I’d like to kill his ass yesterday if that were possible.
Photos and video at link.
I’d love to see Westerfield executed.
California? Death penalty? Pfft!
California has no death penalty because the appeals will go on for ever and no governor will ever permit the death on his watch
17 years and many more to go on death row.
I wonder how many die on death row, not due to execution, but of old age waiting and appealing to a higher court and all that???
No mention of her MOTHER and FATHER who were either drunk or high (or both), in and out of their house for a screw or up at a swingers party up and down the street with their door(s) wide open...THATS what the adults were doing. Westerfield knew this and made his move.
It was the parents fault! Had they remained faithful and sober, they would have a beautiful daughter and possibly grandchildren. ....
...but California....
“The only thing more cruel and unusual about the death penalty are the appeals.” — El Rushbo
This piece of crap is STILL alive?? Figures, it is California after all..heck Polly Klaas’s killer is still breathing, and we the taxpayers are paying for his meals and big screen TV
Read somewhere that Scott Peterson is his next door cell neighbor on Death Row.
Lindbergh’s son’s murderer was executed in under 2 years, including all appeals, from arrest to last rites. Progressives have taken us backwards in many ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping
Another killer who lived longer on Death Row that his victim did on Planet Earth.
The death sentence, as applied today, is a hollow joke.
They found her near my old place in cali.
I remember that there were MANY Threads on FR as to whether there was enough evidence to convict Westerfield before the body was found.
The prosecutor and Westerfield were very close to a plea deal for life imprisonment in exchange for information on the location of the body, but that went away when they found the body.
At Trial, Westerfield’s attorney wasn’t actually very aggressive in defending him. Also learned a lot more about botflys than I needed to know.
What opposition? WHY?
No one has been executed in Calif in over 35 years.
I know a liberal couple who always thought Westerfield was innocent! Hard to believe, but true. They took up for him all through the trial. When I informed them that Westerfield was getting ready to CONFESS to the murder, but they found the body of that precious little girl, he didn’t confess. But he had already let the officials know he was guilty. He is EVIL!
“Investigators gathered enough evidence to arrest Westerfield, a neighbor of Danielle and her family, for her disappearance and death on Feb. 22.”
He was arrested because of the blood found on his clothing and in one of his vehicles - that’s what the police said at the time.
The blood on his clothing was just a single small and faint stain on his jacket, and the blood in his vehicles was just a single tiny drop on the carpet of his motor home. That was the entire blood evidence from a murder and presumed sexual assault of a small child.
The jacket had just been dry-cleaned, and the dry-cleaners HADN’T seen that stain. It wasn’t examined for blood spatter, to determine how it got there. And there’s no published photo of it - even though this was THE most important piece of evidence in a high-profile case which was extensively covered by the media, both local and national. Nor did we see a photo of the drop of blood in his motor home - because the criminalist hadn’t photographed it. So we must take her word for it that it existed - in a murder case with the death penalty on the table.
And why was no blood found in his house? He supposedly kidnapped her for sex, and took her straight back to his house, only taking her to his motor home hours later. So he waited several hours before sexually assaulting her? No biological evidence of a sexual assault was found either - not in his house, or his motor home.
Danielle had visited him earlier that week, and the family dog had scratched her at about that time. So her blood might have got onto his jacket during that visit (though her mother said it hadn’t bled). His motor home had often been parked in the neighborhood streets by their houses. It was a safe neighborhood so that vehicle wasn’t always locked, and the van Dam children were sometimes outside in the streets (playing, walking to school or the park or to visit friends, or to walk the dog). So she could have innocently been inside it previously, leaving that blood behind (perhaps from a nosebleed). The police should have asked her brothers and other neighborhood children about this, but apparently didn’t - in a capital murder case! How could they have been so negligent? Because they believed him guilty and didn’t want to find evidence which undermined their belief and could have resulted in him being acquitted?
The bottom line is that there are serious doubts about this evidence.
California has no death penalty
California is Euro wannabe and will never carry out the execution.
no one gets executed in Cal and gov nuisance will ensure they won’t.