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In taped interrogation, Westerfield tells police 'my life is over'
San Diego Union Tribune ^
| January 7, 2003
Posted on 01/08/2003 9:24:19 AM PST by TomB
In a videotaped interrogation with San Diego police detectives four days after Danielle van Dam was kidnapped, an exhausted David Westerfield says "my life is over," seemingly coming close to an admission that he murdered his 7-year-old neighbor.
"As far as I'm concerned my life is over, the life that I had, the life that I was living is over," Westerfield says in the interrogation conducted the evening of Feb. 5, 2002. Danielle was last seen the night of Feb. 1.
"But you can't blame anyone but yourself, Dave," answers one of the police detectives.
"And I have no problem with that," Westerfield replies.
In the tapes released Tuesday, Westerfield admits "unusual" sexual encounters with his wife, denies anything improper about his alleged use of binoculars to watch neighbors and says the child pornography found on his computer was simply something he downloaded along with a lot of other pornographic images and that he had no sexual interest in children.
Superior Court Judge William Mudd agreed Monday to unseal the videotape along with hundreds of pages of transcripts, documents and recordings in the Westerfield case, as well as transcripts of police interrogations and court hearings conducted in secret.
Some of the material – audiotape and videotape of Westerfield being interrogated during the early stages of the investigation – was released Tuesday afternoon.
The remainder of the material, which ranges from transcripts of closed-door court hearings to motions regarding potential evidence, will be released Monday, Mudd ruled.
The ruling Monday came three days after Mudd sentenced the former design engineer to death for kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, his neighbor in Sabre Springs.
Monday's court hearing came in response to a request by The San Diego Union-Tribune, which has been seeking access to the information for months. The San Diego-based 4th District Court of Appeal has ruled that Mudd must release the information.
The San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists made a donation to the legal costs.
Westerfield, who attended Monday's hearing, is scheduled to be moved within days to death row at San Quentin State Prison outside San Francisco.
During earlier court appearances, Westerfield was always dressed in civilian attire, but he appeared in court Monday in a green jail jumpsuit. He sat in a holding area so he couldn't be filmed by a television camera.
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To: I. Ben Hurt
Especially since he would have to have someone tow that behemouth OUT of there. Makes sense to me.
1,501
posted on
02/03/2003 9:17:04 PM PST
by
Jaded
(speling iz opshunel)
To: Jrabbit
What it DOES tell me, is that there is at least ONE freeper that is so COWARDLY that he/she cannot even voice it's own opinion.
I thought all freepers had some dignity, but this one proves otherwise.
To betray ones' confidence is pretty stinking low, but it definitely fits in with the agenda/motivations of some.
To: demsux
There's a MOLE among us??
To: I. Ben Hurt
What's quite interesting is the fact that earlier in this thread, there was some discussion of one of the posters here possibly being a moderator...maybe someone just accessed someone's freepmail?
To: I. Ben Hurt
Personally, I don't use freepmail often, for that very reason.
To: demsux
I remember that!! Could be!!
To: demsux
Dems..I'm checking in before I sign out..the person said it was a mass emailing. It wasn't like it was a hush hush freepmail between 2 people. reread the quote "freep&E-Mail some of us that are not regular posters" I suspect it was one of the large ping lists.. who knows. It doesn't matter to me..it didn't then and it doesn't now.
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Well it should definitely be a heads up to those of us that trust other freepers to keep private information private.
As I said, I'm not much of a freepmailer and this spinless, cowardly person has affirmed my beliefs...what a coward
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Then why are you on here quoting anonymous freepmail? It must have mattered to you since you managed to save it.
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
If it didn't matter to you like you said, then why did you start this little game? And then accuse others of always seeing conspiracies.
Well here's the actual quote:
You got slammed with some hateful spam-freepmail? :(
I think that is terrible. Why does there have to be a conspiracy behind anyone who does not agree with them.
Sheesh, I feel left out, I didn't get either of them.
1,510
posted on
02/03/2003 9:39:48 PM PST
by
Jaded
(speling iz opshunel)
To: Jaded
Maybe she'll get "permission" to release some more insight from this troll of a human being.
To: demsux
As you well know, there have been worse things that have been done and said than that!!
Oh yeah! This entire thing has been a real eye opener.
To: Jaded
I have no reason to doubt her jaded..
I would have to say that "who" started the game could be debatable.. I will concede that I participated in this ongoing saga by adding something that is almost 7 months old. I knew then, that the playing field wasn't fair..but then who said it would be in the first place.
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
The real eye opener is going to be finding out who is the back stabbing skank that is your source.
To: demsux
It's interesting that you guys think EVERYONE on the ping list of "those in the know" subscribed to the same philosophy and belief system during the past year. Maybe there was more than one dissenter.
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Dissenter? Come on, Kim. It takes a pretty low class type of person to do what this person did. That you would associate yourself with such scum is disgusting.
To: Jrabbit
The disgusting thing is participating in the smear campaign..
A true friend will not participate--
To: Jrabbit
PS:I don't think you understand. Just to make it clear..I received a freepmail, ONE freepmail. that's the only contact from that person during the entire van dam scenario. That's not associating.
This person, who was not a regular..was one of many non-regulars who received freepmails, unsoliticited..about all the "van dam apologists"..
No more no less than that.
So..it's not like that person was a confident of yours, dems, jaded or any of the other folks.
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
What true friend? This person is your friend? Well, that explains a lot! Is he/she able to read everyones freepmail or just the ones that you percieve to be your enemies?
To: Jrabbit
Gosh it's so late here.. I don't know what you're time zone is..but I'm struggling..
Real quickly..
There are a lot of freepers who care about other freepers. Prayer threads, and crisis threads are perfect examples of friendships, and just plain caring.
A little note to a fellow freeper about smear campaigns is just another form of concern...
I would surely HOPE that moderators do NOT read freepmails.
But, if they answered the question..would they be believed if they said no?
Thanks for your time..
take care..
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