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While the image of a drunken David Westerfield stumbling unnoticed through the VD house is to me one of the most unbelievable aspects of the prosecution case, another rather obvious thought just crossed my mind. I'm sure it's been brought up before on this board but I'm new here so anyway...

IF DW took the jacket to the dry cleaners BECAUSE it was stained with Danielle's blood, I must ask...WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? Think about it: here's a guy smart enough to eliminate HUGE amounts of evidence, leaving only a fingerprint and a few essentially meaningless fibers, but HE TAKES THE SINGLE MOST DAMNING PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO A DRY CLEANER? What, is he so in love with this jacket that he wants to make sure he gets to wear it on Death Row? He must be, because he could have:

1) Poured some gas on it and burned the thing to ashes out in the desert.
2) Ditched it in any one of thousands of nasty dumpsters behind covenience stores, shopping malls, etc. where it would soon wind up at the county dump and forever lost to posterity.
3) Tossed it in a Goodwill bin (chancy, but better than bringing it home, especially since it would be hard to prove it belonged to him once it got mixed in with a bunch of other clothes).

You get my drift.

IF DW took the jacket to the dry cleaners BECAUSE it was stained with Danielle's blood, I must ask...WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?

Because his blood was on it, too, and perhaps he didn't realize that Danielle had bled on it? Posters here keep emphasizing what a small spot it was (though there shouldn't be any spot at all), so maybe he thought the stains were all his.

Welcome! Are you a new member in general or did you join cuz of the westerfield trial threads?

WRT: the jacket and why didn't he burn it..That very thing crossed my mind too... Why didn't he just burn the green jacket or get rid of it. So we have to ask, did he know the blood was on there before he took it to the cleaner? Maybe he thuoght it was his own blood, from when he scratched up his arms??