Less than a week after a registered sex offender was arrested for the death of 18-year-old Chelsea King, the skeletal remains of a 14-year-old girl have been found in a remote section of an Indian reservation north of San Diego. Authorities have identified the remains as those of Amber Leeanne Dubois, but would not say what lead them to the location.Amber disappeared Feb. 13, 2009 while walking to school in Escondido, California.
John Albert Gardner III was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Chelsea King and her body was found two days later in a shallow grave near a lake where she was jogging. Four days later, Dubois' remains were found in the Pala Indian Reservation.
There had been few leads in the Dubois case until the recent arrest of Gardner, but Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher would not say if Gardner led investigators to her remains.
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"I certainly had hoped that when the day came to do a press conference on Amber it would be under much different circumstances, but that was not to be," he said.
According to the FBI alert about Amber's disappearance, she was last seen walking to school last year with a teenage boy. Gardner (left) is 30 years old. Also, authorities long sought information on a red pickup truck that was seen in the area at the time of Amber's disappearance.
Gardner entered not guilty pleas to murdering Chelsea and raping or attempting to rape her and attempting to rape another woman in December.
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