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Filmed by police, attempting to capture any guilty comments made at the boys memorial. the preacher was there, family was there. prayers, crying. emotion you would expect, all appropriate behavior. i have silly string. her sister brought the silly string. it wasn t darlie s idea. this was my son s birthday, devon s birthday, and my sister and her boyfriend went and got silly string. he loved silly string. we did for them what devon didn t get to have and what we knew that he would want and enjoy. they took that, and they twisted it and they turned something that was supposed to be beautiful and tried to make it into something very ugly. ....
Place and time. happy birthday, dear devon singing happy birthday to a son who was just brutally stabbed over a week ago. love you, devon and damon. it was one of the strangest things i d ever seen. not how you d expect a mother whose boys had been brutally murdered, to grin and smack gum and shoot silly string. my reaction was what the general publics was. how could a woman whose boys were just murdered do something like that? and i think it sealed her doom. the jurors asked to sigh the silly string videotape nine times. and after only eight hours they returned with their unanimous verdict guilty. night had fallen when darlie arrived at the texas department ....
Texas. they were the proud parents of three boys. what s your name? devon. do something special. do a cartwheel. whoa, way to go, devon. say hi, damon. can you do a flip? no. the family moved to an upscale neighborhood in dallas after darren s computer business took off. by all accounts, they were he living the charmed life. but that would all change on june 6, 1996. it was an average day. it was an ordinary day. you know, i remember going to sleep. that night, darly fell asleep in front of the tv with her two sons devon and damon. 911, what is your emergency? [ screaming ] ....
Potential intruder they first had to rule out the family, and police had failed to get prints from devon and damon s bodies. that left them with only one very emotional choice. we had to have them exhumed. and have a specialist come in to take their fingerprints, because they footprinted them, but they didn t fingerprint them. i just couldn t believe the nightmare had gotten to that point. darlie hoped the boys prints would soon provide evidence of what she claimed all along, concrete proof of an intruder. ....
At the boys memorial. the preacher was there, family was there. prayers, crying. emotion you would expect, all appropriate behavior. i have silly string. her sister brought the silly string. it wasn t darlie s idea. this was my son s birthday, devon s birthday, and my sister and her boyfriend went and got silly string. he loved silly string. we did for them what devon didn t get to have and what we knew that he would want and enjoy. they took that, and they twisted it and they turned something that was supposed to be beautiful and tried to make it into something very ugly. when doug moulder brought up the tape during the trial, the detectives who were asked about it pled the fifth. we had a lady on death row in ....