Westerfield trial TV coverage lures viewers with lurid details

The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | June 7, 2002 | Robert P. Laurence

[MizSterious]

"All the embarrassing things are out there, so the lying is not to save their reputation. So then why?"

I'm wondering if there is more dirty laundry than we've seen so far. Something worse, maybe.

[MizSterious]

And notice Brenda says her eyes were green. Past tense.

[Rheo]

Makes you wonder if they pay these people extra if they will go on the air and be stupid.

I hope BVD is asked how big that joint was...4 people smoked on it before going to Dad's...5 people at Dad's...must have been huge!

[MizSterious]

"And Nancy Grace is a flaming idiot!!..she says the horror as the VD's are searching and calling out her name outside at 3 and 4 in the morning???"

Hard to do if you (supposedly, as per the testimony) didn't find the tot missing until 9 in the morning. Does she ever bother to listen to the testimony before commenting?

[MizSterious]

Do you still have the magazine cover you did on the vDs? That was one of your great ones!

[Rheo]

Wonder why the captioning is not saying BVD said...eyes were green??...hope the defense has gone over that 911 call and gotten the background conversations brought forward to see if any info.

[MizSterious]

"Nancy Grace just said she doesn't know why they just don't say he's guilty and fry him!"

Wouldn't that put a lot of lawyers out of business, if we started doing that? Including Ms. Nancy?

[Registered]

The darn AOL image server is down. I'll post it to one of the LIVE trial threads today! You're going to start one I hope!!!

[MizSterious]

If Fresno doesn't, I will.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I'm guessing there may be a lot more dirty laundry.

However, if you want to convict your daughter's murderer, none of it should matter at this point.

Why not just say, "Yeah, we and our friends are sleazeballs, druggies, and we do a lot of things that may disgust other people. We'll truthfully tell you every detail of that night and any prior occasions. We want to be straightforward in order to assure you that neither we nor our friends had anything to do with Danielle's murder. We want to cooperate 100%."

Seriously !!!! If you believe that Westerfield actually did this, but your lying and evasiveness may create reasonable doubt, wouldn't you lay it all out there?

[MizSterious]

Unless the skeletons in their closets are nearly as bad as the accusations against Westerfield? What was on their computers that had the DA objecting to Feldman's questions, anyway?

[Politicalmom]

Is someone going to start a new thread? Anyone? Bueller? (Fresno?)

[MizSterious]

Working on it now

[Politicalmom]

Oops. Sorry, those last few posts were posted while I was catching up.....

[Politicalmom]

I guess there is the little matter of keeping custody of the boys....if something REALLY disgusting comes up, CPS might be FORCED to act. That wouldn't LOOK good!! (/sarcasm)

[mommya]

I just read the article again about the judge not allowing Feldman's investigators to go into the VD residence to search for further evidence - and it was basically not that he wouldn't let them - but that he would not force the VD's to let them in. And of course the VD's made thier statement that they used for Pierce - "We don't want that evil in our home again." What's that all about? They think Feldman and his team are evil? I can understand that maybe they didn't want the house totally torn apart and destroyed or something - but why not let them at least take a look? I can't help thinking about the Chandra Levy case where the police missed evidence that the parent's investigators found.

[MizSterious]

New thread here

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[HoHoeHeaux]

Westerfield ping list please!

[UCANSEE2]

I agree, someone wanted her body found. But the question is who?

Possibly the same "someone" that called in a tip, when it wasn't discovered during the initial search of the area, a few days before.

They had already searched the Dehesa Rd. area and not found anything. Bill Garcia had been studying the situation and came up with a "Hunch" that they should search that area again. They had many more searchers that day to do so with.

His hunch was based on the facts that that area was a known illegal 'dump' spot, that it was secluded, and that is was on a backroad that went from the VD's neighborhood to the Casino.

SO, let's say you are the real killer, and you need the body found now, so you can collect the insurance. You have already put in place measures that would incriminate your neighbor for the crime, but there isn't a body yet. So, you find out that Garcia has this 'hunch', and you plant the body there. You are able to run freely around the desert and all other search areas, and no one suspects you of anything at all. You can dump the body and feel sure you will not get caught. It makes sense you are running all over the place, handing out flyers to volunteers, etc. MAN, TALK ABOUT BEING GIVEN THE KEYS TO THE CITY.

[UCANSEE2]

MAYBE, Brenda saw the picture in Westerfield's home of the bed with the canopy netting, and bought some later for Danielle's bed !!!!! REMEMBER, Brenda was impressed with Westerfield's clean house and the fact that he was redoing his kitchen. She was looking for tips on cabinet drawer handles, and ???? NETTING FOR CANOPIES ?????