Darlie Routier | True CSI | S1E04

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[@NatalieBryden]

13:40 - she chased after the intruder. Pure BS! As a person who has personally experienced a home invasion and attack, the LAST thing one would do is chase after the intruder.

[@graciemaca6996]

@NatalieBryden- Agreed! Also, running after someone just after your throat is slashed???

[@themysterycook7320]

five foot 3 DuMLEE chased a six foot 200 pound MAN? yeah right..

[@elvergia3714]

A lioness always goes after her attack when they mess with her cubs

[@mr.hansholmes2367]

Quit being so gullible.@@elvergia3714

[@Monicuxiable1]

You never know. I was robbed and I chased them... and Im the weakest girl in the world, and Im afraid of everything, but I run because I wanted to punch them (there were two)

[@SweetUniverse]

The reason Darlie was sleeping downstairs - she said- was that the baby moving around in his crib would wake her. She was a light sleeper - she said. So then how could she have slept through someone breaking into her house, stabbing her sons & wounding her??

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

Wrong she slept downstairs because it was hotter upstairs.

[@lisawarner6167]

@@Iceis_Phoenix That's not what Darlie said.

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

Because the murderer was a ninja who left no physical evidence of entering her house, being in her house, killing the children or exiting the house. No evidence.

[@carrieday8423]

@@lisawarner6167 Exactly,, also that's What Darrin Said in his Interview with the Last Defense team .!!

[@MG-cd9ek]

Thank you! THEN she says if I did it I don't remember? Wtf People defend her. Only people who defend her and those who HATE authority. Police detectives authority. These are those who defend her. They don't defend her because she is innocent. They defend her because they detest authority and police. We know who these people are. The pro riot, loot, destroy posse. We know who they are. Unfortunately, we still have laws and you can't kill people. And she will never get out. I'm anti death penalty. God deals with that. However she will NEVER get out. It's like letting the Manson family out. Not one governing body would allow it because the outcry. It would destroy their careers. She thought she was helping herself by using the media. It not only didn't help.. It destroyed any small chance she might of had. Worried about her freaking hair being done for the court case? Gtfo here. She is guilty as sin and a true psychopath

[@Anna-Rose-]

She is absolutely giddy while dancing on Devon and Damon's grave. She is on cloud 9, as happy as can be.

[@GordonBrevity]

The other video of them at the grave, grief stricken?

[@heiku70]

You need to watch the whole video. Media just showed the silly string part of it, before that, she was delirious with crying

[@lisawarner5337]

​@@GordonBrevity What other video? Ever seen it ? Why didn't her defence show it in court ? How do we know she was grieving in it ? Because her family say so ?

[@lisawarner5337]

​@@heiku70 How do you know ? Because her family said ? Why didn't her defence show it in court ?

[@lisawarner5337]

​@@heiku70Plus, it was two videos. Media showed what they filmed. The police did the other video, of the memorial, earlier in the day.

[@madeleine9907]

The grandmother calls Devon and Damon "these boys" that doesn't sound very loving 🥺 Darlie is where she should since 27 years 👍

[@joshuacating7557]

No she's not. She's still alive

[@GorlGangCommentsPondue]

the son that lived died of cancer.

[@carsonsmith8607]

​@@GorlGangCommentsPonduewow 😮. Fr?

[@emmahepburn2969]

What Drake died?@@GorlGangCommentsPondue

[@mr.hansholmes2367]

Source? Google says he is alive.@@GorlGangCommentsPondue

[@crashburn3292]

So many similarities to the 1983 Diane Downs case: * Both blamed the attack on a stranger with bushy hair. * Both cases have zero evidence of an attacker. * Both injured themselves to sell their story; Darlie cut herself on the neck and arm, Diane shot herself in the arm. * Both had calloused, bizarre behavior soon after; Darlie smiling and laughing at her kid's gravesite, Diane smiling and laughing while demonstrating the attack for police. * Both kept changing their story to match the evidence. * Both are narcissistic sociopaths.

[@Cagebreaker]

You’re 100% dead on. They’ve compared Darlie to Susan Smith, but she’s way more like Diane Downs.

[@carolynsmith9906]

@@Cagebreaker I don’t see how she is like either woman. Neither Susan smith or Diane downs will ever have help from the innocent project for a reason.

[@hillarymack8287]

She's not like Diane Down's at all. Diane is evil, Darie is innocent.

[@74valeska]

For me, Darlie is innocent...I have seen so many neutral documentations here in Germany, where I live and where nobody wants to see a mother to be executed, even if she was the murderer! Abolish death penalty because no real democracy needs it! Free Darlie R. or at least, give her a fair and new trial...that damn sillly string video says nothing!!! There are 1000 different ways to mourn! When my Dad passed away, it even took me 3 months to let it sink in and to be able to cry. Am I a murderer as well? I cannot believe you all, because "you" brought us back democracy after those horrible, sick and destroying years from 1933-1945. We still have to say thank you, USA, that death penalty in Germany was abolished for ever and written down in our constitution already in 1949 which is a "gift" mostly given from "you"! And look what you do in your own country more than 75 years later: thinking again about the gas chamber as a method to kill people because there is no state left that wants to deliver Midazolam to you any longer, a part of the former cocktail of the lethal injection. Gas chambers, really!? Are you just "kidding" or mentally ill? Please understand that Europe is disgusted and speechless! Murder in the name of a state is murder as well and nothing else. But even if you are an advocate of capital punishment, please tell me one reasonable motive why Darlie should have killed her two boys...unfortunately, there was that sad case of a Sue Smith (?) who killed her 2 boys about 1 year before the Darlie case happened. I remember her begging the "intruder or kidnapper" not to hurt or kill her 2 boys in front of all the journalists and on TV! And then, everybody learned that it was her! You all were influeced by that story. After only 20 minutes of investigation of the crime scene, one of the leading officers "saw" that it only could have been Darlie. That is everything, you need to know to see that there has never been a search for the real intruder. Lots of whitnesses saw two men a couple of days before that night and even right before that awful crime, a neighbour saw a guy looking into her windows and then run away when he saw her. They all described that man exactly like Darlie did! There are so many "reasonable doubts" that it is impossible to see Darlie as the killer of her own children. No, no, no, is all I can say and think about that awful story! 😞 Update 25.11.22: today, I got my 1st like!!! After 2 months and such a long "story". 😞There are only 2 reasons for that, either the liker is German or European as well or an alien who escaped from area 51...sorry, but if really 2/3 of "you" and even 50% of all people living in Texas are against capital punishment, I cannot understand why more than 95% of those writing comments here are discussing only about is Darlie guilty or not and not about the fact that killing people in the name of state is murder, no matter if somebody "did it" or not! To be honest, it makes me wanna throw up whenever I read a he or she DID IT!!! Abolish death penalty and every law allowing to harm people. No matter what they did! Guantanamo is the best example that you still torture people in so called prisons being concentration camps and nothing else. And please never forget about your crimes against the Japanese during WW II. I was in the USA at the age of 17 for a couple of months back in 1992. And whenever I went into classes (A and B levels only) to talk about "my country", the pupils only came up with the Oktoberfest, Munich, Bavaria, Fahrvergnügen and Autobahn and Nazi Germany. "Is it true that Hitler lives in Berlin and gets retirement?". If he still lived in 1992, he would have been 103 years old then! 🙂 I often didn' t know if I should laugh or be upset! "Do you have hairdryers and washing machines?" OMG! Really!? One day, I answered that my Mom had to go to the river every single day to wash my bras and jeans there. I thought, everybody would know at once that I was kidding, but no one did. "You" are different today, but still, your knowledge about foreign countries and the level of your education and language skills is so poor that you rather should concentrate on your real and big problems and where your high rate of crimes and homicides comes from. Why are you still allowed to get guns? Every crazy "idiot" is able to get one. This is your biggest problem ever! Capital punishment doesn' t avoid murders and no state with the death penalty has a lower crime rate than those without it. Why does nobody discuss those topics? All those issues are so much more important and no one of you is talking about that. What a different mentality! Poor, poor system! I liked the USA, but I could never live there forever.

