{"id":382442,"date":"2010-03-02T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f552eb9970c"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:40:45","slug":"body-thought-to-be-that-of-chelsea-king-17-found-in-shallow-grave-near-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382442","title":{"rendered":"Body thought to be that of Chelsea King, 17, found in shallow grave near lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/img>The body of 17-year-old high school student Chelsea King was believed to\u00a0have been found\u00a0Tuesday in a shallow grave near a lake not far from her northern San Diego County home, authorities said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cThere is a strong likelihood we have found Chelsea,\u201d <\/span>said Sheriff Bill Gore at a Tuesday afternoon news conference, confirming the worst fears of the Poway High School senior\u2019s family and friends who had harbored hopes that she might still be alive.<\/p>\n

King, a straight-A student and cross-country runner, had been missing since Thursday, when she went out for a run in hilly parkland near Lake Hodges, located near Escondido.
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A convicted sex offender,\u00a0John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested Sunday night in connection with King\u2019s disappearance and will be charged Wednesday, according to the San Diego County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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King\u2019s disappearance prompted an outpouring of\u00a0 support in San Diego and beyond, with hundreds of people joining search efforts and more than 76,000 becoming fans of a Facebook page.\u00a0Her parents, Brent and Kelly King, appeared on national news broadcasts expressing the belief that she was still alive.
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\"La-me-missing-girl3\"<\/img><\/a> Authorities said earlier Tuesday that Gardner had been linked to an attack in December on a 22-year-old woman in the same park where King disappeared.\u00a0Gardner allegedly tackled the woman and demanded money. She escaped after hitting Gardner in the face, San Diego police said.<\/p>\n

Gardner is registered as a sex offender and lives in Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, but he had been visiting his mother in Rancho Bernardo, just south of Lake Hodges, officials said.
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Gardner served five years in connection with a 2000 attack on a 13-year-old girl, officials said. After getting out of prison, he wore a global positioning system tracking device until his parole ended in 2008, Gore said.<\/p>\n

— Richard Marosi in San Diego <\/p>\n

Photo: Don Bartletti \/ Los Angeles Times; Mugs of Gardner and Chelsea (AP)
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The body of 17-year-old high school student Chelsea King was believed to\u00a0have been found\u00a0Tuesday in a shallow grave near a lake not far from her northern San Diego County home, authorities said. \u201c\u201cThere is a strong likelihood we have found Chelsea,\u201d said Sheriff Bill Gore at a Tuesday afternoon news conference, confirming the worst fears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}