This was just on today. Have there been any updates on this case? Very, very strange.

I remember hearing that the brother of her biological father had something to do with it.

I remember hearing that the brother of her biological father had something to do with it.

Mrs. Dowaliby's former brother-in-law (her former husband's brother) was a schizophrenic. Although he has been looked into as a suspect, he was never indicted for Jaclyn's death. In fact, after David Dowaliby's release, no one else was ever charged in the case. Some suspect that it's because the cops and prosecutors don't want to concede that they had made a mistake.

Well I think it is more likely that it was someone other than David Dowaliby. Remember his wife was in the house with him when Jaquelyn was last seen, and his wife was let off. The evidence used against him was not exectly the most solid(such as the guy who claimed to have seen David's nose shape from 75 yards away on a dark moonless night). He gave a decent interview as far as I am concerned, making an interesting point about how it was bad to be accused of and later jailed for murder, but that those two things pale in comparison to the anguish of losing Jaquelyn. And what motive would he have for killing her anyway? No one appeared to address this.

Just saw this one today for the first time. I get the feeling that I'm probably solely in the minority of those that think David Dowaliby murdered his daughter.

My reasons?

1. They were both way too happy about David's case being taken up by the media and his release, there were way too many smiles. After all, we are talking about a dead 7 year old here.

2. The comforter. Has it ever come out whether or not the child had a bed wetting problem? Perhaps one of the parents, in the middle of the night, got a little temper about a wet bed and hit her until she was unconcious and then what's a dutiful spouse to do but support her husband. It sounds odd, but it wouldn't be the first time.

3. Logic. A child is missing from a locked home. She's found several days later dead, strangled. The authorities are unable to determine how she actually died. It sounds as though she was "over-killed"? Someone trying to make something look like something it wasn't. Who would you suspect in this situation, some random passer by or one of the adults in the home? What do the statistics say?

I'm sorry, the Dowaliby's seem way too taken with themselves and the media support they have gotten on this. Perhaps I'm being overly cynical but I don't understand how it is "obvious" as other posters have suggested that David Dowaliby had nothing to do with his daughters murder.

The only "obvious" thing here is that there's a 7 year old dead -- who was closest to her?

Start from there.

American Justice on A&E networks did a cover on this story a few years back. I am in consensus that the police investigation was somewhat botched from the start. evidence being retrieved from the garbage days after the fact, somewhat witness identification that was less than iron clad by a long shot, and the fact that police never really bothered to focus outside the household. Cases like this have occured in the past (Aisenberg, Aybeta, ect). I think that LE, Prosecuters realized they made a mistake and couldn't go after them again. They never bothered to indict anyone else for the abduction even thoughthey think they know who actually commited the crime (IE. Brother in Law). Look at the Brown/Goldman murder case, they have the killer but don't really have him.

Not that this is not an interesting segment, but I would venture to guess that this is the third time this segment has been aired in the past year by Lifetime. Why can't they air other segments that we never have seen?

Hipster, I think all the posters here have pretty much seen every segement that "Unsolved Mysteries" has produced and aired. I agree with you though, more variety would be a change. Fortunately for us UM fans, the segements don't get boring until the 8th time they air. :D

Hipster, I think all the posters here have pretty much seen every segement that "Unsolved Mysteries" has produced and aired. I agree with you though, more variety would be a change. Fortunately for us UM fans, the segements don't get boring until the 8th time they air. :D

I think I'm kind of lucky in that there were probably several years, from about 1992 thru 1995, when I didn't watch the show much if at all. And, I have *NEVER* seen an episode produced from the late 1990's nor the short lived new episodes from Lifetime.

In the past 2 months, since I began watching the show again, I would say I've seen about half of the episodes already.

I just watched this case. I don't see no possible motive for David, why would anybody get that upset with their son/daughter wetting their bed. David seemed pretty nice.

Maybe it had something to do with her real father.
Who knows...

-Ben