AMBER DUBOIS - 15 yo (2009) - Escondido CA

SACRAMENTO /California Newswire/ — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today offered rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction in a California court of the person or persons responsible for the following two unsolved cases in California. The following is a brief description of each crime and the reward amount offered:
On February 2, 2009, 49-year-old Elizabeth Palmer and 42-year-old Matthew Scott were found murdered at their place of employment, Golden Sun Homes in Stanton. The Governor is offering a reward in the amount of $50,000. It was requested by Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens.
On February 13, 2009, 14-year-old Amber Dubois was last seen walking to school in Escondido before she disappeared. The Governor is offering a reward in the amount of $40,000. It was requested by Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher.
Under the Governor’s Reward program, 258 rewards have been offered since 1967 and 19 have been paid. The reward process is initiated when the Governor receives a written request from the chief of the law enforcement agency with investigatory jurisdiction over the matter. This request informs the Governor that (1) those responsible for the investigation have pursued all leads and believe, in their independent judgment, that a reward will help them in their efforts, (2) the crime is one for which a reward may be offered under California law and (3) the victims’ families support the reward. The Governor’s legal affairs unit processes the request and ensures statutory compliance. The Governor makes the final determination regarding the request.
Rewards may be offered for specified crimes under the California Penal Code and subject to statutory maximums. Rewards do not expire and are only paid if the information leads to the arrest and conviction in a California court of the individual or individuals charged with the crime.

When 29-year-old Jaycee Dugard was reunited with family last month, Moe Dubois felt a rush of fear, anxiety and grief.
Dugard was kidnapped when she was 11, held captive, raped, and fathered two of her kidnapper’s children before the nearly two-decade old case came to an end.
“I don’t want Amber to suffer through something like that …” said Dubois, whose 14-year-old daughter Amber has been missing for more than seven months. “But our hope, our faith, won’t diminish until we find Amber.”
Since Dugard’s return, investigators have worked to piece together the details of the girl’s 18-year ordeal. And parents with missing children — like Dubois — have grappled with the mixed emotions a case like Dugard’s re-introduces.
On Sept. 13 — seven months after Amber went missing, and weeks after Dugard was found — family and friends gathered to pray for Amber’s safe return. The Escondido girl was last seen Feb. 13 walking near Escondido High School in black jeans, and a black-hooded sweatshirt.

Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a $40,000 increase to a reward for information leading to Amber’s safe return, and the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for her kidnapping.
The added reward — and a degree of hope inspired by Dugard’s return - is reason for Amber’s family and friends to stay optimistic. But a gamut of feelings creeps in too: the fear for what Amber may have to — or have had to — endure; anxiety for every day that passes not knowing where she is, or if she is alive; and grief for every missed holiday, and milestone, and memory longed to be shared with her.
Dubois felt sick reading news about Dugard’s kidnapping and captivity; he felt sad for the Dugards, who lived 18 years not knowing where Jaycee was, if she was safe, if she was alive.
“The whole ‘not knowing’ is the worst thing a family goes through,” Dubois said. “There is no closure. Every day of your life is a nightmare.”
“In reality, what a parent wants is for the whole world to stop and find your child — but that’s impossible … There’s always a feeling something else can be done that’s not being done,” he added.
Rather than dwell on the anxiety, fear and grief, though, Dubois chooses to see the happy — albeit bittersweet — ending: Dugard is reunited with her family, and rebuilding her life. Regardless the amount of time that passes, Dugard’s case gives Dubois hope that Amber will be home safe; he prays it’s sooner rather than later. Dugard’s case motivates him to work harder, scheduling searches and fundraisers and television appearances — all with the hope Amber’s case doesn’t fade from the public’s mind.

He does not want to wait 18 years to know what’s happened to his daughter.
“When you see a case like (Jaycee’s) in the news, it reaffirms the need to hold on to any hope you can get and keep up the search,” said Lt. Craig Carter, with the Escondido Police Department’s investigative division. “You start looking at every little piece of evidence and every tip; you never want to miss something that would bring Amber home earlier.”

The Escondido Police Department asks anyone with information on Amber’s location or tips regarding the case to call (760) 743-8477. For volunteer and search information, visit www.bringamberhome.com.
“Every day it wears on the investigators, and for the parents there is no waking moment they aren’t thinking about Amber,” Carter said. “A lot of people love that girl, and their only interest is finding her and bringing her home safely.”

