Posted on 02/15/2002 8:12:54 AM PST by MizSterious
"We will solve this case sooner rather than later," Assistant Chief Steve Creighton told The San Diego Union-Tribune. "We have a ton of evidence that we are meticulously going over. We are making progress."
Creighton's remarks were published only two days after police, for a third time, searched the home of David A. Westerfield, who lives just two doors from the van Dam home.
Police refused to say what they may have found in the home of the 50-year-old, who has been the focus of the investigation into what police say was an apparent kidnapping.
Twice before, detectives took service dogs through Westerfield's house, and he has been under 24-hour police surveillance in the days since Danielle's disappearance.
In addition, Westerfield has submitted a sample of his DNA to authorities for analysis.
During the initial searches, officers carted off boxes and bags full of household items. Police also impounded his sport utility vehicle and the motor home he took to the Imperial County desert over the weekend the girl vanished.
Still, authorities have referred to the neighbor only as a "potential suspect" and have not taken him into custody.
Danielle's father, meanwhile, said he plans to join concerned citizens in scouring arid wilderness areas around Glamis, Borrego Springs and Ocotillo over the Presidents' Day weekend.
The search for the girl has included those vast open areas because Westerfield took a trip there around the time Danielle vanished.
Brenda van Dam said her husband's plan to help comb those wastelands was helping him cope with the ordeal of his child's disappearance.
"You know, it's harder for me to have to stay here in the house. But I know that's what I have to do, just in case I'm needed by the investigators," she said. Rewards offered in connection with Danielle's disappearance now total $185,000. Some are offered for her safe return. Others are payable in the event of an arrest and conviction.
According to reports, Brenda was involved in a lot more activites than Girl Scourts and youth sports.
The phrase "sooner rather than later" can be roughly translated as "I am lying through my teeth."
You'd think this idiot would know better than to use it, unless he is deliberately thumbing his nose at the entire world.
Really ?
She added that she will not do so because she does not want to do anything to compromise or interfere with the case. "Somebody knows where my baby is, and it's not me. I just want to go and say, 'Tell me where my baby is,' " Brenda van Dam said.
"It's not me"............ Well duh.........that should be a given. What a weird thing to say !!! Then she says she won't say, "Tell me where my baby is" because it will compromise or interfere with the case ?????????? Can someone translate that for me? How so?
I pray for the Danielle but, fear it's to late.
Not I.
I feel the same. I pray and want to be hopeful but logic tells me that hopes are dim.
This is what struck me. I had an incident when my kids were young.... and thought I heard someone open a door downstairs. My first reaction was to jump out of bed and check the kids....THEN go investigate. How could anyone who lives in the city...find their door open, alarm blinking.....and NOT investigate further???? Crazy. IMHO, this Mom knows something happened to this kid because of...and due to her extra-curricular "activities" and is scared to death...plus consumed with guilt.
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This is a sad, sad case. I hope and pray that the parents are innocent, because no one wants to ever believe that parents can do anything bad to their children. But they do. I don't know what the story is, and I would only be speculating. Everyone handles stress differently. If the stories about sex and wife-swapping are true, the parents are obviously irresponsible. But, as with any high-profile case, we don't know all the facts.
We need to add Danielle to our prayers so that the truth may be revealed, and that she will return safely. It's been too long, though. I can not bare to think of anything happening to my children ... sometimes, I hear stories like this, and I envision one of my kids missing and I just start crying. What kind of society do we live in where our children are not safe in their own homes?
So do I !!!!!!!
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Brenda and Damon van Dam | 02/07/02 | 11:05 |
Brenda and Damon van Dam join the John & Ken show via telephone to discuss their efforts to find their missing 7-year-old daughter. |
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