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‘It Isn’t Over Yet’:SDPD Chief Bejarano talks about latest developments in van Dam Case
Newsweek-Website ^ | March 1, 2002 | NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE

Posted on 03/01/2002 7:36:24 AM PST by FresnoDA

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: sneakypete
I DO have the quaint,old-fashioned view that adults should be free to live their lives as they wish.

Correction, should read:

"I DO subscribe to the hip, with-it Sixties-generation view that adults should be free to live their lives as they wish, even if group sex is included."

361 posted on 03/01/2002 12:14:26 PM PST by Illbay
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To: in the Arena
You know if you go back and check some of the times on the early articles from the SDUnion Tribune site, you will see that there are little time shifts...it's probably not important.
362 posted on 03/01/2002 12:15:11 PM PST by Jaded
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To: Illbay
Ew. I hate the 60's generation. BLEH! They've ruined everything!
363 posted on 03/01/2002 12:15:49 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: wasp69
There's Brenda, rubbing onion oil into her eyes and grimacing the way her acting coaches told her.

Damon as usual has no expression: a moral flatliner, he only shows emotion when tied in restraints by multiple masters with whips.

Forgive me, but what does this supposedly mean?

That the parents did it, to the tin-foil hat crowd.

364 posted on 03/01/2002 12:15:55 PM PST by MickMan51
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To: spectre
One of my favorite Tommy Lee movies, don't argue with the big dog...
365 posted on 03/01/2002 12:16:02 PM PST by FresnoDA
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To: Amore;Petronski
Is this for real?

No.

Yes,it is. I'm no longer sure it is true in THIS case because the father was quoted as saying it was in the first thread,and now there is a newspaper story saying it isn't true. None the less,there ARE people who have this done to their dogs to keep their neighbors from complaining about the barking. I've also heard that Australian "dingos" can't bark,but have no idea what breed dog they have.

366 posted on 03/01/2002 12:16:13 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: FresnoDA
Unfortunately for Westerfield, though, he's a white guy. He will not be able to play the "race card" on this one, and it will be the FACTS that determine his fate. Unlike in O. J.'s case.
367 posted on 03/01/2002 12:16:26 PM PST by Illbay
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To: FresnoDA
In the John and Ken radio interview with the van Dams, Brenda is asked how someone could go into a strange house, go up to the second story bedroom and abduct the child without being heard. Wouldn't they have to be familiar with the van Dams?

Brenda's reply is that there are only three home models in their neighborhood. She also said at one point that people in their neighborhood feel safe and many don't lock their doors.

Q. Is Westerfield's home the same model as the van Dams?.

Q. Why would the van Dams suspect the abductor came from their neighborhood, and had the same model house? If it is a "safe", presumably upscale neighborhood, why would you assume kidnappers live there?

The thing that bugs me the most about this case is why did Westerfield wait until 9:30 the next morning to leave in the RV if he was the childs' killer? He didn't know when Danielle would be missed. He didn't know when search dogs would start fanning out from the van Dam house, two doors away. He didn't know when police would knock on his door with a house by house search. Why take such a risk of discovery? Had he already disposed of the child's body that night, then came home?

Westerfield is supposed to be a smart guy - he's an engineer. Why do you take blood stained clothes to a dry cleaner, instead of throwing it away? He had all weekend to get rid of stuff. Why take it to the cleaners?

368 posted on 03/01/2002 12:17:34 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: Naked Lunch; Demidog
You're right. Sorry, Demi! I'll shut up about it.
369 posted on 03/01/2002 12:18:51 PM PST by Illbay
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To: Fury
What? What are you talking about?

Have you ever seen a picture of Danielle in which she is NOT wearing that hideous choker?

 

370 posted on 03/01/2002 12:19:08 PM PST by SlickWillard
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To: Illbay
I asked Your premise is that no leader can be child molesters because leftists want to sow distrust ?

You answered

No. Then you changed the subject.

Stick to the subject. Can someone my child comes in contact daily with be a child molester ? If the answer is yes, then I feel obliged to take reasonable precautions.

It really is quite off topic to expound on all the false stories because proving them does nothing to disprove that there is a danger that my children can be abused.

If we change the subject to one that has the same principals involved you might be less emotional about this subject and can see the issue clearer. You seem so set on the issue I fear you might miss the relevance of this simple analogy. But here goes.

Do you lock your doors ? If you say yes, I am willing to bet the chances that locking your doors stops you from being attacked are too slim to be statistically significant. So, why change your life style just because you read some guy in the next town had a intruder, even if the report was later proven to be false ?

