. >> reporter: attorneys vanessa podkin and aida lesinring were legal consultants to "the last defense>> i know she shouldn't have been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: darren rutier is darley's ex-husband and father of her children. >> darley is 100% innocent. the truth is always going to be there. it's still there now. >> reporter: on june 6th, 1996, in a quiet suburb of dallas, texas, 26-year-old darley rutier made a frantic call to police. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> somebody came in here -- they broke in -- >> ma'am? >> they just stabbed me and my children -- >> what? >> they just stabbed me and my children, my little boys! >> who did? >> they're dying! >> i was asleep upstairs. i didn't hear a sound from the boys, i didn't hear a sound from darley until she started screaming. >> reporter: officers who arrived at the house found a gruesome scene. the two boys, damon and devin, stabbed to death. darley herself had multiple stab wounds but quickly recovered. >> she had a gash on her arm that cut to the bone. she had a slash across her throat that very nar