, feeling his advice was ignored. "He didn't want there to be any ambiguity or doubt about his assessment," Kalish said. "How much bigger a red flag could Dr. Carroll have raised?"
A defense sentencing memorandum shows Gardner also had sympathizers.
Dr. Divy Kikani, a psychiatrist who treated Gardner for bipolar disorder, wrote that his patient was "extremely remorseful" for inappropriate sexual relations with two girls, ages 13 and 14. He said Gardner was "highly motivated" to get help. Kikani didn't respond to phone messages Wednesday.
Gardner spent at least part of his childhood in the San Bernardino Mountains community of Running Springs and attended nearby Rim of the World High School, according to the document. He was convicted in 1998 of disturbing the peace in an incident that involved trespassing on campus, his only previous criminal record at the time.
"Never once in the whole time that I have known John have I ever felt threatened or scared," Jennifer Tripp, who began dating Gardner when she was a sophomore and he was a senior, wrote the judge. She declined to comment Wednesday when reached by The Associated Press.
Vergie Lightfoot, who lived four houses away, said Gardner volunteered to fix a septic tank and carry groceries. They talked over pie and coffee.
Beth Melban, his then-girlfriend, said she began dating Gardner when they worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods in San Diego and that she took the initiative to kiss him on a first date. Her parents were eager to meet him. "I practically had to force myself on him and he even knew I liked him," she wrote the judge. "John has never been anything but kind and compassionate towards me."
Video: Psychiatrist: warning signs concerning Gardner were ignored 1:43
http://www.cbs8.com/global/category...default&clipId=4594051&flvUri=&partnerclipid=
Article:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12082874
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Authorities won't yet confirm body is Chelsea King
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 12:05 p.m.
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Officials are withholding official confirmation that the body found at Lake Hodges Tuesday is Poway teenager Chelsea King until the next court hearing for the man accused of killing her.
District Attorney Spokesman Paul Levikow said Thursday that any evidence, including the identification of the body, will not be revealed until the preliminary hearing in San Diego Superior Court. That hearing is scheduled for March 18.
A spokeswoman at the Medical Examiner’s Office says the case has been sealed and refered all questions to the Sheriff’s Department. Jan Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, referred questions about the identification of the body to the District Attorney’s Office which ordered the Medical Examiner’s file sealed.
Lake Elsinore police are also investigating whether Gardner might have tried to kidnap a girl in October, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside reported Wednesday. A girl told police she was walking to a friend’s house about 7:10 a.m. Oct. 28 when she was approached by a man driving a gold sedan. After a brief conversation, he showed the girl a gun and demanded she get inside the car. The girl refused and ran. The attempted abduction took place less than four miles from Gardner’s Lake Elsinore residence.
Composite of man sought in an attempted abduction of a girl in October in Lake Elsinore. Police are investigating whether John Albert Gardner III is connected to the case.
Updated Map:
http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/57373/
Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/04/chelsea-king-body-confirmation/
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Cops Link Accused Chelsea King Killer to 'Several' Other Near Abductions
Police Believe John Gardner Tried to Attack Other San Diego Girls
March 4, 2010
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Police in Lake Elsinore, Calif., a San Diego suburb where John Albert Gardner III registered as a sex offender in January, are reexamining several recent assaults on young women. The family of a 16-year-old girl told police Sunday, the day Gardner was arrested, that their daughter recognized Gardner from news reports as the man who tried to kidnap her on Oct. 28, 2009. "At the time we didn't have a suspect," said Sgt. Joe Borjas of the Riverside County Police Department. "We're taking another look at all of the recent incidents that bear a similarity to the King case, including that one."
The girl reported the attempted kidnapping on the day it happened, telling police she was on her way to a friend's house around 7 a.m. when she was approached by a man in a gold 1990s four-door sedan asking directions.
Police said the October incident was one of several reported attempted abductions reported last fall. Borjas said police had not tallied all the cases that could be related, but there were numerous similar incidents at the time. "We don't know exactly how many cases there are, we're in that process right now," said Borjas. "There are several with similarities from around that time."
Police had already connected Gardner to an attack on 23-year-old graduate student Candice Moncayo in December 2009 on the same jogging trail where Chelsea King died, and believe he could be responsible for the disappearance of Amber Dubois, 14, who vanished while on her way to school in Escondido in February 2009. Moncayo reported being attacked on the same jogging path in the same park north of San Diego in which King went missing. "I thought he was going to rape me," Moncayo said of the overweight man who tackled her. "So I told him he would have to kill me first."
