Police in San Diego, Calif., say 17-year-old Chelsea King was murdered by a convicted child molester, John Albert Gardner III. He has been charged with rape and murder. In May 2000, Gardner pleaded guilty to molesting a 13-year-old girl. He beat her before she managed to escape. In a plea agreement, Gardner was sentenced to just six years in prison. He served only five. Then he was placed on parole for only three years, ending in September 2008. Meanwhile, The Associated Press has also discovered that records about Gardner’s past crimes were destroyed, an act that even has California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger up in arms. He ordered California corrections officials on Tuesday to keep sex offenders’ parole records indefinitely. Officials had said Gardner’s parole file was destroyed last fall, just a year after he completed three years of parole supervision. Schwarzenegger called the practice unacceptable. We would agree.