I think the facts as reported make a pretty convincing case for dad DALE FULLWOOD's involvement in the murder of his 6-year-old daughter. But note all the denial and excuses here. Utterly disgusting. Mothers are convicted all the time in both the court of public opinion and in the judicial system on "endangerment" charges, and on much flimsier evidence than this. Heck, in a recent case where the mother was beat up trying to protect her son from her boyfriend, there were lots of comments that she was just as guilty as he; string them both up! But when you have a case that not only points to failure to protect, but some active involvment, everybody backpedals--at least when it's a father.
http://www.news-press.com/article/20100425/COLUMNISTS02/100424034/1075/Making-a-case-against-Coralrose-s-father
Making a case against Coralrose's father
By Sam Cook • scook@news-press.com • April 25, 2010
1:10 A.M. — Coralrose Fullwood’s killer will die in prison for her rape and murder, but Patrick D. Murphy’s sentence doesn’t diminish the role her father may have played in the 6-year-old’s death in 2006.
Was Dale Fullwood, a convicted pornographer, the link between Murphy and his daughter?
The facts point that way.
Fullwood was addicted to porn and the atrocities that accompany it.
He couldn’t help himself — even at the expense of his daughter.
Let’s retrace his steps:
• At the Motor Sports Cafe in North Fort Myers, a co-worker told investigators bartender Fullwood and Murphy were looking at child pornography on Fullwood’s computer.
• During the investigation into Coralrose’s murder, an image of a child having sex is found on that same Fullwood computer.
• While on probation for child porn, Fullwood had unauthorized contact with a child relative. He was sentenced in June 2008 to three more years in prison.
Does that sound like an incorrigible condition?
Does that sound like a predator with a pattern?
Does that sound like a father who would put his daughter at risk to satisfy his perverted pleasure?
Yes, yes and yes.
I don’t think Fullwood killed his own daughter.
Neither do two others who know him well.
“I spent a lot of time with Dale Fullwood before this all happened,” says Saul VanderWoude, Coralrose’s grandfather. “I know how close he was to the children.”
VanderWoude, a retired Boston-area cop, says if Fullwood is guilty, prove it.
“What he had on that computer is disgusting,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean he did the crime.”
He says the same applies to his son-in-law’s relationship with Murphy.
“The fact that he knew him doesn’t make him guilty by association,” VanderWoude says. “Was Dale involved? I don’t know. I hope not.”
His wife says Fullwood is not a murderer.
“Dale might have been there,” says Doreen VanderWoude. “He might be involved some way, but I don’t think he did the actual killing. I’m sorry.”
Right now, it’s all speculation by the grandparents, who live in south Fort Myers, and this columnist.