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...CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of kidnapping and murdering seven-year-old Danielle Van Dam; in San Diego. Prosecutors have vowed to seek the death penalty against the former engineer, a neighbor of the girl's family. He is believed to have abducted the girl from her bedroom in early February...
After weeks of crushing uncertainty, the Danielle van Dam case lurched forward last week with the discovery of her corpse, following the arrest of a neighbor, David Westerfield, 50. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping and possession of child pornography; the authorities say they have no other suspects. The investigation leading to his arrest involved the usual combination of legwork and luck. A police source told TIME that the San Diego cops had to learn a couple of major details--including the fact that volunteers had found Danielle's body 25 miles east of downtown...
...Westerfield had immediately drawn the suspicion of investigators. Julie Mills, who works at his dry cleaner, says that while Westerfield was normally well dressed and smiling, he came in barefoot and long faced one day shortly after Danielle went missing. He asked to have a jacket and linens cleaned--rush service. "[Sometime] after he dropped them off, the police picked them up," says Mills. (Police officials have confirmed that blood was found on one of his jackets.) It was also learned that Westerfield belongs to a gambling club on a Native American reservation less than two miles from the place...
ARRESTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 49; in connection with the kidnapping of his 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam, who was abducted from her bedroom three weeks ago; in San Diego...
...Industry Standard, which led all magazines in ad pages in 2000, closed in 2001, as did Brill's Content, Mademoiselle and Working Woman, to name a few. (TIME's parent company, Time Inc., axed several magazines last fall.) Total magazine ad pages dropped 11.7%, from 2000 to 2001. Leland Westerfield, a media analyst with UBS Warburg, terms the ad climate "the toughest since prior to World...