[@JohnSmith-vu6zd]

There’s 1 difference between Diane Downs and Darlie Routier, in the Downs case there was an eyewitness- one of the children survived and ID’d Diane Downs.

[@mariamonroe1974]

so the attacker stabbed her children to death but just cut her? sorry i don't believe her story wouldn't the attacker attack her first so she can't protect her children? makes no sense to me.

[@RB01.10]

Exactly! Add to the fact that their dog, who was very protective didn’t make a sound when the “intruder” came in or when the attack supposedly happened

[@sharonkv777]

None of Darlie's stories made/make sense. Not any of the many many many stories that she has told. Nor did any of them match anything at the crime scene.

[@AHMAD-2324]

My sentiments exactly

[@kimmyfreak200]

exactly

[@markengle2199]

I feel the same way. I understand an attacker may not be logical but you would think the adult would be your first target because she is more likely to run for help and get you caught. It would be a very odd crime. Maybe a crazed serial killer did it in an illogical way but it seems unlikely

[@michaelgabriel1334]

I used to believe wholeheartedly in Darlie’s innocence and that she was railroaded by the system, but after reviewing the evidence, it proves that no one else but her could have done this. 1) Darlie claims to have awakened on the couch after being attacked, yet there was no blood on the couch to suggest that she was slashed and bled out. There was also no blood collection on the back of the night shirt she wore. We have to assume that if she was attacked while sleeping, as she claims, there would have been a blood trail traveling from her neck down to her back and on the couch, as she was laying down, and there was no trace of it. 2) There were droplet’s of Devon and Damon’s blood on the back of her night shirt. There is NO way those blood droplets could have gotten on the back of her shirt without wielding the knife in a up and down motion ( Cast-off blood). 3) Large amounts of Darlie’s blood was discovered in the kitchen sink with Luminol, which proves that she bled into the sink and cleaned it up. This dispels any notion that she was attacked on the couch ( where the was no blood) and that she inflicted the wounds to herself while standing over the sink. 4) Screen fibers were found on a knife from the kitchen, which proves that someone from inside the house cut the screen, as it would make no sense for an intruder to use a knife from the kitchen to cut the screen because they would have already been in the house. 5) There was one broken glass from the wine rack, but the wine rack itself was undisturbed along with the rest of the glasses inside. The wine rack also had a lock that secured all the glasses in place. Detectives pushed and banged against the rack with force to see if it was possible to cause any glasses to fall out and break, and it did not happen. This proves that one glass could not have fallen to the floor during a supposed struggle. Someone intentionally removed the glass and threw it to the floor to stage a struggle. 6) Darlie claims that the intruder dropped the bloody knife in utility room, where she picked it up. But there was no trace of blood on the utility room floor, which suggests that knife never touched the floor. 7) The Routier’s back gate that led to the alleyway was not working properly. It was being held by strings and had to be meticulously opened and closed a certain way as not to break it.. An intruder standing on the outside would have had to have yanked or forcibly fumbled with the gate m to get into the back yard, likely resulting in some sort of damage, yet there was no sign of any damage, and the gate was found completely secured by the police. This means a stranger, unaware of the gate’s mechanics, would have had to have taken the time to meticulously and carefully maneuver the gate to open and secure it without leaving any damage. 8) The nurses who treated Darlie did not document any bruising on her arms. Darin claims the nurses commented on the bruises, yet they did not record them in their notes. The bruises appeared several days later when she was photographed and had already been released from the hospital, which indicates the bruises were inflicted after the attack. As far as a motive is concerned, it’s difficult to determine what could have caused her to do this, but one fact that cannot he denied is that Darlie suffered from mental health issues for quite some time. Her family has always minimized her mental health struggles as lasting a short time, but Darlie’s journal entries prove that she was struggling with depression for years. People who worked for the Routiers and had no ulterior motive against Darlie testified that she told them she was overwhelmed with motherhood and was very unhappy. Darlie and Darin did not have a happy marriage. They had a huge fight the night of the murders, resulting in Darlie wanting a divorce, which Darin swore to in a 2002 affidavit. I believe that Darlie succumbed to the stresses and mental health issues she was dealing with, had a mental breakdown of some sort, and likely does not recall murdering her kids because her mind blocked it out. I will admit that the prosecution used a lot of unnecessary and unfair character attacks against her that were not relevant to the case. But if you put that aside and just look at the evidence, it proves that no one else was in the house that night. I hope I’m wrong and that if she’s innocent, she will be vindicated. But until then, this is my conclusion.

[@INDLIS]

Well Patty Springer stated that the so called happy family life was all a lie and both parents lacked responsibility

[@biloubiloucha744]

Je trouve vos théories très pertinentes... Cette histoire fascinent beaucoup de français. Je trouve dramatique la mort de ces petits anges.

