Posted on 03/31/2002 1:52:12 PM PST by FresnoDA
If they had "tip" on Westerfield they would have put out an APB for him and his HM. A girl's life was at stake. If they had a tip they would have acted on it ASAP, not two days later in the course of normal contact interviews. His name came up on the list of persons with recent contact. Not on a hot sheet.
They had no reason to suspect him on Saturday or Sunday, thus no APB. They went to interview him on Monday in the normal course of interviewing everyone on the recent contact list.
I read it in an article posted on a previous VD thread on FR. I'm not voluteering to find and repost it.
"I have asked Dolly Libby to coordinate our outreach program this coming year and we grateful that she has answered the call." That's from here - looks like the Libby's were active in this church - the first one that the Van Dam's associated themselves with - I still have no clue as to how the second church beacame involved with the fund - (the one with Minkow) - why not just have the first church set up the fund instead of involving that con man Minkow?
No it's not. In a kidnapping, a recent contact list will be made, it is SOP. Every one they sold cookies to the previous week would be on that list, as well as every teacher, every child she played with, etc. His name came to LEO attention because he was someone who had recent contact. That is why they went to interview him, yes. That is not why they became suspicious and got search warrants. He was interviewed in the normal course of investigation because his name had come up on the list of recent contacts,as had many others, but it was the interview that made them suspicioius of him.
If he had been pointed out deliberately as a hot tip as a possible perpetrator by the VD's on Sat or Sun as many have speculated, there would have been an all out search for him and his MH, in hopes of a live recovery of the missing Danielle. There was no APB and no tip. Did the VD's give his name to the police, yes, of course, along with all the other 100's of names of recent contacts. Does that constitute a tip, or fingering him. NO.
The officer's statement is fact. We have it on tape, and on transcript.
Val's extension of that statement is imagination. Even if, as Val claims, Val is a police procedural genius. Val cannot know that this added speculation is true. Val suspects it might be, but neither sVal nor any of us can know it is true, because all we have to go on is the fact of the statement.
So...weighing...fact, or imagination? Fact, or imagination? I think I'll choose fact. Procedural geniuses aside.
The orignal claim was that he had no LE experience, my response was that he had some of the nastiest, up close and personal kind, being the suspect in his own son's decapitation murder.
That is experience, and since then is has become one of the foremost experts in child abduction/murders and his NAMEC organization is a resource for both the FBI and local LEO. FDA's foolish sniff at his "credentials" was ridiculous and I flamingly pointed that out.
Nuff said.
I remember it well...they say some of the most educated people in this world have learned by experience. Did you know that Einstein was homeschooled?
I quite enjoyed Dr. Dobson telling parents to not put their kids in CA public schools. Should make it a nationwide statement.
Now we will be in trouble for being off topic;-)
Q) But with regard to the fingerprints seized at the Van Dam residence you've not been able to make identification on any of those yet, is that correct?
OBJECTION beyond the scope
Judge-Sustained.....
We don't know what prints were found/identified at the Van Dams or not, because prosecution and the judge prevented an answer to the question. Judge-Sustained.....
Val, that is why I transcribed and POSTED the above, to cut short the rumor that 200 prints were found in the MH..the question used the term CASE not MH...but I guess you just put me in DW fan pigeonhole?
As far as whether the DA has more evidence or not is just speculation.....we do know there were leaks of information that later turned out to be untrue...thus the gag order
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