Hair in Westerfield home similar to Danielle's: (6-25-2002 Van Dam vs. Westerfield Trial Coverage)

North County Times-San Diego ^ | June 25, 2002 | Kimberly Epler

[cyncooper]

Red fibers looked visually similar but further comparison showed they were not...Lost feed again so not sure which location had fibers that were compared.

[spectre]

Going to "dark medium brown, course hair found on Danielle"...Compared the hair to DW and evaluated that it EXCLUDED Westerfield as the donor.

Anyone want to guess WHY the red acrylic fibers on the victim and her environment weren't important enough to follow up on????

sw

[Rheo]

The bean bag is cream colored....the infamous missing, never mentioned as collected as evidence dog bed color is unknown...the orange carpet is similar to DW's bedroom, I think?..missed some of that testimony.

[Freedom2specul8]

I keep losing feed, and did court tv host just say that ALL the hairs in danielles ahnd were not her own or dw's?

[spectre]

Huh??

sw

[BigBobber]

Hair in Daniele's hand different from one on her body. DW and Danielle are excluded as source of this hair.

[cyncooper]

Danielle did try on clothes that same day at Mervin's. Maybe she tried on something acrylic and orange. Acrylic Fibers from clothes could have collected in her necklace.

Bad news for DW, then, because those orange fibers were on every bit of his laundry plus on his bedsheets and pillowcases.

[BigBlueJon]

Thanks for the info. I don't know if I missed it or not, but has any one in court just asked if Westerfield has anything of this color in his home?

[John Jamieson]

No reason that DW should expect that the prosecution's evidence is going to help him!

I agree the evidence seems to be getting stronger, but I don't think we've reached critical mass yet. Also, atleast 30 days of defense to go.

[GoRepGo]

Hair under Danielle's armpit - similar to Danielle's hair.

[mommya]

hmmn - only one orange fiber on Danielle - on her necklace - now I'm thinking it could have come from the cookie sale day somehow - if she never took the necklace off - and it had only been a few days since the visit. I hope we get to find out the source of that orange fiber.

[spectre]

Catch you all later...sw

[Rheo]

Would not want to guess on why they weren't followed up on!

the dark brown hair was labeled that way by collector...she as hair examiner states the hair was med brown going to blonde at end...(armpit hair)

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks rep..between commercials on CTV and the breakups on realaudio..it's hard to keep up

[cyncooper]

Would not want to guess on why they weren't followed up on!

Did anyone else hear her say that while the red fibers were similar visually, further examination showed they were not?

[mommya]

witness thinks orange fiber likely came from blanket or sweater? DW afghan didn't match.

[John Jamieson]

"Made your day, huh KIM?"

If you didn't mean it as inflamatory as it sounded, I'm sorry I reacted. Just trying to save our threads. I had to beg bigtime to get the other one back.

[Rheo]

afghan collected from storage container in Poway (dw's)...evaluated..spent 2 days on it...fibers were not similar to those of victims neck, or laundry.....fiber on necklace was actually tangled in hair which was tangled in necklace...large wad of hair tangled in necklace

[cyncooper]

Due to where the fiber was---tangled in her necklace amongst hair tangled there----I find that hard to believe.

Witness testifying as I type that a "wad" of hair had the fiber tangled within it and she thinks it reasonable that the fiber came to be there close in time to her ending up at site where she was found.

[John Jamieson]

That's what I heard too.