Amber LeeAnne DuBois

Missing teenager Amber DuBois of Escondido, California, vanished while walking to school on the morning of February 13, 2009. Reports said a classmate claims she saw the 14-year-old DuBois two days after she disappeared, walking with an "unidentified person" near her home. Police continued to search for the teen, and a massive volunteer search effort on February 21, 2009, turned up no clues. The FBI were brought in to assist in the investigation.http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/22/amber.dubois

Dubois' remains were found on March 6, 2010. Following a press conference about the discovery, a sex offender who had been arrested for raping and murdering another teenager in the area also confessed to DuBois' murder.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=10654449&page=2 John Albert Gardner III was sentenced to life in prison for her murder on May 15, 2010.http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-07/justice/california.amber.dubois_1_escondido-police-department-remains-california?_s=PM:CRIME http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=106544499

The remains of a young female found on March 6, 2010 in Pala, California, were identified as those of DuBois at a press conference on March 7.http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-07/justice/california.amber.dubois_1_escondido-police-department-remains-california?_s=PM:CRIME DuBois' parents, Maurice and Carrie, attended the brief press conference and thanked everyone involved in the search. No suspects were announced, and Escondido police, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the FBI were to continue the investigation.http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-07/justice/california.amber.dubois_1_escondido-police-department-remains-california?_s=PM:CRIME Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher said a "lead" had brought investigators to the area where DuBois' remains were found, but he did not elaborate.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10036012

The previous week authorities said they were investigating registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III, who was arrested for raping and murdering San Diego-area teenager Chelsea King.http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-07/justice/california.amber.dubois_1_escondido-police-department-remains-california?_s=PM:CRIME King's body was found in a near-by area on March 2, 2010, and the search for DuBois intensified.http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-03-02/local-county-news/body-found-in-chelsea-king-case http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Major-Development-in-Amber-Dubois-Case-Sources-86763297.html "We have been working closely with San Diego Sheriff's Office, and our investigators are working with theirs in case there is a connection," Lt. Robert Benton with the Escondido Police Department said.http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-07/justice/california.amber.dubois_1_escondido-police-department-remains-california?_s=PM:CRIME At the time of DuBois' disappearance, Gardner lived two miles from her high school in the Rock Springs East apartment complex.http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Major-Development-in-Amber-Dubois-Case-Sources-86763297.html

Days after the press conference, Gardner led investigators to Amber's remains in a remote, mountainous area north of San Diego.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=10654449&page=2 On May 15, 2010, he was sentenced to two life terms without the possibility of parole for murdering Dubois and King. He also received a third life term with a 25-year minimum for the attempted rape of Candice Moncayo, a jogger who escaped by smashing him in the nose with her elbow.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10654449

In an interview on November 6, 2010, for CBS' 48 Hours Mystery, John Albert Gardner III described himself as "the most dangerous type of sexual predator".http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_51c065b2-be6b-5fe3-8bb8-de0bb39163b7.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/killer-of-san-diego-teens-john-albert-gardner-i-am-the-most-dangerous-type-of-sexual-predator.html Gardner said in the interview he was an "animal" who needed "to be locked up forever" because he knew he would kill again. He detailed how he abducted Dubois and when he drove her to a deserted area how he "put the music on. She wanted to hear music so that she could pretend she wasn't there."http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_51c065b2-be6b-5fe3-8bb8-de0bb39163b7.html Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of "48 Hours," said the interview was "a blow-away" and "profoundly disturbing." She told the North County Times "Parts of him sound so normal... but then poison runs through his veins and he changes before your eyes."http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_51c065b2-be6b-5fe3-8bb8-de0bb39163b7.html