Posted on 03/03/2002 7:49:10 AM PST by FresnoDA
CAUSE OF GIRL'S DEATH COULD REMAIN MYSTERY
Police say they may never know how Danielle van Dam died, or when. The seven-year-old girl disappeared from her San Diego home February first. Authorities are now confirming that a child's body found by volunteer searchers Wednesday is that of the missing child. The district attorney says an autopsy performed confirmed her identity yesterday. The identification was made through dental records because of the condition of the body. Medical examiners are trying to determine the cause of death, but Police Chief Dave Bejerano says it's possible that we'll never know how, or when she was killed. A neighbor has been charged with kidnapping and murdering her. Authorities say they found the girl's blood on his clothing and in his motor home. He has pleaded innocent. |
This is true. It's similar to digging up a rape victim's sexual past -- the so-called "Slut Defense." It's a nasty, low-down, loathsome tactic, but unfortunately, an often successful one.
The swinging stories are true as far as I'm concerned. They were alluded to on MSNBC's site and the parents were careful not to deny them on three separate ocassions on LKL (although they were clearly uncomfortable). Furthermore, and I'm sorry I cannot remember the source, but I had read that Brenda IMMEDIATELY told the police they were swingers so as not to impede the investigation.
The very fact that it is being alleged that the cause of death cannot be verified, is if you think about it, heavily trending against any form of violent death, even usual stranglings or asphyxia, and leaning toward some sort of drug overdose etc.
I also find it very curious that it is only now, after body found and all, that it ever hits the papers that MR VD was entertaining yet another person, in the home, while Mrs VD was out at the bar.
How many different lies does it take to establish that a person is hiding guilty knowledge?
There is very little to indicate that Westerfield did anything other than freak, when he learned that he had a corpse or other nasty crime evidence riding along with him in his camper-van.
If the neighborhood is somehow involved in a "swinging cabal", I could see how a conspiracy could be supported to frame one of its less liked members.
http://video.uniontrib.com/news/metro/danielle/20020208-9999_1n8vandam.html
Parents believe daughter taken while they slept
February 8, 2002
On top of dealing with a missing child, the van Dams are the subject of rumors that they are involved in a swinging club, where couples typically engage in sex with other couples. "This is in no way related to the investigation," Brenda van Dam said. "Nothing would get in between me checking on my children. It's a rumor. I don't know why people would want to be hurtful."
We're in agreement about pedophiles. But taking a plastic choker and making a bondage issue out of it is silly at best, And what was your theory pray tell about the Mickey Mouse earrings?
Someone told the authorities where to look for the body.(I contend) Who knew? Was it Westerfield?(Where is the confession that would accompany this revelation?)
It is going to get interesting!
Hmmmm. I will have to cogitate on that. Interesting thought there. Initial impression: that's a possibility, IF Westerfield killed Danielle. Why? They may have heard rumors that Westerfield was into children or had other deviant behaviors. The neighborhood may not have wanted "his kind" there and told him why. Maybe that's why he killed Danielle.
If he didn't kill her, then that would better explain why there was child porn still left on his computer.....he had no knowledge about anything, until he was already gone in the motorhome and discovered the body.
If he didn't kill her, he should have passed the lie detector test. He failed.
You try to make the evidence fit the facts on this one. This is a stretch. The words,"this is entirely un-true" could have been uttered at any time and often.
Sorry, kim. That's a very odd couple of sentences. I think a person who's innocent of the charges would say something more like:
"I do not participate in that kind of lifestyle or subject my children to that. . . . I don't know why people are saying those things about me, but my friends know I'm not into that." That sounds more like a denial. Sorry.
When I was a kid [late sixties, decade of the seventies], children did NOT wear jewelry. In that era, a girl getting her ears pierced was a huge event - it usually ocurred in high school, and was accompanied by a knock down drag out fight with her parents. Also - since when does ANY woman [child, adult, octogenarian] go to sleep with her jewelry ON? Women always take their jewelry off before they go to sleep.
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