My wife just watched the Forensic Files on this case (I fell asleep near the beginning). It's always interesting seeing people like Tom Bevel or Duane Deaver on old Forensic Files episodes.
Forensic Files... Great for learning about general forensic science techniques. Horrible when it comes to learning specific facts about a case. Part of this episode centered on sound/recording forensics. Enters Barry Dickey who Forensic Files introduced as a "Forensic Audio Expert."
Oh's and Ah's from the viewers I'm sure. Sounds very prestigious. He went to the University of Texas "for two years under electrical engineering degree" with no clarification whether he actually attained said degree. He worked a few years in a production studio. He then started his own business, Graffiti Productions, producing music jingles for Burger King. <---- Seriously, that's all it takes to be a "Forensic Audio Expert."
Being that the episode was heavily slanted towards Darlie's guilt there were no checks and balances when it came to the accuracy of the statements given. On Forensic Files Barry Dickey stated "in my opinion Darlie had moved from at least
three different rooms in the house. These rooms were moved from in a very rapid succession and she did not stay in any one room very long." Too bad that's not what his testimony was... At all. Barry
testified she was in TWO different rooms, not THREE. Less reflective, dampened such as carpeted... More reflective such as linoleum... Back to less reflective, dampened such as carpeted is what he testified to. Which is to say she was in the living room, then kitchen, then back to the living room. Stupid facts.
And apparently Barry the Forensic Audio Expert never conferred with Bevel the Blood Spatter Expert because Barry stated "Darlie... Moved from these rooms in rapid succession..." Yet Bevel stated "the blood drops indicated someone was standing still or walking very slowly." FFS which one is it? Was she walking from room to room in quick succession very rapidly like Barry said or standing around twiddling her thumbs like Bevel implied?
Then you've got Bevel saying he dropped the knife numerous times without getting a knife impression with the amount of blood he
ASSUMES must have been on it when it was dropped. Why the Hell is he assuming it had a shitton of blood on it? All he had to do was look at the pictures to see it had relatively little blood on it. It had nowhere near the amount of blood on it as Bevel's test knife did.
His "test stabbing" to produce cast off on the back of his shirt was awesome... In that it proves his theory about Darlie holding the knife dead wrong. He took roughly three swings to get the blood to finally deposit on the back of his shirt. Devon was stabbed twice. If Darlie did stab him the first knife extension would have had no blood on it. There would have been the intitial stab, extending the knife back once with blood and then another stab. If it took three or more backward extensions to get enough blood on the knife to finally deposit blood on his back then that can't be how Darlie ended up with his blood on her back. And that ignores his inability to determine if it came from upward to downward or downward to upward on that particular stain.
Cron is a moron talking about Peter Pan or Tinkerbell leaving behind no bloody footprints after walking through a bloody kitchen. All that blood in the kitchen got there after the intruder left.
And Springer? She's the same idiot that said the boys were stabbed with so much force that cement under the carpet had been damaged by the knife. I bet she received her information about Darin being an inattentive father from anonymous posters on message boards.