ESCONDIDO — The parents of Amber Dubois will appear on two previously taped national TV shows as part of the effort to keep the Escondido teenager's case in the public eye.
Maurice Dubois and Carrie McGonigle will be on the Steve Wilkos Show today (the show airs locally at 11 a.m. on KTLA Chn. 14), and on the Tyra Banks Show on Oct. 14 (the show airs locally at 3 p.m. on XETV Chn. 6).
The couple taped the shows in August during a trip to New York City.
Amber, 14, disappeared Feb. 13 while walking to Escondido High School.
Police have classified her as an at-risk missing juvenile. They say there is not enough evidence to categorically say whether she was abducted or ran off.
A $100,000 reward is being offerred for information — $50,000 for information leading to the girl's safe return and $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for her disappearance.
Anyone with information is asked to call an anonymous tip line at (760) 743-8477.
For more information go to bringamberhome.com .

ESCONDIDO, Calif., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The intensive police search for a missing California girl has been on an emotional roller coaster in light of the many leads they get, an officer said.
Police say they are inundated with information and sightings of Amber Dubois, 14, the Escondido, Calif., high school student who was last seen walking to school Feb. 13, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday.
"Talk about your coincidences. We thought for sure it was her," Escondido Police Lt. Bob Benton said of a girl they had tracked 700 miles away, whom they were all but certain was Amber. "That's been the toughest part in the emotional roller coaster of getting what we believe are very credible tips and that Amber would be coming home, to the realization that it's not her."
Dubois' mother, Carrie McGonigle, and father, Maurice Dubois, are working to keep public focus on their daughter's disappearance to continue generating more leads, the newspaper said. They plan to hold a vigil Sunday, her 15th birthday.
The parents recently got significant media attention when they blamed police for not working hard enough on the case, but have since toned down their criticism.
"There were some miscommunications," Maurice Dubois said. "We were not told specifics about the case at the time. It's an open investigation, so we can't be told everything. We know that."

The family of missing teen Amber Dubois is
planning a vigil and picnic for Sunday, her 15th birthday.

Family members invite people to bring their own food and drinks
or to bring food to share in a potluck lunch at the Dixon Lake
Recreation Area.

The lunch is planned for 1:30 p.m., with a lakeside vigil at 6
p.m., the family said in a written statement.

Along with picnic areas and barbecues, people can fish, hike,
throw horseshoes, use the playground or rent a boat, the family
said.

Amber was last seen Feb. 13 walking to school near Escondido
High.

Her family believes she was abducted. Police, despite an
extensive investigation, say they have no leads on her
disappearance.

The Dixon Lake Recreation Area is at 1700 N. La Honda Drive in
Escondido. The picnic and vigil will be at shelters two and
four.

For more information, visit the family's Web site at
www.bringamberhome.com.

There was cake, balloons and a picnic lunch.

But with the birthday girl missing for more than eight months,
no one really expected a happy birthday.

Still, about 50 family members, friends and a handful of
well-wishers from the community attended a celebration and prayer
vigil at Escondido's Dixon Lake Recreation Area on Sunday to mark
Amber Dubois' 15th birthday.

"Sitting at home at a time like this is the last thing we want
to do," said Maurice Dubois, Amber's father.

Dubois said the company of others who care about his daughter
was some comfort during the painful birthday milestone. And
although she is missing, suspending the family's tradition of a
party and cake on Amber's birthday might have been more painful, he
said.

"We want to try to keep things as normal as we can," Dubois
said. "It's been hard enough changing everything in our lives."

Dubois, who is divorced from Amber's mother, lives in Orange
County. He recently returned to work after taking eight months off
to concentrate on the search for Amber, though he plans to continue
his efforts, he said.

A poster and a photo album that circulated at Sunday's gathering
showed pictures of Amber at her past birthday parties.

On her first birthday, Amber already had a full head of brown
hair and ate cake in a high chair. On her third birthday, she wore
a court jester's cap. At her 14th birthday party last year, she
jumped into a swimming pool at her mom's house.

"This is a great album," said Amber's aunt, Stacy Harker.

Harker said her niece would have loved the birthday picnic, set
overlooking a bright blue Lake Dixon under a clear sky. The park,
along with adjacent Daily Ranch were places where search and rescue
operations concentrated in the early days of Amber's disappearance.
Harker couldn't help entertaining a fantasy.

