More details about how things unraveled and the search came to be on Thursday:
King said late Thursday that he came home from the gym about the same time his wife, Kelly, was returning from the grocery store. It was about 5:30 p.m.
My wife asked me if I had heard from Chels. I said, No, I figured you had. Right then, we looked at each other and had a panic.
Chelsea is the kind of daughter who always checks in, her father said. If she was going to be late, she would let them know.
We quickly called a few of her friends and asked if they had heard from Chelsea because we hadnt, King said. The friends hadnt heard from her.
We then had a mom share with us how to do the AT&T reverse autophone, which Id never heard of before, and you can identify where a phone is based on the AT&T Web site.
The Web site showed a general geographical location.
I started searching, he said. While driving from his northern Poway home, his wife called and told Brent she wanted to call 911 and he agreed.
We just both knew something bad was happening, he said.
Brent soon found Chelseas BMW parked behind the Rancho Bernardo Community Center just south of Lake Hodges. He looked inside and saw her belongings.
I then looked behind me and I saw a running trail, and in the deepest part of my heart, I knew she was out there, Brent said.
So I took off down the trail. I ran down about a mile yelling out her name as long as I could, several times and in several directions. By this time it was already dusk and the Sheriffs Department had already shown up. So I ran back, he said.
