Just had to post on the topic of Darlie's execution. First of all, I have lurked on this site forever seems like, at least a year or two, and decided to chime in on this discussion. I have read every word of the transcripts also. Took me months, but I did.
First of all, I have thought Darlie killed her sons within the few weeks. Mostly, because of her intruder story and just "her". Because I used to be exactly like her I think. When I first read she cried rape at Darrin's party, and refused to call police etc. I thought, "Oh, no.. she DID do it"! I used to pull the same stunts. I was a neglected child, and when I got my first boyfriend I was starved for attention. He got a Camaro when he was 16 and began to ignore me to cruise around in his car, so one day after school I scratched my face with a car key and clawed my neck with my finger nails and ran back in his house and said I was "attacked".
Long story short, I begged him not to "tell" anyone and made up a story about my mom would be mad that I was out walking alone so he never told and I basked in his attention and protection. From then on out I always road in the front seat of that Camaro and he didn't ignore me again. Later, I got worse and worse just telling a lie here and a lie there to get his attention. Negative or not. I was selfish and wanted him to pay attention to no one but me, and did not even want to discuss having a child someday because I didn't want him paying attention to a baby.
Now, eventually he figured me out. He would catch me lying and threaten to leave me and I would scream,freak out and cry and finally I went to therapy and they determined I was bi-bolar/depressed/ and had a codependant personality. I was given medication and hospitalized because I kept threatening suicide. After trying several meds, they found meds I responded well to (that was in 1989) and today I am a different woman. I am still married to the same man today who owned that Camaro and we have been married twenty years. I only went off the meds once to have a baby and immediately got back on them and since then I am fine. No drama, no hysterics, no anger, no lies, no mania, and my child is wonderful.
My point is; I think Darlie is just like I was. I totally identified with her "crying" rape, and crying intruder. She and Darrin fought the night of the murders, and I just bet he threatened to leave her or something. Bingo!she created a drama. She was probably manic. And I think she and Darrin were definetely co-dependant on eachother. I do not think she is legally insane or anything and I do believe she deserves to be in prison. But, I also believe she has mental problems obviously. No normally balanced woman can brutally stab to death her own children.
There has to be some sort of imbalance in her mind. There was in me, or otherwise the medications would not have helped me. In the first month of taking the meds I remember be sooooo embarrassed of my behavior in high school and in my late teens. I was twenty before I got the therapy I needed, and I just felt so clear and calm while on the meds. I remember thinking, I am patient now. I didn't have moments of jealous rages over my boyfriend/fiancee anymore. I just felt like a nice normal girl going to college. Sorry to burden you with my horrible, embarrassing life story. It was painful to write, I even cried while writing this!
At the end of the day, I believe Darlie did it because she was losing the focus off of her and becoming more of a boring housewife/mom. The money wasn't all being spent on her, the attention wasn't all being given to her, and she was feeling panic so she created a situation to get her old self back,.............. with a bit more money.
