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May 27, 2021 · Although Drake Routier favors living his life as away from the spotlight as possible, he has made it no secret that he, too, believes that his mother is innocent. Not only does the now 25-year-old often visit his mother where she’s incarcerated at the Mountain View Unit in Central Gatesville, Texas, but he also accepts and embraces his ...
- Drake’s father, Darin Routier, didn’t take custody of him right away after the murders, because he wanted to get his finances in order, Liz Stevens reported.
- Drake found out in 2013 he had acute lymphocytic leukemia, which is “the most common type of cancer in children, and treatments result in a good chance for a cure,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
- Drake told CNN he’s had to accept his identity as the kid whose mother is on death row. Darlie and other family members have been denigrated in the media ever since her arrest 11 days after the murders.
- Drake’s visits to his mother, who’s been on death row for 21 years, take place with a sheet of glass between them. In addition to denying friends and family members physical contact with death row inmates, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice limits visits to two hours in duration and encourages “conservative dressing.”
May 27, 2021 · When Darlie Routier was charged with two counts of capital murder based on seemingly incriminating evidence, Darin Routier spoke to the cops and went through the entire list of “proofs,” revealing the simple, non-criminal, and sane explanations behind them.
- 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...
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Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. ... Darin went upstairs to the master bedroom, where Drake, then seven ...
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May 10, 2019 · The confounding case of Darlie Routier, one of only six women on death row in Texas, has fascinated Americans for more than two decades. The suburban housewife was convicted of the 1996 stabbing ...
Details. Date. June 6, 1996. Imprisoned at. Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas [1] Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six ...
