TOW TRUCK DRIVER CLAIMS WESTERFIELD TALKING TO SOMEONE: Phone Records Trace Westerfield's Movements

SAN DIEGO -- The prosecution in the David Westerfield murder trial called on a cell phone company employee and several campers Thursday to verify the defendant's whereabouts the weekend Danielle van Dam disappeared.

A series of calls from Westerfield's cell phone in early February appeared to mirror his rambling motor home trip to the beaches of southern San Diego County and the Imperial Valley deserts, Verizon Wireless representative Greg Sheets testified.

But on cross-examination, Westerfield's defense attorney, Steven Feldman, sought to show that the cell phone calls were not a reliable record of Westerfield's locations that weekend. Under questioning by Feldman, Sheets admitted that the records don't give precise locations and don't identify the user of the phone.

Westerfield is charged with kidnapping and murdering Danielle. He could face the death penalty if he's convicted.

The prosecution also called a series of witnesses who were at Silver Strand State Beach on Saturday, Feb. 2. Westerfield said he drove his motor home to Silver Strand that morning.

Beverly Jean Askey of El Cajon testified that her family was already at the beach when a motor home that she later learned was Westerfield's pulled into a nearby space sometime before 10 a.m. It was a nice, sunny day she said, yet no one came out of the vehicle.

"He just pulled up, he pulled the front window closed and I never saw anyone again," Askey said.

Two other campers said they saw Westerfield's motor home and noticed that it appeared closed up.

Earlier, Angela Elkus, a resident of the Sabre Springs neighborhood where the van Dams and Westerfield lived, answered questions about the motor home. She said she had seen children playing around the vehicle three or four times when it was parked on the street, but she said they were mostly older children. She also talked about a visit to the van Dam home after Danielle disappeared.

Elkus said she had never been to the home before, but she brought food over for the family on the Sunday after the little girl disappeared. She said that the family's dog appeared "scared, shy, confused and perfectly still" when she came in the house, and it did not bark, she said. Legal analysts say prosecutors want to convince the jury that a stranger could have come into the house and taken Danielle without the dog barking.

The van Dam's have testified the dog was raised around others that had been "debarked."

Damon changed the story on the dog several times. Why?

Perhaps because he didn't want to really tell the truth. Perhaps the reason the dog appeared "quiet,docile,shy,scared" is the Damon debarked the dog. How? Kick it in the face every time it barks. He wouldn't do this. NO? Well, There was testimony in the PH (I went back and looked it up) that the dog had a nosebleed cause it 'ran into' Damon's leg.

No, he didn't say that. He said he heard a voice.

The tow truck driver also said he was near the running engine of the vehicle when he thought he heard the voice and that's why he had to walk around it and ask Westerfield if he had said something to him. I also noticed that the prosecution didn't directly ask him if the talking sounded like a child's voice or an adult voice to him.

And then there's the issue of the tow truck driver refusing to talk to the defense investigators unless he first got the balance of the money that Westerfield owed him for the tow ...

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