What are the consistencies in the Routier's stories?

[beesy]

Can anyone tell me if Darlie really stayed with her dad at age 8 and didn't go live with her mother until she was 13? I just purchased Hush Little Babies which sure seems to have lots of mistakes.

I looked in the other books and couldn't find any reference to this. Maybe somebody else can help though.

 

[deanws]

Ohhhhh, I get it! Cause that would mean you couldn't think on your own. That you were just parroting me, like Snooty always accused me of doing. [url="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_129.gif"]http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_129.gif[/url]

Cool parrot!

 

[deanws]

Well, he wanted her to get her tubes tied. I was so pissed at him. That's a major operation and then suppose they got divorced and she wanted to have a baby with someone else? So he got a vasectomy. [url="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_1_19.gif"]http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_1_19.gif[/url]Snip Snip!

What a jerk! I am glad she stood her ground and made him get clipped!

 

[deanws]

I looked in the other books and couldn't find any reference to this. Maybe somebody else can help though.

That is the first I have heard of this also.:waitasec:

 

[cami]

QUOTE=Jeana (DP)]Sounds like a smart cookie. LOL My 11 year old daughter and I were out driving the store the other day and there was this girl, musta been about 15 or so on a bike. Her shorts looked more like very small underwear. Would have looked very "hootchie" just walking, but riding a bike, looked downright sleezy. I felt very very sorry for her, but took the opportunity to look at my daughter's face and we both cracked up once we realized we were thinking the exact same thing. I told her if that was my daughter, I'd snatch her off that bike so fast she wouldn't know what hit her. LOL My daughter said she had no doubt that was true.

I'm sure we'll have the clothing arguments one day, but I've already learned that clothing that I don't want my kids to wear has a way of "disappearing" in the laundry at our house. [/QUOTE]



:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: reminds me of me when I was 14 (mid '60's) and wore my mini skirt under the skirt that went to the knees so my mother wouldn't see it.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: reminds me of me when I was 14 (mid '60's) and wore my mini skirt under the skirt that went to the knees so my mother wouldn't see it.

We did the same thing, but I'm way more controlling than my mother was. Stuff has "disappeared" all the time from my laundry room. The latest victim was a skirt my daughter wouldn't agree that she grew out of. Haven't seen it in months! :angel: :angel: :angel:

 

[cami]

I agree that whatever the motive was, it is not going to measure up the reality of the crime. Murder never does. Or maybe I should say rarely since some murder does tend to be a tiny bit justified. I am not so sure her looks played any big part in the crime. I am not sure I buy into the "Darlie felt fat" theory as 20 pounds is hardly worth freaking out over. I also think she gave as good as she got from Darin so I am not thinking anything he did pushed her over the edge. I am more inclined to think they planned it together even if most of the planning was done that night rather impulsively. I really have a hard time buying into her just suddenly losing it and turning murderous and him just coming to her rescue because he couldn't let go of those . But you know me, I am always open to suggestions that make sense.

Hmm why was she taking diet pills then if she didn't "feel fat."

No, I don't think it's anything to freak out over, or one theory of the crime but add the amphetemines to it and you got trouble. I don't think you can isolate that one particular subject as the theory. Don't we have to take all the evidence as a whole? Her fading looks and her body image could have contributed to her depression. She wasn't the hot little number, strutting her stuff in the neighbourhood any longer attracting admiration. Mind you I don't think she was fat at all and I do find her attractive if you like that look. I think she overdoes the slap making her look cheap.

 

[cami]

O. come on. If her kids hadn't been killed, you be saying each to his own, what floats her boat, and all that. Who could possibly care if she wore thong bikinis or granny nightgowns? You don't have to be a lady to protect your kids. Plenty of white trashers do it everyday, poor taste or not. I am all for judging her actions, but I am not sure calling her white trash falls under that heading.

Showing your arse end in public is in very poor taste Goody regardless of what Darlie looked like or how great her body was. That's why she is being judged by other women. She was a mother, a wife and she lived in a middle class neighbourhood. She wasn't a tart on the stroll downtown was she.

Yep baring your behind in front of the children and the husbands of your neighbours is tasteless and tacky and fodder for gossip and insensitive comments regardless. In my opinion anyway but maybe I am just too old fashioned.

 

[cami]

Well, I don't know who these friends are. I have been dying to talk to some of them about this very thing. I can't seem to find hide nor hair of them. So if have an in with them, please invite them here and let's hear what they have to say.

If what you say is correct, you have nailed the motive. It would not be about money at all if depression is in the mix. It would be about a woman whose emotions were out of control, who lost it suddenly and killed at least one child and then scurried around trying to come up with a way out of it. That sort of eliminates premeditation, doesn't it?

Goody you are reversing yourself now. On the "lurker coming out" thread you agreed with the posts that Darlie was depressed in the months preceeding the murders.

 

[deanws]

We did the same thing, but I'm way more controlling than my mother was. Stuff has "disappeared" all the time from my laundry room. The latest victim was a skirt my daughter wouldn't agree that she grew out of. Haven't seen it in months! :angel: :angel: :angel:

I have to do that to my husband. He wears stuff that is so worn out... he looks like a street person (just add the cart!) I have to be sure to do it right before the trash man comes, so he can't dig it out! I also pretend to be dumb. Only thing is...he is on to me now.

 

[justice2]

Was Darin consistent about saying her saw Devon first and not Damon? (Vol. 4, page 121, bond hearings).

I don't see how he could have not seen Damon first (like the first officer did). Looking at the floor layout he would have been standing 2' away from him. It would have been harder to see Devon. I know Darin does say in some of the media that he is going to where he remembered Devon being from before he went to bed, but still ... Damon was right there.