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To: John Jamieson
Go to Mapquest and type in Poway to Ocotillo. The route goes from Poway (Van Dams) to El Cajon (Danielle) to Ocotillo (banner).

Here's a little exerpt from the article

“We’re trying to get as many people to notice it as possible. Anybody who hasn’t seen it on TV that’s coming out to the desert,” said Damon van Dam. “We’re just hoping for all the help we can get. The one person who notices it and looks for one second could be the one that finds the clue that gets us to her.”

Sounds like he's saying if you see his sign, you'll find a clue.

An interesting quote from another article

"We need more people. We need to keep it going ... possibly into next weekend," Danielle's father Damon van Dam told reporters Monday.

Does he know that the body has been placed, clues hung and tips called in??

Another strange clip from the second article.

A strong chemical that locates fingerprints was placed in and around the van Dam home last week. The lab technicians said the chemical needed to cure for about a week.

This article was written after Danielle had been missing for 18 days. The neighbors had cleaned the house, the family had moved back in and now they want to use a chemical that takes a week to set??

502 posted on 08/03/2002 6:57:18 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: Krodg
The inference about Damon's statement being a "look at me" type of thing -- actually as you say "find my clue!", is a good one.

Here's a Brenda-speak from that same article: "I want to get my message out and my message is to keep looking for Danielle and that’s the reason I do this." A bit convoluted, eh? Danielle is not at the forefront of Brenda's expressed thought -- first an foremost (as I've posted before using her 911 call) it's all about Brenda!

Brenda goes on about herself, "I want ... my message ... my message ... the reason I do". But just who is Brenda speaking to ... that is never said, it is a passive voice inferred object, or at best the non-Brenda parts of the universe that are "out there".

In this interesting quote, Brenda is not concerned at all with getting Danielle back, rather her concern is at best to "keep looking" for some strangely (given the circumstance) indefinte period.

And even that those "out there" would "keep looking" is not even Brenda's focus in this quote, rather Brenda's concern is, as usual, just about Brenda, that Brenda be seen and known for getting that message out.

Danielle is the second to last thing mentioned. After Brenda has directed the attention to the all-important Brenda, and alluded to those in the great "out there", and estblished that Brenda's message is the point, not Danielle.

And then the last phrase, viewed after that analysis is taken in, becomes quite chilling: "that’s the reason I do this".

What can that mean? It means, I suspect, that Brenda is spending precious Brenda-time, why? To make sure the great "out there" understands she is getting a message out. A message, PR, public relations, that makes the Brenda be "looking good"!

Looking good Brenda, looking real good.

520 posted on 08/03/2002 7:44:12 PM PDT by bvw
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