SAN DIEGO — Sex offender John Albert Gardner pleaded guilty Friday to murdering two teenage girls in San Diego County after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.
Gardner, 31, faces life in prison without parole for killing 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King. He also pleaded guilty to attempting to rape another woman who was jogging in San Diego last year.
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Gardner led authorities to the skeletal remains of Dubois two days after they charged him with the murder of King. He did so on the condition that prosecutors not go public with the information or use it against him in court.
Dubois vanished in February 2009, and the investigation produced few solid leads until King disappeared Feb. 25 during a run in a San Diego park about 10 miles south of the site where Dubois vanished.