"I'd love to see her come walking up here right now so we could
have a happy party rather than a sad party," the Corona relative
said.

Amber was last seen Feb. 13 walking near Escondido High School,
on her way to class. Despite an investigation that police describe
as one of the most intense they've done, her disappearance remains
a mystery. Her parents believe she was abducted and is being held
by a stranger.

Family friend Joe Peters said he hoped Amber would be able to
see pictures of the cake and party she missed.

"Hopefully we'll share the event with her soon," he said.

Carrie McGonigle, Amber's mother, said Sunday's gathering gave
her some respite from a grief that grows every day.

"I'm not crying right now," she said.

She noted that the birthday cake did not say, "Happy
Birthday."

"I don't even know if she knows it's her birthday," she said,
speculating that Amber may be learning a new life from whoever is
holding her.

Because they think she is alive, Amber's family believes
publicity is the key to finding her. Next week, the family will
send a mailer to about 27,000 law enforcement agencies asking for
help, McGonigle said. The mailer includes a removable poster and an
introduction by Escondido police Lt. Bob Benton, she said.

Moe Dubois said the recently publicized case of a teenager with
amnesia found in New York City who responded to the name of
"Amber," showed him publicity is working.

While Dubois' hope when he first learned of the New York City
teen was short-lived ---- a quick Web search showed pictures of a
girl who was not his daughter ---- he said more than 80 people from
across the country e-mailed or called him about the case.

"It's good to know there are so many people who are aware of
Amber and who will actually get in touch with us," he said.

She has been missing since right before Valentine's Day. Now Amber
Dubois' family is hoping that a new feature in People magazine will
help bring the missing teenager home.
Every month, candles are lit at Escondido High School to show
support in the ongoing pursuit to find 15-year-old Amber Dubois. While
the vigils are good, they do little to reach out to millions of
households outside of the News 8 viewing area who don't see our stories
of the ongoing hope held by this community to find Amber.
The family hopes Amber's inclusion in a People magazine article changes all of that.
Amber's father Maurice Dubois says People magazine and the Center
for Missing and Exploited Children worked together to showcase six
young people who disappeared this year without a trace, including Amber.
"They really didn't actually say [why]. I'm assuming it's because of
the circumstances of the case, how there really are no leads to go on,"
Maurice said.
Though leads have popped up, they never really seem to go that far.
Now with front page exposure, Amber's father is cautiously optimistic
about finding his little girl.
"All the leads tend to fizzle out. We're hoping this People magazine
article will bring in some more significant leads that they can follow
up on," Maurice said.
With nearly four million subscribers, it could just be the best
resource yet to bring Amber home and finally blow out the candles at
the monthly vigils.

The family of missing teen Amber Dubois will hold a walk-a-thon
next month to mark the one-year anniversary of her disappearance
and to raise funds to continue the search.

Amber was 14 when she was last seen walking to school Feb. 13
near Escondido High School, where she was a freshman. Her
disappearance has garnered national attention, including a
front-page article on People magazine.

"We want as many people as possible to attend," said Amber's
mother, Carrie McGonigle.

The walk-a-thon will be held Feb. 13 at the Escondido High
School track. There also will be a silent auction and raffle
prizes, according to the family.

Proceeds will go to The Amber Leeanne Dubois Trust Fund. The
fund has been used to pay for search-related expenses, including
27,000 pamphlets sent to local law enforcement agencies throughout
the country, McGonigle said.

Escondido police said the pamphlets have generated praise from
other departments and some tips in the case. But the girl's
disappearance remains unsolved.

Her parents believe she was abducted and is being held by a
stranger.

Police say they have no evidence to support that she was
abducted or ran away from home. That is why police have classified
the case as a suspicious missing person.

Amber's mother said she believes that publicity is the key to
finding her daughter. McGonigle said she plans to print thousands
of posters to send to high schools all over the country in hopes
that someone might recognize Amber.

The event starts at 8 a.m. at Escondido High School, 1535 N.
Broadway. For more information, visit www.BringAmberHome.com or
www.AmberLeeanneDubois.com .

Donations, which are not tax-deductible, can be sent to The
Amber Leeanne Dubois Trust Fund, P.O. Box 1557, Paramount, CA
90723.

