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David Westerfield

When it is the day in which I have decided to sit down and blog I rarely have a case already picked out so the process begins with going through my list (at 400 plus at the moment) of names.  I compile these names from documentary shows, the news or even while doing research on other cases.  Sometimes the name is the victim and sometimes it is the suspect or perpetrator.  I will work down the list a bit and do a quick search on a name and find one that "jumps out" at me on that particular day.  Today as I worked my way down the list I came across the name David Alan Westerfield. I did not know who he was when I threw his name into Google but then I saw the name Danielle Van Dam and I remembered her name. I knew her name because I remember where I was when I heard that Westerfield was convicted and it was rather big news because at the time there were several cases across the country making news about abducted and/or murdered children.  At the time of Wester...