Ty for the thread. I too followed this case i guess before all this puter stuff started, so I read the papers I guess. My parents owned the 2 lots the one the house is on and the one next to it way before a development was put there. My dad had some crazy idea to put his business next to our house. That would not work out there as the area became a bedroom community. I just remember my dad struggling to pay for the lots and after 20 years they sold them.
I too wonder about the conviction. I wonder what is up with those fingerprints they claim have not been identified. I think the police said it was a paramedic or some other worker. I think they or someone might have said it was one of the kids, so they exzumed the bodies if I recall correctly. The print didnt match the children. If it was the intruder then why is there only one print ( there might be another one on the garage door)? As brutal as that crime was and 3 alleged victims if this phantom killer left 1 fingerprint is all?
The lady that wrote the book changed her mind, is that still the case? Does she still think she too got it wrong and Darlie is innocent? I know this, I would hate to carry out that execution with those questions unanswered. I dont see why the state will not give her another shot at it and we will or hopefully may know for good what happened that night.
If this is okay I would like to list some questions that lingered in my mind and ask the original poster or anyone who knows to chime in with their answers:
!. How many un-identified prints were discovered?
2.What was the deal with the knife and the screen?
4.What was up with the insurance fraud involving Darin and who?
5. What about neighbors who heard and/or saw a black car in the area that night?
6.The police said something about the light above the garage not being on in spite of it having a 15 minute delay, was this proven true or false?( darlie claimed the killer ran out the back door and therefore this light should have still been on when the cops got there)_
7.Was there really a hand print wiped off the couch which revealed a bloody print.
I think the police claimed Darlie was running around cleaning up the scene as she was on the phone with 911. Something about the vacum cleaner being knocked over and blood was under the cleaner indicating it was placed there after the murder to make a distrubance look real. I can see this happening both ways and dont undstand what point it makes? You could knock it over as to came into the room or when leaving, so what does that prove?
I had many questions and just like the Anthony case depending on which side youre on, you can make the case look both ways. It must be hard to do police work and get it right, maybe this is why I am leaning towrds not having a death penalty for this reason alone.
The fingerprints are and will remain unidentified as they are partial prints....it's not a full print. Both prints were small and the print expert testified at trial that it's possible they were from juveniles, possible, not probable. They boys hands were joined together and that's why when they exhumed the bodies, the prints from those hands could not be taken.
They are not the boys' prints. If they are anyones they are Darlie's, she had all the blood on her. It's not possible anyone left that garage and utility room without leaving blood, and there was none.
Barb Davis changed her mind...big deal. She's a book writer nothing more. Law Enforcement doesn't have to believe anything she says and they don't.
1. Two partial prints were found. One in the murder room and one on the back door.
2. The bread knife in the butcher block contained a polyglass fibre and rubber dust matching the window screen..hence the knife was used to cut the screen and then put back.
3 Oh there is no three.
4. Darin's insurance scam was made up okay to try and get Darlie an appeal.
Robbie Kee, Darlie's stepfather, suddenly remembered two years after the crime, that Darin told him he was looking to have his house broken into for the insurance money. Darin signed an affidavit six years after the crime that he was actively looking for someone to rob his house. Investigation showed absolutely no one knew about this so called insurance scam and Darin was not looking for anyone to commit it. The appeal judge also found that Darin argued vigorously with the prosecutor at trial that he had no money problems...so this scam was seen through by LE
5. A black car was stopped by police and the occupants made to lay on the ground whilst the car was searched. Finding nothing, no blood, etc. the cops let them go. This black car nonsense is just a red herring. Everyone saw a black car, but no one thought to get a license number, a plate number,model of car, make of car, description of occupants. You can safely say a black car did not commit the crimes.
6. The sensor lights, once triggered, stayed on for 18 minutes. They were not on when the police arrived, they triggered the lights when they went out there. Yes, the lights lit up the gate, fence and backyard..no intruder hiding out there.
7. Damon's bloody handprint was wiped from the couch. Discovered by luminol, but the luminol destroyed it before it could be photographed so it's only been mentioned in books to my knowledge.
The vacuum cleaner was covering bloody footprints and also roll marks in blood were found meaning the vacuum cleaner was moved and probably used in the staging. Darlie was barefoot, the intruder wasn't.
Hope this helps. You can review the trial transcripts at
p.s. I disagree you can see this both ways...it's the blood that convicts Darlie. Casey Anthony was totoally a circumstantial case.
www.routiertranscripts.com
