Killer of CA Girl May Strike Again, Police Say: (ELIZABETH SMART AND DANIELLE VAN DAM RELATED?)

Yahoo News ^ | July 17, 2002 | Reuters

[FresnoDA]

Tips for parents

Most of the more than 350,000 children abducted in America each year are taken by relatives. Random abductions by strangers are rare but terrifying; experts offer the following tips to parents for trying to avoid them.

–Teach your children in whose car they may ride. Children should be cautioned never to approach any vehicle, occupied or not, unless accompanied by a parent or trusted adult. If a stranger asks for directions or assistance, the child should tell them to ask an adult.

–Create an atmosphere in your own home where your children feel safe confiding information about uncomfortable experiences. Ensure a sense of confidence in your children that you will believe them and be responsive to them if they need your help.

–Tell your child not to go out alone – always take a friend, sister, or brother. Teach them always to tell an adult where they are going, and never to take a ride with someone they don't know.

–Discuss with your children whose homes in the neighborhood they can visit, and the boundaries of where they can and can't go in the neighborhood.

–Make sure your children know their address and telephone numbers, and how to use the telephone. Be sure they know what to do in an emergency, and, if appropriate, how to reach you using cell phones or pagers. Make certain they do not tell anyone who calls that they are home alone.

–Don't drop children off alone at malls, movies, video arcades or parks.

[Bubba_Leroy]

When they find the bastard that did this he needs to be burned at the stake. Since that isn't going to happen I can only hope that he is shot trying to escape.

[FresnoDA]

PING......

Danielle site:


Samantha site:

[oc-flyfish]

[Registered]

Uncanny.

[Jhoffa_]

What's the physical seperation between Daniel's and Samantha's homes in miles?

Anyone got a rough estimate?

[UCANSEE2]

bookmark

[Jhoffa_]

And between where they were found?

(these are both CA girls, right?

[fnord]

They say they have a 'wealth' of physical evidence in this latest case. Wonder if they have the stones to compare their evidence to the uninvestigated data (prints, hairs, fibers, etc) from the Van Dam case?

[Republicus2001]

100 miles

[Weimdog]

I would guess at least 150 miles. It depends what part of San Diego county the Van Damme's lived in. If in North San Diego county 150, if in South county 200 miles.

I'm not syure what you're getting at. I thought the Van Damme killer was already on trial, DNA all over his camper?

[Tarheel]

Per MSNBC this afternoon about 50 miles.

The Tarheel

[oc-flyfish]

Roughly a 100 miles give or take 25.

[Jhoffa_]

Pretty close..

And they issued an unprecedented "serial killer warning" related to Samantha also.

Wonder if the cops think the two are related in some way?

[oc-flyfish]

I put together a flyer with a photo and description from the FBI website. If you want me to shoot you an electronic copy (Adobe Acrobat .pdf) via email send me FreepMail with your addy.

[FresnoDA]

Serial killer is considered a murderer, who has killed at least three times....

What are the other two victims??

Does the LA area FBI know something more about Samantha's killer than is being released?

John and Ken KFI are covering live right now with Cliff Van Zandt, former FBI investigator...he also inferred, could have some relation to the VD case...

Fascinating....

Live over the net at www.kfi640.com

 

 

[FresnoDA]

Jaded..see post 15....for the Stealth Site...

[Jhoffa_]

I'm not syure what you're getting at. I thought the Van Damme killer was already on trial, DNA all over his camper?

I thought so also..

But they were (I am not following that case very closely though, corrections welcome) talking about the possibility that someone dumped the body after Westerfield was under surveilance.

And they have issued a "serial killer warning" that sounded pretty ominous..

[FresnoDA]

Know this is in your backyard...your comments on the similarity of the Samantha and Danielle cases..perhaps??

[crystalk]

Danielle's home at Sabre Springs near Poway, would seem to me to lie some 100 miles from the home of Samantha R. at Stanton.

Danielle's body site on Dehesa Rd some 25 miles inland from Pacific, would seem to lie by closest road distance, also nearly 100 miles by nearest road distance, from where Samantha's body was found.

These cases do have parallels.

And the state cannot prove Westerfield is guilty beyond even TONS, truckloads, entire mh loads, of doubt. Why even look into DW at all, when Damon and each of his houseguests that night, M and F, would seem to be better suspects?