Remember, YOU asked for it!
A few months ago, I was watching Law & Order. It's my favorite show, or was. Well, as some of you may know, back in 1997, they did a two-parter based on this case. Well, a few months ago, they did a follow up. Sadly, Law & Order was now part of the "Innocence" Brigade." The ersatz John is now a widower (Patsy was still alive in real life) still claiming that he was innocent. The cops find the REAL killer, obviously based on David Westerfield. The guy's lawyer even did what Westerfield's real lawyer did: admit his client did it and asked for a plea. When Jack McCoy, the ADA that Sam Waterston plays, refused, the lawyer got the ersatz John on the stand and tore him to pieces, KNOWING that his client was guilty! Number one, that's a good illustration of what people like the Poz and that fat PIMP Merralyn Jerrit do. Two, it's a good example of what the defense would be if some "intruder" ever came to trial. But what bothered me about the episode (I say bothered. Enraged would be more appropriate) is that the writers didn't see what everyone else, Nancy Grace, Marc Klaas and us included, can see: the Van Dam murder bears NO RESEMBLANCE WHATSOEVER to JB's murder! NONE! AT ALL!
David Westerfield grabbed Danielle. He was in and out of the house in a flash, IF he ever went in their at all. Half the San Diego cops think he lured her out of an open door. He took her to a place where HE felt safe, did his horrific acts, then dumped her body.
Alejandro Avila grabbed Samantha Runnion out of her yard. He took her to a place where HE felt safe, did his horrific acts, then dumped her body.
Dennis Dechaine grabbed Sarah Cherry from her neighbor's home. He took her to a place where HE felt safe, did his horrific acts, then dumped her body.
The JB intruder camped out, wrote a phony note, fed JB pineapple, waited two hours for it to digest, did his horrific acts, which didn't even APPROACH the kind of violence perpetrated on those other girls, in a place where he was constantly at risk of getting caught, staged a scene to LOOK like an intruder (WHY!?) and got out without taking the body!
Anyone ELSE see the problem here? Nancy Grace does! Robert Ressler does! Greg McCrary does! And I SURE AS HELL do!
Bottom line!
That's my problem with "Law & Order," in regard to this case.