SAN DIEGO -- A latent fingerprint authorities say belonged to Danielle van Dam was lifted from a cabinet above the bed in David Westerfield's motor home, a San Diego police detective testified Tuesday.

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James Tomsovic said he was present Feb. 5 when an evidence technician applied black fingerprint powder and located the print.

"How visible was it?" prosecutor Jeff Dusek asked.

"It was plainly visible," the detective said.

Tomsovic continued his testimony Wednesday.

Westerfield, 50, is charged with murder, kidnapping and misdemeanor possession of child pornography in the death of the 7-year-old. He could get the death penalty if convicted.

A San Diego police print examiner testified at Westerfield's preliminary hearing that the latent lifted from the motor home cabinet belonged to the girl whose nude, decomposed body was found near Dehesa on Feb. 27.

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Tomsovic (pictured, right) testified that his homicide team was brought on the case in the late evening of Feb. 4, hours after Westerfield was first contacted by investigators. A search warrant, he said, was served at 2:28 a.m. the next morning.

The detective testified that bleach was the first thing on a shopping list that was found on Westerfield's kitchen counter.

"What's at the top of the list?" Dusek asked.

"Bleach," Tomsovic said.

In previous testimony, Detective Maura Parga testified she smelled bleach in a work area of the defendant's garage.

Prosecutors theorize that Westerfield tried to clean items that may have come in contact with Danielle during the first weekend of February.

Witnesses already have described how clean Westerfield's sport utility vehicle appeared and how he dropped off a jacket, comforters and pillow cases at a dry cleaners.

The shopping list also included rum, soft drinks and mouthwash.

A linen store advertisement, gasoline station receipts, mail and a note with tow truck operator Dan Conklin's address also were on the counter, according to authorities.

Conklin testified he pulled Westerfield's Southwind motor home out of soft sand near the Imperial County community of Glamis on Sunday, Feb. 3.

The linen store ad was open, Tomsovic said, to a display of a four-poster bed with a tulle netting, similar to Danielle's bed. The difference, he said, was the victim's bed was a single while the one in the ad was a queen size.

Tomsovic also testified that he discovered that, from the defendant's master bathroom, one could see the play area in the van Dam backyard, across a street and two houses away.

On cross-examination, Tomsovic said that in order to see the van Dam yard from the upstairs bathroom, a person would have to lean out the window.

Defense attorney Robert Boyce asked the detective what he saw when he looked out the window.

"You didn't see a canopy bed did you?" Boyce asked.

"No," Tomsovic answered.

Binoculars were found in a bedroom dresser, the detective said. Another pair was found in the kitchen.

Earlier Tuesday, a police evidence collector said she found short dark hairs on Danielle's nude, decomposed body and the top of a gate at the second grade girl's Sabre Springs home.

Dorie Savage (pictured, left), a forensics specialist with the San Diego police crime lab, told Dusek she collected "short dark hairs" that were tangled in Danielle's right hand. There was also a hair in her underarm, Savage testified.

She said she found more while searching the side yard the night after the child was discovered missing.

"On top of the gate, I found a hair," Savage said.

Savage also said she collected possible blood stains from a stairwell landing, a beanbag chair and the threshold of a door leading from the garage to the side door.

Savage said she collected a choker necklace during the autopsy like the one in a photograph of Danielle on a widely distributed missing poster.

Brenda van Dam quickly exited as Savage began discussing her inability to take a scraping from under Danielle's fingernails during the Feb. 28 post-mortem.

In searching for evidence of skin from the child's assailant or fibers, Savage said the tissue was "too rigid." She said she had to use a razor blade to slice the fingernails off.

Brenda hurried from the courtroom after she heard that statement. She remained in the hallway while photographs depicting the scene where the body was found were displayed, but later returned to the courtroom for Tomsovic's testimony.