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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-year-old son, Devon, who was murdered at the same time as Damon.
The first season examines the death row cases of Darlie Routier and Julius Jones and seeks to trace the path that led both Routier and Jones to their places on death row, while taking a deep look into their personal stories. [2] Jones' sentence has since been commuted to life without parole while Routier remains on death row. [3]
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital ... Portrait of Darlie Routier, convicted of murdering her five-year-old ...
The evidence proved that she killed her two older sons, 6-year-old Devon and 5-year-old Damon, with a kitchen knife, inflicted wounds on herself, cleaned the evidence, and created the story of a crazed intruder. Routier was convicted of the first-degree murder of Damon and was sentenced to death. She has not yet been tried for Devon's murder.
Routier herself sustained a number of wounds. She maintains the attack was by an intruder. The prosecutor maintains Routier's wounds were self-inflicted and she was the perpetrator. Routier's infant son and her husband were asleep upstairs and were unharmed. 27 years, 10 months and 18 days Routier's conviction has come into question in recent ...
Darlie Routier: Stabbed her two sons in 1996. 27 years, 327 days Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA. [94] [95] Víctor Saldaño: Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King. 28 years, 107 days
Darlie Routier, June 6, 1996, Rowlett, Texas. Routier allegedly stabbed two of her sons to death before staging the scene as a home invasion. Kip Kinkel, May 20, 1998, Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed his parents before committing a school shooting, leaving two additional dead and 25 wounded.
Darlie Routier, however, remains on death row in Texas, awaiting execution based on the same bloodstain interpretation evidence that convicted Julie Rea. Private investigator Gary Dunn commented after the release of his client, David Camm: "Bloodstain evidence is mostly subjective.