1. The body was not placed at Dehesa until Feb 15 at the earliest, and yes, Virginia, that means DW did not place the body there.
2. UNLESS DAMON KILLED HER, Danielle left her home for the last time in this life, on her own two feet and of her own free will. She was not accompanied by anyone she would have distrusted or felt was a stranger, or by anyone who did not have her parents' permission to be there and accompany her. IN FACT THERE IS AN 80% CHANCE that she was NOT ACCOMPANIED BY ANYONE AT ALL-- but walked out alone, probably just to play outside, out front, or walk down the 200 yds to the community mini-park.
3. I might further aid thought by saying that her walkout could have occurred:
3a. Friday afternoon after school, either before or after she did or did not accompany her mother on a shopping trip.
3b. Friday night after dark, either sleepwalking or escaping from a lonely house after finding her father gone, or after finding everyone locked in the garage having sex;
3c. Saturday morning around 7:30 to 8:30, while her parents were showering or preparing breakfast, etc. She may have gone out to play, or even to sell more Girl Scout cookies, thus proving she could go alone on such a mission!
As you can see, any of those would have provided a stranger perp with an opportunity to grab her from a public area. No one took her from within her home, let's not be fools here. She loved the little park and was hard to get away from it, even if she was the last child left there.
I really don't see how DW could have got her, unless it is 3b, the midnight walkout, and she entered his MH and stowed away. But was the MH even there?
The desert-and-beach wanderings of DW are far more like he was trying to help by finding some perp or person, he was searching desperately for someone, someone he has not named, was that Danielle? Trying to find the person who had her, if he had some idea who that was? Such a silly random-walk course cannot be explained if he were trying to dispose of a body, and in fact we know he did NOT dispose of it there or then...and that it was not HE that disposed of it at all, in any case.... My take is that DW suspected someone, had an idea who had Danielle, and was out looking for him or her. Maybe he still thinks he knows who did this, and maybe he is right!
DW learned soon enough that he was being framed and set up as a patsy, and the dry cleaning etc. no doubt was related to that.
To all of the above must be added the chance that a parent, probably Damon, is responsible, and in that case it must have been he who accompanied Danielle when she walked out of her home for the last time. And of course, if she WAS carried out, not walked, Damon is the person who carried her, living or dead.
Maybe Mommy got so darn busy planning the girl's nite out she forgot to pick Danielle up from SCHOOL and she tried to walk home.
This should be easy to disprove somehow. Anyone take a shot at this ?