[FresnoDA]

Well, as for the parking lot thing, I dont like scratches on the car, buttons, zippers, rivets, etc....

[crypt2k]

And another thing...Westerfield originally was very open and candid with police until Brenda contradicted his account of dancing with her at Dad's. At that point he clammed up and hired a lawyer. It seems like he was thinking "uh oh, the van Dams are going back on our agreed apon story, they are going to hang me out to dry!".

I wonder if the van Dams were facing financial trouble over the past few months and were casting about for money making opportunities. Perhaps Westerfield proposed a solution to their needs (but it was illegal), and given their moral decreptitude involved Danielle. Then something went terribly wrong.

Perhaps her small body was wrapped up and went out with the trash to the landfill, but Westerfield decided to lay a false trail across the width of California and back to confuse searchers and the van Dams are playing along.

Rememeber that Pierce fellow with the Millenium Children's fund, who felt something was very wrong when he spent a few hours with the van Dams. They quibbbled over the award money he was going to offer.