He registered as sex offender in Lake Elsinore in January when he began living with his mother and step-father at a home near an elementary school. Prior to that he lived in nearby Escondido, but police say it is possible he was traveling to Lake Elsinore to look for victims. "It is certainly a possibility that he was travelling back and forth," said Borjas. "The towns are pretty close."
Neighbors in Lake Elsinore were outraged to learn the convicted sex offender was living in their midst and that he had been offered a shortened sentence in exchange for a plea in 2000. On Wednesday someone spray painted "Chelseas [sic] blood is on your hands. Move out," on the garage of Gardner's mother's home.
Article:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/cops-link...ed-killer-linked-abductions/story?id=10012155
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WATCH: Chelsea King's Parents Fight for Justice
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/chelsea-king-parents-justice-rape-10017716
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Today Show Video: Murdered teen’s parents remember ‘spectacular girl’ 3/5/10 8:37
The parents of murdered California 17-year-old Chelsea King tell Ann Curry they will work to ensure that sex offenders are kept away from children.
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Chelsea King’s family spokesperson speaks to Larry King
March - 4 - 2010
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A spokesperson for the family of slain teenager Chelsea King appeared on the Larry King show last night. Traci Barker-Ball serves as a peer counseling supervisor at Chelsea King’s high school. When asked how the King family was handling the devastating news she answered, “You know, I’ve just been amazed at their strength. They — you know, every time I talk to them, they want to know how everybody else is doing, how the students are doing. So, obviously very hard for them.”
She said that the students are angry, sad, and scared. She also said that ‘Security has been taken away from them.’
*More at link!
•Read John Gardner Criminal Complaint
http://primewriter.com/criminal complaint john gardner.pdf
•John Gardner arraignment video
http://www.examiner.com/x-32312-Amb...ith-attempted-rape-and-murder-of-Chelsea-King
•Slideshow: Chelsea King Vigil
http://www.examiner.com/x-32312-Amb...ng-17yearold-Chelsea-King-found-photos-videos
Photos: Chelsea King Body Found
http://www.examiner.com/x-32312-Amb...ng-17yearold-Chelsea-King-found-photos-videos
Chelsea King Press Conference
http://www.examiner.com/x-32312-Amb...ng-17yearold-Chelsea-King-found-photos-videos
Press Conference transcript (pt 1)
http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=4785
Press Conference transcript (pt 2)
http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=4791
Article:
http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=4872
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Outrage Growing Over Repeat Sex Offenders
Thursday, 04 March 2010 3:52PM
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Experts say there are not enough parole officers to monitor the more than 700,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. At least 100,000 may not even be living where they say they are.
"The sex offender registry provides this false sense of security we are monitoring and doing something with the sex offenders out there," said Robin Sax, a former Los Angeles county prosecutor.
And monitoring doesn't always work. Even with home inspections, Phillip Garrido was still able to hide Jaycee Dugard in his backyard for 18 years. Last November in Cleveland, 11 bodies were found in the house of another registered sex offender being monitored by police.
If convicted, John Gardner will now spend the rest of his life behind bars -- but some say if the system were tougher he'd already be there.
Audio: Congressman Lungren Discusses the Chelsea King Case with KNX 1070
http://www.knx1070.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4442684
Article:
http://www.knx1070.com/Outrage-Growing-Over-Repeat-Sex-Offenders/6480696
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Friend who took last photo of Chelsea King talks to News 8
Posted: Mar 04, 2010 8:29 PM EST
Updated: Mar 04, 2010 8:51 PM EST
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During the past week there have been a number of photos of Chelsea King shown on various media outlets, but one in particular stands out.
One photo of Chelsea was taken just hours before her disappearance, shot for a class assignment and taken by one of her best friends.
Video: Friend who took the last photo of Chelsea 3:10
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Article:
http://www.760kfmb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12087404
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Public memorial planned for Chelsea King
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:52 p.m.
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A family spokeswoman, Sara Muller Fraunces, announced Thursday that the King family has arranged a memorial to be held March 13 at Poway High School Stadium north of San Diego. The spokeswoman says more details will be released later.
