Yes. That's what (pardon the expression) stinks about the whole case. Just about every incriminating bit of physical evidence seems to have been found after the SDPD detectives had a opportunity to "salt" it.
Recovering the body by the ME & techs --didn't give the detectives a chance to sprinkle any spice.
I could have found DAW guilty, but for the bug-guys and timeline.
I agree, however I have other doubts as well:
Absconding with a seven year old girl while there is an alarm system, a dog, parents and other children present and leaving no forensic evidence.
Parents lying to law enforcement for 17 +/- hours after their daughter goes missing.
BVD inviting TOTAL STRANGERS back their home that night.
Too many irregularities. If they said DW snatched her off the street, I probably would have bought it, but entering an unknown home in the middle of the night, with a dog and parents, no way.
The problem with the evidence against Westerfield is that most of it lends itself more towards pointing to innocence than guilt.
Motor home- The fingerprints, the two hairs and one drop of blood on the carpet and a spot on the jacket, all are compatible with a brief visit made to use the bathroom sink to wash out a cut or maybe she wanted to use the bathroom and wasn't aware she was bleeding. Jacket is in bathroom, possibly left there to dry.
The MH was in front of his house to be loaded for trips and to be cleaned afterwards. It's reasonable to assume he didn't close and lock the doors while loading and unloading MH. She had plenty of opportunities to enter MH.
No evidence of rape, the dogs should have picked up the scent of a girl on board for days. The fibers are not even worth mentioning since no source, except to say that it is hard to believe that fibers could be implanted in the headboard and yet no hair is found.
Where is she bleeding from, that it would get on his collar? Her mouth? There should have been alot more blood if he had knocked her teeth out. The absence of teeth seems to show that she had been dead a while before she was dumped at Dehesa. Giving them time to fall out. Like say a week to ten days.
The hairs in Westerfields bed show that the sheets weren't cleaned and evidence of rape should have been present. Lacking evidence of rape, an innocent explanation for the hairs is a reasonable assumption.
His weekend trip is evidence of a guy alone for the first time, trying to figure out what to do, than that of a murderer. Driving back home to fill his water tanks and coming back briefly that afternoon makes no sense, if guilty.
The porn is up to the individual to assign significance. To me the child porn is balanced by the small amount compared to the rest of it. I would think a true pedophile would have more. But that's my bias.
Gee, I haven't even got to the bug guys yet.