BREAKING: BRENDA VAN DAM DANCED WITH WESTERFIELD: (Modern Day Westside Story?)7-9-02 Trial Watch

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[FresnoDA]

WITNESSES SAY BRENDA VAN DAM DANCED WITH DAVID WESTERFIELD

(07-08-2002) - Three defense witnesses testified Monday that Brenda van Dam and David Westerfield, the man accused of murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, danced together the night before the girl was discovered missing.

"Mr. Westerfield and Mrs. van Dam were dancing," said Patricia LePage, describing the scene at Dad's Cafe and Steakhouse the night of Feb. 1.

Since the prosecution introduced hair and fibers found at the defendant's house and motorhome, the defense has tried to show the evidence could have been transferred in some other way, such as dancing.

The 50-year-old defendant would face the death penalty if convicted of kidnapping and killing Danielle van Dam, who lived two houses away in Sabre Springs. He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of child pornography.

In testimony near the beginning of the trial, Brenda van Dam told the court she did not dance with Westerfield.

But LePage said van Dam rubbed her hips and chest against Westerfield during several dances together, recalling the movie "Dirty Dancing." That was just part of what LePage described as "frisky" behavior exhibited by van Dam that night.

LePage said she was in a smoking lounge at Dad's with her daughter, Cherokee Youngs, when van Dam came in and struck up a conversation with the younger woman.

"Well, she did ask my daughter if she liked girls," LePage said when asked to describe the conversation. Van Dam, she said, asked Youngs if she wanted to come to her house for a party later that night.

Youngs testified about the encounter last week.

Duane Blake, a fisherman who said he goes to Dad's a couple times a week, said he caught a glimpse of the defendant dancing with van Dam.

Blake confirmed an interview with the District Attorney's Office, in which he described their dancing as, "huggy, huggy." He testified he even thought Westerfield might be trying to pick up on van Dam.

Earlier Monday, another woman testified she saw Westerfield dance with Danielle's mother.

Glennie Nasland, who began her testimony last week, said she was on the dance floor and saw the pair turn toward each other while dancing with other people.

Nasland, who described herself as a friend of Westerfield, said she watched them for 20 seconds before they turned away again.

In other testimony Monday, Dave Laspisa said that going to the desert to look for friends, and without bringing an all-terrain vehicle, was not an unusual activity for Westerfield.

The witness, a self-employed Poway man, said he's known the defendant for 15 years and has camped with him near the Imperial County community of Glamis for 10 years.

The witness was one of several people who testified as the defense began to move away from what happened at a Poway night spot the night before Danielle was discovered missing Feb. 2 to Westerfield's weekend wanderings.

Westerfield's attorney, Steven Feldman asked Laspisa to explain why someone would avoid Interstate 8 while taking a motorhome to the desert. Laspisa said high winds and black ice were common on that route, which traverses altitudes over 4,000 feet.

Heather Mack, a security guard at Coronado Cays, testified that she saw Westerfield drive his motorhome into the exclusive neighborhood in the afternoon or evening hours of Feb. 3.

Mack said Westerfield smiled and waved at her as he drove past her security kiosk, but she never saw him again.

The witness told Dusek that she originally told a police officer that she "vaguely remembered" seeing the defendant's recreational vehicle.

Glen Seebruch, an engineering manager at Nokia, testified earlier that Westerfield called him the morning of Feb. 1 and told him he planned to go to the desert that weekend.

Feldman, told Judge William Mudd that his case may be completed by the end of the week.

Insect expert David Faulkner is expected to testify about how long the victim's body may have been in the East County before volunteer searchers found it on Feb. 27.

Feldman has said Westerfield would have had no opportunity to dispose of the body because he was under constant police surveillance from Feb. 4 until his arrest Feb. 22.

[FresnoDA]

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[Registered]

I appreciate your concern about any potential liability, but if JimRob had a dollar for every possible act of libel on this website he would retire a millionaire.

[FresnoDA]

"SHOW TUNE TUESDAY"

Count me in......!!!

(But only if I can post graphics!!)

[shezza]

Oh, sure, they may be snobbishly posh, but do they have the litle paper birthday crowns?