The complaint and charges filed against John Albert Gardner III (PDF)
http://media.signonsandiego.com/pdf/010303gardnercomplaint.pdf
Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/04/public-memorial-planned-for-chelsea-king/
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Attorney General: State's Sex Offender System Needs Repair
Gubernatorial Candidate Jerry Brown Talks To 10News
POSTED: 6:27 pm PST March 4, 2010
UPDATED: 7:23 pm PST March 4, 2010
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who has long opposed the death penalty, said the system in which sex offenders are tracked or monitored is not broken but is in need of some repairs. Brown made his first stop in San Diego Thursday as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and spoke 10News’ Joe Little at the Marston House in Balboa Park about a variety of topics, including the recent rape and murder of Chelsea King. He arrived in San Diego amid a public outcry for reform in the state's system that deals with sexual predators.
Little asked Brown, "Did our system here in California fail Chelsea King?" "The system did fail, and it's a system, by the way, that has been built up over decades,” said Brown. Brown, who was governor from 1975 to 1983, said somewhere along the way California stopped sentencing sexual deviants to indeterminate terms, where only a parole board could let them out. "The parole board wouldn't let you out unless they thought you were rehabilitated or suitable, and I think there were some indications this man was not suitable,” said Brown, referring to accused killer John Gardner.
"Keep tabs on them in a very controlled way. That takes a type of focus and a type of system that we don't have,” said Brown. "It'll never be 100-percent perfect, but we can make it a lot better than it is today." Brown said the system succeeded when the state’s DNA lab in Richmond positively linked a sample found on Chelsea’s clothing to Gardner -- a link that lead to Gardner’s arrest.
Video: Attorney Gen. Brown Critical Of State's Handling Of Sex Offenders
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Video: 10News Reveals Gardner's Two Faces
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Video: Mother Of Victim Speaks Out in Gardner's Dec. Assault Charge
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Article:
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html
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Neighbors Unaware Of Gardner's Sex Offender Status
POSTED: 5:38 pm PST March 4, 2010
UPDATED: 6:31 pm PST March 4, 2010
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Residents at the Rock Springs apartment complex in Escondido expressed shock after learning the man charged with the rape and slaying of Chelsea King was recently their neighbor. Neighbors told 10News John Gardner lived in the complex until January of this year and that children lived just inches away. "It's just scary to know that he's a sex offender not knowing that he was around our apartment complex," said former neighbor Victor Valadez.
Several residents -- many with children -- all said Gardner lived with a woman they believed was his girlfriend, along with two young boys. Neighbors said they thought the children were Gardner's sons, but did not know for sure. They told 10News there was constant yelling and screaming coming from his apartment.
Alicia Morales lived directly across from Gardner and said the violent arguing prompted her to do some digging. She said she found Gardner's photo on the Megan's Law Web site and immediately warned her neighbors.
Armando Reyes and his family lived next door to Gardner and said when word spread about his past, Gardner approached him and said the photo was a mistake and that he "had nothing to worry about." Shortly after, however, Gardner moved out, according to residents. The next time the residents saw him was after his arrest in the death of Chelsea King.
Gardner registered as a sex offender in Lake Elsinore on January 7, 10News learned. The staff at the Rock Springs apartment complex said they never noticed any suspicious activity coming from Gardner's apartment. They also said they were unaware he was a sex offender.
Link: Read August 2000 Court Document In Gardner Case
http://10newsblogs.com/pdf/gardner_documents.pdf
Link: John Gardner's Megan's Law Listing
http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/cgi/prosoma.dll?searchby=offender&id=18601061E8554
Video: Neighbors Recall Gardner's Childhood As Uneventful
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Video: Neighbors Unaware Of Gardner's Sex Offender Status
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Article:
http://www.10news.com/news/22747383/detail.html
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Laws to Track Sex Offenders Lack Funding
In the wake of the rape and murder of a San Diego teenager, people are again asking why we can't do a better job tracking sex offenders.
Posted: 7:48 PM Mar 4, 2010
Updated: 4:10 AM Mar 5, 2010
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Law enforcement officials say the laws are there. The resources are not. You can find if you're living near one the Reno area's registered sex offenders on line. Beside each name a picture and address. Each of the men was convicted of a felony sexual crime and are considered a potential threat to reoffend. All of this is required by what's known as Megan's Law.
But registration and monitoring may not have protected, the San Diego teenager, 17 year old Chelsea King. John Gardner, the man accused of her murder was a convicted sex offender and case, reportedly was in full compliance with the laws that followed him after his release. Four years ago, 16 year old Holly Quick was brutally raped and murdered in her Sparks home. Like Gardner, her attacker, Tamir Hamilton, was also a convicted sex offender.
