John Gardner Captured Amber DuBois With Threat of Knife, Gun, Teen's Mom Says

Source: ABC

The California sex offender who was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murders of two San Diego teenagers forced one of them into his car by trapping her on a fenced street and threatening her with a knife and gun.

Carrie McGonigle said John Gardner, 31, told her in a jailhouse meeting before his sentencing that her daughter, 14-year-old Amber DuBois, had nowhere to run when he pulled up beside her as she walked to school on Feb. 13, 2009.

He "told her to get in the car or it would be a lot worse for her," McGonigle told "Good Morning America" today. "She had nowhere to go. She was stuck."

Gardner was sentenced Friday to three consecutive life sentences without parole for the rape and murders of Amber and 17-year-old Chelsea King.

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