[@hoderharris]

Your premise of what blood can and cannot do when it splatters doesn’t follow the science.

[@Anna-Rose-]

​@@hoderharris what is his premise of what blood can or cannot do when splattered? Because I don't see where he said anything about "blood splatter" doing _this_ or _that._

[@watchmanonthewall2151]

You should watch Behind Criminal Minds' documentary on this case. He thoroughly dispels the prosecution, highlights the catastrophic way the investigation was handled, and makes a profound case for Darlie's innocence.

[@asumanbulbul1576]

She wasn't sad when kids died but she was ever so sad when she was found guilty.

[@jonathanrayne]

Exactly!

[@sethimonfiresis5846]

Nobody breaks in to kill children and not take anything that’s just ridiculous!!!

[@TrueCrimeJade]

ppl do weird stuff all the time u cant say that

[@pinkpugginz]

tommy lynn sells did

[@cmsmhp]

@@pinkpugginz No, he didn't. Someone spread that rumor, and you just accepted it. If you had made the effort to research, you would've known he was in prison in WVa in June of 1996.

[@candirenner3453]

They did steal something, the two boys!

[@LisaMcCarron-se3eb]

Her husband did it. The only reason this evil computer genius got away with it was bc he convinced Darlie to switch attorneys at the last minute, to one that would not accuse him. Since he was the most obvious suspect, this was to Darlies demise. Then the case was just about Darlie or an intruder. Darlie's new attorney spent a fraction of the time necessary for any good defense as well. There should have been a mistrial on her attorneys conflict of interest alone!!!!! There is no justice here for Darlie or her children!!!!!

[@Anna-Rose-]

37:57 Darlie's _massive_ _injuries_ which were treated with band-aids 😂 They did little to no investigation for an intruder. Yes, they did. There was zero evidence of an intruder. Damon's injuries were massive, however. It would've been physically impossible for him to be walking or talking. And, of course, Devon's injuries were massive. Darlie's poor, dumb mother. "The baby is more _burdensome_ than a 7 and 5 y/o." "Darlie couldn't have cut the screen with that bread knife because it has a rounded end." Um, what? "One millimeter is the equivalent thickness of a cigarette paper." A dime is 1.35 mm thick, so not even close. So many things she comes up with would be just plain comical if this wasn't such a horrific tragedy.

[@sincitybaseballmama3434]

🎯🎯🎯🎯 I couldn’t love your comment more, & I agree, 1000%, with ALL👏OF👏IT👏 If these sweet boys weren’t real & their lives hadn’t been taken so horrifically by that 👿 b*tch, I’d be in TEARS from laughing at the 💩 that POURS out of that woman’s mouth🙄I can’t believe they even let her SPEAK on this. She’s BEYOND delu-lu🤦‍♀️ It blows me away there people out there who QUESTION this psychopaths guilt😬 The good news is, she’s only leaving her “home” one way. And it won’t be walking out the front gates. It’s honestly SCARY to me how many don’t understand basic physics, gravity, etc. Evidence doesn’t lie. And in this case, the overwhelming amount of it, is what got her. Not LE, not the “media”, not Darin. Unbelievable.

[@PrincessofPower84]

That word "burdensome" is troubling. Is that how she viewed her grandchildren???

[@kimmyfreak200]

the prosecutors podcast did an interesting look at the case too... they were well put together...mad respect for them

[@smallies7154]

Seeing the neck wound again now it does look the way someone would do to themselves while trying not to cut straight across the throat. Guilty AF 👺

[@monicadonnelly4991]

It looked like she was standing in front of a mirror

[@smallies7154]

ay the sink where all the blood was @@monicadonnelly4991

[@Angelicdoll88]

I think Darren had something to do with this

[@tmcurly]

Absolutely NOT he was investigated very very thoroughly 😺..

[@kcbarbo78]

I believe she’s guilty and think there’s plenty to criticize him for, but there is zero evidence he was involved in these murders.

[@blujazz10000]

Darlie reminded me of my ex-wife, a perfect combination of arrogance and stupidity. I think we can all agree that Darlie Routier was *not* intelligent. Furthermore, in listening to her mother, I'm convinced Darlie learned coldness and lying skills from her. Both seemed arrogant to me. Edit: I also wanted to mention that I don't believe her husband is 100% innocent. I believe there was unified planning before the crimes happened. To me, they were both highly narcissistic and cunning. Plus, they were desperate for money at that time.

[@thejanitor769]

Are you my ex husband? Is that you, Tim?

[@SweetUniverse]

They also had a dog who didn't bark during the attack. The dog barked at all strangers & was upstairs with the husband and baby.

[@RB01.10]

Exactly! How could a dog not hear anyone coming into the house ? Unless he was deaf LOL

[@Cagebreaker]

They also had a cat shut up in a cage (I think his name was Bear?) nearby because Darlie had been trying to breed full-blooded Persian cats like him. Per Darin’s testimony, the cat was mean and only liked Darlie… he’d hiss and thrash when people came near and the boys wouldn’t go near his cage because his reaction scared them. So both Domain (who was yappy with strangers) and Bear didn’t make noise when an intruder broke in?

[@christiecobb2974]

convenient

[@smallies7154]

Cats don't give a fig when their owners get attacked. They usually bolt ⚡ in the opposite direction 😹

[@sharonkv777]

@smallies7154 This cat was in a cage sleeping near where Darlie said her head was on the couch. The cat would have made noise had anyone gotten near him.

[@saunds59]

Don't believe anyone who thinks cigarette papers are 1mm thick

[@lrh411]

Darlie did it, Darin knows it. Darin planted the sock.

[@kimmyfreak200]

this is the one case i spent months on..she is guilty af.. i even got the same opinion from a retired homicide detective...the totality of the evidence is what convicted her

[@kcbarbo78]

These murders were so horrific, one’s mind tries to find every possible way to believe their mother didn’t do this. Sadly, the evidence proves that she did.

[@feltongailey8987]

She said in a interview from prison she must have gotten knocked out by the intruder. If that were the case, I am certain they would have noted that at the hospital when she was being treated for the cut on her neck.

