Plea deal 'minutes away' when body found

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | September 17, 2002 | J. Harry Jones

[EllaMinnow]

Thanks for my first grin of the day.

[tetelestai]

It's very troubling to think that he had a chance to walk even after offering to show where the body was.

[demsux]

"He said there were things that didn't come out at the trial and when they did, maybe then we could find out who did it."

I can't wait

[Jaded]

Kimmie, Kimmie, Kimmie I've posted something similar before and was flamed. Why is it valid now?

[OldFriend]

This information ought to relieve the woman juror who had her doubts and caused all the delays. Unless she too is of the opinion that pity ought to be heaped upon a person who kills their parents and then cries about being an orphan.

[Jaded]

Kimmie, Kimmie, Kimmie I've posted something similar before and was flamed. Why is it valid now?

[EllaMinnow]

Do you think the article is a lie?

[Jaded]

You people slay me. This has been out there since March. There have been several versions going around. Will you believe it when in tomorrow's edition it will say that Westerfield hid in her closet doing the nasty?

[Registered]

"...they only found her blood on his jacket and a spot on the mh floor by the bathroom."

That is enough evidence for me to beat him to death if it were my little girl.

[gdc61]

a reporter follow the rules of a gag order ? somehow i don't believe

[Kevin Curry]

How would a man innocent of the crime know where the body was?"

Uhhhhh . . . . He overheard the real killers at a bar discussing where they hid the body. He went to call the police so they could arrest the killers, but no one answered the phone. "They must all be out harassing terminally ill marijuana patients instead of concentrating on real crime," he thought to himself grimly.

He jumped in his motorhome to go check the site to verify the information and--sure enough--found the body. He placed the body in his motorhome intending to take it to the police. When he got back to the bar, he found that the killers had absconded.

He tried to call the police again, and this time there was an answer! He hung up without saying another word, for he knew in his bones what had happened. It was no mere coincidence that when the killers were at the bar, no one was at the police station.

In a panic he hastened back to the site where he had found the body and placed it back as he had found it.

Now he had this terrible secret and who would ever believe him?

The chill truth hit him like a gale-force nor'easter. He had been set up. The cops had allowed him to "overhear" them at the bar. This was their plan all along. They had probably followed him all the way out to where the body was deposited and watched from the shadows with smug satisfaction as he palced the body in is motorhome. For now fiber evidence was strewn all over his motorhome. Curses!

The trap was thus set and sprung and an innocent man was sacrificed to protect an evil (is there any other kind?) statist cabal.

[Texas Mom]

Interesting thought, but Westerfield is not indigent. He was living pretty nicely before this.

This was the senario for after he was arrested. Sure he was living nicely but I don't think he was planning on getting caught..After he was arrested and the authorities were onto him. This was a better deal.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

And if the political/social winds should change, it may turn out to be a Texas or Florida experience...

Boy, talk about your wishful dreaming! :~D

Did you forget we are talking about California? The odds of political/social changes occurring there are slim to none with the emphasis on NONE!

[VRWC_minion]

The trap was thus set and sprung and an innocent man was sacrificed to protect an evil (is there any other kind?) statist cabal.

So, you have the book rights uh.

[Amore]

Sucks-to-be-a-Westerfield-apologist bump!

[EllaMinnow]

I don't believe everything I read, especially not when it comes from the likes of Doug Pierce and jameson.

I believe this article, because it tells us exactly why Feldman never claimed that his client, your big ole teddybear Dave, is an innocent man.
Even Feldman's statement yesterday - did you miss it? - was about international disapproval of the death penalty, and not about wrongful conviction.

Because Feldman has known all along that he was defending a killer.
Have you?

[Amore]

"IMO, you've got your "more explosive than a confession" right here."

I think you've hit the nail on the head!

[Cultural Jihad]

I missed those threads wherein some DU types were proclaiming his innocence and decrying how evil Amerika is. Anytime illegal drugs, or orgies, or gunplay with LEOs are involved, they seem to descend out of the trees to whine and bemoan the persecution of these upstanding citizens.

[Kevin Curry]

I could probably sell enough copies right here at FR to recoup the costs of publication.

I assure you, there are "true believers" in Westerfield's innocence who will believe an outrageous and thigh-slappingly laughable Rube Goldberg explanation before they believe he is actually guilty. He could tell them himself and they would dismiss it as the porduct of coercion.

[Jaded]

I got my version of this from a SD cop's wife. So no, you haven't read everything and missed a couple of months too. BTW, I don't get my information from TheNedForum like some here do.