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Actually I think swinging is a sad and tragic choice, like all other types of fornication and adultery.

But reports of what occurred that night are greatly exxagerated by some.

There has been plenty of rumor spread about the garage activities, but if you look at photos of the interior, it is a cold dank storage area with room to park a car. Hardly the site of the numerous alledged sexploits and possible videotaping.

That they reversed to lock to hide their dope smoking from their kids strikes me as typical dimbulb dopethink. Like their kids don't have noses to smell, eyes to see, and ability to notice behavioral changes.

Just because you and I have higher standards of behavior doesn't make us the arbiter of community standards of reasonable and prudent. I once had a social worker tell me they couldn't remove the toddler of a druggie living in a car, because the car met the requirements for shelter!

I'll tell you my biased perception of the VD marriage. Barracuda Barbara Easton wants Damon, who not very morally centered and a little bored with marriage is sucked into the swing mantra, and has been trying to convice Brenda that it can work to spark up their relationship, (yeah, that's a crock, sin is always a crock). Brenda, feeling desperate to hang on to Damon, tries to overcome her natural resistance to the nasty idea with drugs and alcohol. In the meantime Barbara Barracuda is very careful to court Brenda, and to profess friendship with her, while her eye is really on the income producing Damon. Brenda can't really go along with it, and drags Damon and Barb back downstairs, where they polish off the leftovers and some GS cookies and the failed swing event breaks up for the night.

I truly believe the parents are crushed by Danielle's murder, and I rather expect the marriage to fail and end in divorce as well. Damon ends up with Barracuda Easton about 18 mo. from now and has joint custody of the boys. Brenda spirals further into drugs and alcohol, dies early about 55, still mourning her baby girl. Note: Damon dumps the Barracuda in 3-5 years and remarries a 30ish single mom with 2-3 kids a few years younger than the boys.

I should write soaps!

Those are valid points. However, even though Westerfield has been charged, with the little evidence that has been shown so far, I would have to acquit. So far there has been no indication the David was IN THE HOUSE or in Danielle's room, or that she was in his SUV. How did she get to Dehesa, if not at some point being in the SUV? SDPD is so sure its him, but don't have a motive and have yet to figure out how he single-handedly carried out this act after consuming rum & coke and who knows what else. The pedophile line is very thin. And why do the drag marks end at the edge of the driveway?

Too much here doesn't add up and the parent's gift of prevarication and omission clouds the issues even more. One of the original reports stated that the party broke up around 4, now we're to believe it ended at 2:15? What makes that so suspicious is that the reports not only came from the police but from BvD and DvD's own mouths.

There was something in the PH about others who heard the open invitation to the house. So because of the parents alleged propensities who knows what manner of people might have been inclined to see what was up.

Most people would like to see the PERPETRATOR found guilty. Make d*mn sure you've got the right guy before we start hooking up old sparky.

I do wonder if Barb is the instigator? Damon's activity that night involving her have me puzzled. When the girls first arrived at the house that night - It seems Damon barely spoke to them - a couple of hits off the joint in the garage, then back to video games. He went to bed that night and even fell asleep a bit - but according to him - he expected Brenda to return from Dad's that night with at least the people she went there with. So was his plan to just stay in bed and ignore the "after party" no matter what it entailed? Or - if he was going to participate in the "after party" - if it was innocent, eating pizza, maybe even a little more drugs - why didn't he just stay up and wait for them to get back (fully clothed)? I'm thinking he got into bed in his underwear and waited there for the girls to get back - so he'd be ready for what he hoped would happen - still - why so little interaction between Damon and the girls earlier in the evening? Any ideas?