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Murder of Danielle van Dam
Danielle Nicole van Dam (September 22, 1994 – February 2002)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Danielle Nicole Van Dam )〕 was a seven-year-old girl from the Sabre Springs neighborhood of San Diego, California, who disappeared from her bedroom during the night of February 1–2, 2002. Her body was found by searchers on February 27 in a remote area. Police suspected a neighbor, David Alan Westerfield. He was arrested, tried, and convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death and is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison.
==The crime==
On the evening of Friday, February 1, 2002, Danielle van Dam's mother Brenda and two girlfriends went out to a bar. Danielle's father Damon stayed at home to look after Danielle and her two brothers. Damon put Danielle to bed around 10:30 p.m., and she fell asleep. Damon also slept until his wife returned home around 2:00 a.m. with four of her friends. Brenda noticed a light on the home’s security alarm system was flashing, and discovered that the side door to the garage was open.〔Roth, Alex. (“Physical evidence shows Westerfield committed 'evil, evil crime,' prosecutor says," ) San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7, 2002. Retrieved on 23 February 2013.〕 The six chatted for approximately a half hour, and then Brenda's friends went home. Damon and Brenda went to sleep thinking that their daughter was sleeping in her room. About an hour later, Damon awoke and noticed that an alarm light was flashing. He found the sliding glass door leading to the back yard open, so he closed it. The next morning, Danielle was missing. The couple frantically searched their home, but could not find her. They called the police at 9:39 a.m.
Danielle became the subject of one of the largest search efforts in state history, with hundreds of volunteers searching deserts, highways and remote areas for weeks. The Laura Recovery Center assisted in organizing the search, and a Danielle Recovery Center was set up in a real estate office in Poway to coordinate the searching. Finally on February 27 two of the searchers found her nude, partially decomposed body near a trail in Dehesa, California, an unincorporated town east of San Diego. The volunteers had chosen to search in that area, near Dehesa Road, because it was a possible route Westerfield could have taken to get to the desert.〔 Because of the condition of the body, the coroner was unable to determine a cause of death or whether she was sexually assaulted, and had to use dental records to confirm her identity.〔Roth, Alex. ("Will Westerfield face death penalty? Van Dam family wishes, politics may play roles in DA's decision," ) San Diego Union-Tribune, March 18, 2002. Retrieved April 7, 2015.〕
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