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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.
Darlie Routier, June 6, 1996, Rowlett, Texas. Routier allegedly stabbed two of her sons to death before staging the scene as a home invasion. Christina Marie Riggs, November 4, 1997, Sherwood, Arkansas. Riggs smothered both her children before attempting suicide. Kip Kinkel, May 20, 1998, Springfield, Oregon.
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]
Darlie Routier, convicted of murdering her five-year-old son, Damon. Two of her sons, Damon and 6-year-old Devon, were killed in the attack, but she was only tried for the murder of Damon. Blaine Milam, convicted of killing his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter.
Darlie Routier, a housewife from Rowlett, Texas, fatally stabbed two of her sons and staged a break-in. To date, Routier maintains her innocence in the crime, attributing it to an unidentified intruder. In 1987, Frances Elaine Newton shot her husband and her two young children for their life insurance money.
Christine Marie Paolilla (born March 31, 1986) is a convicted American mass murderer who is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting four people, including two of her friends, in their Clear Lake City, Texas, home on July 18, 2003.
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.
Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964 [2]) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [3]