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Missing Date: Friday 13th February 2009 Missing From: Escondido California Missing Country: USA Sex: Female DOB: 25/Oct/1994 Age Now: 15 |
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Sadly Amber Dubois, Missing since Feb 13,2009, Escondido CA, body has been found and identified by the local sheriff. Amber was last seen on February 13, 2009. She may still be in the local area. She was last seen wearing black clothing and a backpack ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT Escondido Police Department (California) 1-760-839-4722 or
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What a haunting feeling
What an odd sensation. As though I've lost a child of my own.
While cooking dinner yesterday, I was listening to the "oldies" station (you know, songs from the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's), and every song had a strange sadness, bringing tears to my eyes.
Amber Dubois' parents upset with investigator
The parents of Escondido teenager Amber Dubois say they are angry about misinformation being spread by a private investigator the family hired shortly after Amber disappeared in February 2009.
Amber’s father, Moe Dubois, said Monday that neither he nor Amber’s mother, Carrie McGonigle, have spoken to private investigator Bill Garcia since their daughter’s skeletal remains were discovered Saturday near Pala.
“Carrie is livid that he is going out and speaking on behalf of the family,” Dubois said. “We haven’t talked to him.”
Garcia told The San Diego Union-Tribune in a phone interview Sunday afternoon that the tip leading investigators to Amber’s remains did not come from John Albert Gardner III, the man now facing murder charges in connection with the death of 17-year-old Poway High School senior Chelsea King.
A few minutes later, when he was asked again about the tip and how he knew it didn’t come from Gardner, Garcia said, “I talked to someone who knows it first-hand.” He said he couldn’t say any more without getting into trouble.
Garcia changed his story when contacted Monday.
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Chelsea King's Parents Console Amber's Family
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — The parents of Chelsea King, a missing girl now presumed dead, shared their grief with the family of 14-year-old Amber Dubois after the skeletal remains of Dubois were discovered over the weekend in a remote area of a Southern California Indian reservation.
The presumed body of King, 17, was found March 2 in a shallow lakeside grave.
"We have spoken with the Dubois family and our hearts go out to them in this time of deep sadness," Kelly and Brent King said Monday in a statement. "We share their indescribable grief for the loss of Amber's precious young life."
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Friends Mourn Amber Dubois
Just hours after news of Amber Dubois' death was made public, a memorial with notes, flowers and ribbons stood outside Escondido High School.
Early Saturday, investigators found skeletal remains in a rugged, remote area of Pala, in northern San Diego County, authorities said. With the help of dental records, investigators were able to identify Amber Dubois' body and inform the family late Saturday.
Escondido police and San Diego County Sheriff's investigators found the body based on a new lead in the investigation, Escondido's Police Chief Jim Maher said.
Students at Escondido High School, Amber's old school, struggled with the news on Monday. The high school brought in extra counselors to help students cope. As students arrived and stopped by the memorial, some say the discovery of the 14-year-old girl's body has reopened old wounds.
“Amber has been lost to us, but she will live on in the memory of our staff and students as we try to move forward during this time of healing,” principal Rich Watkins said in a prepared statement.
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Dear Dubios Family, I am very
Dear Dubios Family,
I am very sad for this final chapter
as a parent I can only emagine the
grief and pain you are experiencing.
We all feel the loss of a family member.
Amber is in Gods arms.
R L Y
Thinking of Amber and her Family
Such a tragic loss, rest in peace Amber
My thoughts are with Amber's family and friends at this sad time
Sending our sympathy to Amber's family
Vigil for Amber
Candlelight vigil in memory of Amber at 6:30 PM Monday March 8, 2010, at Escondido High School.
http://www.760kfmb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12102034
Sorry for the late notice.
Amber In Our Thoughts
So sad at this news
In Sympathy
This is so sad. And so pretty! What a tragic ending!
Just looking at this picture makes me want to cry.
A candle will burn all day at our home in memory of Amber.
Remains found confirmed as Amber Dubois
The remains of Amber Dubois, the California girl who was missing for more than a year, have been found.
Human skeletal remains found early Saturday in Pala in northern San Diego County, California have been positively identified as those of Amber Dubois, Police Chief Jim Maher of Escondido, California, said at a news conference. Maher did not take questions at the brief news conference, saying the investigation of Amber's death is ongoing.