Children's advocates looking to rescue underage prostitutes
during the Super Bowl in Miami on Sunday will be carrying pictures
of Amber Dubois, the Escondido teen missing for nearly a year.

Dozens of volunteers are set to spend the weekend in Miami
looking for teenage girls who have been trafficked to work in the
sex trade, Amber's family members said. Each year, advocates
blanket the Super Bowl host cities looking for missing teens.

Last year, more than 45 volunteers took part in the effort in
Tampa Bay, Fla. Their work developed several leads regarding the
sex trafficking of minors, according to the Klaas Kids Foundation,
an advocacy organization founded by Marc Klaas, father of Polly
Klaas, a young girl who was abducted and murdered in 1993.

The organization has been involved in the search for Amber in
Escondido.

Amber's mother, Carrie McGonigle, said that she has not ruled
out any possibilities on what may have happened to her daughter.
McGonigle said she helped put together a 24-page booklet with
pictures of missing teens from across the country, including Amber,
that will be used by volunteers to identify the children.

The booklet includes a message from Sheila Welch, Amber's
grandmother.

"I am a football fan, but this Super Bowl, the champions will
not be the Colts or the Saints for me," the message reads. "It will
be your search team. For every girl you find and rescue, it will be
a game-winning touchdown all over again."

Amber, 15, was last seen Feb. 13 walking to school. No clue as
to how or why she disappeared has been found.

Banners reading "Help Us Find Amber" still line fences along
North Broadway near Escondido High School.

Police, who say they have no clear evidence that Amber either
ran away or that she was abducted, have classified the case as a
suspicious missing person. The investigation into her disappearance
is ongoing, with detectives working the case full time.

Lt. Bob Benton said police have no indication that Amber might
be in Miami or working as a prostitute. He said police hope that
the attention this effort generates may lead to tips that will help
them find her.

"We have not ruled out anything," Benton said. "But we do not
have any information that Amber might be in the Miami area. What
helps is the national media attention for her."

Saturday marks the year anniversary of the disappearance of Amber Dubois.
On Feb. 13, 2009, everything changed for the Amber's family.
She was 14 years old when she left to walk a few blocks to Escondido High School
from her home. Two witnesses said they saw her on the
sidewalk just a few hundred yards from the school's main entrance.
She never made it.
A walk-a-thon is being held for the missing girl on Saturday.
The event begins at 8 a.m. at Escondido High School and runs until noon.
All proceeds go to the Amber Dubois Trust Fund, which has been set up to
help pay for the continuing search for her.
Her parents, Carrie McGonigle and Maurice Dubois,
have spent numerous hours and thousands of dollars looking for their daughter.
Even after a nationwide search, there has been no sign of the missing girl.

This was not supposed to happen, this first anniversary marking
Amber Dubois' disappearance.

How does a 14-year-old vanish in front of her high school on a
crowded Escondido street just 20 minutes before school starts?
Everyone is stumped about what happened to Amber after she was last
seen at 7:09 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2009.

"I just never thought she would be gone this long," said her
mother, Carrie McGonigle. "With nothing, no leads."

Amber, a shy, book-loving teen who had joined her high school's
Future Farmers of America group, doesn't fit the profile of a
typical runaway. Her family is convinced she was abducted for sex
slavery.

In the cruel year since Amber vanished, her mother has found
herself disappearing, too.

"I can't focus," McGonigle, 41, said. "I jump all over the
place. I can't sit still. Like if I get a tip about a Web site or a
blog. Like this one (tip), even though I knew it was deleted, I had
to find it. For eight days, I got two hours of sleep until I found
it."

In that instance, she said, she had been chasing an odd item
found on an out-of-the-way Web site, a posting about a man who said
he was keeping a 14-year-old girl in his basement. She found the
posting and, as with every tip she gets, passed it on to police
investigators. It turned out to be a dead end.

When she stops moving, when all is quiet, "That's when I start
freaking out," she said. "How do I find the strength? I don't.
People ask me that all the time: How do you keep going? I just have
to, I don't have a choice. I have to keep looking for her. And I
will."

That search has led her to follow even the vaguest tips.

"Just this week, this lady e-mailed me and said, 'I am not a
psychic, but I was meditating and an address came to me,'"
McGonigle said. "I never know. I'm not going to dismiss it."

So McGonigle, with a friend in tow, went to the local address at
night, armed with flashlights and peeking into vans. They found
nothing.

