W.G. Davis - Bloodstained Justice The Darlie Routier Story

BLOODSTAINED JUSTICE

The Darlie Routier Story

By W.G. Davis

Copyright 2017 by W.G. Davis

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Lets consider this:

If Darlie Routier didn't commit this crime, what a fortunate child killer there must be running around this desolate Texas neighborhood. He goes in and brutally murders two children. He slashes their mother's throat as they're struggling face to face. Then, during his escape he drops the knife and she picks it up and wipes off his prints.

This unknown killer runs away, but leaves Darlie alive - the one woman who could identify him , and send him to the gas chamber. Then, lucky for him, she gets amnesia and can't remember what he looks like.

All I can say is that this must be the luckiest child killer in the universe.

Remember, what makes the most sense is usually true.

Prologue

D arlie Routier is on death row in Texas. She has been there for 20 years. She was accused and convicted of murdering her five year old son Damon. She was charged, but never tried, in the death of her oldest son Devon.

Darlies supporters will say that there is a growing body of evidence suggesting there was a rush to judgment in this case one that could result in the execution of an innocent woman.

While a larger group of non-supporters feel that Darlie did kill her sons back on June 6th, 1996.

The most important consideration in Darlie Routiers case is the timeline. Her supporters claim that the prosecutions case against Darlie was circumstantial, resting entirely on the notion that she staged the crime scene in a very short amount of time to mislead investigators.

As we go through this case we will look at the fingerprint evidence in this case as well as the strange occurrences before, during, and after. This book will focus on the timeline immediately surrounding the murders. The information provided in this timeline description comes from testimony given by the medical examiner, Janis Townsend-Parchman, the first two police officers on the scene, and paramedics who responded to the 911 call. The information can be verified through court transcripts.

Darlies testimony was also used to support this timeline. I used the conversation recorded on the 911 tape to verify Darlies words and actions, as well as testimony given by others who were present at the time each event occurred.

We will weave in and out of Darlies lies and half-truths to figure out what exactly happened on the night of June 6th, 1996.

In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996, an operator in Rowlett Texas received a frantic 9-1-1 call for help. Darlie Routier, a 26-year-old wife and mother of three young boys, reported that a knife-wielding intruder had broken into her house, attacking her and her two of her young sons.

The 911 call is the basis for the timeline since it was recorded and provides a second-by-second description of what was happening that night in the Routier home for almost six minutes. Court testimony is used to fill in the gaps and provide information about what happened in the minutes after the 911 call ended.

All three were sleeping in the family room on the first floor of their home. A third son, eight-month-old Drake and Darlie's husband, Darin, were asleep in the master bedroom upstairs.

By the time the police arrived six-year-old Devon, was dead. Damon, age 5, died before reaching the hospital. The mothers wounds, according to all medical reports, were superficial.

In one Darlies many statements about that night, Darlie would tell police officers that she had fought with an intruder. He was wearing a black shirt, dark pants and a ball cap.

She chased the suspect across the kitchen, at which point he escaped through the garage. Based on Darlie's account of what happened police conducted a thorough search of the crime scene and neighborhood. It quickly became apparent that there was no evidence of a stranger entering or leaving the house that night. As time passed, the investigation focused on the adults who lived in the home instead of an unknown assailant.

Eventually, the evidence overwhelmingly pointed in one direction: to the mother of Devon and Damon. Darlie Routier was arrested on June 18th for the murder of her two little boys.

On February 1st, 1997, after a month-long trial, a court found Darlie Lynn Routier guilty of probably the worst of human crimes: killing her two children in cold-blood.

Motive is still a mystery, but the prosecution painted her as a materialistic young woman who, sensing her lavish lifestyle crumbling, killed her two young sons Damon and Devon in a mad attempt to resuscitate her and her husband's lifestyle.

In this book, you will see both sides - the Prosecution and the Defenses versions of what actually happened in the early morning of June 6th, 1996.

Unless otherwise noted, all information gathered came from the court transcripts, actual police reports and witness statements.

You may ask yourself, Did the jury get it right? Is she factually guilty? That is not my goal to prove here. My only goal is to present the facts.

As in most high-profile cases, Darlie Routier has garnered her share of supporters and advisories over the years. Sadly, many of them have misled the public with half-truths, innuendo, and outright lies.

However, recent findings in her case have cast a doubt over her guilt or at least over the legalities that brought her to death row.

As we go through this book, we will look at each piece of evidence and see how it points either to or away from Darlie as the killer of her two young boys.

I hope that at the conclusion of this book you will have a better understanding of the facts and not the myths that is Darlie Routiers story.

It is time to put the myths to rest and find the true killer in Darlie Routiers house, even if it is Darlie herself .

Let us start with Darlie and Darins account of what happened in Rowlett in 1996.

This statement was written back in 1997 and used in this book to create her and Darins timeline of the events on June 6th, 1996.

*Any typos have been left in the text to keep the integrity of the information.

Darlies statement regarding June 6th, 1996

The boys were asleep on the floor with their pillows and blankets. Darin brought me a pillow and blanket from upstairs. Around 1:00 a.m. Darin and I decided to go to sleep. Darin turned off all the lights but the T.V. was on. Darin told me that he loved me and would see me in the morning and I told him I loved him too. I asked him to make sure the door was locked on his way upstairs he said he already checked it and it was five minutes later I fell asleep. Next thing I remember Damon runs into my right shoulder and says mommy. I sat straight up and saw a blur of a man between my couch and kitchen bar.

I stood up and Damon walked behind me. I heard glass breaking. When I got to the entrance of the kitchen, I saw man going into my utility room. I took a couple of steps and remembered lights were off went back and turned lights on, I started to walk through kitchen and noticed blood on my nightgown, about to my chest, halfway across the kitchen I saw knife laying on utility room floor, instinctively I went over and picked up knife, doesnt seem like there was much blood on the knife, I went back through the kitchen and put knife on kitchen bar. Damon was still standing by living room wall. I walked into living room and saw Devons eyes open and wounds on his chest, Devon wasnt moving and I started screaming, I went to Damon and began checking him and saw stab wounds through his shirt, I was hysterical but I was trying to think. I told Damon to lay on his belly and I told him to hang on and be strong Damon said O-K mommy. I ran into hallway to our entrance, turned on the lights and kept screaming. Darin, my husband, came out of our bedroom he only had his pants and glasses on. Darin ran down the stairs and we ran together into the hallway. Darin went to the left, into family room and over to Devon, the table by Devon was completely knocked over. I went to the right to kitchen and grabbed phone to call 911.