Amber's parents, who police said were notified of their daughter's found remains Saturday, attended the press conference. "We'd like to thank everybody involved in the search for Amber... and above all, our huge volunteer corps," her father, Moe Dubois, said. "They are the most dedicated people you can ever imagine." "Without them we cannot have done anything," he said.
Authorities said last week they were investigating John Albert Gardner III, who pleaded not guilty Wednesday to raping and murdering Chelsea King to determine whether he was connected to Amber's disappearance.
Source:CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/07/california.amber.dubois/index.html
Amber Dubois - no new evidence found so far
Police agencies in Escondido have concluded a two-day search at a small pond in Kit Carson Park for clues connected to the February 2009 disappearance of Amber Dubois.
Meanwhile, authorities in Escondido say they were focusing their search efforts at Kit Carson Park after receiving a recent report that children had found what looked like human hair in a plastic bag last May, about two months after Amber Dubois had been reported missing.
"Investigators located a portion of the bag that we believe may have been the bag the youth discovered in May 2009," said Escondido Police Lt. Craig Carter in a statement. "Detectives have concluded that no evidence of hair was present in or around the recovered bag."
Authorities said no other evidence was found in the search.
Source: Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/amber-dubois-escondido-no-...
Park searched after tip in Amber Dubois disappearance
Police are searching Kit Carson Park after receiving a tip concerning a bag possibly containing hair found three months after the disappearance of Amber Dubois. She disappeared less than 10 miles away from the park on Feb. 13, 2009, on her way to Escondido High School.
Searchers have found a sack in the southern reaches of the park, but it's not immediately clear if it's the one in question, and detectives have yet to open it. A 9-year-old and two 11-year-olds reportedly discovered the bag in the park in May of 2009. The park is two miles northeast of the area where the body of Poway teenager Chelsea King was found,.
At the time Amber disappeared, registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III, the man charged in Chelsea King's murder, lived just two miles from Escondido High School.
Source: KTLA
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-amber-dubois-search,0,2295221.story
Worrying development John Gardner arrest
Worrying development in the search for Chelsea King may have a link to Amber too!
John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested shortly after 4 p.m. after “extensive investigation evidence” linked him to the girl’s disappearance, according to statement issued by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. At a news conference, Sheriff William Gore would only describe the evidence as physical, and a department spokesman declined to elaborate.
State records list Gardner, of Lake Elsinore, as a registered sex offender, convicted of one count of lewd acts with a child under age 14.
Gore said there was "a strong possibility" Gardner may be connected to an attack on a female jogger at the same park on Dec. 27, The San Diego Union- Tribune reported.
He said authorities were also investigating whether Gardner was connected to the disappearance of Amber Dubois, who went missing while walking to Escondido High School just over a year ago. Dubois, who was 14 at the time, has not been found.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100301/NEWS0801/100301005/Sex+offender...
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Hundreds Turn Out For Amber
Hundreds of people turned out for a walk-a-thon Saturday morning at Escondido High School to support missing teenager Amber Dubois and her family.
Saturday marked anniversary of the 14-year-old girl’s disappearance. The four-hour event included a promenade around the campus track by sponsored walkers, a raffle and a silent auction. All money raised will go to the Amber Dubois search fund.
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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...-84302502.html
Thinking of Amber Today
One year is such a long time to be missing, I hope Amber is found safely soon
Thinking of Amber Dubois on her birthday
Hoping that Amber can come home soon.
This is so pretty and sweet!
What a beautiful picture! And so sad and heart-rending!
As I write this, a real candle burns for Amber in my home.
late news update
News update showing latest findings and progress:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/10/ambers-mystery/
search during Super Bowl weekend
Volunteers will spend Super Bowl weekend searching for Amber and other potential victims of human trafficking in Miami, the host city for Super Bowl 2010.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_62b5b738-9210-5dce-8b2d-07c7730de924.html
Walkathon on anniversary of disappearance
Walkathon on February 13, 2010, from 8 AM to 12 noon, at Escondido High School. Get further details from Amber's site:
http://www.bringhomeamber.com/events.html
Thinking of Amber
This is so pretty!
So beautiful! So sad! So sweet! And so precious!