The reason is simple. It isn't that big a change. Its a small thing. seeing that my children are in a safe environment doesn't require me to change my life style. It just requires asking questions and applying common sense to situations. For example, if my son goes camping with Boy Scouts I want to know there will be more than one adult there and I want to know that he is not sleeping with a child much older than him.

371 posted on 03/01/2002 12:19:12 PM PST by VRWC_minion
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To: SlickWillard
You are disgusting, sir. Absolutely disgusting.
372 posted on 03/01/2002 12:21:34 PM PST by Fury
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To: goldenstateghettostate
What I don't understand is why Danielle didn't scream when the 'stranger' went into her bedroom and took her.

Little children sleep HARD. Haven't you seen children her age be picked-up and brought in the house from a car ride without waking up?

373 posted on 03/01/2002 12:23:21 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: alisasny
I at first felt sick about their lifestyle but they did NOT kill her

AND THAT alisa, is what the plea bargaining is all about. A ring of "lifestyle" perverts in San Diego, whose operations behind the closed gate communities is now strongly suspected to involve underage children. It's gonna get messy. The neighbor might have moved the body AFTER the kid died.. "little blood found in his camper" says something. If there was only trace blood in the camper, she was NOT killed there. I STRONGLY suspect the girl died at home, at the hands of non-strangers, in a sex cult ritual... and that westerfield was the participant who got rid of the body.

We have not heard a cause of death yet... I suspect it may NOT be as simple as "westerfield" did it. I think it is mom and dad, and their 'party' friends. We shall see.

374 posted on 03/01/2002 12:23:25 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2
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To: Illbay
Interesting. So a man whose child is senselessly murdered by his wife bears responsibility for those deaths because he is a "nutcase" fundamentalist Christian.

Don't stick words in my mouth! I never condemned anyone for being a Christian! I also didn't say Mr. Yates played a role in the death of his children.

I do think it is quite strange the ease with which he forgave his wife and ran to her defense after she killed his five children. There is something not right with his behavior, and I can't put it into words, but I know I'm not alone in seeing it. I don't know what the Yates were like in private, but in public Mr. Yates looks to me as if he has many of the same problems as his wife.

But any reasonable consideration that the sick, twisted, perverse lifestyle of the van Dams might mean they may have played a role in their daughter's death--that's just outrageous!

I can only comment on what I have seen of the van Dams in public. I don't know what goes on to the van Dam's home and neither do you. There are rumors, but with the tabloid aspects this case has taken on, many of those rumors are likely B.S.

That said, however, don't get me mixed up with the professional apologists. If Danielle's parents - by some unlikely stretch - turn out to have played a role in this, damn them.

But I don't see it happening.

375 posted on 03/01/2002 12:25:15 PM PST by shadowman99
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To: grlfrnd
Not that it's any of your business but they were there becuase the mother of somebody we employed was trying to get custody of this girls child by making accusations that she was abusive to the child. She made accusations about us as well. Accusations that couldn't possibly have been true because she has never met us.
376 posted on 03/01/2002 12:25:15 PM PST by Demidog
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To: FresnoDA
Brenda told us that 'love conquers evil - Scripture Reference Needed Please?

I searched 13 bible versions on the term "love conquers" and the searches returned 0 occurances.

377 posted on 03/01/2002 12:26:10 PM PST by VRWC_minion
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To: SlickWillard
I have seen of Danielle do look to me as though she was being groomed for a career in the porn industry.

Do you have alot of experience in that regard?

378 posted on 03/01/2002 12:27:23 PM PST by Demidog
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To: BigBobber
Your questions are interesting, but I will apply the same analysis I did when people accused the police of framing O.J.

How embarassing it would be to frame someone, only to find they have an airtight alibi. In O.J.'s case the timeline was so tight there was no way the police could be sure his alibi wouldn't hold up. In fact, they had every reason to believe he was actually out of town.

379 posted on 03/01/2002 12:27:30 PM PST by js1138
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To: SlickWillard
Why are we arguing the nature, or quality, of murdered-ness?

Because some people seem to have trouble understanding the difference between a baby and a grown woman.

All of these females are, or would have been, murdered by perverts.

All are or were females,but only one was a baby. As for your statement about perverts goes,you no doubt consider most people to be perverts.

380 posted on 03/01/2002 12:28:31 PM PST by sneakypete
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