EXPERT LINKS PORN TO WESTERFIELD'S SON!: (Feldman's Message To "The Damon"; Don't Leave Town!)

KNSD NBC ^ | July 3, 2002 | KNBC

[FresnoDA]

Expert Links Porn Images To Westerfield's Son

Defense Hopes To Show Child Porn Wasn't Downloaded By Defendant

 

POSTED: 12:15 p.m. PDT July 3, 2002

UPDATED: 2:55 p.m. PDT July 3, 2002

 

SAN DIEGO -- A computer expert hired by David Westerfield's defense team said that at least some of the pornography seized from his home was downloaded by the defendant's son.

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Marcus Lawson (pictured, right), president of Global CompuSearch of Spokane, Wash., testified Wednesday that he found two photographs of naked women and Japanese "anime" computer animations on the hard drive of a Gateway computer in an upstairs bedroom used by Westerfield's 18-year-old son, David Neal Westerfield. The former Customs Service agent said that a detailed analysis of the files showed the pornography was downloaded at about the same time someone was accessing an email account belonging to the younger Westerfield.

David A. Westerfield, 50, is charged with kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of child pornography. Prosecutors have said the 80 or so images of child pornography taken from Westerfield's home indicate sexual interest in children.Defense attorneys are trying to show that the defendant is not responsible for the pornographic images -- including those of young children -- found on his computer equipment.

David A. Westerfield, a 50-year-old self-employed design engineer, is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.

Lawson told jurors that he examined copies of hard drives, zip disks and compact disks made by police and took numerous screen captures -- essentially photographs of what came up on the computer monitor at a given time.

Defense attorney Steven Feldman asked Lawson if there was a theme to the animations.

"A considerable number of the screen prints showed bondage -- where women were tied in ropes," Lawson said.

A screen print of an e-mail to a DNWesthotmail.com, as quoted by Lawson, said: "Thanks for joining anime.com."

Lawson also confirmed screen prints the defense entered into evidence last week, that a computer in the office of Westerfield's house was used to access pornography on Feb. 4 at 4:47 p.m., when the defendant was busy with detectives.

Feldman mentioned last week's suggestion that the clock on the computer may have been doctored.

"Did you see any evidence that that happened on any of the computers you examined?" Feldman asked.

"No, I did not," Lawson answered. He said there's usually signs when a clock has been tampered with, such as files being accessed before they were created. Nothing like that was apparent on Westerfield's computers, he said.

Tuesday, San Diego police Detective Johnny Keene testified that he collected Westerfield from his Sabre Springs home that Monday around 3:40 p.m. and took him to the Northeastern substation in Rancho Penasquitos. The defendant remained there until approximately 11:30 p.m.

[Freedom2specul8]

The wording needs to be rephrased or clarified IMHO. If he meant viewing it, he should have said it. But instead it looked like he was attempting to insinuate that someone found a porn pic, and downloaded into the ''x''files. He left it open as to who....and he didn't mention website either..during that page of the testimony. I've not gotten to the next page yet.

C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files\

[Jaded]

We also had a similar problem with Brenda vs Keith testimony too. Who to believe?

[Freedom2specul8]

Because some news bunny said so?

No because feldman said they'd view it during opening statement.

[Freedom2specul8]

Did you see my ping about this? I'm sorry I can't remember who discovered this now..the warrant for cell phone records shows that the last 4 digits of the cell phone number is the same four digits has (edit..should be AS) dw's SS#.

What part of this did ya miss? :)

[MizSterious]

Did Feldman state whether it was real or animated?

[John Jamieson]

Rereading everything about the 2/4 computer usage around 4:30pm, makes me believe that nothing was downloaded, but a couple of old images on the harddisk were looked at. Cops not Neil!

When the cops looked at them the "last access" date and time changed.

[MizSterious]

Some of those same temp files were introduced into evidence by the prosecution. Apparently they consider it "downloaded."

[Jaded]

Hey half of the free world has seen Neal's boxers. Alot of the porn was d/l under Neal's name and alot of out there stuff. Some would have us believe that DW was downloading as Neal, so does this mean that DW was pretending to be a college student too?

Besides Neal is 18 years old. Raging hormones, macho attitude and all. It's not an abberation or anything.

[dread78645]

Ok, please read this post..it mentions various theories that have been proposed.

Read. --Incest, Barb, Occult sacrifice, lesbian, bondage ...,

None of it mentions DW.

Do they fit the facts? Personally I don't think they do..

No it doesn't. Can you address the testimony and evidence given, please ?

[Freedom2specul8]

If he knew that it was animated or fake child porn, he would NOT have led the jurors to believe it was real during opening statement. The jurors could have been told otherwise, but feldman didn't want to admit the product came from his client. If the child porn wasn't "real" the charges would have been thrown out cuz of the SC ruling. So..there is no point in denying it. Feldman told the jurors they'd see child porn and they did.

[John Jamieson]

You can see all the date information on any file on your computer by finding it with File Manager and RIGHT clicking on the name, a menu will popup, select "properties" to see the dates.

[RnMomof7]

Oxiclean2 works better. I wash my computer out by dipping once a month.

John someone is going to try this...

[Politicalmom]

So now you are saying that Feldman would not have lied in his opening statement, yet you argued before that just because he said that there was no sign of his client in the house, that didn't mean it was true.

I guess you now believe the other part of his opening statemen, that he will produce absolute proof that his client couldn't have placed the body, hmmm?

[Freedom2specul8]

They weren't my theories..for example, fresno posted info about the occult. So no, they've not been introduced into evidence..just stuff that's been posted on the threads--an effort to fill in the blanks or figure out what happened cuz they don't believe the prosecutions allegations..

[MizSterious]

Tell me where he stated it was real. Please. Otherwise, it's just blather.

[RnMomof7]

Cops not Neil!

I have suspected that for some time..that was an illegal search was it not? Did they have a warrent? Were THEY caught?

[Freedom2specul8]

I've never said that feldman was a liar, and I don't think anyone else did either. He may confuse us by the way he words things cuz that's what he's paid to do...

[John Jamieson]

LOL Just kidding!!!!!!

[John Jamieson]

LOL Just kidding!!!!!!

[NatureGirl]

When the cops looked at them the "last access" date and time changed.

Okay, that happens as soon as you open "Properties" on that file. I found that out the other day. Two questions, though. From what I've read on here, the police weren't at DW's house at that time, so couldn't have left that timestamp (and by extrapolation, the next person to have looked at that file would have changed the "last access" time, wiping out any viewing at 4-ish).

So..who did the screen capture that showed that date and time?? Is this clear as mud yet? As far as I can recall, neither police nor Watkins (computer geek) were in the DW house at approx. 4. I could be wrong.