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.
I think you guys got all our snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, a root on a hair would only be found on one end---the end that comes out of your head! You had wondered if part of THAT hair was still on her head!
That is only one possibility. I mentioned the others and you seem to be ignoring them.
You are referring to my post #122 where I CLEARLY state that is an link to the Rick Roberts RADIO show.
What video would expect to accompany the radio program?
First, I double checked. Your post to redlipstick on that other thread was addressed to her post that was composed of an article only. You accused her falsely of giving analysis. There is absolutely no other interpretation.
I mentioned the others and you seem to be ignoring them.
I am not ignoring your other thoughts, I reject them.
For rational and sane reasons, but I won't waste my time explaining it.
I would like to listen to and see these tapes. I am looking for 'damning evidence'. I would be more than happy to find it, and be done with this, happy in the knowledge that the real culprit is in prison.
I am open minded and whatever comes, fine. Can you say the same about yourself?
So far the main thing I have seen is that most of the DW GUILTY (and I knew it all along) are very close minded people. They have proved it with their statements over and over again.
I am listening now to the RR show live, and it seems that everyone gets so involved in proving what they THINK is RIGHT, rather than whether or not the subject of discussion is factual proof or conjecture.
Too much close-mindedness abounds. On both sides. Kim had an idea a long time ago and I found very few people with enough GUTS to even try it.
Why are the facts being kept hidden, while the rumor was allowed to be spewed all over the media, and then when it didn't have much effect at the start, was repeated for public consumption.
Remember the big to do over the GYPSY woman? The one that was caught on video, apparently striking her child.
Hang her, hang her, kill her. That was the public reaction. Then it all went away and no one seems to care now. Manipulation by the media. Control is the key. Producing predictable responses.
Take the opposite position and try and view the case from there.
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