| Saturday, Feb. 2 |
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Witness
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12 AM |
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Westerfield's friend, Glennie Nasland, says
goodbye to a drunken Westerfield as he leaves Dad's. |
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 Garry Harvey is at O'Harley's helping close the bar, Yvette Wetli says. They then drive back to Dad's. |
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Harvey says he returns to the bar with Wetli and Westerfield is gone. |
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1 AM |
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Wetli
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Damon van Dam is awakened by a dog's whining. He lets her into
the backyard and then calls her back in and returns to bed. Knowing his wife will soon be home, he turns on the TV and waits for her return. |
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Brenda van Dam, Barbara Easton, Denise Kemal, Keith Stone and Rich Brady leave Dad's for van Dam house. |
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Brenda van Dam returns home with friends. She notices alarm panel blinking and either she or Kemal close door. |
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2
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 Neighbor
Christina Hoeffs looks out her bedroom window and sees
that all the shades on the back of Westerfield's house
are down, something she had never seen before. |
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First Easton and Kemal, then Brady and Stone leave the van Dam residence. |
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Damon and Brenda van Dam go to bed. |
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Kemal arrives home. |
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3-5
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Damon van Dam wakes up and notices the alarm panel in the master bedroom
is flashing red — indicating an open door or window. He finds the sliding door in the kitchen open and closes it. |
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6 AM |
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 Westerfield wakes
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7 AM |
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| Wakes
and showers.* |
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 Neighbor
Alick Lau jogs past Westerfield's home and sees no RV. |
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 Drives his black Toyota 4Runner to RV storage site in High Valley (8.5 miles). |
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| Leaves for RV storage spot in High Valley. (Drives back from High Valley — time unspecified.)* |
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8 AM |
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Damon van Dam gets up. His son Derek is up and in the next hour his wife
and son Dylen join him downstairs. Holly, the granddaughter of the man who rents Westerfield an RV parking spot, sees Westerfield standing by his RV in High Valley,
an eight-mile drive from Westerfield's home. |
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Neighbor Barbara Crum takes her son to Little League practice and sees no RV. |
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Neighbor
Paul Hung sees Westerfield's RV parked on Briarleaf. |
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Alick
Lau returns from jogging and does not see the RV. |
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9 AM |
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 Neighbor
Martin Franklin sees Westerfield standing by his RV with
a red hose. Neighbor Julie Hennes drops two children off
for babysitting at the van Dams'. |
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Neighbor
Jon Stinebaugh sees the RV heading out of the neighborhood. |
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Keith
Sherman, Holly's grandfather, sees Westerfield's RV drive
out of his property on Sky Ridge Drive in High Valley. |
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 Leaves house in the RV. Drives to Silver Strand State Beach Park (30.5 miles).* |
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Brenda
van Dam calls 911 to report Danielle missing. |
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| Leaves house in the RV. Drives to Silver Strand State Beach Park. |
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10
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Martin
Franklin returns home and does not see the RV. |
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Joyce
Rodgers sees Westerfield's RV arrive at the Silver Strand
State Park campground. |
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11 AM-
1 PM |
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2 PM |
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Nicole
Arsenault sees Westerfield's RV leaving the Silver Strand
camping area. |
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 Denise
Kemal arrives for police questioning at van Dam house
and sees Westerfield, who (according to Kemal) expresses
concern about Danielle and blurts out, "Well, I left at
nine o'clock." |
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| Arrives at home and sees police activity and news vans.* |
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3
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Ranger
Brian Neill talks to Westerfield at his RV about a $30
overpayment. |
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| Returns home and sees police activity and news vans. |
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 Neighbor Mark Roehr sees Westerfield arrive back in the neighborhood and informs him of Danielle's disappearance. |
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Neighbor John Meerchaum sees Westerfield's RV go through
the intersection of Briarleaf and Mountain Pass and drive past Westerfield's house as if looking for a parking spot. |
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4
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Westerfield enters the camp office and flashes his wallet as he insists the $30 is not his. |
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 Barbara Crum sees Westerfield's RV pass through the intersection of
Briarleaf and Mountain Pass, with Westerfield driving it, but doesn't see it park; she later sees Westerfield standing on the sidewalk talking to Mark Rohr
and his wife and daughter. |
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Neighbor Ronald Woods sees Westerfield drive his RV through an intersection. |
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5
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| Drives to High Valley. Finds wallet in parked SUV. (Drives to gas station. Drives to Glamis — 160 miles from home.) |
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6-9
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| Arrives in Glamis. |
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10 PM |
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| Looks for friends in wash #14. (Gets stuck. Sleeps six to eight hours.)* |
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11 PM |
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Glamis camper Joseph Koemptgen turns in for the night
and says Westerfield's RV is not in his wash. |
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| Sunday, Feb. 3 >> |
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*From statement Westerfield gave Paul Redden, interrogation specialist, Feb. 4. All others from statement he gave Det. Johnny Keene, Feb. 4.
Witness accounts compiled from testimony of numerous witnesses, whose stories do not always coincide. |
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