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We either believe the parents were questioning Mary K. some, or we believe they just didn't talk to her about it. I believe that they obviously had a conversation (or more than one) with her the night of the abduction, b/c obviously she told them something about Elizabeth being missing. Otherwise they'd have slept on till their normal waking hour.

If we believe that the Smarts were talking periodically to Mary K. all along, then we have to believe that the police are not being truthful about having had complete access to her. B/C if the police were given 100% free rein with Mary K., then I do think they'd have told the family not to get into it with her b/c of the power of suggestion.

I don't think the police would have lied about having access to Mary K. I think they'd have been really irritated if her parents had kept her from them, and it would have showed in their public actions.

It appears that the Smarts were not afraid to have police and Jean Boylan put Mary K. through the mill. This speaks well for them. (Of course there is always the possibility that the whole thing with the man was staged for the benefit of planting false "knowledge" in Mary K.'s mind. But that would be so elaborate a scheme as to be almost beyond belief.)

There is no doubt that the Smarts have been very evasive about what Mary K. has said about this whole thing. But Lois was supposedly in most or all of the interviews of Mary K., so she must know most of what she said. Clearly, they do not want to tell the public what info was really gotten out of Mary K. I wonder if this will change now. B/C from that recent article, it seems the Smarts are thinking that the main suspect is now dead. (Or, for those who suspect the Smarts, they have finally gotten what they wanted all along: to get away with it, and not have anyone coming after whoever did it.)

There's no doubt that those who thought Westerfield innocent have been thoroughly discredited. There are some real bombshells out there about him, and the jury didn't even know about those bombshells, yet they still found enough to convict him and even give him the death penalty. If you add in the bombshells to the trial evidence, it really becomes overwhelming. And the jury didn't just hurry through it, it's clear they really made an effort to get it right.

But the parents of Danielle were such easy marks. Some people believe in "karma." (I don't, really.) That is, here were the Van Dams doing all this sleazy stuff, and then all of a sudden, this horrible thing happened to them. I believe their grief is real, and I am sure they are suffering more than anyone can imagine.

But they were behaving like real sleazebags. People who behave the way they reportedly did are obviously not putting their children first. They could have gotten themselves killed by inviting all these people into their bedroom--it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. How unfair that it was an innocent little girl who got killed instead.

It appears that the Smarts were not afraid to have police and Jean Boylan put Mary K. through the mill. This speaks well for them.

They hardly had a choice, unless they wanted to look like real losers. Nothing wrong with them giving LE and Boylan access to MK, I just don't and will never believe they didn't also grill her thoroughly before anyone else did.