Almost immediately after Pamela's death, Daniel Horowitz began to offer information to the public about the crime scene and observations he made concerning his wife. One of the first pieces of information he offered was that he found Pamela wearing only a tee-shirt and her underwear. He asserted he found her in her "sleep clothes". source
This was blatant misinformation, that had drastic consequences.
The fact is, Pamela was NOT found in her sleep clothes. She was wearing a tee-shirt, underwear, a long black skirt, and socks.
When Fred Curiel began to question Scott Dyleski about his activities the morning of Pamela's death, Scott claimed he saw a woman that day in a car on Hunsacker Canyon road. The woman he described matched the description of Pamela Vitale.
Immediately, Fred and Kim Curiel assumed he was lying.
From the prelim testimony of Fred Curiel:
And I said, "Because if there was a struggle, as Dan described, then it was virtually guaranteed that there will be DNA under her fingernails. There will probably be footprints and there may be hair." And she (Kim) asked him whether there was anyone who saw you or could corroborate that you were on a walk, any cars go by. And at that point he -- he -- he said, "Yes." He said there was a red car that went by and a white car. And he said something- he said he was walking, um, and, um, the white car -- there was a woman driving a white car, and she had said something strange to him. And he -- initially he couldn't remember what it was. He wasn't clear what she had said. And he said it was something like, "You got to believe." He said she reached over, grabbed his arm and said, "You got to believe," or something strange like that. And I asked him -- I asked him what's -- we asked him what direction they were driving. This was up towards the Vitale house, towards -- this is into Hunsaker Canyon Road. And he -- he had described the woman as having brown hair and round glasses, and -- which is -- which fit a description of Pam.
And my wife kind of looked at me, you know, recognizing the description, and -- and I -- without her saying anything I said, "No. There's no way that --" I said, "Pam was found in her underwear and a T-shirt. There's no way she was out driving that morning".
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