Posted on 03/03/2002 7:49:10 AM PST by FresnoDA
I have a fair amount of experience with family photos from that era, and women from respectable families did NOT wear jewelry, much less chokers. Respectable people were very pious and very humble in that era.
You're thinking of the women that Hollywood portrayed as dancers in wild west saloons [or European variations, like the Moulin Rouge]. In that era, those women were understood to be whores.
I am nearly certain that they are.
Some inferred that I may be making this up, but that's their choice. My son-in-law is an LEO in a city of San Diego County. He has many friends who are also LE in various cities throughout the county. He told me about the "swinging" very shortly after Danielle went missing. He had heard it form other LEOs.
He dropped by this morning (while working) for a cup of coffee. I told him about the debate here and how some felt that these stories were merely rumors with no real basis.
He started laughing and said, "I don't think so." He said he had every reason to believe what he had been told by a reliable source.
Take it for what it is. Maybe I won't be believed, but I put considerable stock in words directly from LE. He told me this before I had the slightest clue about what Rick Roberts was saying and reinforced it today.
This is absurd! You see a chocker and see bondage and whores. Most people do not.
I work in the stockmarket and wear tailored suits to work everyday ... sometimes I wear chokers since they show well with a higher neckline.
I think your obsession about the chokers, bondage and whores says more about you than Danielle, her parents and the Mickey Mouse earrings.
I shudder to think what it means to him. And I just told him I sometimes wear a gold chocker with my tailored business suits!
I never have asserted that they have to ADMIT it. They haven't admitted it and probably never will. You can see I have said that swinging is not illegal so they have nothing to fear from the law but, in my estimation, it was not a good environment for children. Being a member of a gang and having gang members over to your house isn't illegal either ... but it sure isn't good to raise children in that envirnment.
I would say what I find to be more striking and condeming is the find of his fingerprints in Danielle's bedroom.
Sorry Danielle, my memory does not operate that far back.
I'm OLD but gimme a break!
I also didn't associate with "high class" women back then, (was just a young fella.)
Very true. We do not know what the authorities confiscated from the suspect's home. We don't even know the odds of the authoritues planting some convenient evidence in order to strengthen their case ( morality police: yes, it has happened ) We don't know the cause of death. It probably wasn't strangulation, because the choker was found on little Danielle's body.
We know nothing about the lifestyles of the neighbors, but I find it interesting that wife swapping seems to be acceptable behavior, while washing your vehicle in your driveway is somehow weird behavior. We therefore cannot lend credence to the neighbor's allegations.
The inconsistencies in each story may point to sloppy reporting ( not unheard of ) or the parties may be changing their stories at an unusually high rate of speed. We have no way of knowing that, either.
The guy may be guilty, but all the rumormongering going on in the press, with the willing cooperation of the parents, smacks of a witch hunt.
I'll agree that lie detectors are not always reliable but we have a number of reasons to suspect that David Westerfield killed that child.
If we're not going to believe lie detectors then why not claim the parents killed their daughter ... they passed the three questions the police asked. (It's the questions they didn't ask that I'm worried about).
Next he will be saying yo uwork in a Saloon or are a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. He thinks only women in the past that wore them were hookers, and that woman that were from good families never wore jewerly.
LOL..... touche'
I'm glad you said that, because it's really true....that type necklace/choker (plastic, junky!) is popular with girls her age. I know because my little girl's friends have worn them, and left them at the house when they've gone swimming etc....it's really a piece of junk...they think it makes them look "cool" ...I've also seen girls her age wear them at dance class...
RE: POST # 7
I find the pictures of those ADULTS in S&M chokers, comparing them to that young murdered girl is really in bad taste, and since it's the 2nd thread I've seen SLICK WILLARD posting it on (it must've taken alot of time to collect all those urls) I'm beginning to wonder about the motives...it's fairly sick to me to use her image with those. Whatever her sicko parents were up to, why would you further make her a victim of some disturbed theory you have?
I wish the moderators had taken that post off frankly, they remove so many of them....why that one is allowed to stay is beyond me.
It seems we avoid talikng about it because it seems so unlikely, but the circumstances surrounding this whole thing would be very ideal to frame someone.
It's not as if it has never happened. I admit that it may be far-fetched, but not impossible.
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