[@ZENMASTERME1]

@10:17 I followed this case for 20 years. With that said, “The cut on her neck” WTF? Clearly this woman fought for her life, she was stabbed so deep on the neck it nearly cut her carotid artery. She was stabbed on her right arm all the way to the bone, that’s her dominant arm, that means she would’ve had to stab her self with her left arm. A quarter of her body was covered in bruises, and yes the report from the hospital was she had two contusions on her head.

[@in_scrubs_wyoming307]

@@ZENMASTERME1 We are all entitled to our own opinions.

[@sharonkv777]

@@ZENMASTERME1 The cut wasn't deep. It cut through skin and fat, and was non life threatening and superficial. Kind of similar to a scratch. Her body was not covered in bruises. She presented the bruises on Day 4 after the murders, but had none of them at the hospital. Don't know what report you are claiming to have read from the hospital, but she had no contusions. OH and zero evidence that she fought for her life, which is why she changed her story about that. But then, she was constantly changing her story as she learned the evidence against her. And still none of her stories matched anything at the crime scene.

[@candiceparr4174]

Or maybe a bump on her head. But their wasn't any.

[@sharonkv777]

@@ZENMASTERME1 The cut on her neck was superficial (not deep...shallow)non life threatening slice. Not much more than a scratch. There is NO evidence whatsoever that she "fought" for her life. There is evidence that Darlie and Darlie alone murdered Devon and Damon.

[@mamabear52]

For what it is worth I have never seen a newly grieved parent of a murdered child laughing, not even hysterical laughter

[@Robert53area]

Never seen a grieving parent, of a child who died of even natural causes, laughing or smiling a week later.

[@mamabear52]

@@Robert53area True

[@jadethompson7058]

@@Robert53area unfortunately I have, a lady I knew had a stillborn baby and she was shopping and laughing and joking a week later and carried on doing so. I can’t even imagine how you’d deal with the loss of a child, but I know that’s not it.

[@fallonwallace7050]

I lost my son and was like a zombie, my former co worker who is the funniest person I’ve ever met made me actually laugh. I was astonished. After she left, i went back to how I am partially to this day but if someone had filmed they moment, I may have been questioned.

[@mamabear52]

@@fallonwallace7050 Most parents who lose children do not actually see it happening or the immediate aftermath, nor do they involve a five and six-year-old. I see parents whose children were murdered in front of the media right after the crime, sure, they have emotions and actions questioned more than those of us who were not in the public eye. Other overwhelming evidence showed that she murdered her boys, they were in her way. As I recall, she never said that was herself in shock, a brief moment when (in her mind) they were not dead, she had simply moved on a week or so later. I am so very sorry for your loss, these videos are like therapy for me, some of my family worry about me watching them, it is not the crime but identifying with the victims that draws me to them

[@virtualxella]

What kind of intruder goes into someones house and uses a knife from the house they're in? The intruder plans to kill people but doesn't take his own weapon and goes in unarmed? It's also SUUUPEERRRR convenient they all just happened to be sleeping downstairs in the living room that night for their 'sleepover'. When on the phone with emergency services she had to mention that she'd touched the knife and wanted to let them know her DNA would be on it as her sons are bleeding to death right next her? Trying to create her alibi from the first second she could. The intruder killed the boys first even though she was the adult there and the only one that could have overpowered the 'intruder'? No footprints outside? Suggests to me the murderer was already inside. The mesh in the window had been cut from the inside but she says the intruder climbed through it.... Wouldn't it have to be cut from the outside then? And on top of that, the knife used to cut the mesh in the window was found to be one of Darlie's knives in her knife block... There were 0 signs of forced entry. There was 0 evidence of a stranger entering or leaving the house that night. Not buying it one bit.

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

The supposed intruder actually used two knives from the house: the butcher knife to brtally stab the children and carefully cut Darlie and the bread knife to cut the window screen. The intruder was at least courteous enough to place the bread knife back in the knife block after he was finished with it.

[@virtualxella]

​@@jamesmcbeth4463 Lol and he was kind enough to not leave any footprints when leaving the scene

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

@@virtualxella he even tidied up the kitchen before leaving.

[@jonwayne70]

Her mother is in such denial that she lies about facts like the cut was 1 millimetre away from her carotid artery, the same thickness of a cigarette paper. A cigarette paper averages at 50 microns, 1000 microns is 1 millimetre. So about 20 cigarette papers. If your going to compare human flesh to Rizla then its safe to assume any other facts are exaggerated.

[@bettyfelton3719]

Desperate to free her daughter and receive big Compensation!!!

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

Her mother and her supporters have lied quite a bit.

[@youpoops]

She might have meant filter

[@pommiebears]

We’re all only a few millimetres away from cutting our carotid artery’s! They’re not too far under the skin. Her wounds were simply not that bad. The doctor testified they were only down to the “little bleeders” ie, just under the surface. Blood vessels.

[@saltychips5795]

Arteries is plural, not artery’s.

[@Andreea-MihaelaNastase]

Guys what about the husband?! Why wasn't he looked at more closely? Those wounds don't look self inflicted at all. Especially the bruises. And how steady must your hand be to cut your throat like that?! I'm seriously confused as to why the husband, who surprise surprise, failed the lie detector test, wasn't looked at as a suspect way more closely and why all the blame seems to have fallen onto her entirely 🤔

[@tsully4368]

Darin was thoroughly investigated. Even the only eyewitness cleared him during her testimony. Darlie flunked her polygraph test too.

[@fatimaisa88]

Cos his fingerprints and or his DNA wasnt found on the crime scene I guess.

[@AriesRising4444]

​@@fatimaisa88 He lived there. If his fingerprints or DNA were NOT found, then that is even more suspicious.

[@poopedonyourchest799]

Sorry it’s not always the male. She did it

[@susannedoe9320]

I was wondering the same thing. What about the husband??

[@viviandarkbloom100]

She did it. Too much evidence. Horrible people.

[@robertgordon5690]

She's innocent her husband did it

[@blujazz10000]

​@@robertgordon5690He was definitely involved, 100%.

[@sabrinajohnson9078]

The actress who played darlie in this documentary needs a award she literally captured the dramatic of how the mother was acting trying to come across as a genuine grieving parent but go way overboard with it where it's obvious you are putting a 20 on 10

[@michaelmyers7425]

That SCREAM! How many times do we need to hear it already?

[@kathypetty9658]

With a name like Michael Myers you would think that sound would be musical to you 😂😂😂 Im just kidding lol it busted my ear buds too 😂

[@LadyAngela678]

You need to change your name. You dont have what it takes to carry the title. 🔪

[@endtimesareuponus8930]

Set the date. Give those Precious boys JUSTICE.

