[NatureGirl]

Excerpt: Search warrants released Monday show that one of the detectives on the case used the same dry cleaner as Westerfield. Because of that, he was able to identify the origin of a dry cleaner's receipt, dated Feb. 4, taken from Westerfield's vehicle just two days after the girl turned up missing.

How does that relate to this excerpt later in the same article:

In one affidavit, San Diego police Detective Terry Torgersen said Westerfield told detectives he submitted items for cleaning at Twin Peaks Cleaners the morning of Feb. 4.

If Westerfield told Torgersen which dry cleaners they used, why did they search others first? Quite obviously from this Detective's statement, they knew which dry cleaners to look at.

Logically, if he hadn't told them anything about a dry cleaners - how would they have known that he'd gone to one?

[UCANSEE2]

Well, here is all I can find so far.

More Westerfield Search Warrant Affidavits Released

SAN DIEGO -- David Westerfield admitted to police that he dropped off bedding and other items at a Poway dry cleaners two days after Danielle van Dam disappeared, according to search warrant affidavits released Monday.

In one affidavit, San Diego police Detective Terry Torgersen said Westerfield told detectives he submitted items for cleaning at Twin Peaks Cleaners the morning of Feb. 4.

Among the items recovered from the dry cleaners were two comforters and pillow cases, a green jacket, a pair of black denim pants, a black sweater and a black T-shirt, according to the documents.

An affidavit for another search warrant indicates police set up a "trap" on Damon and Brenda van Dam's home phone number to try to trace any incoming calls.

I found the search warrants for the dry cleaners but they don't tell much, EXCEPT that they weren't specifically looking for a jacket.

[cyncooper]

Logically, if he hadn't told them anything about a dry cleaners - how would they have known that he'd gone to one?

Right on the Redden interview tape he tells about trip #2 (the black clothes trip). The article does not say Westerfield told them *on* 2/4 about *both* trips. It says he told them about the trip made on 2/4---see the difference? It appears they had to search for which drycleaners and one detective thought it *might* be Twin Peaks because he is a customer there. Westerfield may have acknowledged after all of the items were found that those were his items. I would like to see the affidavit.