Feldman's Questions Show Defense Strategy: Dig into Damon and Brenda van Dam's Private Lives!

KNSD NBC ^ | March 19, 2002 | Lynn Stuart

[FresnoDA]

Hmmm, I had heard otherwise. Someone will help straighten this out, I'm sure. :) Can you imagine..having to get the fingerprints of all of danielle's playmates?

I WOULD SUGGEST WE FINGERPRINT ALL OF BRENDA'S AND DAMON'S PLAYMATES AS WELL!!

[Jaded]

This is information that I got from a friend from a ng that she's on. I cannot give you names, or tell you how the source is connected so don't give me a hard time about Source? Alot of this you've heard before and we've discussed it. As I've said before give me substantial evidence and I'll hop off of the fence. I was going to repost my thoughts on how the blood came to be in the RV but I can't find it and I need do go to family stuff.

First of all, there is evidence that Westerfield was watching her. Apparently one of his upstairs windows faces her bedroom (the houses are on hill, with Westerfield's UP the hill from the Van Dam's), and they found binoculars by the window, pornagraphic materials, and evidence that the blinds on that window had been repetitively pulled down in the middle as if to peek out (and there were slightly dirty areas around the pulled down in that section). Only Westerfield's finger prints are on it.

I can't say for sure that he didn't have help, but I CAN say that the police are about 99% sure they have their man. The very first day she was missing, the search dogs were brought out and they went right to Westerfield's house to his garage and front door!

Besides the obvious blood evidence in his motorhome and on his jacket there is some other evidence from her bedroom. And he had scratches on his arms which my source said a detective told him are the perfect "half moon" shape of 5 little fingernails.

The crime lab is sitll testing various fibers and stuff, but in the coming months, I can imagine more evidence will come out.

Listen to John Walsh comment on this case. He has such great insight. He was saying today that Westerfield probably got his motorhome stuck on purpose (as an alibi) and if you track his routes that weekend, he went right by where her body was found.

Early on when asked where the body was Westerfield allegedly replied, "Give me your gun and I'll tell you where she is." The detectives basically felt that as a partial confession.

Enjoy sleuthing and be nice. Catch ya in a couple of hours.

[RangeRatt]

Glad you liked it...

[Valpal1]

Sort of like walking into a buzz saw on this thread, isn't it.

But that blood in the MH is hard to overcome. For the record the DNA in the blood spots was matched to DNA in Danielle's panties, but I still hear maybe in was really Brenda's DNA. Like she fits in Danielle's panties. The MtDNA test was done to establish that the panty DNA was from offspring of Brenda.

The fingerprints are hard to explain away as well. Like a little girl who had to ask permission to cross the street was allowed to play in a barely known neighbors MH, with her friends no less (although other prints have NOT been identified to my knowledge). Or that a tidy,organized bachelor boy let children play in his motorhome, probably while loading and unloading it, since it was not stored at his home. Strains credulity.

And DW has been caught in lies. His trip/timelines did not add up convincingly (according to SDPD), And he lied about not having his wallet, while the Park Ranger said he did.

The funniest part is that so many think drunk, stoned, viagra popping swingers managed to do the crime, clean up the house, frame DW and fool SDPD, all while stoned!!!

[MizSterious]

This is the only pic I could find of Danielle with fingers showing. It looks to me as though she has viable, sratch-worthy fingernails. Can anyone else tell?

San Diego area police investigating the kidnapping of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam arrested 50-year-old neighbor David Westerfield on February 22, 2002. Westerfield, who had been questioned by police repeatedly in the three weeks since the second-grader disappeared, was taken into custody at his San Diego attorney's office in what appeared to be a pre-arranged surrender. (Reuters)

[bvw]

What "drunk, stoned, viagra popping swingers managed" to do is provide copious cover for Westerfield (should have done the alleged deed) to get off -- on a reasonable doubt.

[Freedom2specul8]

I have to repost this for hamilton, Jay because it wasn't the same without the pic.

He had a REAL bad weekend, getting rejected by a druggie/partier on friday night, getting set up (blood, dna and a handprint) for the murder of a neighbor girl who was found nude, getting caught with his "sons" 60,000+ porn pics, beastiality pics, rape animations and possible less than 100 questionable pics of underage looking girls, paying way too much for his rent-a-room at the beach, getting stuck in the sand, being late for an appt, getting bad scratches on his arm... sweating in front of cops and all (/sarcasm)

[FresnoDA]

Early on when asked where the body was Westerfield allegedly replied, "Give me your gun and I'll tell you where she is." The detectives basically felt that as a partial confession.

Was he serious, or was he simply using bad humor?  If...as has been stated, DW was a bit of a "jerk" with other folks and with Women....remember the stories of lots of cases of rejection and people trying to "ditch" him???

Again, this guy may be so dirty, it is a slam dunk....but WHERE were Brenda and Damon???  What is the TRUE STORY of their "Enchanted Evening"??

If the VD's will come clean on that, then I for one will "crawl back into my hole" (from an earlier Valpall rant!!)

[RangeRatt]

I believe they were going snow boarding....

[FresnoDA]

STOP YOUR HTML CODE SHRIEKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[homeschool mama]

**I WOULD SUGGEST WE FINGERPRINT ALL OF BRENDA'S AND DAMON'S PLAYMATES AS WELL!! **

Agreed!

[bvw]

What seems to be going on here is a lynching, not a trial. Perhaps Westerfield is guilty -- but due process is due process, and grandstanding shortcuts may gain a conviction that ends up being overturned.

[Freedom2specul8]

LOL~~ Fres, we learned from you!

I had no idea westerfield got stuck TWICE....could it BE that he's trying to count four an abnormal amount of dirt under his rv?

Westerfield says he then drove to Borrego Springs and drove down a road that turned out to be too narrow. He became stuck again, and this time, he had to dig himself out.

[Valpal1]

Is a virtual lynching a real lynching? We aren't the jury, and the judge wisely gagged the real participants. Although in today's information age, it appears to be not enough to protect the jury pool.

[Freedom2specul8]

count four.. LOL account for..is what I mean.

[Valpal1]

Holy Shrieking HTML Cow! Batman!

First of all, there is evidence that Westerfield was watching her. Apparently one of his upstairs windows faces her bedroom (the houses are on hill, with Westerfield's UP the hill from the Van Dam's), and they found binoculars by the window, pornagraphic materials, and evidence that the blinds on that window had been repetitively pulled down in the middle as if to peek out (and there were slightly dirty areas around the pulled down in that section). Only Westerfield's finger prints are on it.

This is an LEO's dream scenario, to good to be true.

[MizSterious]

Geez, Kim, that pic was posted just a few posts away. Why post it again? Are you trying to slow the thread down so badly it can't be read? Some of us are on dialups. (Country living...)

[Freedom2specul8]

First of all, there is evidence that Westerfield was watching her. Apparently one of his upstairs windows faces her bedroom

eeew....

[Freedom2specul8]

Whooops, it shouldn't double the load time cuz 1. it's in the cache and 2. it's the same pic

But...this is MILD compared to earlier threads.. ::wink::

[Valpal1]

What "drunk, stoned, viagra popping swingers managed" to do is provide copious cover for Westerfield (should have done the alleged deed) to get off -- on a reasonable doubt.

Some see the parent's pathetic prelim testimony as demonstrating opportunity for the alleged perpetrator to have done a snatch from an occupied residence, not providing reasonable doubt at all. This home was wide open and the adults incapicitated by alcohol/drugs, an easy mark for an amateur, much less an organized planner.