[@woodyssnake8562]

I agree this is ridiculous

[@Jan-su1ot]

Me thinks darlies mom likes the notoriety and attention she gets from sticking up for her grandchildrens murderer. Sad excuse for a human

[@user-kt4cx6cm7n]

She said to the police "Look what they did to me!" She didn't say anything about her sons whose wounds were much worse than hers. She stabbed her two sons but couldn't stab herself. The wounds would have been too deep, painful and dangerous so she cut herself. She's sickening.

[@StarSurvivor1585]

She's guilty. Her first interview betrays her. Ive studied this for years. Reviewed the court transcripts. If Darren admitted his involvement that would automatically give her away... Oh yeah and the paramedics account of her not rendering aid to her kid was chilling!!!

[@hillarymack8287]

lol

[@kimmoreels7950]

well deduced unicorn

[@clalvis]

My thoughts exactly. I had to look at your name to see if this was one of my posts.😂

[@finmilson1311]

they had a dog that would bark at any slight noise I'm sure if there was an intruder the neighbors would of been woken up and stopped this the window was also cut from the inside no doubt about her guilt she is a good actress

[@EarthIncompatible]

Was the husband examined for evidence like blood or bruises one the night of the murders? It seems like that would be a natural thing to do if only to rule out his involvement. The whole case is crazy and so disturbing.

[@wolfiesworld9361]

Very bad police work....it's almost like they wanted her to have done it, the husband was never even looked at....

[@candiceparr4174]

Yes, but there just was not enough evidence to charge him

[@sharonkv777]

Darin was the first suspect and he was thoroughly investigated.

[@clalvis]

Seems like you jumped in at the end of the discussion. You didn’t do any research.

[@tangelathomas3229]

God knows what happened and I pray that the TRUTH is soon revealed 🙏🙏

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@sharonkv777]

The truth was revealed over 25 years ago. Do some reading...start with the transcripts.

[@candiceparr4174]

We know The blood evidence told the story

[@klarahvar746]

Like many, I have followed the 'pros' and 'cons' of this case for years. I think there is an almost instinctive refusal to believe that a mother can hurt her own children, and a growing tendency to see all women as victims. It wasn't just a video or his superficial appearance that led to the guilty verdict. All the debate in this case escalated from a doubt, to the point of suggesting that all the prosecution witnesses lied, that all the evidence collected was false, that all those who participated in the investigation were inept... Basically that's what they did in the 4 episodes of 'The Last Defense', for example. Curiously, in that same documentary, Darin maintained that Darlie is innocent, but he said that the burglary affidavit was a strategy put together by the defense to support the intruder theory in a new tria,l and he only signed it to help.

[@tanyamaher6214]

Aa. I agree with you hun

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@Moonewitch]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@jonathanrayne]

Exactly!

[@kimmyfreak200]

on leeza gibbons darrin said darlie saw the "man" running down the stairs lmao this is a complete new version later on..wtf..u can't see the stairs from the kitchen or living room or utility room u have to walk down the hallway plus it was dark as hell...smh

[@michaelmarzano2759]

Guilty as charged

[@jasminroman4864]

She described the killer as tall, with bushy hair. Her husband matches that description. A lot of guilty people have described police officers or whoever is in their vicinity as a scapegoat. Something to note

[@desiertoscacti5388]

The knife used to cut the screen from the Inside Out (which in itself proves there was no intruder), was one from the couple's kitchen. I believe an intruder wouldn't risk going in a house without having a weapon of his/her own, let alone search in the night to find a knife in an unkwown environment (rooms of a random house). There were circular blood drops in the kitchen, which were suggesting the person holding the knife wasn't running, otherwise the blood pattern would have been different. First thing she mentioned in the 911 call is someone stabbed her (establishing an alibi). "someone stabbed me and my children". No innocent parent would mention herself first when her children are dying, she wouldn't even mention her stabbing, she would have only cared for the children to be saved. No evidence of an intruder found in the house. Nada. I believe she did it because she had postpartum depression, which, along with being tired all the time taking care of a baby and two toddlers, and the financial difficulties, she may had decided to take her own life too, but hesitated at the last minute, the wound in the throat had hesitation marks.

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

In other words, you formed your opinion from a reasonable interpretation of existing physical evidence.

[@hillarymack8287]

Darin got the knife and slit the screen then put it back in the drawer. Same with the knife that killed the boys. Everything people say Darlie did, Darin could of done. Free Darlie she's innocent.

[@INDLIS]

@@hillarymack8287 She IS GUILTY

[@INDLIS]

@@jamesmcbeth4463 The evidence speaks for itself

[@INDLIS]

But why didn’t she kill Darin also

[@suzannefernandez470]

Darlie set the stage. Darlie wrote the script. Darlie acted and her actions killed her boys.

[@hillarymack8287]

Darin definitely had his hands in the deaths. He planned it. He is such a coward !

[@steelermia]

the husband is suspicious .. he let out a duping delight chuckle in some other interview while discussing the brutal murder of his kids .. sociopathic people either way

[@tsully4368]

Darlie completely cleared Darin during her testimony. Be a tough nut to crack to go after him with the only eyewitness to the crime clearing him. Fortunately, no evidence puts Darin as a direct part of the murders, only Darlie.

[@dorishousand3122]

Yeah...pulverize the innocent children first.....then go after the mom. Makes sense. NOT!

[@santaclaus723]

How does it not make sense? As if if can't happen that way? Lol . Weird ass people

[@monickalynn4365]

Totally on the fence with this case. Who the eff murders children,they're no threat,or maybe witnesses? Also doesn't rob or steal ANYTHING,nor rape?

[@MrMajikman1]

They were worth 10k in life insurance...that's always a motive for murder.

[@steelermia]

exactly .. follow logic(which many are disregarding) .. occam's razor

[@tsully4368]

@@MrMajikman1 - That $10K didn't even cover the boys' burial.

[@themysterycook7320]

who murders defenceless children and steals nothing? well you answered your own question, an intruder wouldnt do that, DUMLEE DARLIE DID IT!!

