Defense could pin hopes on insect life..Westerfield Trial Breaking News: BUG EVIDENCE QUESTIONS!!

Union Tribune ^ | July 10, 2002 | Kristen Green

[the Deejay]

"Damon van Dam'd Blue Van trip with his high school buddy was on Saturday, 2/16/2002!!!"


Where did you hear this?

Well, I'm not surprised at anything Damon & Co would do.

[Spunky]

I missed most of the testimony today as I had to be gone, but I am hearing the TV pundits say that Faulkner testified to the fact that the body could not have been placed there any later than the 16th-18th, but he could not say with certainty that it might have been placed earlier. Other than the fact no bug evidence showed any earlier. One of the pundits said what about the fact that massive parts of her body were gone. Maybe they would have showed bug evidence of an earlier time.

So how do you think it went today? For the Defense or Prosecution?

[RnMomof7]

Also Dusek wasn't yelling at this witness, didn't make him cry, wasn't being snide, he was totally respectful and didn't try to damage his credibility in any way. This should help the Defense.

The fact that the prosecution hired him and considered him credible enough to have on THEIR team..gives this science and this man credibility.

The fact they discarded him when his findings did not support their case is deadly IMHO..and should be played up in closing arguments

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Damon van Dam'd Blue Van trip with his high school buddy was on Saturday, 2/16/2002!!!

WHOA !!!!!!!!!!! Really?

[John Jamieson]

UT 2/17/2002

SABRE SPRINGS ---- An optimistic Damon van Dam spent more than eight hours Saturday meticulously searching barren desert dunes and posting fliers at small businesses throughout east San Diego and Imperial counties in the hope of finding his missing 7-year-old daughter.

A search team from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department will look for Danielle van Dam in an area of Poway today.

On Saturday, shortly after dawn and well into the twilight hours, Damon van Dam and a high school friend drove a blue van across large sections of sun-dappled desert in areas such as Glamis, Ocotillo, Borrego Springs and Brawley. They handed out scores of fliers seeking help in finding Danielle, a Creekside Elementary second-grader who police say was last seen by her father Feb. 1 when he tucked her into bed at the family's home on Mountain Pass Road.

[mommya]

I think the Defense closing arument needs to be honest - "Ladies and gentlemen - we cannot tell you exaxtly how little Danielle's blood and fingerprints got into the MH - we just do not know that answer - what we can tell you though - without hesitation - definitively - is that those things did not come to be there because of anything DW did to Danielle in there. He did not kidnap her - he did not kill her - and to Mr W's knowledge - Little Danielle has not been in his MH."...you get the drift.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

The question, IMO, is who had her and where?

It sure is THE question.

[the Deejay]

"The question, IMO, is who had her and where?"


Well, we don't know "who had her" but we do know it wasn't Westerfield.

[John Jamieson]

I think Damon van Dam was indited today!

[Rheo]

Interesting..when did that van disappear?

[cyncooper]

Y'all still here? Helloooooo!

LOL

Actually, no I was not, as life goes on. Just popping in for quick thread checks. Sorry for the delay in my reply.

[Rheo]

Were the unidentified prints ever checked against that friend?

[John Jamieson]

That high school buddy (from Florida!?) needs to be grilled.

[RnMomof7]

Yes, it was. Not the chest.

It should have been John if it was dumpted frozen or newly defrosted..I think that rules out freezing ...but not our refrigeration as in a mountain cabin where the body would have been protected from the animals ..I sure would have liked them to check that cabin....too late now!

It almost looks like the sexual organs were mutilated on purpose

[pinz-n-needlez]

He was surveilled 24/7 and had GPS attached to his SUV and phone trapped. SDPD even ran liscense plate checks on all of his guests. So for all intents and purposes he was.

How does the fact that he wasn't read his Miranda Rights til what? the 22nd? fit into this? And those 2 cops even tried to see him in jail without his lawyer! That all takes on a new light for me, as I see this prosecution played out.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Interesting..when did that van disappear?

Yep.......and what did it's carpet look like.....blue also ?????

[John Jamieson]

Obviously not!

[NatureGirl]

A blue van, you say?? On the 16th? Didn't they go "out to the desert"? And the van was sold just after that?

Can't possibly be relevant.

[Politicalmom]

I don't think they can. They rested their case. May be wrong, though.

[the Deejay]

Reply to your post # 185.


Well, I've thought since the prelim Damon is the guilty one in this and it keeps looking that way as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for pulling that out of the archives & posting it.