[alpowolf]

Watching everyone assume this man is guilty, makes me as a single man very concerned. If a kid disappears the nearest single man is arrested and everybody automatically convicts him.

I begin to think that I need to look for an adults only community. Certainly I had better never let a kid into my apartment under any circumstances, lest he/she leave DNA behind.

Now of course I will be flamed as "anti-children".

[Jaded]

Actually, some of us have doubts about his guilt or doubts about his being alone in the said act of kidnap and murder. You must have missed the threads that got pulled. There are just are too many things here that don't add up. Who knows maybe it will end up on court TV. Until then we'll all be doing our arm-chair detecting and lawyering.

[newzjunkey]

I'm not yet convinced he's guilty. It's been attributed to a gardener that the girl had visited his RV before. He's single *now* but twice divorced with two grown children, a male and female. Now age 50, it's unlikely he's kept a molestation/murder/paedophilia urge under control all those decades.

With no evidence of a break-in--indeed, with a drop of burglary charges--how did he get access to the home? The VD claim he wasn't invited but Mrs. VD's story has altered over the weeks. What is consistant is that they didn't check on the children. Also, how is it she was carried out without waking and screaming? In a similar abduction case in Riverside, the 7 or 8 yr old girl woke and screamed and the parents woke up immediately. The girl was recovered alive. The perp arrested. In that case, the father had left multiple doors unlocked or open.

How did Westerfield get access?

BREAKING: Gag order denied (per KOGO announcement).

[Amore]

You really HAVEN'T been reading the threads. You should love it here. I've begun to feel like I'm the only one posting here who thinks he IS guilty.

[scholar]

Certainly I had better never let a kid into my apartment under any circumstances,...

Excellent point! I am a single female, and a grandmother. The kids in my building frequently came to my door to talk to me, and often asked me if they could come in. I would always sit out in the hallway with them rather than allow them in my apartment. I loved the fact that little ones wanted to talk to me but there was no way I was going to leave myself vulnerable to accusations of impropriety.