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Police comb digital files in pursuit of evidence By Kathryn Balint STAFF WRITERMarch 18, 2002 As San Diego police began focusing on David Westerfield in connection with the kidnapping – and, as was later discovered, death – of Danielle van Dam, they looked in the places that so frequently hold clues to crimes: his computers. The Digital Age has taken police forensics far beyond fingerprints. Police now routinely seize computers in serious crimes. Increasingly, evidence from those computers becomes part of court proceedings, as it did last week when prosecutors presented evidence they said points to Westerfield as Danielle's...

SAN DIEGO, CA - A San Diego judge ordered David Westerfield to stand trial for kidnapping and murdering Danielle van Dam. Westerfield's arraignment is scheduled for March 28th at 2pm.

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Police lieutenant, medical examiner testify at hearing for Westerfield By Jeffrey J. Rose SIGNONSANDIEGO March 11, 2002 SAN DIEGO #150; A preliminary hearing for David Westerfield, charged in connection with the kidnap and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, opened Monday morning with testimony by a police lieutenant who described the scene where the girl's naked, blackened body was found off Dehesa Road. quot;I saw the body of what appeared to be a young child, in an advanced stage of decomposition, on her back,quot; said police Lt. James C. Collins. Collins said that although parts of the unclothed body had...