Goody said:
I don't agree that they have to be sociopaths. I don't even think Darlie is one. Maybe a psych evaluation would say otherwise, but I haven't seen or heard anything at all that makes me think she had a personality disorder. [/b][/color]
Well that makes it even harder to imagine really. What is the likelyhood of having two individuals marrying, neither with personality disorders, who would quite happily discuss and carry out the murder of their children and then cover for each other?
Little things. He didn't go near Damon, for one thing. I think he would have known in seconds that it was too late for Devon, and the instinct then should have been to see about Damon, who was obviously still alive.
He said he did not see Damon when he came down. The first person he saw was Devon and he thought it was just Devon who had been hurt. Even if he is trying to revive Devon and realises Damon is hurt- he is not alone there. He is yelling at Darlie to help. I don't think any parent in those circumstances can just decide it is too late to save one of their children and give up doing CPR. He also does say he checked on Damon but again his changing stories makes it hard to know what he did and did not do.
He goes to Karen's after she is not needed. Once paramedics arrived, you'd think he would be hanging around to see how his family is doing, not rushing out the door to get friends.
He rushed out of the house to get his friend
the nurse. There were two paramedics there and he has two dying/dead boys on his hands and a bleeding an 'hysterical' wife. If I was involved in any scene like that (accident or otherwise) and I knew there was another trained professional right next door I'd be getting them regardless of if the paramedics were there or not. If Devon had not been triaged black then they would have been one medic down. As it was Koschak had to prioritise Darlie over trying to revive Devon.
He sits on the curbing instead of rushing to the hospital, and sits there for 20 or 30 minutes all the while he has no idea (supposedly) whether Darlie will make it or not. I think he was scared to death they'd be found out. [/color][/b]
Wasn't he waiting for Terry?
Because he left his dying children, if you believe him, to go after a nurse who was not needed. By the time they got across the street, Damon's ambulance had left and Darlie's was about to be put in an ambulance to leave. The only reason Karen was ever allowed in the house was to get the dog off the stairway so police wouldn't have to deal with him. She never participated in any first aid efforts. In fact, when they let her into the house, there was no one left there to give first aid to.
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I honestly think you are looking at his actions very critically. If you were him, had three members of your family who needed urgent attention and only two paramedics would you honestly think your nurse neighbour was not needed?
I don't think Damon's ambulance had left. I think they triaged him for some time in the abulance before leaving and Darlie had only just arrived out on the front porch. Koschak spent only a very short period of time (probably no more than a minute, max two) triaging Devon before moving to Darlie and he moved Darlie out of the house straight away. That means that Darin had to have left the house pretty soon after the paramedics arrived (probably only a minute or so later). There was clearly still a need for medical help. And don't forget that he had been trying to go and get Karen earlier as well when Waddell arrived- so he was in that same frame of mind. He wanted as many trained people there helping his family as possible.
And Karen wasn't simply let in to get the dog. They let her in because she was a nurse:
23 A. We ran directly across the street and
24 we were stopped by a policeman. The policeman said,
25 "Wait a minute. You can't go any further."
1 And my husband and Darin both shouted,
2 "She's a nurse."
3 And I said, "Yes, I need to get
4 through."
5 And he said, "Okay. You may go
6 through, just one of you."
7 And I went directly to Darlie who
8 was -- the two paramedics were placing her -- setting her
9 down in the doorway.
http://www.justicefordarlie.net/transcripts/volumes/vol-41.php#KarenNeal
He isn't out there dating openly. It has been almost ten years. What guy is going to stay blindly loyal to someone on death row if he has nothing to hide?
No, he isn't dating in the public eye. For all we know he could be seeing someone else. He has been very quiet for years. Just because we don't know about it doesn't mean it is happening. And after that kind of tragedy not everyone is necessarily going to want to be in another relationship. Sure, a lot of people do. But it doesn't necessarily follow that because we haven't heard that he has shacked up with someone that he is terrified of Darlie.
We all know he lied to cover up for her, at the very least, and he hasn't even come clean about that.
Yeah he lied to cover up for her- but again just because he hasn't made a media release about covering for her doesn't mean he still is or will. for all we know he might be more than ready to roll on her should the DA approach him about it.
And he darned sure isn't another David Smith, who hates his ex-wife for what she did to his boys.
You simply can't know that Goody. If he actually believed her innocent for all those years (and who knows- maybe he still does... he had good reason NOT to believe she was guilty) then he had no reason to hate her. We haven't heard from him in years. He wasn't at the big rally last year. He hasn't made any public declarations of support. Perhaps he has in recent years come to the realisation she is guilty (maybe after she sicked Pardo on him and after her little comments casting doubt on his involvement). The DA may have him firmly in hand ready to whip him out should they need to. He also has the small matter of perjury to contend with should he backtrack.
Plus Darin never shows any sign of the various stages of grief. If you listen to him, he and Darlie only went through one....acceptance. They skipped over the denial and the anger. There are actually 5 stages.
Again- how do you know this? You are presuming it from a two second grab of an interview after the silly string party where he basically says nothing anyway and what else? How do you know he wasn't angry? In denial? We DO know he was on anti-depressants. But we can't presume to know his emotional state during the weeks, months and years after it based on a couple of short interviews.
No, it isn't. The cop was Nabors, I think, and he was a supervisor at the scene, and I saw him open his mouth and say it in an interview. No hearsay, no rumor. It was one of those details that don't always come out at trials.
I like Nabors but I would want to hear it from the horses mouth. From the beginning of this case I personally have tried to only deal in the recorded testimony and evidence. And again, in any case, people do say strange things when they are in shock.
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