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SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro > Danielle's Disappearance -- Westerfield failed polygraph test badly
Wednesday's U-T: Westerfield hinted at suicide
Feb. 4, 2002: Examiner Paul Redden reviews questions prior to polygraph interview (9:32)
Beginning of polygraph interview administered by Redden. (42:21)56k
Conclusion of polygraph interview, after which Westerfield is told he failed. (46:19)56k
Westerfield discusses polygraph exam prior to failing it, Part 1. (21:19)56k
Westerfield discusses polygraph exam prior to failing it, Part 2. (40:16)56k
Detectives interrogate Westerfield. (31:03)56k
Westerfield describes his return to the neighborhood in his motorhome. (1:01:20)56k
Westerfield's interview with officers Kramer and Parga. (47:01) 56k
Westerfield tells police he didn't have money at the outset of that weekend. (31:31)56k
Feb. 28, 2002: Detectives Michael Ott and Mark Keyser attempt to interview Westerfield in jail. (1:06)56k
Feb. 5, 2002: Interrogation of David Westerfield, Part 1 (15:11)Cable-DSL / 56k
Interrogation of David Westerfield, Part 2 (11:17)Cable-DSL / 56k
Interrogation of David Westerfield, Part 3 (10:35)Cable-DSL / 56k
Interrogation of David Westerfield, Part 4 (1:51)Cable-DSL / 56k
After a pause, Westerfield asks one of the detectives to leave his gun, the detective declines. (1:11)Cable-DSL / 56k
Audiotapes of Westerfield's polygraph exam reveal him to be a man consumed with failure – the failure of his 17-year second marriage in 1995, the potential failure of his design business, his perceived failings as a father and as a desirable spouse.
Then there was the matter of his most immediate shortcoming – his failure to pass the polygraph exam.
Redden spent several hours talking to Westerfield and administering the polygraph test, two days after Danielle was reported missing from the bedroom of her Sabre Springs home.
According to audiotapes released Tuesday by the District Attorney's Office, Westerfield scored so poorly on the exam that Redden cited a "greater than 99 percent probability" that Westerfield was lying about his lack of involvement in the girl's abduction.
As the audiotapes reveal, Westerfield's lengthy discussion with Redden played out as part clinical interrogation and part therapy session – a middle-age man reflecting on the disappointing state of his life.
Westerfield talked about how his second wife fell out of love with him and lost interest in him sexually. He complained about his mounting debts and his inability to pay his 2000 income taxes. He complained that he was "different" because he was the only single person in his neighborhood.
He said he was haunted by feelings of guilt because he cheated on his second wife and once struck his son in anger.
"If you were to ask me, do I consider myself emotionally stable, I don't believe that I am, to be honest with you," he told Redden at one point.
"I think they should be taken out and shot immediately," Westerfield responded. "But . . . I know they'll get three to five, five to 10, or something, you know, like that. It's not a hard, fast rule. I think that people that hurt the innocent are bad people."
On Friday, Superior Court Judge William Mudd sentenced Westerfield to death, four months after a jury convicted him of kidnapping and murdering the second-grader, whose family lived two doors away.
During Westerfield's trial, the jury didn't hear evidence about the polygraph exam. The tests ordinarily aren't admissible in court, but police use them to help eliminate and develop suspects.
On Monday, Mudd ordered the public release of the audiotapes and numerous other items of evidence, transcripts and documents that have been under seal in the case. Transcripts of several closed-door hearings in the case, as well as numerous sealed motions, are scheduled to be released Monday but could be released as early as today.