In his original call to 911, Damon already was saying, "well, at least we still have two lovely boys to bring up." --after having spoken of Danielle in the past tense.
Similarly, every time we turn around we have Danielle being "in the other room"=out of his sight, out of sight=another euphemism for death.
It is a little like saying she had left the building.
I have this image of a very perceptive girl who could see through the machinations of her parents and who knew exactly what was going on, and wanted no part of it. Sometimes children have a heightened sense of fear and loathing about such things. Perhaps that is why Brenda warned Barbara to stay away from her.
20 Q. How about Danielle? What was she doing? 21 A. Danielle played or read at the table for a while, 22 and asked me the spellings of a few words, because she was 23 reading her book and then writing it in her journal, and 24 she asked us to turn the TV down. And then after a while 25 she moved into the family room, which is just behind where 26 we were sitting. 27 Q. Where were you with the boys, which room? 28 A. Living room -- the room with the TV, which Page 636 1 I believe is the living room. Is that right? 2 Q. Do you remember what was on TV? 3 A. Project Gotham racing. 4 Q. It wasn't a TV show? 5 THE COURT: That makes three of us. Go ahead. 6 BY MR. DUSEK: 7 Q. What happened after you guys were done watching 8 the computer stuff on TV? 9 A. At about a little before 10:00 I asked 10 them -- the kids to all go up and brush their teeth and get 11 in bed, and I turned off that and I watched TV downstairs 12 for a little while while they went up and got ready for 13 bed. 14 Q. Did they get ready by themselves? 15 A. Yeah. They got ready by themselves. 16 Q. And as they were upstairs getting ready, you were 17 doing what? 18 A. Watching TV. Cleaned up the kitchen a little. 19 Q. Then what? 20 A. Went up at about 10:00, went up and put them into 21 bed, and went in Dylen's room first, and Danielle was 22 reading to Dylen, and I asked her to go to bed, 23 and -- well, I checked that they had brushed their teeth 24 and all. I asked her to go to bed. I tucked Dylen under 25 the sheets and gave him a kiss good night, said good night 26 to him. Then I went to her room and she'd already gotten 27 in her bed, and I gave her a kiss good night. And I went 28 to Derrick's room, and he was still reading, and I asked Page 637 1 him just to turn the light off when he was done reading, 2 because he usually puts himself to bed a few minutes later. 3 And cracked all their doors a crack. They wanted them 4 open, but I was going to watch TV. So I just left them a 5 crack open. 6 Q. When you say a crack, can you estimate for us 7 about how big the opening -- 8 A. Six inches, eight inches. 9 Q. Did you leave any lights on upstairs? 10 A. When I left Derrick's room, his light was left 11 on. All the upstairs lights were off. There may have been 12 a bathroom light on in our room, but I'm not sure. 13 Q. Do they have any night lights either in their 14 rooms or in their bathroom? 15 A. There's a night light in their bathroom. There's 16 a night light in Dylen's room. Danielle's room did not 17 have a night light. The blinds were open. And I'm not 18 sure if Derrick's room had one at the time or not. 19 Q. After you tucked them in, where did you go? 20 A. Went back downstairs and watched TV a little 21 longer.
You say that is a direct quote...at least you use quotation marks. Could you please post a link to the transcript of Damon's original 9ll call? I want to see for myself.