{"id":386609,"date":"2010-03-03T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8f47aca970b"},"modified":"2010-03-03T18:58:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:58:58","slug":"sex-offender-pleads-not-guilty-in-slaying-of-chelsea-king-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386609","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender pleads not guilty in slaying of Chelsea King [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"content\">\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fox5sandiego.com\/media\/photo\/2010-03\/52540482.jpg\" style=\"width: 601px; height: 338px;\"><\/img><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Tmp\/moz-screenshot-5.png\"><\/img>A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty to the killing of Chelsea King, a 17-year-old last seen jogging near a San Diego County lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Tmp\/moz-screenshot-4.png\"><\/img>During a brief court hearing in San Diego, John Albert Gardner III, 30, said through an attorney that he denied killing King. Gardner, handcuffed and dressed in a jail jumpsuit, did not address the court. <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Gardner was arrested Sunday afternoon outside a restaurant near Lake Hodges after unspecified evidence linked him to the crime, authorities said.<br \/>\nThe 230-pound Gardner, who is registered as living in Lake Elsinore, had<br \/>\n been visiting his mother in Rancho Bernardo last week.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2000, Gardner pleaded guilty to molestation charges involving a<br \/>\n13-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n He served five years of a six-year prison term and wore a<br \/>\nglobal-positioning system tracking device until 2008, when his parole<br \/>\nterm ended.<\/p>\n<p> A dive team found King&#8217;s body on a tributary of Lake Hodges in a wooded<br \/>\narea that had been the focus of an extensive search since Saturday,<br \/>\nafter a shoe was found there. A diver working his way up the tributary<br \/>\nsaw debris about 10 feet from the water. That discovery led to the grave.<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThe site is about half a mile from the parking lot at Rancho Bernardo<br \/>\nCommunity Park, where King had left her car before heading out on the<br \/>\ntrail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Updated at 3:53 pm: <\/strong>San Diego County prosecutors said Gardner could be eligible for the death penalty with the charges filed today. The office will decide at a later date whether to seek the death penalty.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Amina Khan in San Diego<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: San Diego police investigate vandalism at the home of Gardner&#8217;s mother. Credit: Fox 5 San Diego<br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty to the killing of Chelsea King, a 17-year-old last seen jogging near a San Diego County lake. During a brief court hearing in San Diego, John Albert Gardner III, 30, said through an attorney that he denied killing King. Gardner, handcuffed and dressed in a jail jumpsuit, did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386609","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\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}