Posted on 03/11/2002 12:04:45 PM PST by lady reaper
Posted: 8:12 a.m. PST March 11, 2002
Updated: 12:14 p.m. PST March 11, 2002
SAN DIEGO -- The preliminary hearing for a neighbor accused of abducting and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam is currently in recess.
Lieutenant Describes Danielle's Body
Watch The Hearing Live After Court Recess @ 1: 30 p.m.
The preliminary hearing is expected to last more than one day, at which time Superior Court Judge H. Ronald Domnitz will decide whether there is enough evidence to try Westerfield on the charges.
The victim's parents, Brenda and Damon van Dam, reported their daughter missing from their Sabre Springs home the morning of Feb. 2.
After weeks of searching, the girl's partially decomposed body was discovered Feb. 27 off a road in Dehesa.
Westerfield was arrested days earlier when police announced that lab tests had detected the child's blood on his clothing and in his recreational vehicle.
In addition, traces of DNA found on one of Danielle van Dam's garment in her room matched Westerfield's, police Chief David Bejarano said. He called the genetic evidence a "very, very strong link" between the defendant and the missing girl.
The chief offered little insight into what might have motivated Westerfield -- a divorced father of two -- to take Danielle van Dam from her home and family.
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Some wild speculation of mine. Just think about it.
(1) Dad is not babysitting like he should. He comes home from partying with female neighbor. Danielle is not in bed. Dad accidently runs over her pulling into drive.
(2) Mom and guests pull in at 2:30am, same scenario, accidently run into Danielle with car.
In either case, parents panic. Maybe they stash her body in Neighbor's RV.
(3)Neighbor coming home at 10:30pm accidently runs over Danielle, decides to get rid of the evidence.
Like I said, all speculation, but there is more to this than meets the eye.
What 'stairwell' had blood traces ? Basement, upstairs, what ?
Why was Danielle's body partially 'burned' ????
I think the biggest problem with this whole matter is the mystery surrounding the parents and their contradictive answers.
Or was Gary Condit a guest at their party ? (now I am really out there, huh!)
drowning?
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I'll add your questions!
you're welcome. THey are from the previous thread..and various freepers. :)
I do not know how a person could ever cope with something like this. I hope that the parents were not present, or had been warned in advance.
Rolling...wasn't it you that I was talking to about the ME using bugs to determine time of death? The ME just spoke about a forensic bug guy from the museum of national history assisting in determining the time of death..
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