Right now, as I am posting this, a (real) candle is burning for Amber in the quietness of my own home.
Eleven months later
Amber's site http://www.bringhomeamber.com asks everyone to light a candle and hold a personal prayer vigil for Amber on January 13, 2010 (the 11-month mark after she vanished).
Family to hold vigil for missing Escondido girl
ESCONDIDO ---- The family of missing girl Amber Dubois will hold a vigil Sunday afternoon at Escondido High School.
The family has requested that people wear blue to show their support, according to a news release issued Thursday.
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The vigil will be held at Escondido High School, 1535 N. Broadway, starting at 1 p.m. For more information visit, www.bringamberhome.com.
http://tinyurl.com/ydvgcdc
Fourth Advent Sunday
Today is Fourth Advent Sunday. Like many folks, I am lighting four candles. I am dedicating them to four missing kids. Amber is one of those precious kids.
Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Bank's show did a showing about Amber Dubois about three days ago.
http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/2009/12/help_find_amber_dubois.php
Hi, did this child ever live
Hi, did this child ever live in Grand Rapids, Michigan? Perhaps when she would've been between 3-6 years old?
Magazine has piece on missing Escondido girl
The current issue of People magazine features stories about six young people who have vanished without a trace in 2009 — including Escondido’s Amber Dubois.
A photo of Amber, whose 15th birthday was last month, appears on the cover, as do two other photos, accompanied by a 200-word story inside the publication.
http://tinyurl.com/y9jyx77
volunteers needed to pass out flyers
Two locations on Saturday November 14, 2009, at 9:30 AM:
1. Irvine Spectrum, 71 Fortune Dr., Irvine, CA 92618. Meet in front of the Starbuck's in Barnes & Noble
2. Starbuck's, 1560 Leucadia Blvd #B, Encinitas, CA 92024
Also (late notice) Candlelight vigil on Friday November 13, 2009, at 6:30 PM:
Escondido City Hall (back by the fountain), 201 N Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025
Info from Amber's site http://www.bringhomeamber.com/
Amber's birthday party is a somber affair
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.
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Thinking of Amber
Thinking of Amber today, her 15th birthday
sorry
i love that.....
Thinking of Amber Dubois on her birthday
Teen found in New York is not Amber Dubois
ESCONDIDO - A teenage girl who responds to "Amber" and who mysteriously turned up in New York City two weeks ago is not Amber Dubois, the teen missing from Escondido since February, authorities said today.
The girl in New York is believed by social workers and doctors there to have a legitimate case of amnesia, and claims to have no memory of her family, home or even her own name. The coincidence prompted Escondido police to query New York police, and a watch commander today said detectives had determined that the girl in New York is not the missing Escondido teen.
Escondido police have interviewed more than 500 people, served more than 50 judicial subpoenas and followed up on more than 1,000 tips since 14-year-old Amber first went missing Feb. 13.
Amber Dubois' parents plan to reach out to the public again Sunday as they remember their daughter's birthday.
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http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/41687/
Vigil and picnic for Amber's birthday
The family of missing teen Amber Dubois is planning a vigil and picnic for Sunday 25/10/09, 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 picnic and vigil will be at shelters two and four.
Along with picnic areas and barbecues, people can fish, hike, throw horseshoes, use the playground or rent a boat, the family said. The Dixon Lake Recreation Area is at 1700 N. La Honda Drive in Escondido.
For more information, visit www.bringamberhome.com.
Source: North County Times
http://tinyurl.com/yke4eh
Missing-girl sightings hard for police - Amber Dubois
Oct. 20
The intensive police search for a missing California girl has police 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."
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http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/120562.html
Amber's birthday
You can celebrate Amber's birthday with a donation to
Amber Leeanne Dubois Trust
PO Box 1557
Paramont, CA 90723-1557
If you're in the United States and act fast, it can still arrive before October 25. If you're not, donations are welcome anyway.
Funds before birthday?
I understand the needs to get funds to help search & rescues....but what does getting funds ASAP before her 15th b-day have anything to do with? It's hard with times like these and the types of things that occur to not be skeptical...
