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I think the first thing that caught their attention was that he immediately left the area in his RV to head out into the desert. It turns out he was known to be in the area where the body was found.

The clincher was the fact that they fould her blood in his RV and apparently, some DNA evidence from him in her room

Thanks for the comments. If as I believe, Westerfield was more of a friend than the Van Dams have admitted to, then the blood and DNA traces could have been made at a time other than the night or weekend in question.

I believe there was a handprint of Danielle's in the motor home too. Was it fresh? Did it get there that weekend? Time will tell.

Look, my comments may certainly pale when evidence surfaces at the trial. Perhaps my skepticism is unfounded, but from the get-go I've wondered how in the heck Westerfield was pegged almost from day one? This just sounds way too easy.

Was Westerfield a registered sex offender? Did the Van Dams finger him? Did someone observe something? How did this guy get fingered so early on? Cases like this linger for years. This one was solved in a matter of days, if not hours. I'm just curious how that took place.

I think the first thing that caught their attention was that he immediately left the area in his RV to head out into the desert. It turns out he was known to be in the area where the body was found.

Oddly enough, he did not leave immediately. He left home somewhere between 6 and 12 hours after she disappeared. He also returned to the neighborhood that afternoon, in his RV, while the neighborhood had a massive search going on. Then he left even later for the desert. Ballsy behavior for someone with a dead child or evidence thereof, dontcha think. Also, he was in the area where the body was found in the same sense as about 2 million other San Diegans. Not much to go on there.

The clincher was the fact that they fould her blood in his RV and apparently, some DNA evidence from him in her room

They also found more blood (maybe hers) in several places at the VDs. They found a pinspot on his. No evidence of when any of her blood was dropped. That rumor of 'DNA evidence' in her room has been debunked for quite awhile now.

The police and DA went to a lot of effort to leak certain pieces of evidence, and to leak flat-out lies about evidence. As per your comments, those leaks were effective. There's still a lot of real evidence to be seen. What has been seen doesn't add up to much, so the DA better have some rabbits in his hat.