[@gindywilliams1045]

She is guilty all the evidence collected falls onto her the part of her made up story when she says she awakens having to fight off an intruder and then chases them through the house is baloney not screaming for her husband for help that someone was attacking them I mean come on now her story is just so ridiculous she didn’t plan or rehearse her ridiculous lie enough for it to be believable I’ve always believed and always will believe that she murdered her two precious little boys maybe she felt that they got in the way of her being able to have and live the kind of life style she truly wanted so she was just trying to unburden herself of the responsibility of having three children to contend with and so in her mind she was riding herself of them once and for all so she could possibly have a little more freedom with just one child instead of three those precious innocent little boys lives were so cruelly and viciously snatched away from them by one of the people they loved and trusted and who is supposed to protect them I can’t begin to imagine what was going through their minds while the mother was attacking them that night one had to watch the other die while realizing that he would be next

[@eja1022]

I have never once considered her innocent.

[@zuckerkane]

She changed her story bc she realized if she fought with the intruder she would have screamed and the husband would have heard. The reason there was no scream was because she supposedly passed out from the attack immediately and doesn’t remember it. As if that could happen! Adrenaline would have been pumping through her, not just for her own life but for her babies. Those poor little boys… My heart can’t take imagining what they went through.

[@alph1057]

Probably watched Diane Downs footage before the attack to rehearse

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@AABB-bm9kk]

The problem with “recreating” this case is that we don’t literally know what happened in terms of what went on between Darlie and her husband. We don’t know whether he was aware or not of what she was going to do or had done. Only the two of them actually know… Here We have recreations of Darlie’s claims of what happened. We don’t know that that’s what happened. Indeed, the prosecution asserts that it couldn’t have happened that way… That prosecutor is so smug. I do think she is guilty. But I don’t particularly like him. His assertion that he “knew she was guilty “ upon watching the silly string video is so unprofessional IMHO. ✌️🤔

[@gleefulme9617]

The screen was cut from the inside. It's been proven she did it. The silly string did her no favors. Who holds a birthday party at a grave site?

[@kathypetty9658]

@@gleefulme9617 did they call the news crew to film that themselves? They really wanted to drive home the fact they were a strange couple I guess?

[@lisawarner6167]

@@kathypetty9658 Yes they did. In exchange for the media paying for their relatives accommodation.

[@kathypetty9658]

@@lisawarner6167 😳😳😳

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@Laura-ef1mb]

Darlie routier was never fighting for her life.

[@Fedeleness]

Blood evidence nailed darlie. Spatter from knife over her head found on the back of her nightgown.

[@eja1022]

Exactly that particular evidence convinced me completely.

[@voltage6405]

I don’t understand how her kids were stabbed so many times and no one heard anything. How is it possible that she wakes up to her son shaking her shoulder after he was stabbed? Would he even be able to stand? They weren’t screaming??

[@lisawarner5337]

It's not possible. The first child died quickly, they were both stabbed in their sleep and in their lungs. The second child was gurgling when police got there, not capable of more than that.

[@jamesmcbeth4463]

I don't understand how there was supposed to have been a violent struggle between two adults, and Darin never woke up during it. The table top to a glass table top was off its base, but the table top was not chipped or cracked, like it was carefully removed from its base so as not to damage it or make noise. There was also an overturned flower arrangement in a ceramic vase. Again, there was no damage to the vase, so it would not damage it or make noise. Then there's the matter of Darlie's bruised arms. If she did even receive the injuries that caused those bruises at that time, why didn't Darlie scream for Darin to help her when her arms were being injured?

[@MrMcsia]

Her husband behaved so weirdly and failed the polygraph test all 3 times - and is still a free man?!

[@lisawarner5337]

He failed the test because he lied about not knowing who did the crime.

[@diamondsparkle9967]

Her husband is shady as he*l. Getting life insurance a few weeks before the attack....

[@oksanadobryshina76]

She is devil. It happened 6 June 1996 3 six 666 🤦‍♀️

[@jadetaylor2443]

Plus, one of the boys was 6. Just like Jon Bente.

[@clalvis]

When Darlie testified under cross examination, she stated in one of the jailhouse letters that she was told that a neighbor stated that her husband came home at 2:30am and that some dogs were barking. I believe that either Darlie/Darren ran the sock down the alley, meant to throw it in the green trash can but heard the dogs barking and threw the sock toward the trash can and ran back to the house.

[@74valeska]

I don' t understand what you mean. Darren slept upstairs. Where did you ever get from he was out and came home at 02.30 am? When the first cop showed up, he run out to call one of the neighbours who was a nurse. BTW: how many people live in such a big city like Dallas (1,3 millions) and how many cops do they have? Have you ever thought about the fact how impossible it is, that Waddel was the first cop at the Darlie crime scene and as well in the case of Douglas Feldman? It chills me to the bone because I don' t believe in miracles. Absolutely impossible that Waddel was the 1st one in both cases in a city with thousands of cops! Mr. Feldman executed and Darlie almost. Congrats, Waddel! 😞

[@cheeriosforhonkies8867]

@@74valeska huh?

[@kimmyfreak200]

@@74valeska darlie dialed 911 at 2:31 a.m. so it only took a minute to do the sock as detective tried it himself.. it was either darlie or darin.....also they lived in rowlett.. its a suburb... so thats not far fetched the same officer was there.. waddell was traumatized if u see him on forensic files..he had more emotion than darlie for the boys..

[@clalvis]

@@74valeska I was saying that Darlie testified…that a neighbor; stated to Darren that the neighbors husband was outside at 2:30am when their dog was barking.

[@tonysangster7383]

Darlie couldve thrown the sock in the alley at anytime, it was thrown there to give the police a staged route of escape for the “perpetrator” Darin didn’t do it, that’s been established & he wasn’t out until 0230, he was upstairs asleep per his statement & darlies also, she saw him come down the stairs & he did leave the house to get the neighbour who was a nurse, at this time the first responder arrived. How is it impossible that waddel was the first responder to both Darlies & Douglas’s murders?. He was doing nights at the time of darlies matter & douglas feldman’s homicides were perpetrated via road rage. if I remember correctly,you might be right, but it’s definitely not a miracle a coincidence at best. He didn’t perpetrate any of the crimes if that’s what you mean Douglas confessed to his crimes ….

[@elev8lounge44]

Her identity of the intruder makes her guilty. All black with a cap . So cliche.

[@laurawirtjes7225]

She did it.

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

She did not

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@santaclaus723]

@@Iceis_Phoenix yeah she did.

