[merry10]

with regard to dry cleaning: investigators can still determine if there had been blood on a dry cleaned garment...kind of the same test as luminol. (I like true crime books and get all kinds of info). Or, maybe it was just a bad dry cleaner who didn't pay much attention.

[MizSterious]

Your point is a good one, and it brings up more questions about Westerfield at the same time. Surely, as an inventor, he's a bright enough man to know that drycleaning and clorox-washing isn't going to remove blood. I found the clorox washing very odd, but even stranger, perhaps, that he'd think it would hide blood.

[Shermy]

Thanks merry for your info about drycleaning.

My link at post 51 to the excerpted story didn't come through. Here it is, from the 2/28 San Diego Union Tribune:

Police think girl was abducted for attack, documents indicate