[demsux]

If your daughter were "missing" why would you withhold ANY information from LE?

1. Fear of arrest for drug usage?

2. Fear of public humilation for sexual perversion?

3. Involvement in child's disappearance?

4. Fear of/protection of/from drug supplier and/or sexual playmate?

5. "Not thinking it was important", although LE had told them MULTIPLE times that it was important.

The only one that makes sense is number 3. None of the others makes any sense.

If it were my daughter, I would name every individual that had entered my home (sex or no sex, adultery is not against the law). I would tell LE the truth regarding drug usage...if they want to arrest me on that, then have at it...I'd pay my fine and tell them to get off their asses and find my daughter.

Nope, Damon put blinders on LE from the start, and, unfortunately, LE left those blinders on.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Their motive from the start was to deflect attention from their perverse and negligent lifestyle. Even after the "rumors" started, they were saying, "It's not important", "It's not relevant", "Let's just focus on Danielle.", etc.

If it's not important or relevant...why try to hide it?

[the Deejay]

Your 288 post.

I do agree with you. The Vdams treated her disappearance about the same as a missing puppy. And that just goes to show how very, very mentally immature both the Vdams are.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Your post #288 is exactly what I think. Any sincerely frightened and worried parent would put his very life at risk to find his child.

The van Dam behavior was suspicious from minute one and remains so today, IMO.

I sat with my husband last night and went over the whole story trying to see if I could construct a way that DW could have done this. I couldn't.

Discussing the case from those first moments brought all the suspicions of Damon and Brenda flooding back into my mind.

An enormous red flag was hoisted from the get-go when the parents were cleared in record time......unheard of in missing child cases. I knew then, that solving this crime was not going to be typical and a distrust was planted at that time. I did not realize then how accurate my hunch would turn out to be.