Did anyone actually testify to blood in or around the van Dams house, or was that just the defense attorney? What about the finger prints in the RV? Danielle was alive in there? How long? Was she alive in there at 9:30 the following morning, when DW left for the beach? While a full scale investigation was going on?
Why just one or two Danielle prints in the RV? Were others wipped off by DW?
Why take a blood stained jacket to the cleaners? He had two days. Why not get rid of it?
Why not clean the porn pictures from your hard drive? DW does not act like a murderer trying to cover up.
Can someone just become a child rapist and killer at age 50? Wouldn't there be something leading up to it, some other crimes? Can anyone piece together what the prosecution theory of this case is? It doesn't seem to make much sense.
I'm beginning to think that DW is so smart, he's stupid. Obviously by leaving incriminating materials on his machine he's trying to emit lack of guilt awareness. Fortunately for the prosecution, he's not very good at this.
How did DW sneak in to the house before 1:30 (assuming that the first reported time by DvD is correct) hide until after 2:30 or 3:00 (depending on version) drag her down the stairs and out of the door. Then some how get her around the house across one yard, across the street and in the house or RV. I say the house based on the neighbor's "it was locked up" and the blinds were closed. Where is the blood in the house? What are we missing here? Why would he drag her? Why aren't his prints in the VD house?
I vote for accessory after the fact.
Associates of an Infoseek exec arrested for using chat to solicit a minor may have been shocked and surprised, but not the FBI.
As it turns out, a corner office at a high-profile, high-tech company isn't such an unlikely place to find an online pedophile -- not according to records being yielded from a three-year-old Federal Bureau of Investigation crackdown on Internet pornography.
Of the 413 people arrested as part of the agency's "Innocent Images" investigation since 1995, "only a handful have not been upper-middle-class, educated white men," said Special Agent Pete Gulotta who serves as the investigation's chief spokesman. "They're almost all white males between the ages of 25 and 45.
"We've had military officers with high clearances, pediatricians, lawyers, school principals, and tech executives," Gulotta said of those arrested under Innocent Images.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/innocent.htm
Here are some you might want to check out later.. A Profile of the Child Molester
preadators
Child abuse investigations
National Conference
Dr. Chaiken reported that of the 95,000 sex offenders in State prisons, 60,000 most likely committed their violent sex crimes against children under age 18. The majority of those serving time for violent sex offenses against children committed their crimes against victims age 12 or under. He endorsed the implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which collects more detailed crime information, leading to higher quality crime data and, ultimately, stronger laws.
Something about this case bugs a lot of people. But not because most think Westerfield *didn't* do it. At least by my reading.
I've always been the sort who tended to lean toward the prosecution in cases like this, at least initially. It would have been just as easy to arrest the parents for this crime as David Westerfield. Or so goes my logic.
The weirdness about this case, and the reason for the mesmerizing of the media, is just what was going on with the parents when all of this was going on?
Don't forget the parents did pass a lie detector test early on. While Westerfield did not.
However, the parents are alleged to be "swingers". There is also disparity on the times that fateful night, by the parents, and this puts a stain on thought. I'm still not sure if the father was even home that night. At first I heard he was. Then I read he was not, or was not and was *supposed* to be.
Finally, this Westerfield connection with child porn is very iffy. They found a lot of porn on his computer, to be sure. And some of it was very hard core. But of over 60K of images, only about 100 was deemed possible child porn, if even that. I'd figure a guy actively seeking child porn would have a better track record than this.
I think it's entirely possible Westerfield murdered little Danielle to extract some sort of revenge on her mother. Remembering that Westerfield was very flirtish with Brenda Van Dam earlier that week when she and Danielle were in his house selling girl scout cookies. He made some comment to Brenda VD to tell her friends that she had a rich neighbor. The sort of behavior a heterosexual male pursues is what I'm saying here. He did go to the same bar that Friday as Brenda and her friends and he did buy them all a drink. By Brenda Van Dam's own admission, she tried to be polite to Westerfield but didn't want to encourage him. She wasn't interested, in other words.
Still the behavior or a heterosexual male into adult woman is what I'm thinking.
At any rate, I *do* believe DW murdered Danielle. Now that I find out he had another girlfriend with a daughter named Danielle, I ponder that he lashed out in rage and took an opportunity presented by an empty Van Dam house and a child named Danielle asleep and unprotected within.
What's more interesting, at least to the salacious I, I admit, is what the hell were those parents doing that Friday night and did their "activities" keep them from protecting their children as normal?
The media knows this as well, and is salivating at the prospect of this trial. Add to this many peoples' speculation that perhaps the Van Dams' had something to do with Danielle's death and, hey, it should be interesting.