[Xenalyte]

Check out her eyes in the closeup . . . that LaPage broad looks to have been dippin' into the Van Dam stash.

[Lanza]

Just speculation, but could BVD be upset because swinging Barb may testify (to a totally different story)??? If the defense doesn't call Barb, I found this whole thing very odd that neither side called one of the major players.

[FresnoDA]

Thanks REG....in fact, if you still have it...could you post the VD Swingers Picture...for their Club Set Magazine....LOL

[shezza]

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Breast of Fresh Chicken Tequila
Sautéed with mushrooms, tequila & mild jalapeño cream.
Served with fresh vegetables and rice Vera Cruz
15.95

Brenda's favorite:
Crab Stuffed Shrimp
Wrapped in bacon, charbroiled and served with
mild jalapeño cream sauce, fresh vegetables and rice Vera Cruz
20.95

Denise's favorite:
Deckhand Platter
Batter fried shrimp, scallops and select white fish.
Served with french fries
17.95

[sonserae]

Maybe Damon caught Danielle running away and panicked thinking she'd spill the beans about the molestation. I think they have the wrong guy on trial and some justice better be done with the real perpetrator in this case.

[FresnoDA]

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[spectre]

Crystalk, there is a possibility that the child woke up and went downstairs looking for her father. He could have been doing drugs and passed out for awhile in the LOCKED garage.

Danielle became frightened, no one home..what to do? So, she walks out of the house, and goes either down the street or next door.."Where's my Daddy?"...is the only thing on her mind. She wanders away from the house, and the rest is unknown history..

Now, I'm not saying the new people next door have anything to do with this...BUT..I do want to know if her scent used when the dog search led the searchers "next door" and not to DW's, then DID they search the house next door?

Then, we also have the 13 registered sex offenders who live in the neighborhood? ..sw

[Jaded]

Hey!!! Can I use this for my sing along page on the SND site? I'd be great. And I'll give you the blame, oops I mean credit for it too.

[MizSterious]

What I find particularly disturbing is using the threat of a lawsuit to halt the flow of information about this case. This is a new tactic, and one of the lowest I've seen so far. I guess getting threads, messages and accounts pulled is not enough for some people, so now this is the new thing? What's the matter, did people keep posting opinions disagreeable to certain factions here--despite all the thread, message, and account pulling?

Unfortunately, it's worked for some people. Some people left rather than put up with lawsuit threats.

Jim Robinson didn't like it when the Washington Post did it to him (and we all supported him in his struggle against them). Now I will say for all to read, I don't like it when someone is trying to pull this on another Freeper. Maybe you won this round TS, at least on paper. But there are other ways to tally winning and losing, and in some of those, you come up lacking.

Every day, I see a number of threads under the heading of "Caption This." What Fresno did is NO worse than what people write on the Caption This threads. In fact, Fresno's are just plain old vanilla compared to most!

Shame, shame on everyone who allows this kind of threat to occur on a place called, oddly enough, "Free" Republic.

[Jrabbit]

LOL!! Early morning humor to start the day!! THANKS

[ThinkingMan]

I will take a double order of the Oysters on the half shell and a Calamare Steak Dore. And two Samuel Adams drafts.

[spectre]

Hi Lanza...I was gonna ping you when Barb came on board...didn't forget!

I think the VD's are quite upset with Barb.

Understand, Damon and Brenda were interviewed SIX times about the goings on at their home and they NEVER mentioned the famous Piece (of Pizza ) Party, they left that part out. BUT, it was BARB who got scared and told the LE what went on that evening...she snitched! SOOOOO, I don't think she is too popular with that crowd anylonger...It's the nature of the beast, I guess.

[spectre]

Yeah! Shame, shame, shame on them!

sw

[shezza]

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Brown, blonde, color-treated
Long hair, short hair, permed and pleated,
Frayed ends, split ends, blunt ends, tapered,
On the floors and in the laundry
Find it, bag it, what a quandry
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair.

[shezza]

Hey!!! Can I use this for my sing along page on the SND site?

Go for it! My small contribution to the Free Ninja Dave movement.

[cubreporter]

Thank you God for the parents I had. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!