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2nd Bug Expert Bolsters Westerfield Defense: (Dusek Melting Down Before Juries Eyes!!)
NBC/San Diego ^ | July 22, 2002 | NBC/San Diego

Posted on 07/22/2002 3:02:31 PM PDT by FresnoDA

2nd Bug Expert Bolsters Westerfield Defense

Expert Says Fly Infestations Show When Danielle's Body Was Dumped

 

POSTED: 6:58 a.m. PDT July 22, 2002
UPDATED: 2:28 p.m. PDT July 22, 2002

 

SAN DIEGO -- The trial of David Westerfield resumed Monday with more testimony about insects, as defense lawyers tried to show that their client was not the person who dumped Danielle van Dam's body along a two-lane road in East County.
Before testimony began, Judge William Mudd warned jurors to ignore last week's murder of a young girl in nearby Orange County. Mudd said that the abduction, sexual assault and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion "bears no relation" to the trial of David Westerfield.

Westerfield's trial had been in recess since July 11 so the judge could take a previously scheduled vacation.

Westerfield, 50, lived two doors from Danielle, who vanished after her father put her to bed the night of Feb. 1. Searchers found the girl's nude body on Feb. 27 along a rural roadside east of San Diego.

Neal Haskell, forensic entomologistA forensic entomologist, testifying Monday for the defense, said Danielle's body could not have been dumped at the roadside before Feb. 12, according to his analysis of flies and larvae collected during an autopsy. The blow flies that were found on the body typically descend on a cadaver shortly after death, but it can take longer in cooler temperatures, entomologist Neal Haskell said. Based on his analysis of the temperatures in the area at the time, Haskell (pictured, right) put "the time of colonization" likely at Feb. 14 and no earlier than Feb. 12.

Prosecutors challenged the defense's weather data.

Haskell's testimony puts the time the body may have been dumped several days earlier than suggested by a previous defense witness, entomologist David Faulkner. The defense has seized upon the time of death, which could not be precisely determined, to suggest that the body was dumped at a time when Westerfield was under constant police surveillance.

Westerfield was put under observation soon after Danielle disappeared, according to police testimony. He was arrested on Feb. 22.

During Haskell's testimony about insects devouring Danielle's body, the girl's parents, Brenda and Damon van Dam, stared at the floor as they sat in the back row of the courtroom. It is the first time that Damon van Dam has been in court since Judge William Mudd banned him from the proceedings almost a month ago as a security risk. Mudd restored his trial privileges just before going on vacation.

Lawyers for Westerfield have said they expect to offer two to three more days of testimony.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 180frank; bugsrunamok; vandam; westerfield
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To: merry10

You're So Vain - Carly Simon

Sweet Young Thang - FDA

You walked into Dad's Cafe
Like you were walking into Club Cee Bee...
Your blouse strategically unbuttoned below your navel
Your pants looked like they, were sprayed on...
You had one eye on the billiards
As you ordered a cran-berry drink
And all the girls and the boys think that they'll be your partner
They'll be your partner, and

Sweet, Young Thang
You probably think this song is about you
Sweet, Young Thang
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago
At a Halloween party it was grand...
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that swinging was really not bad...
But you gave away the things you loved
To all that would ask for it free.
I had some thoughts they were, multi colored condoms.
Multi colored condoms and....

Sweet, Young Thang
You probably think this song is about you
Sweet, Young Thang
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

I had some thoughts they were, multi colored condoms.
Multi colored condoms and....

Sweet, Young Thang
You probably think this song is about you
Sweet, Young Thang
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

Well, I hear she moved down, to ole Orlando
Her flying career, it was done...
Then she flew on a Lear jet to Boston it's told
To see if the lap clubs were hiring'
Well, you're legs will get you in the door
And if not, you know what to do...
Some other gals husband or wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and

Sweet, Young Thang
You probably think this song is about you
Sweet, Young Thang
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?


661 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:04 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: FresnoDA
bump for justice!
662 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:05 PM PDT by countess
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To: countess
No, it's not evidence.
Yes it is a roadmap..it tells the jury what the prosecution is going to show and/or prove to them.

Dusek can get PENALIZED by his state bar for lying to the jury in opening statement... Feldman did not accuse him of lying to the jury in his opening statement..he did not deny it either.


FROM THE END OF DUSEK'S OPENING STATEMENT

one of the things that they found and lifted were fibers. they take evidence, sheets, clothing, anything that might contain fibers, and they put tape down on it, try to remove the fibers. and then they try to match it up with something else that's important in this case. out of mr. westerfield's home they did that. they found some fibers that were lifted off the laundry that was in the laundry room by the washer and the dryer when they made their loop through there. some distinct fibers. they compared it microscopically, and they found something that it matched to. it matched microscopically to fibers on a towel that was in the body bag for danielle. you'll hear how that comparison was done. fibers from danielle onto a blanket in the body bag matched fibers from the laundry room. you will hear that one of the places they looked in mr. westerfield's residence was in the garage in the trash. in the trash they found that lint ball that you pull out of your dryer once it gets too much lint, you scoop the lint off, and throw it away.

http://www.geocities.com/contempl8/freepersinvestigate/Dusek4.html

663 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:14 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: FresnoDA
speeedy bump
664 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:25 PM PDT by demsux
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To: demsux
THREADJACKAL BANG, In Effect!!
665 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:38 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: demsux
speedier bump
666 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:41 PM PDT by demsux
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To: FresnoDA
Missed it by that much...
667 posted on 07/22/2002 9:52:54 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
the fibers are not date-stamped
668 posted on 07/22/2002 9:53:34 PM PDT by countess
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To: demsux
All Right....now that is team work...set you up, from over a hundred posts away...thank you, thank you...that is HTML Code Shriek in action...ready for your prize??
669 posted on 07/22/2002 9:53:44 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: Rheo; cyncooper; UCANSEE2
Was there a towel in the body bag, or fibers from a towel in the body bag?
670 posted on 07/22/2002 9:54:01 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: demsux
Alright Fres,

Let me review the wiccan calender again...I don't swing on those dates.

