09-10-2010, 09:38 AM
i attached Facebook photo of Mom and daughter here. it will probably be taken down very soon. caption "me and Holly".
from Dallas Morning News:
More than two weeks after Darlene Nevil was shot and killed in her Garland home, her body rests in a funeral home with no services scheduled. Her husband, Alan, died Thursday after being in a coma from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Across the county, her 12-year-old daughter sits in a juvenile detention center, accused in the deaths of her mom and stepdad. The girl's only guardian is a court-appointed attorney.
How it came to this, no one can really say.
On Friday, the charges against the 12-year-old girl and her 13-year-old boyfriend were upgraded from murder and aggravated assault to capital murder, which could send them to prison for 40 years, the maximum sentence for juveniles. The murder charges were upgraded because the crime now involves multiple slayings.
The crime has shocked Darlene Nevil's closest friends. It's left them shaken, confused and not wanting to believe what has happened.
"I'm having a really hard time with this," said Robin Schneider, who had been best friends with Darlene Nevil since they met 26 years ago in Ohio, where the two grew up. "I have a 15-year-old daughter, and fathoming her harming me is just ridiculous."
Schneider cannot get one question off her mind: How could someone so young stand accused of something so heinous?
Garland police aren't saying much about the killings. Because the suspects are minors, police have not identified them and decline to reveal their relationship to the victims. But family and friends said that the girl is Darlene Nevil's daughter and the boy is the daughter's boyfriend. The Dallas Morning News does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
Court records, the girl's pages on social networking sites, and interviews with Darlene Nevil's friends suggest that the mother and daughter had lives that were often troubled. They shared a rocky relationship, and both were sometimes estranged from other family members.
'The biggest mistake'
Just as school was set to begin last year, Darlene Nevil's only child called her from her father's house in Ohio.
The girl told her mom that her relationship with him had soured, according to Schneider. He tried to control her, she told her mom, and he kept her from calling friends and family. She wanted to live with her mother.
So last August, Darlene Nevil went to Ohio, got parental custody and moved her to Garland. She enrolled in school there and met a boy who would become her boyfriend. The girl wrote about him on MySpace as if they were a young couple madly in love.
"i love him and i would give the world to him if he asked for it," she wrote about the boy on MySpace. "the day we met i knew i had to have him. he is the best boyfriend i'v ever had in my life." HOW MANY BOYFRIENDS HAS THE 12-YEAR-OLD HAD?
After the last school year ended, something changed. The girl was expected to see her dad in Ohio over the summer, but she didn't go. About that time, she posted her feelings about her dad in a letter addressed to him on MySpace.
"im sorry to say this but, i cant believe i loved yew at one point in ma life," she wrote. "when i was four, i remember how yew were so mean to mommy and yew made her cry."
She signed the letter, "the biggest mistake of your life."
Later that month, she went on vacation to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Photos that Darlene Nevil later posted on Facebook show mother and daughter smiling next to a waterfall in Greenville.
But a few weeks later, she was gone. Police said that the girl ran away from her Garland home in July. They haven't said how long she was gone or where she went.
Schneider said Darlene Nevil had mentioned her daughter had previously threatened to run away because she thought her mom was too strict.
"It seemed like typical teenage stuff," Schneider said.
A day before Darlene Nevil was killed, she called Schneider to catch up on things and talk about their daughters. Her daughter had a boyfriend now, she told Schneider.
"She said he wasn't a bad kid," Schneider said.
Information about the 13-year-old boy was slim. No one answered the door at an address listed for the boy, and a phone number for him appeared to be incorrect. Both he and the girl have court-appointed attorneys. Public defender Charles Martin, who is representing the girl, said he had just gotten the case this week and couldn't comment because he hadn't had a chance to speak to her. The name of the boy's attorney was not available.
'She followed her heart'
Darlene Nevil lived in Ohio until about four years ago. She left behind friends whom she called periodically, but she hadn't spoken to her sister in Ohio in years. It's still unknown when Darlene Nevil will be laid to rest because the funeral home had no success in reaching a blood relative in Ohio while her husband was in a coma.
Darlene Nevil's first marriage ended in divorce in March 2006. That November, she married Alan Nevil, whom she had met in an online chat room about music. The had been chatting from a thousand miles away, but they instantly connected, said Melody Yates, who met both of them in the chat room.
"They flirted and then they met" in person, Yates said. "It was true love right off the bat."
After they married, , she got a job as an office manager at a Garland health care agency. Soon, the couple moved into Alan Nevil's childhood home, a few miles from Lake Ray Hubbard.
