Gardner says during interview that teen murders were "crimes of opportunity"

SAN DIEGO - The confessed killer of North County teens Amber Dubois and Chelsea King said in an interview televised today that the slayings were crimes of opportunity, not the carefully plotted acts of a stalker intent on murder.

''I actually didn't go out and look for (the victims),'' John Albert Gardner III told KFMB-TV by telephone from inside San Diego Central Jail. ''I did not sit and wait for them.''

During the exclusive interview, the 31-year-old former Lake Elsinore resident openly acknowledged the heinousness of his crimes.

''What I did was horrible,'' he conceded.

When asked, however...