Remains of Missing California Girl Amber Dubois, 14, Found Year Later

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Remains of Missing California Girl Amber Dubois, 14, Found Year Later

ESCONDIDO, Calif.  —  Skeletal remains discovered in a rural area of California were identified Sunday as those of Amber DuBois, a 14-year-old San Diego girl who had been missing for more than a year.

Fox News Radio reported the body was identified following a brief press conference.

San Diego County Sheriff Michael Gore said the remains were found in the area of Pala, in East County, Calif.

Dubois was last seen walking alone to school on Feb. 13, 2009.

There has been renewed interest in her disappearance following the murder of another San Diego teen, 17-year-old Chelsea King, of Poway.

Sex offender John Albert Gardner III, 30, has been charged with the attack on King, which happened February 25 as she jogged in a park near her home.

Gardner reportedly lived in Escondido from January 2008 to January 2010. Police said they contacted him eight times during that span and began a fresh look at him and any possible ties to Dubois.

Authorities refused to say if Gardner is being linked to Dubois's death, the North County Times reported.

He pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the charges in the King case.

Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher told a packed news conference that authorities were following a lead when they discovered Dubois's remains, but he refused to detail what the lead was or to provide details about the site where the skeleton was found.

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Same perv they think who killed the honor student.He may have killed others,and he got early release.

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Parents of San Diego teenager killed by paroled molester file damage claim against California

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

The parents of a Southern California teenager who was raped and murdered by a convicted child molester have filed damage claims against the state, according to documents released Thursday to The Associated Press.

Maurice Dubois and Carrie McGonigle, the parents of 14-year-old Amber Dubois, alleged the state corrections department missed chances to send John Albert Gardner III back to prison while he was on parole. They are seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.

The documents, which were filed June 10, were disclosed in response to the AP's inquiry.

Gardner is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in April to murdering the girl after he was off parole. He also admitted to raping and murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King.

King family spokeswoman Sara Fraunces said the family will not comment because Thursday was their daughter's birthday. The King family has not filed a claim, said Lynn Margherita, a spokeswoman for the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

Amber Dubois was kidnapped, raped and murdered in February 2009 as she was walking to Escondido High School in the San Diego area. Gardner led police to her body in March 2010 after his arrest in Chelsea's death.

The DuBois family's damage claims were made public the same day state lawmakers approved a $20 million payment to the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive in Northern California for 18 years by a paroled sex offender, Phillip Garrido. The state agreed to pay the money to Dugard and her two daughters.

The allegations by Amber's parents are similar, alleging that parole agents failed to do their job.

Gardner "violated his parole at least five times while on probation (sic) for molesting and beating a teenage girl in 2000, and each time he was left on the street," said the claims filed by attorney Robin Sax. "Our claim follows the meeting (of the) California Sex Offender Management Board which questioned why John was not sent back to prison for parole violations in 2007 and 2008. Had he been returned to prison, he would have been evaluated for commitment to a state mental hospital as a sexually violent predator."

Margherita said the board had not yet begun processing the claims. She said it was unclear if they will be negotiated in the same way as the Dugard family settlement.

Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general, and Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Thursday they could not comment on pending claims.

Sax, the family's attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/01/parents-san-diego-teenager-killed-paroled-molester-file-damage-claim-california/