A different person, this one claiming to be a psychic, sent her
to a place called Slab City, near the Salton Sea. "It's a wayward
place where people live," she said. "It's a place that, if I woke
up there, I wouldn't know how to get out or who to trust."

After a number of two-hour treks to the remote site, she learned
that a teenager had been spotted out there. But it wasn't
Amber.

Three times now, her efforts to meet with well-known psychics
have fallen through.

Her search also includes traditional techniques. McGonigle works
at Golden State Graphics, a San Marcos printing company. Most
recently, she helped design a slick, glossy mailer and sent it to
police agencies nationwide. It includes business-card size
punchouts, each with Amber's photo, so officers from Washington to
Florida can carry it with them if they choose to.

Next up is a mailer directed at high schools across the
country.

This is on top of grabbing national media exposure, from talk
shows to "America's Most Wanted" to seeing her daughter's picture
on the cover of People magazine.

At night, she watches a videotape of her daughter. And
throughout the day, she pushes for vigils and plans more
searches.

"People ask me all the time, 'How are you so sure?' that she
didn't run away," McGonigle said. "Everything she thought she was
getting away with, I had already done. I'd go to the store, pull
down the driveway, walk back up the hill and peek in the windows to
check on her."

She said she sometimes peeked in Amber's backpack, or scrolled
through her text messages. Nothing indicated the college-bound girl
had a wild side.

"I would tell her, 'You are so boring,'" McGonigle said. "I just
know 100 percent she didn't run away."

Six weeks after Amber disappeared, McGonigle moved out, leaving
behind her longtime boyfriend, Dave Cave, and their daughter, who
is now 6 years old.

"I couldn't function in the house where Amber lived," she said,
sitting on the floor of her new residence, a few blocks from the
old place. "It was too much. I couldn't be a mom to my little one.
She would say something and I would snap."

These days, McGonigle's youngest child is getting counseling and
spending much more time with her mother. McGonigle said being with
the little girl keeps her sane.

In the weeks before Amber vanished, there had been two attempts
by gun-toting strangers to abduct girls in inland North County.
(Police said they were unable to find links between those incidents
and Amber's disappearance.) The attempts prompted McGonigle to talk
with Amber twice about abduction. She warned her daughter to be
more alert and told her to "run like hell" if someone came after
her.

"She said, 'Mom, I won't forget,'" McGonigle recalled. She said
Amber added: "'And I know you'd find me.'"

A bittersweet walkathon Saturday marked the end of one year
since teenage Amber Dubois disappeared while walking to Escondido
High School.

But it also marked the community support that remains. About 200
people signed up, laced up and walked the oval track around the
high school's football field to raise money for the efforts to find
the girl, who has turned 15 since she vanished on Feb. 13, 2009.
The event took place not far from the spot Amber was last seen.

"This is such a great turnout," said Amber's mother, Carrie
McGonigle. "I am so happy so many people still support us after a
year."

Amber's grandmother Sheila Welch said the event raised just shy
$18,000, through donations, raffle tickets and a silent
auction.

"I had no expectation that people would be this marvelously
generous to our Amber," Welch said.

The entire amount, she said, will go into the trust fund set up
to pay for search efforts, including mailers to high schools and
police agencies nationwide. None of the money goes to
administrative costs; Welch picks up that tab herself.

The walkers included family, friends, and even strangers who
said they have followed the coverage of Amber's disappearance.

Escondido resident Dorothy Jenkins, 45, said the banner ---- it
gives information about Amber ---- that hangs in front of Escondido
High prompted her to visit a Web site set up by family members.
That's where she learned of the walkathon.

"As soon as the details came up on the site, I started
training," Jenkins said as she made her eighth trip around the
track.

Also on the track was Diamond Bar resident Ronda Hampton, a
friend of Mitrice Richardson, 24, who disappeared in Malibu on
Sept. 17. Richardson's photo appeared with Amber's on the cover of
a November issue of People magazine for a story highlighting
missing persons cases.

"This is my first opportunity to come out and support someone
else's efforts," Hampton, 45, said as she walked with documentary
filmmaker Chip Croft, who said he was putting together a piece on
Richardson's disappearance.

Hampton said she has found "strength and inspiration" in Amber's
father, Maurice "Moe" Dubois.

Dubois, 40, also hit the track ---- running ---- and managed 27
laps around the quarter-mile stretch.

