Posted on 03/04/2002 3:27:44 PM PST by FresnoDA
I've heard this here on FR a few times but, I've not heard it in the local San Diego paper or news. Where did you get your info?
Anything is possible, but it is not procedure to make false press statements. If they were doing a sting, they would have simply said nothing to the press about polygraphs and having ruled the parents out as suspects.
Cops are generally considerate, caring, and honorable people. They greive with victims and their families. Their attitude toward and statements about the Van Dams are indicative of what they know about the evidence.
Many just want to overlook this point so as to continue full tilt in the Van Dam Slam as you so poetically put it. As poorly as they've played to the t.v. cameras, it's impossible for me to believe they've "played" the cops.
Of course, some now want to conclude that there is a cover up because the swing thing goes high up into local politics. And while paranoics sometimes really do have enemies, Free Republic has its share of iredeemable tin-foil mad hatters. They simply cannot accept that another pedophile killer could have just happened to an unlucky and unperfect family.
Searchers on Saturday were in the area where the body was found yesterday and came up empty, Garcia said. It's about midway down in the story.
Many just want to overlook this point so as to continue full tilt in the Van Dam Slam as you so poetically put it. As poorly as they've played to the t.v. cameras, it's impossible for me to believe they've "played" the cops.
yes, cops are indeed very caring individuals, especially when it comes to child abduction/murder. My older brothers are all police officers and have had to deal with very similar situations to the Van Dam case. I do not envy them their jobs.
I do not believe that the cops are being played - but having some insider information regarding the workings of law enforcement, I do know that the police will often play good cop/bad cop in order to draw out a suspect (Ala Susan Smith)I also know that they will be respectful to the family even if they suspect that a family member was involved.
I know very little about the case, but from what I have read in the news, I am very uncomfortable with the way things have played out - especially the part about the location/recovery of the body. A body left outdoors for a period of several days, will start to carry a stench. The stench will draw scavengers out, which in return will decimate a small body in very little time. And as I have stated before, according to reports, the area had already been searched prior to the recovery and it was not located.
It is possible that scavengers were the reason that the body was moved...... but wouldn't the police have known this?
There's your common sense speaking. "Could have just happened" -- magical thinking, possible, but almost magic if so. "Unlucky and imperfect" -- glimmer of common sense, as that combination means "likely suspects".
A rotten situation, and circumstances as reported do leave the couple VDs in serious consideration, at least as a major contributing factor, if not as accomplices or worse.
A certain portion of this pervert population do not have the social skills to groom children for seduction so they resort to coercion, i.e. abduction and rape. Most release their victims alive, but about one third don't. Usually because the child knows who they are and can identify them, but sometimes because they are "out of control" much like Ted Bundy's last rampage.
DW "crapped" in his own back yard, so to speak. The Van Dam's were the unlucky victims who made the unfortunate mistake of not properly securing their home. For this, they will pay forever in private guilt and public shame.
Bogeyman thinking, still in that magical mindset.
You are unfamiliar with the Belgium kidnap/child sex ring?
Or the many third world child sex tourism hot spots? They aren't catering to the locals. It's for rich Americans and Europeans.
Take your blinders off!
These people make me sick. We talk about the terrorists being animals. Well, these people are animals in heat. It is so sad that the little girl had to suffer this way. While I don't blame the girl's death or abduction on the parents, I do think that she was a victim of the culture of(or lack of) the community, where sex was the focus of their lives.
Can you find how many children were killed by their own parents last year? That question is begged, as a fair follow-on to your cite of the 100 killed by pedophiles.
I'm in agreement with you but 100 is AWFULLY low. John Walsh on LKL (transcript on cnn.com) last night said that just in the Sabre Springs community there were 13 registered sex offenders. Children disappear without a trace all the time.
Certainly, trained police dogs.
And that number does not include the unsolved/body not recovered cases. Only the confirmed DEAD.
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