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Shortly after the murders, Darlie was brought into court for her trial. Many believed that she was guilty because all of the evidence unfortunately pointed to her. She was sleeping right next to her children, while her husband was upstairs and asleep.
This case itself had equal amounts of evidence on both parties' sides. For example, evidence was found that there was a cut in the screen of a living room window. The cut was made with a blade from the kitchen, making it only possible to cut the screen from the inside. Also, doctors claimed her wounds self inflicted. But, on the other hand, a finger print was found in the house at the scene of the crime that didn't match anyone in the house the night of the murder, confirming Darlie's story of an assassin breaking into her house instead of Darlie killing her own kids. But the judge found it odd that she didn't want to help her children. She was found guilty because there were more evidence against her than for.
Darlie Routier testified that an intruder killed her children but police found inconsistencies between her report and the crime scene evidence.
On June 6th, 1996, Damon and Devon Routier were murdered in their home while sleeping. The crime was committed by taking a butcher knife from the kitchen and stabbing the children. Both children were stabbed several times, one child being stabbed so hard the knife almost went through the body. The boys were stabbed in the downstairs area (more specifically, the living room).
While the attack happened, Darlie's husband was sleeping upstairs with their, at the time, eight-month-old Drake while Darlie was with the two other kids. When police arrived, they found that there was a slash on Darlie's throat, which had missed a major artery by two millimeters. When she called the police they told her to tend to her children, but she didn't. This was a major part of the case and Darlie's conviction. They found that there was a cut screen downstairs and a bloody sock a few blocks down by a sewer, a place that could have easily been overlooked.
There were tiny drops of blood found in the sink. There was also blood on top of the counter dripping down the cupboard below the sink which raised suspicion, hence the luminol test was conducted.
The major evidence to support Router’s theory was a bloodstained sock belonging to one of the boys that was discovered in alleyway about 70m away.
She argued it was proof that someone else — the intruder — dropped the sock as they run away after the stabbings.
But prosecutors rejected the idea and insisted it was planted by Routier in case police were suspicious of her.
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Routier’s currently on Death Row in Gatesville, still maintaining her innocence. Meanwhile, her husband Darin’s living in Lubbock, having divorced Darlie in 2011; their youngest son Drake, who was upstairs with Darin on the night of the attack, would be around 19 by now.
Routier’s case is very much alive: Court records show that just last April, State District Judge Gracie Lewis ordered additional forensic testing on several items, including the infamous bloody sock, a baseball cap, a nightshirt and the knife. Those items now reside at the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Center for Human Identification. Routier’s been pinning her hopes on those items since 2008.
Is an American woman from Texas. She was convicted of murdering her son, Damon and is curently on a death row awaiting execution by lethal injection. Originally she was occused of killing two of her sons, Damon and Devon (who were stubbed to death in the family's home) however Routier was only prosecuted for killing Damon.
It was believed that Darlie Routier killed her sons because of financial difficulties. She was a full-time homemaker but her husband was a small business owner. The family lived in a two-story home in a middle-class neighborhood. They had a mid-sized SUV, used Jaguar and a boat. But prosecutors described Routier as a pampered and materialistic woman with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank who feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end.
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