Sentenced to death for the murder of Damon, five, she was also charged with six-year-old Devon’s murder on the same night.
She was never tried in the second instance as prosecutors wanted the option to pursue a second indictment if they couldn’t get a conviction in the first trial.
The very thought of double infanticide is bone-shakingly horrifying for most people. But as a mother I feel particularly nauseous about sitting inches away from a woman who did such a thing.
A woman who so brutally bludgeoned the lives she had brought into the world.
Darlie isn’t the first murderer I’ve faced, but interacting with a mother who has done the most unnatural thing in the world is one of the most emotionally challenging situations I’ve ever been in for work. And the case is far from clear cut.
Now 50, Darlie has always protested her innocence — and there are many who support her assertions that an intruder killed her sons.
They range from her ex-husband and surviving son, now 25, to the friends who say she has been wrongly painted as a sadistic killer and the experienced appeals lawyer who says no one will ever convince him of her guilt.
But a jury was convinced and convicted her in 1997, making Darlie one of America’s most notorious female prisoners.
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