[@mojo6098]

@@Iceis_Phoenix Absolutely did.

[@princesabonita79]

9/10 someone who just inflicted life threatening injuries to two people (the kids) isn't just gonna leave an eye witness, who can ID them, alive and with superficial wounds non the less.

[@SunshineandRoses1111]

They owned a big Texas house with no air conditioning?? Huh?

[@Monicuxiable1]

I think it was 1989. It was not akward not having air condicitioning in those years.

[@mr.hansholmes2367]

@@Monicuxiable1 It was 1996.

[@lisawarner5337]

They had air conditioning

[@1212matt]

25 years of appeals must cost the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars

[@radicaltexannewsviews7685]

I don't trust her or her husband... Horrible ppl

[@michillene]

She's guilty..I think Darin realized she did it but was not involved with the murders. All of it points to Darlie,,,read the court transcripts online..if you think she's innocent, maybe they will change your mind.It's always pretty suspicious when someone dies but one is left alive.Also, the screen was cut from the inside, not the outside.Darlie, you will soon meet your maker.

[@KimberFarms]

Oh yeah I read the transcripts and listened to the court recordings. Darin did you lock the garage door that night? Court reporter YES, actually answer: I locked the front door not sure about the garage door. Just one of many (hundreds) lazy mistakes. There is a reason she lost her license. Also made it seem like Darlie made statements about the knife to dispatch but that wasn't the case, she answering Officer Waddell's questions. Waddell wasn't dispatched to the scene so 911 didn't know he was there. You can hear him come in.

[@Jersey.D3vil]

I always thought she was guilty, but after I read the transcripts, especially the letters, that just sealed deal for me. And the silly string video, there's a segment before the actual party , the way she was talking and acting seems odd to me...and how was the screen cut from the inside, and the dust on the sill, it wasn't disturbed. But yeah, I read through all the transcripts and evidence and it all points to her.

[@CraigTodd924]

I think he was having a homosexual affair and she found out and completely flipped her lid..Not that I care but Darren doesn't come off as a completely straight man imo.

[@hillarymack8287]

He definitely had alot to do with it. He just didn't get caught for his part.

[@1212matt]

Why kill the children and leave her alive

[@santaclaus723]

Because she staged it. Obviously

[@DeclanBowe]

Of course a mom is gonna b in total denial about her daughter, but she's 100% guilty a selfish evil woman who thought she get away with it..

[@louisegross3886]

Yep mama bear don't want to admit her Chile is a dam baby killer the investigators know their shit did they fry her ass yet or is she still on death row I was following this story way back still don't know if they fried that baby killer Texas don't play

[@adrenochrome_slurper]

Same as in the Casey Anthony case. Her mom is still not accepting the truth.

[@monicadonnelly4991]

Diane Downs Susan Smith, Lori Vallow Andrea Yates, the list goes on

[@jgionti3]

Fantastic video.

[@lisawarner6167]

Just so everyone knows....this doco is not completely factual. For instance, they keep saying that the jury were not shown the rest of the two hour tape at the cemetery. There were two different tapes. One by the police, of the memorial service. That's the lengthy one. The other, where they spray the silly string, was filmed by news media. The Routiers made a deal with the media that , in exchange for their relatives accommodation being paid for, they could film the birthday celebration and they would give a journalist an interview immediately following. So the two hour one, done by the police, was for surveillance purposes. The prosecution declined to show it in court, yes, but they offered it to the defense to show and the defense declined. The defence had viewed the tape. You have to ask yourself, if that tape had shown her stricken with grief, why wouldn't you show it? To counteract how bad the other tape looked. Additionally, her family has that tape and has never shown it. While they don't show it they can claim she's on the ground crying etc. No one has seen it. Can't dispute that. But far worse than the silly string tape, far more damning, is the interview with the journalist. Watch it with the sound off. Never would you guess that they were talking about the very recent, brutal murders of their two small boys.

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@cheeriosforhonkies8867]

Link?

[@AriesRising4444]

The defense was incompetent.

[@metteschreinerberge3416]

I think there is soo much in this case that doesnt add up. Motive ?? The self induced wounds on herself? About the silly-strings stuff, remember she was in shock. Probably heavily drugged on medication. Anyway ,to me, the Darlie Router case seems to raise more questions than answers.

[@jackchop1576]

Darlie is the most divisive figure in the true crime crowd. Some think she's another Diane Downs and others think she's an innocent, feminist hero being oppressed by the system.

[@gleefulme9617]

Darlie is a psychopath.

[@TurkeyCreekGal]

Darlie was never diagnosed as a psychopath!! If you would research it just a little you'd know she's innocent!

[@gleefulme9617]

@@TurkeyCreekGal Darlie has a very loose screw. Nothing innocent about her.

[@lisawarner6167]

@@TurkeyCreekGal Didn't have to be diagnosed. Pretty obvious.

[@KimberFarms]

@@lisawarner6167 What's your proof? You have none. What do you think being a psychopath is something you turn on for a few minutes to murder your kids then turn back off? There is nothing in her past to even suggest that.

[@brooke11111]

Spraying silly string on someone’s grave just seems so disrespectful to me.

[@ZENMASTERME1]

So what you’re saying is after being brutally attacked, having your children murdered, they should act the way you would act? You do know there’s no written book on how to grieve, right?! To me there’s more than enough reasonable doubt, and I definitely wouldn’t put it past the husband to have done this to her. A quarter of her body was in bruises, that is no doubt, the fact that she was stabbed on her dominant arm to the bone is not in doubt. Like I said, reasonable doubt all throughout this debacle of a case.

[@cindys9858]

Not to be offensive, but why do people even visit graves? People talk and pray to their lost loved ones. Leave flowers, toys and other mementos. They obviously believe that somehow they can be heard or reached by the loved ones. Like it's some conduit to their soul. As a non believer, I find it irrational but it often helps someone though their grief. Darlie is a believer, if that was her way of grieving or connecting to her son's, who tf are we to judge? Besides, it literally had NOTHING to do with get guilt or innocence, period. Does that make everyone that showed up guilty? Also, her sister brought the silly string and others there smiled, it's like saying everyone that showed up or smiled were involved and didn't care about the kids. Seriously?

[@nate6898]

@@cindys9858 do you want to go to hell

[@candiceparr4174]

@@cindys9858 Behavior before and after a murder certainly does matter. It's often used to catch a killer. Darlies behavior was happy She wasn't just behaving oddly , she was elated, and it matters The video being shown at trial was appropriate, but she was convicted with blood evidence

[@candiceparr4174]

It's just so weird.

