Van Dam Case Witness Challenges Findings Of Defense 'Bug Expert': But...His Testimony Don't Add Up..

Union Tribune ^ | July 31, 2002 | Jeff Dillion

[cyncooper]

See my posting of the cross-exam in question.

BTW, it sounds like much more than the normal amount of hair one would encounter beween necklace and hair.

I wonder if they showed the jury the clump of hair? Do you have that testimony handy?

[UCANSEE2]

never mind that between the cookie visit and bedtime and school she would have changed clothes numerous times--would dislodge a fiber.

If you read the testimony as to the fiber and hair you would not say this. It wasn't LOOSE. It was BOUND up in the hair which was STUCK to the necklace.

[John Jamieson]

Tangled Up in Blue is a dylan song.

Should have been Tangled Up in Dull Orange.

[the Deejay]

I meant they have no "personal vendetta", such as the Sabre Swingers, nosy Rosy neighbor, etc.

The BUGSPERTS, get paid either way their testimony turns out.

[UCANSEE2]

I would agree with that only if the hair was not also attached to her head.

Then we need to find out if testimony bears that out.

[hoosiermama]

I was thinking the same thing!

[nycgal]

REDDEN: Okay, so was this spur of the moment or something you had planned?

Redden uttered the phrase and DW responded. Redden could have asked him, without being "descriptive", how he decided to take the MH out for the weekend.

[the Deejay]

Those fibers in the necklace haven't meant a whole lot to me.

It's been so obvious that kid hasn't had a lot of hygiene attention. Those fibers could have been on that necklace since the day she put it on.

[nycgal]

Great minds :-)

[Jrabbit]

Thanks, John. You are so right about the bug experts. The fact that Faulkner was Duseks witness won't be lost on the jury. I think Feldman will stress that fact!

[cyncooper]

Too many people like to debate innuendo & speculation. Post #350

That kid's hair was FILTHY! Post #417

I think you forgot to say "in my opinion".

You'll notice I qualified my opinion by stating: her hair looks smooth to me.

So we disagree.

[nycgal]

The poor little thing's hair looked greasy. Even though her hair was straight it would have had a little more oomph to it if it was clean.

[cyncooper]

How about a fiber or two getting entangled in her necklace as she was pulling tops on and off?

Then how did those fibers get to DW's environment?

Except that wouldn't be the source because too many of the fibers were in his stuff to account for the fibers to come from her. It must be something he had in his house.

[the Deejay]

I know clean well groomed hair when I see it, and I repeat,
that kid's hair was FILTHY! Of course it's "my opinion", did I say anyone else said it?

Take a closer look, yes it's smooth, but it's "smooth" from the greasys.

[John Jamieson]

Right, if anything, those two should have been leaning towards Dusek's Mysterious Non-existant Theory.

Ladies and Gentalman,

We don't know how, when, or where lovely Danielle died. And the reason we don't is that that Sneaky, Perverted, Child Raping, Child Killing, David Westerfield destroyed all the evidence. We know the evidence must have existed at sometime, but now it's gone. Who is the likely person to have destroyed our evidence? I simply ask you, who had BLEACH on their shopping list? I'm now counting on you to do the right thing in poor Danielle's memory and hang him. You owe it to her.

[the Deejay]

Exactly what I've been trying to say. Good heaven's! It's very easy to see it's greasy looking & hadn't been washed for days. EEEEEEWWWWWW

[cyncooper]

If you read the testimony as to the fiber and hair you would not say this. It wasn't LOOSE. It was BOUND up in the hair which was STUCK to the necklace.

I have pointed that out repeatedly, so your insinuation I haven't read testimony I keep posting isn't necessary.

This sounds like it was a huge wad of hair and I don't believe she was walking around with a huge clump of hair like that.

The witness made it sound like it was out of the ordinary and Feldman didn't even attempt to ask questions to paint it as if it were.

[Jrabbit]

Post #397. You didn't say "IMO".

[nycgal]

IIRC there were no exact matches on the fibers. I believe the testimony states that they were similar. And as we have seen in the photos (and comments) earlier in this thread quite questionable

[cyncooper]

It makes me sick to think that anyone who didn't know me or my kid would get a hold of a picture of her and start making comments.

I am around kids Danielle's age all the time and I know the difference between clean and unkempt.