What started it was back in feb 2002, rick roberts, a jerk of a radio show host, convinced 1/2 his audience that a report of an unnamed upper level police source (aka leaker) was true. The unnamed chicken source claimed that the van dams were having a wild drug and sex party in their garage the night danielle was kidnapped.
For some..The suspicion was that one of the participants went up, raped her...everyone including the parents got scared and then dumped her body. Evidence was planted on dw to throw the heat off the parents.
One of the rumor that was floating around was that danielle was given to westerfield by brenda..oh my gosh you would not believe all the crazy rumors flying.
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