This is the first time that I've seen this theory. I think you may be on to something here. Although it's possible that Westerfield has "lost control" a time or 2 before...And got away with it.
This is the first time that I've seen this theory. I think you may be on to something here. Although it's possible that Westerfield has "lost control" a time or 2 before...And got away with it.
Well, if I was a juror who was of a mind to vote for conviction, that is probably close to the scenario I'd be trying to sell the others.
To add to it, I'd suggest that:
- DW had just recently lost a GF. Maybe he had tried to hit on BvD in the bar that night, and he felt he'd been rejected. She might not have realized this -- at that point, she was just out funning it up with buddies, and she may simply not have reciprocated at the moment. But in his mind, he had just been kissed off a second time. And maybe he isn't all that drunk. What he is, is in a rage that has been "improved" by some consumption of alcohol.
- As he's driving up to his house, he sees BvD's little daughter out in the street nearby. (I don't think he goes into the vD home to get her; he just happens on an opportunity.) He talks to her in friendly way for a minute or two, looks around, sees nobody, and invites her into his home. She's a molested child in a sad mood becasue of what's going on at her own home, he seems nice enough, so she accepts.
- DW, being an unusually neat, well-organized man by nature, proceeds to vent on her the rage he feels at her mother and at women in general in a way that doesn't leave a whole big mess to begin with. What mess he does leave, he makes a heroic attempt to clean up after.
Do I think that's what actually happened?
No. There are too many problems and suppositions there.
But I think something like that *could* have happened, and, like I said, if I was of a mind to convict, that would be the way I would be looking at things.