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Do you believe the jury is going to believe the idea that people who admitted having extra-marital sex,they have no evidence.. are more likely to kidnapp and murder a child vs a person who has evidence against him?

Their DNA in her home is expected, her DNA in their cars can be explained away.

How can they have evidence if they didn't bother to look for it in the first place? They didn't, you know. They'd cleared everyone but Westerfield before Monday. Breakneck speed. 184 houses in the neighborhood, 13 registered sex offenders, the "pizza" party goers, the parents, and oh, yes, all those barflies at Dad's who were invited back to the "pizza" party. The San Diego PD must have literally thousands of investigators who were devoted entirely to this case to have really investigated and cleared all of those people.

Or, they just went with Brenda's tip--go get the single guy with deep pockets (OJ type lawsuit on her mind, no doubt) who (as she knew) was out of town. Which seems more logical?

Remember this from a past thread--three different statements pointing to the police receiving a tip from Brenda van Dam: first--

Officer: During the course of our investigation, the resident here, his name came up, as someone who had contact with the family. We've talked to him. He is cooperating with us. He's talked to us yesterday, he's talking to us today. We had some things we wanted to check in his house. He allowed us to go into his home and we are doing some things to process the scene and possibly eliminate him as a suspect." Source

Second, there was an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune the same day, where another officer says something quite similar:

"This is a process of elimination," said Dave Cohen, a spokesman for the San Diego Police Department. "We have gotten some information and we wanted to take a little closer look at his vehicle and his residence." Source

And from one of the motions the defense filed:

"Detective Alldredge's affadavit was relied on to establish probable cause for search warrants 2783D and 27818 to search Mr. Westerfield's home. 27813 for Mr. Westerfields clothes. In his affadavit, Alldredge misrepresented statements by Brenda Van Dam that were relied on to supply probable cause for the issuance of the search warrants. Because the affadavits were sealed, documents may only disclose the specifics of the misrepresentations in camera."

So, from this, it appears Brenda said something, but that Alldredge might have altered it or exaggerated it. Bottom line, it looks like someone did point the police in a certain direction.