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17-year old senior Chelsea King has gone missing since the afternoon of February 25. She was last seen jogging at the Rancho Bernardo Community Park in San Diego, California. Speculations of murder and rape surrounded her disappearance which pinpoints to one John Albert Gardner III.
30-year old Gardner of Riverside County has been arrested on suspicion of first degree murder and forcible rape last Sunday by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies outside a restaurant in Escondido, California. A DNA sample of Chelsea’s underwear found near Lake Hodges has strongly linked him to be the murderer and the rapist of the Poway teen runner.
There has been no bail set for Gardner but his arraignment is scheduled this Wednesday when he can be formally charged even if King’s body is still missing.
Last December, Gardner has also been identified as the attacker of the Moncayo sisters in the same park that he accosted Chelsea King. Kyla Moncayo, one of the siblings who were the victim of the said attack” wrote an article about it in the school paper of the Rancho Bernardo High School elaborating on the turn of events on that day. Her description of her attacker as a white man, 6 feet 2 inches tall, with brown hair and eyes exactly matches Gardner.
Prior to the current cases that he is now involved with, the said suspect has already been convicted before of ““lewd and lascivious acts” with a child under 14 years.” He was also a prime suspect in the disappearance of 14-year old Amber Dubois last February 2009 who was on her way to school.
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