Posted on 07/03/2002 3:36:43 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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.
Do I understand correctly that the son's hotmail account used the father's SS# as the password?
Also saw a news artcle that mentioned an e-mail from SCOTUS.
Are there any good news summaries that people have links to?
What she might have "had" (that would be long gone by now)that was orange, with long fibers?
If Barbs hair matches the one found in the sheet with Danielle?
What was the email from supreme court all about?
That's a new theory we've not heard yet!
It just occurred to me that this may be an account that DW has for his son, like a college fund, or child support or maybe a trust or something. Feldman needed to ask whether there were multiple user names at this same site, or whether DW has an account at this bank in the son's name.
PANIC TIME.
Damon gets the body out of the house, into his van, and goes and hides it somewhere.
This is very close to my personal favorite pet scenario.
There was sex involved w/Darb and Daniell: The whole time BVD thought she was with Damon, she was really with Danielle. Clumsy drunk, Barb hurt her, passed out on her, barely aware that she was raping a little girl. In the process of drunkenly restraining her in the 69 position as she cathartically manifested her hypersexualized perversity("openness"), she suffocated Danielle. This is also when Barb knocked Danielle's teeth out with her pelvic bone.
BVD comes up after a half hour to an hour, after some freakification in the garage, to see if Barb and Damon want company, or maybe because Denise was ready to go and Barb had a ride issue. When she gets there, Damon is asleep, no Barb. Where is Barb? Passed out naked in a 69 position on poor, dead, naked Danielle.
PANIC TIME is right.
VDs are the type that the first(maybe second) thing they think is "Oh, no! We're gonna be in trouble!"
Actually, Damon did it or a total stranger did it, but Barb knocking Danielles teeth out with her pelvic bone in a drunken catharsis is just such perfect moral poetry for the VD-people of this world.
Ever wonder what Jesse Dirkhsing's parent's think about the nice gay couple they used to let their son work for? "Hm, maybe I should have been a little more judgemental...."
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Kim my posting at #299 was directed to you in response to this question. I don't know why it didn't post your name or the # of your post that I responded to.
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