Posted on 02/27/2002 10:38:50 PM PST by FresnoDA
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Welcome to Free Republic.....it is good form to scan a thread before posting, especially large picture/graphic files. Not a problem for those of us with broadband, but it slows things up a bit for our friends chatting over a typical modem line....FresnoDA
I recall a story about a serial killer in Rochester, NY who dumped the bodies of prostitutes near roads and bodies of water. Following a profile of his habits, the cops decided to have a chopper fly over the roads in the area. Amazingly, they spotted a body within feet of a well-traveled road with minimal brush cover. That body, once identified, turned out to point them at the killer.
Of course, stupidity among criminals should never be ruled out.
But the first time I saw her, she was smiling and holding a doll of Danielle's. They're a strange couple. The father also has a problem with her speaking to anyone. He'll stifle her in mid sentence if she discusses something he's not comfortable with (i.e. timeline of when she came home from the bar that night...).
I still think the parents know more about that night's events and of Westerfeld than they are admitting to. I don't think they had anything to do with her murder, at least God I hope not. But something still bugs me about the whole thing.
Mrs Kus
Now this is kind of new and interesting. Members means, not just an attendee, but immersed tithing church member. Does that mean that after a wild weekend of partying, they scrub up, wake up and head to Sunday morning Church???? WOW!!! I would be afraid of pllars of fire, or ligntening......guess things are a bit more strict in Assembly of God!!!
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I tell you, if that had been done I might have been as freaked out as HE was, shaking like a fool, driving all over the county, etc. Somebody tried to pin him but good, seems to me.
When I next go look in my sheds and rarely used vehicles, I sure hope I do not find what he apparently did.
According to the articles on this thread, they only found one earring with the body. The police have searched Westerfield's home, camper, etc. thoroughly, I assume; but there has never been any mention of one of her earrings being found on him or any of his property.
Perhaps they did find it and just haven't released that to the press. But if they didn't find it, then I would wonder if it was kept as a souvenir by the real killer.
Thank God, the on-scene investigators finished their work in and around her body late this evening (after 11:00 PM) which allowed her body to be placed on a gurney and then into the vehicle headed for the morgue and an autopsy.
One of my son's lives right off Dehesa Road approximately 1 mile from the site where Danielle was dumped; another son lives in Sabre Springs. Too close to home on both fronts. Sickening story. Gruesome.
crystalk --- you don't know what you're talking about --- you do not live in this area --- Westerfield is smart (cunning), he purposely left a trail of his travels --- call it "staging" --- he purposely tried to set-up his alibi by first overpaying at the Silver Strand and then again by getting his motorhome stuck in the sand near Glamis in the desert. Trouble is, Dehesa Road is is a back-country avenue between the Silver Strand and Highway 8 (I-8) to the desert. Obviously, Westerfield wanted to dump the body soon after he killed her. I doubt that she lived more than a few hours after her abduction.
Danielle Van Dam. (Reuters)
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