Jimthecarpetguy said:
Has no one thoght of this scenario before?There are some disrepencies about Darins whereabouts DURING the crime.Was he upstairs or not?What if he had an argument w/Darlie downstairs while the boys were sleeping?She may have gotten a ****you attitude and slain the 1st kid right in front of him and mortally wounded the2nd before he could react.Then the coverup begins,"Darlie we've got to do this and that etc."..I wish I could come up with a scenario that doesn't have the mom killing the kids but nothing comes to fruition.I am more concerned with the level of involvement that Darin had in this and how LE never looked at it properly.
There are a couple of problems with this scenario.
Firstly what is Darin doing whilst Darlie starts stabbing the boys? She actually manages to kill Devon and stab Damon multiple times
before he reacts? That sounds highly implausible...
And it relies on the second problem, that
both Darin and Darlie (neither of whom seem to have exhibited any concrete sociopathological behaviour prior to this incident) apparently had no problem with killing their kids. As you have said it is not inconceivable that a mother would kill her kids. Furthermore it is not inconceivable that a father would kill his kids. But to have both a mother who kills her kids
and a father who, after having just witnessed his kids' murders, decides
on the spot to protect Darlie (and in your scenario right after they have had an argument) really is bordering on inconceivable (or at the least incredibly implausible).
Thirdly, the timeline just doesn't fit much running around and staging. No doubt there was a basic degree of staging (eg wine glass, wash up around sink, cut screen, sock - which could have been accidental). But I don't see how Darin who has suddenly been thrust into this situation by his homicidal wife is going to be react quickly enough to be able to clincally decide what to do. Whilst I'm not sure we need to be 100% tied to the 8-9 minutes between Damon's last wound and his death I doubt it would have been much longer than that. Waddell was on the scene within 4 or so mins of the call (wow.... I REALLY need to brush up on my evidence and 911 call! Someone correct me if that is wrong). That leaves roughly 5 minutes between Damon's last stab wound and the 911 call.
I just don't see Darin coming to grips with what has just happened (his kids have been
murdered by his wife right in front of his eyes), and after not having reacted whilst she's in the middle of her homicidal rage he suddenly snaps to, decides to protect
her and then manages to organise the staging of a scene
Having said all that a lot of the stuff regarding Darin in this case doesn't make much sense. I don't take much notice of the 'Darin said .......' comments (eg. the size of her breasts etc) because I think they can be twisted somewhat in hindsight. But what Darin himself said on the record, particularly in comparison with the evidence, can sometimes raise red flags. The whole hearing the wine glass thing is strange (since he clearly couldn't have heard it). Also wierd is the pants on/pants off thing and the mention of remembering his wallet hitting the floor when he was upstairs. There is other stuff as well... (eg not seeing Damon when he came down the stairs)
Whilst I agree that Darin probably knows more than what he is saying I don't see him being a willing and ready accomplice in the way you describe if the crime went down the way we all think it did. But then again maybe we have all misunderstood how the crime happened...