671 posted on 07/22/2002 9:54:03 PM PDT by demsux
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To: demsux
congratulations (I did get the last one...)
672 posted on 07/22/2002 9:54:38 PM PDT by countess
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To: demsux
It's a good thing DW wasn't out on bail over the 11 day break. These people would say see, as soon as he gets out, he does it again, I told you the man couldn't control himself.
673 posted on 07/22/2002 9:55:49 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: demsux

CONGRATS DEMSUX....YOU ARE THE 2ND VD 666-Thread Winner For Today....

Eerie isn't it....

Major ritual "sabbat" dates on the Occult/Witchcraft/Satanism calendar.

This date sticks out....February 2, 2002    Danielle Van Dam, Age 7

 

DATE: October 31 NAME: *SAMHAIN; ALL HALLOWS' EVE; HALLOWEEN; NOVEMBER EVE WITCHCRAFT: Rituals to contact the dead SATANISTS: Sexual and blood rituals with animal or humans & animal or human sacrifice

DATE: December 21/22 NAME: YULE; WINTER SOLSTICE; WITCHCRAFT: Rituals celebrating the rebirth of the sun SATANISTS: Sexual rituals, animal or human

DATE: February 2 NAME: IMBOLIC; IMBOK; CANDLEMAS; OIMELE; LADY DAY; BRIGID DAY WITCHCRAFT: Sexual rituals; Celtic triple goddess Brigid honored. SATANISM: Sexual rituals, human

DATE: MARCH 20/21 NAME: Spring Equinox; Vernal Equinox WITCHCRAFT: This is a fertility sabbat. Pagans celebrate the coming of fertility of the earth; Sexual rituals celebrated by various groups. SATANISM: Orgies held; Animal or human sacrifices

DATE: April 30 NAME: *BELTANE; MAY EVE; ROODMAS DAY; WALPURGISNACHT WITCHCRAFT: Rituals focusing on the love between male & female. In fact, many pagan handcastings (weddings) take place at this sabbat. Rituals celebrating the fertility of the Mother Goddess (Earth) are carried out. SATANISTS: Blood rituals; Animal or human sacrifices

DATE: JUNE 21 NAME: SUMMER SOLSTICE; MIDSUMMER'S EVE; WITCHES: Bonfire rituals SATANISTS: Orgies; Animal or human sacrifices

DATE: AUGUST 1 NAME: LUGNASADH (Named for Celtic Solar god Lugh);LAMMAS DAY WITCHES: Harvest rituals SATANISTS: Animal or Human sacrifice

DATE: SEPTEMBER 21 to 23 (Date varies annually) NAME: AUTUMN EQUINOX WITCHES: Some covens have rituals reenacting Pluto or Hades (grim god of death) forcefully carrying of Persephone (young goddess of life) to the underworld. SATANISTS: Sexual orgies and or animal and human sacrifice.


674 posted on 07/22/2002 9:55:55 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: FresnoDA
It was like Kurt Warner tossing a touchdown pass to Isaac Bruce...a beautiful thing

Ram's training camp bump

675 posted on 07/22/2002 9:55:57 PM PDT by demsux
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To: Greg Weston
No I've read the transcipt of Westerfields interview with the cops.

What do you rely on?

Transcripts.

By the way you asked if posters wanted you to post the portion of the transcript where Westerfield said he didn't dance with Brenda. They took you up on that. So far you haven't done it.

676 posted on 07/22/2002 9:55:59 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: demsux
Misguided and hard-headed and a hometown boy. All of 'em can't believe their local media would be so BIASED.

I don't mean all SD citizens are this way, I mean the ones that get on and insist they KNOW IT ALL because they LIVE THERE. Course, they also admit later they haven't watched but 5 minutes of the trial and wouldn't know a transcript if it hit them in the face, BUT THEY KNOW MORE THAN YOU OR I DO.

677 posted on 07/22/2002 9:56:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: Spunky
YOu and I have no disagreement on this point.
678 posted on 07/22/2002 9:56:27 PM PDT by connectthedots
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
I heard it, it was a few weeks ago so I can't quote it obviously (it went on for hours) but he had several computers upstairs with zip drives and zip discs for the numerous KIDDIE PORN ALBUMS among the thousands of pornos he downloaded. Now the crux was whether his visiting son could have downloaded the 1000s of images and put them in personal files without DW knowing, but that went no where.
679 posted on 07/22/2002 9:57:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: demsux
Hey..graduated with Henry Ellard...Rams Wide Rec. from High School!! Long time LOS ANGELES RAMS FAN...
680 posted on 07/22/2002 9:57:16 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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