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.
Veryyyyyyyyy Interesting. DW denied having ZIP DISKS. He said he didn't have a ZIPDRIVE, so the question would be why would there be ZIP DISKS there? Is is possible Neal was wrong? Neal lied? DW lied?
IF OTT and KEYSER would LIE, would they plant evidence? That is what bothers me most.
AND it is being accepted as proof. Yet they have not found any videos of the VD house, or of Danielle.
If I saw you at a bar, and you had a drink in your hand, would it be OK to call you an alcoholic and convict you of DUI ?
If you decided DW was guilty, you see only those things that support it and don't see anything else.
If you believe there is doubt, and the investigation was improper and possibly in violation of the accused rights, then you tend to be a stickler for facts, and not the interpretation of the SDUT reporters, talk shows, and the DA.
I noticed that the media makes slight changes to sentences, not making them a lie, but changing how they can be interpreted. If anyone believes that it is just a simple mistake, they are being fooled. The articles also have quite a bit of information, but the disjoint the paragraphs.
I have not heard or seen anything so far in the recently released stuff that provides any definitive proof of DW's guilt in the murder of Danielle.
The HANGEM crowd keeps going over and over the voyeurism, etc.
Well, that is fine but the main point that they keep conveniently forgetting, and the media keeps forgetting is that DW was not accused of RAPE. There is not ONE IOTA of proof of RAPE of Daneille.
Had DUSEK's description of the the RAPE of DANIELLE in the MH been somewhere other than closing arguments, It would have thrown the case. DUSEK knew he could get away with it though.
Funny thing. I saw preview for an episode of SEINFELD where they are going to court. The scene had a DA and the LE's,Prosecutor and all I could see what Paul Pfingst, Ott, Keyser, and Dusek.
In this scene, the newspaper has the arrest of the Seinfeld crew as headlines. HIGH PROFILE CASE.
The DA says something like ,"Here is our chance to capitalize on a high profile case. We are going to stick it to these people. Maximum charges. And I don't care what it takes. Do what EVER is necessary to get a conviction. Do you understand?"
To convict that person of murder?
(1) Is that then proof of murder?
How do we know he didn't have permission. Just because this woman claims this now, maybe she just doesn't want to be associated with DW at this point.
How many of you women take a shower in front of an OPEN WINDOW ?????????????
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