I Believe Zimmerman Knew the Family He "Rescued"
It was suggested that I post this as its own thread for discussion....
I am from Daytona Beach, Florida. It's about a half hour drive from Sanford. I was really stunned earlier today when I learned the maiden name of the woman "rescued" by George Zimmerman. I believe she is the daughter of a formerly high-profile Daytona Beach cop who made a career of organizing citizen policing groups. It's too much of a coincidence to me that she should be the daughter of this particular cop.
How I connect the dots---
FYI--The Daytona Beach area includes the cities of Port Orange and Ormond Beach.
Dana Gerstle appears in many places on the Internet as Dana Muffoletto Gerstle. Zabasearch lists "Dana Michelle Gerstle," age 41, at the same Port Orange address as "Dana Michelle Muffoletto" also age 41. She identifies herself as "Dana Muffoletto Gerstle" on her Pinterest page. It's her and her maiden name is Muffoletto. Various media sources have described her as being from Daytona Beach and having a brother named "Joey." This was determined from the media hunting down her Facebook page and related pages.
Zabasearch lists a Joseph Muffoletto, age 72, in Daytona, and a Joseph Muffoletto, age 47 in Ormond Beach. They are the only Muffolettos in the area. Father and son, I'd say. Dana is very likely the sister.
Joe Muffoletto Sr. was a high-profile cop in Daytona Beach for decades. He was the public relations officer. He'd visit all the area schools and pitch the "Police Explorer" program. He organized a "Concerned Citizens" registry to make reports to the police while keeping a person's name out of the police report. He spoke extensively on citizen policing throughout the area for years as "the face" of the DBPD. This 1978 article from the Daytona paper describes Lt. Muffoletto's views on citizen policing.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19780712&id=C_IpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DNMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3801%2C4567002http://
I find this chilling. Lt Muffoletto asserts that citizens are the "first defense against crime with police reduced to a secondary role" because he thinks the courts had given criminals more rights than law-abiding citizens. He was saying this in 1978!!! This guy would have been George Zimmerman's ultimate HERO.
After retiring from the police force, Muffoletto was the criminal justice coordinator for a Daytona Beach college. He is listed in the yearbook as recently as 2010. I believe that this is how George Zimmerman could have become acquainted with him during Zimmerman's law enforcement studies or anytime really given his obsession with policing. If Muffoletto was continuing to give presentations and speaking in the area, Zimmerman may have attended an event. I think Muffoletto would have been someone Zimmerman would have wanted to talk to and would have been very interested in getting to know. Maybe there could have been a connection through his uncle the judge??
My theory---I think it's possible Zimmerman could have known the Muffoletto family though an initial acquaintance with a cop I think he would have idolized. I believe he and the Gerstles could have been driving somewhere together in separate cars when the accident occurred and that's how Zimmer Man happened to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. He took off to avoid drawing attention to himself in consideration of his friends. They seemed willing to reveal their identity and give tons of family photos to the media at first but after the blowback, ehhh, not so much.
Zimmer Man would not look like such a hero if the media found out he "rescued" people he knew. I'd like to know how he couldn't get a 158lb teenager off of him but he could pull a fat guy out of an SUV. There's that. So that's my theory. It just seems too bizarre to me that he would happen to "rescue" the daughter of this cop who had been a lifelong advocate for citizen policing.
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George is friends with the cop. Going against his attorneys' advisement to lay low - his friend - the cop - draws him into the accident. O'Mara and West run with the ball and issue a press release in order to craft George in a good light. O'Mara and West as usual - just believed George and ran with his story. 
Option 1 - That's just silly. They would have had to manufacture the entire accident.
I do not believe option 2 - AT ALL. 
Why would anyone be outraged that another human being's life was saved?
The burning car part is huge. Becuase of the headlines. It goes back to the headlines. SOMEONE tipped off the media that this was a big, huge, heroic effort. Going to a burning car and getting four people out if it? *raised eyebrow* So - do you think the media made up the burning car? Since the national media doesn't follow simple little car accidents unless it is brought to their attention.
Ever worked in Advertising and or PR? I have. Just moved to Finance where one of my focuses is on Hazardous Materials Management, Homeland Security liason (spin doctoring), etc. etc. But prior to that - including internships at places such as Eric Mower, and a Buffalo News station, a US Congress Woman in Washington - as well as actually convincing consumers to go out and purchase like - 8 different colors of the Chocolate by LG just 'because' - I have 18 years of hands on experience.. . . I'm telling you - this was a tip off to the media - By someone who knew that Hazmat is a big big deal on the American highways. By someone who thought they could help Georgie to redeem himself. And so maybe - just maybe - they wanted the media to run with the ball.
Police Reports from Sandford/that area of Florida don't lie
And sometimes - it's a simple case of someone not being able to look themselves in the mirror.
I've thought all along that there was more to this story than we're being told. There is no doubt in my mind that somewhere along the way he was tipped off.
Welcome to DU! 
I'd say watch his finances. At all - I need to see a picture of the burned out vehicle. To date - I haven't seen one. But I have seen you lay out some interesting connections that make me really want to see the burned out SUV. . Welcome to DU!
My very first and immediate thought,when this story broke was that A) It was staged and choreographed or B) Zim &Co took advantage of an actual occurrence by twisting and torturing,if not creating,both fact and sequence of events.Either scenario being the result of a clumsy and transparent attempt to rehab the murderers image.
The problem I see with that strategy is that most people who will buy that the killer is a qualified hero are knuckle dragging simpletons,all too happy being told what to think and believe,and probably already support Zimmerman.
What you posted fits neatly with my first impressions....
Rupert Murdoch's NYPost is trying to get out in front on this...
@NYPost: Family rescued from overturned car avoids spotlight because connection to George Zimmerman could be 'toxic' http://nyp.st/17FNJU5
where's the bleach!!!
LOL - Look at his gun 
and welcome to DU
