RobertStJames
She doesn't know he didn't do it. She claims amnesia. Yet her first description of her attacker matched Darin. Darin has blood on his pants. Whose? There is blood on his Reeboks said:
O, puh-leeze. She claims amnesia alright, but traumatic amnesia without brain damage is not permanent! Most people regain it within a few months. She is going on 9 years now. Not only that but she isn't even trying to remember what happened. One hypnotic session in nine years and when she supposedly remembers something, she drops it like a hot potato. No sense is trying again, she might actually be able to come up with a facial composite of the guy(s) to help police. Can't have that.
Sorry but Darlie is about as innocent as my dog after a garbage run.
O, and that blood trail does not lead to Darin. He wore no shirt that night and no photos were taken before he was excused to go to the hospital. He cleaned up before he was interviewed by police. And his skin cells were not on the sock. Darlie's were. Plus he had no injuries, which if he had been wielding a knife and attacking three people, he should have had cuts on himself, too.
The blood on his pants, I believe, is at the waist, and that can probably be easily explained by his CPR efforts on Devon. Now if it turns out to be Damon's blood, not so easy to explain but even that wouldn't be a smoking gun against him.
The shoes... Darlie could have worn them as easily as he could have.
Personally, I suspect that they were in on it together and that Darin didn't have the guts to do the dirty work so his job was to do the staging, i.e. screen cutting, sock planting, etc. I think the motive had everything to do with money, but not insurance money. I think they truly believed they could pull it off and be perceived as victims to the world, which would open doors to the big time, book deals, film rights, etc. I think they viewed children as easily replacable objects and truly believed that the boys would understand and forgive them, after all it was for the betterment of the family as a whole. In short, the kids were sacrificed for the greater good, which was basically the good life for Mom and Dad and baby brother.
Now how it all came about is another thing. Things did not go smoothly. I am not sure that night was even planned much ahead of time, but I do think they had danced around the subject before, maybe even engaged in a little late night fantasy about how it could be pulled off without having any real plan in action. Something happened to escalate things that particular night, and that something was probably some kind of argument or specific event that spun out of control and left them with little choice.
I believe that Darlie suffered from depression and probably anxiety, and possibly PPD. That the diet pills she was taking beyond recommended periods were aggravating factors and contributed to the PPD and may have even caused her to snap that night, which left them with a dead child. How could they explain an intruder killing one child but not the other? Somewhere between need and past fantasies, they whipped up the plan to escape punishment and become the victims they needed to be to pull it all off. It just didn't work for Darlie.
I don't think it is any accident that Darin came out smelling like a rose and everything pointed to Darlie, but since she didn't tell the truth, she is now stuck with the outcome. I think her life could have been spared if they had just told the truth about how one child had been killed and spared Damon, if they had exposed her true mental state, medications, etc. and not bothered with a cover up. And they might have been able to do that if they had not already been playing with the idea of becoming the movie of the week.
Sounds out there, I know, but they were already writing stories about Texas being a hotbed for TV movies on true crime so I think the theory might hit closer to home than we know. It is speculation though as are most of our how it happened Routier theories are. They have managed to keep a dark cloak over what really happened that night, which contributes to our need to connect dots that just won't be connected.
However, just remember some of Darin's statements about how they were going to write a book and knock the middleman out by having Darlie do all the writing, how they were said to have signed contracts to sell their story only two days after she was arrested which was only 2 weeks after the murders. How Darin supposedly said to his tatoo artist that their story was going to the biggest thing to hit in a long time, etc. And don't forget him saying on the stand that they felt they deserved to make the big bucks, that they should be able to go on vacation anywhere they wanted and not be limited by a budget (or however he qualified it). So it is not totally out there, and it explains why they both seemed to be disassociated with both the children and the murders, which should have just totally blown them away emotionally.
