| van Dam neighborhood | 02/15/02 | 16:13 |
| Excerpts from the live broadcast on the street where Danielle van Dam was abducted 2 weeks earlier. John is accosted by members of the Psychic Friends Network, David Westerfield leads undercover cops to fried chicken, then slams the door in John and Ken’s face. Neither Mr. Westerfield nor Mr. Kobylt were arrested over the course of the broadcast. | ||
| Brenda and Damon van Dam | 02/07/02 | 11:05 |
| Brenda and Damon van Dam join the John & Ken show via telephone to discuss their efforts to find their missing 7-year-old daughter. | ||
Every day, a new revelation.
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Also, I watched Brenda’s testimony on Court TV. The Prosecutor tried to get in that she “ran the sweeper” before the police came, and
They hired a PR person for their TV interviews. However, the judge wouldn’t allow this information to be brought in.
H mm, was it dark and scary or overwhelming and sentimental?
Was she abused and neglected or did the poor little child seem to be happy, smart, above average in her language skills?
Did she seem ''well adjusted'' according to peers and their parents?
Anxiety, worries grip missing girl's parents http://video.uniontrib.com/news/metro/danielle/20020207-9999_1n7girl.html February 7, 2002
***The nonprofit Millennium Children's Fund has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Danielle's safe return. The child-advocacy group is based in Beverly Hills. Douglas Pierce, who works with the fund, spent an hour in the house with the family yesterday.
"I visited Danielle's room and it was very emotional, very overwhelming," Pierce said. "There were all her favorite things waiting for her." The room is painted in Danielle's favorite colors, pink with purple trim. Alongside Danielle's bed was her favorite toy, a giant green frog that she hugged at night. A Barbie doll sat near a collection of stuffed toys. A journal was open to the last entry, penned last week about good will, Pierce said.
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Danielle often wrote her parents letters. The last night she was seen alive, she hugged and kissed her father as he tucked her into bed.
Her parents reported her missing Feb. 2 after her mother went to wake her and she wasn't in her canopy bed.
Her friends' parents described her as strong-headed but obedient. She loved to go to sleepovers with her friends, and parents didn't mind inviting her over, said Paula Call, whose daughter Sara was a friend of Danielle's.
"It's a joy to have her come to your home," Call said in an interview soon after Danielle disappeared. "She's really a well-rounded little girl."
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"She enjoys being a little girl," said family friend Paula Call.
Danielle's friends and her classmates at Creekside Elementary School describe her as a sweet, quiet girl who laughs a lot.
Danielle is an obedient, well-mannered child who asks her mother's permission to cross the street or get a snack from the refrigerator. She likes to color and play with dolls, and she recently started taking piano lessons. She's enrolled in a ballet class and loves reading and writing.
The night before her disappearance, she was reading and writing while her father and brothers played video games. Later in the evening, just before she went to bed, she was teaching her 5-year-old brother, Dylan, to read.
Nearly every day she jotted down her thoughts in a journal she kept at home.Danielle sometimes explored complex topics for a 7-year-old, like how she could change the world, Call said. Brenda, a stay-at-home mother, was the "cookie mom" for Danielle's Brownie troop and volunteers regularly in her children's classrooms. "She loved for me to be there," Brenda van Dam said. The mother and daughter are very close, said Call, the family friend. Brenda van Dam, who has referred to Danielle as her "best friend," often took her daughter with her to appointments at a beauty salon, and Danielle would sit in a massaging chair while her mother got manicures. Last year, she took Danielle to get her nails painted and her hair styled for a father-daughter dance at her elementary school. Yesterday, her mother hung ribbons at a park near their home to keep Danielle in people's minds.
I believe it was the father (Damon) who made a similar statement. He said, "I knew somthing bad had happened". He had a hard time keeping control of his emotions. However, he did make the statement and it stunned me when he said it. All I could think of was - HOW did he know something bad had happened?? I think both the parents know a lot more than they're telling. I think the mom had more of a relationship with the accused than both are telling.