[dread78645]

Sounds like some serious confusion at the drycleaners to me.

Not only at the cleaners, but also with the police detectives:

Q: WHAT WERE YOU ASKED TO DO?
A: I WAS ASKED TO TRY TO LOCATE ITEMS FROM A DRYCLEANING RECEIPT TAKEN OUT OF A VEHICLE. AND SO I WENT UP THERE TRYING TO LOCATE THE DRYCLEANER'S.
Q: DID YOU KNOW WHICH DRYCLEANER'S TO GO TO?
A: NO, I DID NOT AT FIRST.
Q: YOU HAD A RECEIPT FROM A DRYCLEANER'S?
A: YES.
Q: WHAT DID YOU DO?
A: I WENT TO THE AREA WHERE THE SABRE SPRINGS RESIDENCE WAS AND STARTED FANNING OUT THERE, GOING TO THE CLOSEST DRYCLEANER'S THAT I THOUGHT THE PERSON WOULD USE.

...

Q: WHERE ALL DID YOU GO LOOKING FOR THE DRYCLEANER'S?
A: ON TUESDAY I WENT TO FOUR DIFFERENT DRYCLEANER'S IN THE POWAY AREA CLOSEST TO THAT RESIDENCE.

... later on cross-exam ...

9 Q.BEFORE GOING THERE YOU HAD INFORMATION THAT DAVID
10 WESTERFIELD HAD TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE WENT TO THE DRY
11 CLEANERS?
12 MR. DUSEK: OBJECTION, CALLS FOR SPECULATION, HEARSAY.
13 THE COURT: SUSTAINED.
14
15 BY MR. BOYCE:
16 Q. YOU WERE PROVIDED SOME INFORMATION BEFORE GOING TO
17 THE DRY CLEANERS, CORRECT?
18 A. YES.
19 Q. AND YOU WERE PROVIDED WITH THIS INFORMATION BEFORE
20 GOING TO THE DRY CLEANERS ON FEBRUARY 6TH?
21 A. I WAS PROVIDED WITH INFORMATION THAT TWIN PEAKS
22 CLEANERS COULD POSSIBLY BE THE ORIGIN OF THAT RECEIPT.

Huh ?

[small_l_libertarian]

I didn't even notice that when I read it. That is weird. Why would he have to go looking if he already knew that Twin Peaks was the place?

[the Deejay]

"WESTERFIELD HAD TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE WENT TO THE DRY
CLEANERS?"

Now folks, this a "key" to all that dry cleaners business.

If he was trying to conceal evidence, why *tell* LE about going to the dry cleaners? Guilty people don't do this. If LE finds out on their own, so be it. But a guilty person wouldn't volunteer the information.