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To: hoosiermama
Why do you find it suspicious? It sound pretty normal to me.

Well, there are several things that I think about this particular sequence of events and what Westerfield says and doesn't say when he talks to the police.

1) I don't find it odd that he would have his son check the house. Neal did, going in to actually put a flyer about Danielle in the kitchen. He said he left the house locked up.

2) DW tells the police he returns to the neighborhood after 3:30, talks to the neighbors, then goes to his house and decided to check the pool (fine) and then says the side door was unlocked. He hints "someone" (the cop asks if he thought maybe the little girl) could have gotten in his house. I think--is he setting up a reason any evidence in the house came to be there?

He further says that this (the "unlocked door") was a mistake but not unusual. I say, hmmmmmmm. Why isn't he telling the police about Neal locking the house, and why would a door supposedly be unlocked and DW says he doesn't intentionally leave the door unlocked but has in the past. See? Something is wrong here.

3) Calling his son to make sure the house is locked is the sign of a man who values security and, IMO, would be very unlikely to leave his MH unlocked while it was unattended during a long period of time. Long enough, say, for a neighbor to wander in and play.

Just my impression of that. John Jamieson thinks I'm analyzing it too much. I will be interested to see what Dusek says, if anything, about it in his closing argument.

686 posted on 08/04/2002 8:21:51 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: cyncooper
Cyn the call to the daughter was before noon:
10 Q. ARE YOU ABLE TO ESTIMATE ABOUT WHAT TIME YOU LEFT11 LYNN LANG'S RESIDENCE?12 A. 11:30.13 Q. AND YOU WENT DIRECTLY HOME?14 A. YES.15 Q. WAS ANYBODY AT HOME?16 A. YES.17 Q. WHO?18 A. MY SISTER.19 Q. HER NAME?20 A. LISA WESTERFIELD.21 Q. IS SHE OLDER THAN YOU?22 A. YES.23 Q. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU GOT HOME, SIR?24 A. SHE WAS PREPARING FOR WORK AND I WENT BACK TO PLAY25 ON THE COMPUTER.26 Q. AT YOUR MOTHER'S HOUSE?27 A. YES.28 Q. WHOSE COMPUTER IS IT?

Neal went with his mother to do some errands afternoon and didn't get back until five o'clock. It IS possible that Westerfiled actually got back to the house BEFORE Neal got there to check the doors. He and his mother went to Michaels (I can spend hours there) and stopped other places before going to WD house.

Neighbors testified to talking to Wd around 3:30. Neal and mother only made one more stop, bookstore before getting home at 5:00.

I too think you may be reading in something that just isn't there, but I'm not certain why you think it is important...Sorry
687 posted on 08/04/2002 8:32:34 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: cyncooper
PS. Remembering to lock a door is an insurance thing if you have a pool that can be accessed thru it. When two or more adults come and go in a house, door get unlocked (and locked*) when they shouldn't. I often leave my house unlocked if I'm just out-and-about; but lock it if I know I'll be gone a couple of days. I don't have any value one way or other on security. COuldn't tell you right now if my doors are locked.Know it "Should be locked" but often forget, therefore I see nothing suspicious about his testimony.

* Don't ask how many times one of us has crawled through "the second story window" LOL
688 posted on 08/04/2002 8:43:28 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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