Thoughts and prayers are with you
As a new mom, my biggest fear is, and probably always be, losing my child. My heart aches for your family, and Amber's safe return has been in my prayers. I myself, live only 20 or so minutes from your town, and hoping that the entire area can celebrate Amber's homecoming soon. I just wanted to let you know that those of us close to you are still keeping our eyes out for your little girl, and all praying for her return.
Amber's parents appear on Tyra Banks Show
Amber's mother, Carrie McGonigle, and father, Moe Dubois, appeared on the Tyra Banks Show in New York City, aired on 15/10/09, talking about their daughter, missing for eight months, and their search to find her.
Amber, 14, disappeared Feb.13, 2009 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 offered 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 can call an anonymous tip line at (760) 743-8477.
upcoming birthday celebration
From Amber's site http://www.bringamberhome.com/
No candlelight vigil at the 8-month mark (October 13, 2009).
Instead, the family will hold a birthday celebration on Amber's birthday October 25, 2009. More details when available.
Amber
I have a suggestion. I keep seeing Ambers photo on the missing flyers. They show a very happy, nice young lady. If she has been abducted and held and some one happens to see her...this is not how she will appear. Find a photo of her not smiling with a blank or angry stare. Her hair has probably been bleached blond with possible dark roots or dyed black. Heavy dark eye makeup and pale skin and dark lipstick. The photo you are showing was only working when she was first taken. If there or no photos you have that can be doctored up...find someone to do a rendering of the different looks her captors have forced on her. I do feel she is alive, but not in a good situation. Stir the pot. Present a lot of different looks. Hopefully they will show them on Most Wanted. I have had this feeling from the beginning. I also feel you are good and loving parents. Prayers to you all.
Gov. Schwarzenegger offers state funds for info in Amber DuBois
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered $40,000 in state funds Thursday for information on the whereabouts of a teenage North County girl who has been missing for seven months, bringing the total reward amount to $100,000.
The additional incentive for public help in solving 14-year-old Amber DuBois’ disappearance was requested by Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher.
The teen was last seen walking to school on Feb. 13. Detectives and volunteer searchers have so far turned up no solid leads about what became of the Escondido High freshman, described by her family as studious, well-behaved, with no history of running away.
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Amber's family says Escondido detectives have 'dropped the ball'
"Our daughter is not getting what she needs to be recovered" said Amber's father Moe Dubois at a Sunday prayer vigil at Escondido High School, where the 14-year-old was last seen before school on Feb. 13.
It was the first time the family has expressed public frustration with Escondido police.
Police spokesman Lt. Bob Benton responded that Escondido had launched "One of the most extensive investigations our department has handled," with the help of several outside agencies.
He said that two investigators still worked on the case full time, and that several agencies, including the Sheriff's Department, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, had joined the search.
However, Moe Dubois said Sunday that police had, "dropped the ball," with he and ex-wife Carrie McGonigle, Amber's mother, citing several alleged delays that may have hurt Amber's chances of being found.
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7-month vigil
It's been 7 months since Amber vanished into thin air as she walked from her home to Escondido High School. There will be a vigil on Sunday, September 13, 2009, at 7:30 PM at Escondido High School, 1535 N. Broadway, Escondido.
If you are too far away to attend, you can hold your own private vigil at home. Light a candle, and watch the light of love spread out into the air in all directions and reach all the world. No matter where Amber is, your love will reach her.
Reference
Reference: Amber's own site http://www.bringamberhome.com/
Amber Dubois Rescue Golf Tournament
Tournament 5 October 2009, for further details please see Amber's official website http://www.bringhomeamber.com/
clue about where to look
Here's a site that points out what kinds of places to search for.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583149/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
It's about an 11-year-old girl abducted from her school bus stop by a sex offender in 1991 and held captive in a very-well-camouflaged backyard compound for 18 years before being found alive by police. Incidentally, the compound was 170 miles from the girl's home, so likewise there is a good chance that Amber is nowhere near Escondido.
No breaks in missing teen case
The dogs, said by their handlers to be able to track the scent of a person missing for weeks or even months, are part of VK9 Scent Specific Search Recovery of Brewer, Maine.
Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter said Friday morning that a police canine officer was shadowing the dogs, Quincy, a Labrador retriever, and Jack, a German short haired pointer, and their handlers.
Carter said, however, there was nothing significant to report at that time. He could not be reached Friday afternoon.
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