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Click on the following links for photo galleries: State’s Exhibits from the trial. Defendant’s Exhibits from the trial. Photos of Darlie and her injuries. Maps and other diagrams. *Please note: Out of respect to Devon, Damon and the Routier family, no crime scene or autopsy photos of the boys will be posted to this site.
Jul 20, 2014 · The police secured the crime scene for an additional two of the nine minutes before paramedics were let in. That leaves Darlie Routier approximately a minute and a half to place the sock 75 yards down the street, stage a crime scene, and then cut her own throat.
Title. Devon Routier Autopsy Report. Author. Dallas County Medical Examiner. Subject. Darlie Lynn Routier vs. State of Texas. Created Date. 3/5/2003 4:16:51 PM.
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- The Evidence Doesn’T Add Up
- The Case Against Darlie Routier Takes Shape
- The Notorious Silly String Video
- The Fate of Darlie Routier and The State of Her Case Today
Forensic analysis showed evidence that was inconsistent with what Darlie Routier had told the police and suspicion began to form around her. For starters, the murder weapon was a knife that had come from Routier’s own kitchen, which raised suspicion that there had really been an intruder. Secondly, a motive for the break-inwas unclear, but it seeme...
For starters, the initial 911 call soon began to seem suspicious. Officers testified that Darlie Routier seemed eerily calm and alert during the call and that she failed to follow instructions about applying pressure to Damon’s wound. (However, advocates for her innocence point to the fact that she was still audibly screaming during the call and th...
Perhaps the most damning evidence against Darlie Routier was supplied by Routier herself. She had invited local news crews to film her and her family and friends celebrating what would have been her son Devon’s seventh birthday at the gravesite eight days after their deaths. Cameras then captured Routier and company chewing gum, laughing, singing, ...
Ultimately, after the prosecution and defense battled it out, Darlie Routier was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Damon on February 4, 1997 and sent to death row. After years of legal wrangling, Routier appealed her conviction in 2001 — only to have it upheld in 2003. Four years later, her attorneys asked that DNA testing — which they fee...
To date, Routier has not been tried for Devon's murder. Damon and Devon were stabbed to death with a large kitchen knife in Routier's home, while Routier sustained knife wounds to her throat and arm. Routier told authorities that the crime was perpetrated by an unidentified intruder.
JustinCase976. Updated: Jan 2, 2024 2:24 PM EST. Devon and Damon Routier were murdered in 1996 and their mother Darlie was convicted of the crime. CNN. The Darlie Routier Case. On June 6th, 1996, someone brutally murdered two little boys and got away with it.
Darlie Routier was in first grade when this school photo was taken. Twenty years later, her oldest son, Devon, who had just finished first grade, was murdered in the family's Rowlett home. His mother was accused of the crime and sent to death row. (Credit: courtesy) Darlie at prom
