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Let's play a little game of "why." Why would the van Dams lie on the stand about things they had to have known would be revealed--either at the PH or later during the trial? Dancing with Westerfield is perhaps the most obvious of several--did Brenda really think the bar was empty or something? We always said there had to be witnesses, and sure enough, some of them came forward and made statements that yes, she danced with Westerfield. Damon, too, spun a convoluted web of doors open, doors closed, times, alarms beeping, magnets and more--why? Anyone watching thought him untruthful and evasive (according to most polls). How can the vDs think that lying and evading truth is going to help convict their daughter's killer?

If, that is, they have the killer in custody. And Crystalk has, several times, suggested an alternate theory that perhaps the child somehow died as an accident, and the entire thing is smoke and mirrors. Kind of makes you go "hmmm...."

But seriously, WHY the need for the van Dams to lie?

I just don't get Brenda lying about dancing with Westerfield either. It doesn't make sense. Unless for some reason she thought that would make Damon really angry - but even then - she still has to know Damon will find out the truth at the trial. It just does not compute for me.

Druggy, alky, promiscuous. Brenda must be quite the inveterate liar, pathological almost. Otherwise she couldn't have maintained her lifestyle so long as it is. Note how like Clinton she barks and rails when someone like Pierce breaks the party line. For persons of practise in continual lying, weaving the fabric of lies such that they are quasi-consistent is easy, natural.

Remeber who she spoke under her breath "where's this hoing anyway" while being crossed by that maniacal master of cross examination Feldman? He got ahead of her weaving, she didn't want to lose the warp.

I don't think Danielle was killed on purpose. How she died is going to remain a mystery, unless someone confesses.

The van Dams started spinning their little web of deception ~before~ Westerfield was arrested, i.e., the conflicting change of stories and timelines, etc.

I don't understand the accusations people are making against DW being "weird". He went to the bar, as a single man might do, he stuck to his routine of going camping as he usually did. AND, he lived a private life, but was too neat?! Since when, does that make a person weird?

The van Dams aren't very bright people or have some minor brain damage from the drugs and alcohol, to not stick to their stories. OR they just think we all are stupid.

~sw~