"She followed her heart," Schneider said. "She was happy."
'It's a different time'
from Dallas Morning News:
More than two weeks after Darlene Nevil was shot and killed in her Garland home, her body rests in a funeral home with no services scheduled. Her husband, Alan, died Thursday after being in a coma from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Across the county, her 12-year-old daughter sits in a juvenile detention center, accused in the deaths of her mom and stepdad. The girl's only guardian is a court-appointed attorney.
How it came to this, no one can really say.
On Friday, the charges against the 12-year-old girl and her 13-year-old boyfriend were upgraded from murder and aggravated assault to capital murder, which could send them to prison for 40 years, the maximum sentence for juveniles. The murder charges were upgraded because the crime now involves multiple slayings.
The crime has shocked Darlene Nevil's closest friends. It's left them shaken, confused and not wanting to believe what has happened.
"I'm having a really hard time with this," said Robin Schneider, who had been best friends with Darlene Nevil since they met 26 years ago in Ohio, where the two grew up. "I have a 15-year-old daughter, and fathoming her harming me is just ridiculous."
Schneider cannot get one question off her mind: How could someone so young stand accused of something so heinous?
Garland police aren't saying much about the killings. Because the suspects are minors, police have not identified them and decline to reveal their relationship to the victims. But family and friends said that the girl is Darlene Nevil's daughter and the boy is the daughter's boyfriend. The Dallas Morning News does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
Court records, the girl's pages on social networking sites, and interviews with Darlene Nevil's friends suggest that the mother and daughter had lives that were often troubled. They shared a rocky relationship, and both were sometimes estranged from other family members.
'The biggest mistake'
Just as school was set to begin last year, Darlene Nevil's only child called her from her father's house in Ohio.
The girl told her mom that her relationship with him had soured, according to Schneider. He tried to control her, she told her mom, and he kept her from calling friends and family. She wanted to live with her mother.
So last August, Darlene Nevil went to Ohio, got parental custody and moved her to Garland. She enrolled in school there and met a boy who would become her boyfriend. The girl wrote about him on MySpace as if they were a young couple madly in love.
"i love him and i would give the world to him if he asked for it," she wrote about the boy on MySpace. "the day we met i knew i had to have him. he is the best boyfriend i'v ever had in my life." HOW MANY BOYFRIENDS HAS THE 12-YEAR-OLD HAD?
After the last school year ended, something changed. The girl was expected to see her dad in Ohio over the summer, but she didn't go. About that time, she posted her feelings about her dad in a letter addressed to him on MySpace.
"im sorry to say this but, i cant believe i loved yew at one point in ma life," she wrote. "when i was four, i remember how yew were so mean to mommy and yew made her cry."
She signed the letter, "the biggest mistake of your life."
Later that month, she went on vacation to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Photos that Darlene Nevil later posted on Facebook show mother and daughter smiling next to a waterfall in Greenville.
But a few weeks later, she was gone. Police said that the girl ran away from her Garland home in July. They haven't said how long she was gone or where she went.
Schneider said Darlene Nevil had mentioned her daughter had previously threatened to run away because she thought her mom was too strict.
"It seemed like typical teenage stuff," Schneider said.
A day before Darlene Nevil was killed, she called Schneider to catch up on things and talk about their daughters. Her daughter had a boyfriend now, she told Schneider.
"She said he wasn't a bad kid," Schneider said.
Information about the 13-year-old boy was slim. No one answered the door at an address listed for the boy, and a phone number for him appeared to be incorrect. Both he and the girl have court-appointed attorneys. Public defender Charles Martin, who is representing the girl, said he had just gotten the case this week and couldn't comment because he hadn't had a chance to speak to her. The name of the boy's attorney was not available.
'She followed her heart'
Darlene Nevil lived in Ohio until about four years ago. She left behind friends whom she called periodically, but she hadn't spoken to her sister in Ohio in years. It's still unknown when Darlene Nevil will be laid to rest because the funeral home had no success in reaching a blood relative in Ohio while her husband was in a coma.
Darlene Nevil's first marriage ended in divorce in March 2006. That November, she married Alan Nevil, whom she had met in an online chat room about music. The had been chatting from a thousand miles away, but they instantly connected, said Melody Yates, who met both of them in the chat room.
"They flirted and then they met" in person, Yates said. "It was true love right off the bat."
After they married, , she got a job as an office manager at a Garland health care agency. Soon, the couple moved into Alan Nevil's childhood home, a few miles from Lake Ray Hubbard.
"She followed her heart," Schneider said. "She was happy."
'It's a different time'