At the end of the walkathon, the crowd heard from Mark Klaas,
whose daughter Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted at knife point by a
stranger during a slumber party in her Petaluma home in October
1993.

Polly's body was found two months later. Her killer was sent to
California's death row.

Klaas set up a foundation to help search for missing kids.

"Amber really has become the community's child," Klaas said. "We
all have an investment now."

The father of missing Escondido teen Amber Dubois was visibly shaken as he addressed the media shortly after the arraignment of Chelsea King’s accused killer, John Gardner.




“First off, I’d like to express, on behalf of Amber’s entire family, our
deepest (pause), our deepest sympathy and condolences to Chelsea and
the King family,” Maurice Dubois
said. “It’s not the result any of us were hoping to hear and I promise
you Chelsea’s going to be in our hearts for the rest of our lives.”
Dubois’ daughter, Amber, was last seen Feb. 13, 2009 while walking to Escondido High School.
Dubois sees similarities in the Chelsea King case and his own daughter's disappearance.
“In the back of our heads everyone in our family knows that yes, there’s
such a huge possibility that the likelihood is at a much larger
percentage than we could ever want it to be,” Dubois said. “In our
hearts we don’t want to accept that. We are constantly going to keep
searching for Amber. We feel she’s still alive and we always will feel
she’s still alive until we find her and we have her home.”

At the time of Amber’s disappearance, Gardner lived
just two miles from Escondido High School in the Rock Springs East
apartment complex. One neighbor said Gardner had moved out about a
month ago but had been living in the complex for a year with a woman
and a two-year old child.
Amber's father said he couldn’t help but draw connections between
his daughter's case and Chelsea King’s case.
“We have already spoken with law enforcement. Both agencies, ours in
Escondido as well as the Sheriff’s [investigators] who are handling the
case here,” he said.
Dubois said this isn’t the first time he’s heard the name John Gardner.
“We did pull a list of all sexual predators at the time Amber went missing.
He was on that list of sexual predators in the area,” he said.
Dubois said it has been a long and frustrating year for him and his family,
but didn’t want to take away from Chelsea’s disappearance.
“Our hearts are going out to their family and I want to keep this day on
Chelsea. I appreciate the opportunity to bring Amber up, but right now
my heart is going out to Chelsea and the King family,” he said.
Dubois also had some advice for parents.
“Educate your kids early,” he said. “Use such things as a ‘what if’ game, teach
your kids at a young age to start thinking analytically. Ask them
questions, what would you do if you couldn’t find me in a grocery
store, see how they answer.”
He said it will help them in the future.
“I also would strongly suggest that any parent and kid, if your child is
ever faced with someone trying to abduct them with a weapon or
anything, fight, scream, yell, do whatever you can to possibly get
away. Do not let that person get you under their control,” Dubois said.
John Albert Gardner III pleaded not guilty in the rape and slaying of
17-year-old Chelsea King. Gardner is due back in court on March 9 for a
status hearing. A preliminary hearing is set for March 18.

Two Missing Teen Cases in California Show Not All Cases Treated Same

Saturday, March 06, 2010



SAN DIEGO — The disappearances of 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old
Chelsea King illustrate a sad fact: not all missing children cases are
treated the same.
Chelsea disappeared Feb. 25, last seen in a park with running clothes. The case
sparked a search involving about 1,500 law enforcement officials and
thousands of volunteers. It ended five days later when a body was found
in a shallow lakeside grave.

Amber was walking to school when she vanished a year ago just 10 miles north of
the site where Chelsea was last seen. Leads went nowhere. The news
media showed little interest.

After prosecutors charged a convicted sex offender in Chelsea's death, a
search for Amber has intensified. On Saturday, police drained a pond
for a second day at Kit Carson Park in Escondido to search for evidence
of Amber, Lt. Craig Carter said.

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San Diego area Police drained a pond in hopes of finding new clues in the
disappearance of a missing Escondido girl. For the second day
authorities searched "Kit Carson Park" after receiving a tip that a bag
of hair was spotted in the park last may. Police say the people who
first saw the bag remembered it after Chelsea King's body was found.
Amber
Dubois disappeared 13-months ago she was 14 years old. Late this
afternoon, authorities ended the search after finding no new evidence.
Investigators say they found the bag, but it did not contain anything
that could help the Dubois investigation.