The same year Congress passed another law named for another young victim. The Adam Walsh Child Protection Act included a number of measures aimed at better tracking sex offenders or keeping them from the public altogether including tightened registration requirements, a national DNA registry and GPS tracking of the most dangerous offenders. What it didn't contain was the funding to put it into effect. "It sounds good<" says Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, "and there are a lot of good items in there, but unless you've got the funding....."
And Gammick says the problem only gets worse in tough economic times when there are calls for early releases from prison. "It comes down to money. How much are we willing to spend as a society for that element of safety," As it stands, he says, there's no other solution. Counseling and alternative sentencing that may work with other crimes, he says, are ineffectual for this kind of crime. "These people cannot be treated. There's no way of changing who they are. They need to go away and be kept out of society."
In an interview with John Walsh,host of America's Most Wanted, the president vowed to find funding for the law that bear's Walsh's son's name.
Video: Laws to Track Sex Offenders Lack Funding
http://www.kolotv.com/video/?autoSt...default&clipId=4595970&flvUri=&partnerclipid=
Article:
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/86455442.html
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What Makes A Sex Offender Become A Killer?
POSTED: 6:54 pm PST March 4, 2010
UPDATED: 6:56 pm PST March 4, 2010
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It's hard to predict and even harder to ignore the moment a sex offender becomes a killer, but a local psychologist said there are some clear warning signs when pinpointing a violent sexual predator. "It's about satisfaction at my cost," said clinical psychologist Michael Mantell, who has worked with many sex offenders.
Many wonder when that hunt for satisfaction turns into murder, and Mantell told 10News, "Many of them commit what we call 'lust murders.' The act of murder is a sexual experience." Mantell said it is a final act in a pattern of behavior often littered with animal cruelty, rape fantasies and violence.
In the case of John Gardner, the man accused in the rape and slaying of 17-year-old Chelsea King, he was handed a six-year sentence for molesting and beating a 13-year-old girl in 2000. At the time, he was nearly 21 years old. "My guess is this is not the first time he's acted out on his obsession for violence," said Mantell.
*More at link!
Video: What Makes A Sex Offender Become A Killer?
http://www.10news.com/news/22747704/detail.html#
Article:
http://www.10news.com/news/22747842/detail.html
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Police hope arrest will aid Amber Dubois case
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.
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The arrest of John Albert Gardner III has given Escondido police renewed hope in the disappearance last year of Amber Dubois, but without witnesses or a body, they could still be a long way from solving the case. “Every time a tip or a lead comes in that seems the least bit substantial, it gives us hope,” Lt. Craig Carter said yesterday. “I would put this as just another one of those leads, where we have hope that it is something that can pan out for us, and maybe somebody will remember something that will bring this case to closure.”
In a new development yesterday, police are investigating a report that two preteen girls were followed by a man in a black car near Bernardo Heights Middle School the day before Chelsea’s disappearance. A law enforcement source said the incident occurred about 3:30 p.m. Feb. 24. The man was reportedly spooked by another vehicle, and when he drove off, the girls ran home and called police.
The source asked not to be named because the District Attorney’s Office has asked all local law enforcement agencies not to talk about Gardner so as not to risk jeopardizing its case against him.
A defense sentencing memorandum from his 2000 molestation plea bargain shows Gardner had sympathizers. Dr. Divy Kikani, a psychiatrist who treated Gardner for bipolar disorder, wrote that his patient was “extremely remorseful” for inappropriate sexual relations with two girls, ages 13 and 14. He said Gardner was “highly motivated” to get help. In the same case, another psychiatrist who interviewed Gardner cited the man’s callous attitude and lack of remorse, and said it made him “an extremely poor candidate for any sexual offender treatment.” “It is my opinion that (the defendant) would be a continued danger to underage girls in the community,” Dr. Matthew Carroll said.
Gardner spent at least part of his childhood in Running Springs, a community in the San Bernardino Mountains, and attended nearby Rim of the World High School. He was convicted in 1998 of disturbing the peace in an incident that involved trespassing on campus, the only mark on his criminal record at the time.
Dagmi Atnaf paused yesterday at a memorial for Chelsea King, which had been set up outside Poway High School and adorned with flowers and mementos.
Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/05/police-hopeful-that-arrest-will-aid-amber-dubois/
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rayer: "Rest In Peace Chelsea!" 
