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There is a tendency on FR to ignore the simple in favor of the convoluted.

If you think there is something simple about any of this case, you are different indeed.

Furthermore.......ignoring the simple in this case and opting for the convoluted appears to be precisely what LE did.

Let's see. We have a house full of pot-smoking, bar-hopping, swinging perverts practicing their craft in the same home where children are present versus a man who apparently first drew suspicion because of the mere fact he had been gone from the neighborhood at a specific time.

Yep.......makes sense to me. That's a great example of going for the simple and ignoring the convoluted, huh?

If you think there is something simple about any of this case, you are different indeed.

I am playing devil's advocate, as I realize there is no way I can know based on such scanty knowledge as the media put out, what the evidence is against Westerfield.

However, by "simple" I mean you have to ignore a lot of circumstantial and physical evidence in favor of appearances.

The average FReeper is socially conservative, and we are nauseated by the whole "spouse-swapping" thing. We have to consider--with some justification--that those who indulge will be morally reprobate in other areas of their lives.

The notion of "compartmentalization" is a Clintonian one that we know is utterly false.

However, this guy is a creep, as well. Since he was single, he would not have been allowed into the "circle of friends" the Van Dams swung with, if I understand these things. So he was an outsider, but loved child porn and may have felt like an outcast. There are lots of motives here for him to have done what he did.

Now, you might be right about these other people, but the FACT of the murder has to be taken into consideration. Someone did it, and motives abound in our immoral and hedonistic society. But Westerfield seems to have been PART of that climate, not apart from it.

Faulkner's testimony was by far the most compelling. Add that to the ME couldn't narrow TOD or wouldn't. The ME's reasoning was that he hadn't check the weather in the area.

I'm surprised that we've not heard Faulkners testimony discounted by saying that:

1) The body was wrapped in plastic
2) There was a towel around her head
3) He used insecticide to keep the bugs away. Close to washed hair with bleach.
4) This is the best- that a migrant Mexican found her body wrapped in a blanket and took the blanket, yet left the body and failed to notify authorities.
5) She was bundled in the netting as shown from the Linen 'n Things ad.

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