[@shizuku3244]

she picked that day to sleep down stairs cause she knew she was going 2 kill her kids. Daren is not guilty

[@candiceparr4174]

Yes she planned it

[@Agent00KK]

If innocent I think that little 15 minutes of fame was more important to her then showing compassion for her boys. That why she looks guilty.

[@lisawarner5337]

If innocent she wouldn't need 15 minutes of fame. What does that say about her love for her boys ?

[@selmas2u]

It is kind of cold of the Father and Mother. I think both are guilty.

[@aleisaetheridge8682]

I do still have so many questions about Darren .Did he know what She was going to do ? I've never thought so but I just don't know but I sure never thought he did it without Her ,I'm sure She would have been the one to die if he wanted her dead . I've even thought that his weird comments about the way she looked could have been him in shock and thinking about how much He loved having her even though she mudered his boys but it's certainly strange and if they planned it together She might never say because she'd be admitting her own guilt and She's to much of a narcissist for that to happen .I've known about this case since it happen and the way she acted at the grave of those murdered little boys was enough for me to not have any doubt that she did and I've seen the whole tape .

[@doriangrey9702]

Its tough. I don't understand why anyone would harm a child, especially their own. I personally feel she is guilty. Her behavior was completely weird (although I don't know how anyone would react to their children being murdererd) but the smiling, laughing is bs. I would also like to think even being injured i would fight like a wild cat to save my kids or kill the attacker. Saying this, why would an intruder murder 2 innocent children first? I don't believe her. God bless the little boys. She reminds me of Susan Smith.

[@titolino73]

They are not like me and you.... They do not care.....

[@jaycompany4886]

Yeah, murdered her kids first so she could run around and stage the scene....she's right were she belongs.

[@reggaefan2700]

Damn. Her breasts are big 30:45.

[@lovelyapples7708]

Sorry, but the husband set up a failed attempt at a staged robbery.

[@poopedonyourchest799]

@@lovelyapples7708robbery? Nothing was taken

[@donnagpalk912]

Her chewing gum at graveyard got her... what they don't show is videos of her crying and trying to control herself before the silly string. I've always felt she didn't do it. Few of these cops had tunnel vision. Her whole body was a bruise. That cop saying he wouldn't act like her at graveyard if his kid died. Well his kid didn't die. Screen cut, sock down the road, she was slashed up and her kids while sleeping, etc. She was probably on meds at graveyard and they can absolutely change your actions... Cops made evidence fit the way they wanted.... Imo killer is free.... RIP. babies 🙏🙏🙏

[@Stefanie3]

Well said, I'm completely with you!

[@sand7210]

This! Especially if she was depressed, her memories of what happened were definitely not reliable. Furthermore, her state of mind at the graveyard is completely easy to explain.

[@donnagpalk912]

@@sand7210 It sure is..🙏

[@vampiraJ]

Could she have gotten those bruises from her sons fighting back? I honestly think there is enough evidence to indict and try her without the graveside video, but I’m not 100% sure on her guilt or innocence. This case bothers me so much!

[@donnagpalk912]

@@vampiraJ They were only 5 and 6...they couldn't fight back much getting stabbed with that big knife. One boy was stabbed in the back so hard it went clean through him hitting the floor. Poor kids

[@westbrook3371]

She is innocent as Diane Downs is

[@spitfirestake54]

🤣🤣

[@Douglas_Hamilton]

😂😂😂

[@candiceparr4174]

Lol

[@jenniferstrain58]

Exactly!!

[@MamaTriedSolo]

I think BOTH parents did it!

[@shizuku3244]

Daren murdering the children doesn't make sense, Darlie never said her husband did it

[@sharonkv777]

Darlie swore under oath, that Darin wasn't the killer.

[@themysterycook7320]

i think Derwood told dumlee to do it and dumlee did.

[@donnadalessio3853]

I remember this case, it was all over the news showing the mom celebrating at the cemetery, it was so strange to watch for sure. Those poor little boys deserve justice. Whom ever did this will be tormented forever even in death.

[@gleefulme9617]

It is clear their mother murdered the boys.

[@TurkeyCreekGal]

Naw, Darlie is completely innocent!! There's no way she cut her throat like that or beat herself up giving herself those huge black and blue bruises!!

[@TurkeyCreekGal]

@Donna Darlie wasn't celebrating at the cemetery!!! She was in tears crying!! The boys loved silly string and Buble gum so HER SISTER brought both to the cemetery to celebrate one of the boys birthday!! Darlie half smiled one time and someone was videoing the whole thing, BUT the only part of the video that was shown was of her with the half smile!! None of her breaking down crying, unable to even stand on her own!!

[@gleefulme9617]

@@TurkeyCreekGal She quirt silly string & laughed.

[@gleefulme9617]

@@TurkeyCreekGal Darlie's sons may've given her those bruises fighting for their lives. She's a very sick woman.

[@aaroncross2366]

This reminds me of Diane Downs. But the husband and wife both seem to be sociopaths, who knows, they probably both did it. It doesn't bear thinking about.

[@BluntlyBlondie]

What they forgot to mention is that Darlee was coming off of anesthesia at the time.

[@tsully4368]

Not when she provided her official statement on June 8th, and not during her trial testimony when she was caught in lie after lie trying to explain away evidence 😆

[@eleanorjaya4706]

This case gets to me. I some how think it was the husband since they had so much financial difficulties. Also in the 911 call she sounds authentic someone in deep distress. You don’t here the husband at all.

[@crystalsherman8896]

I do too. Who tells police about how his wife looks instead of talking about his boys

[@DeclanBowe]

It's a known fact 9 out 10 burglars will run from scene if confronted, not use a kitchen knife savagely murder 2 innocent little boys and there mother, that doesn't happen..

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

Did you know that there was a murder in the neighborhood the murderer used socks to cover his hands so he wouldn't leave fingerprints go do some more research.

[@lisawarner6167]

@@Iceis_Phoenix Go tell the truth for once. There was not a murder in the neighbourhood.

[@closgreen70]

Finally! A robber's intent is to rob....a burglar's intent is to burglarize...a murderer's intent is to murder...the suspect took no valuables..no evidence of forced entry and leaving alive people behind? No way! Guilty as charged!

[@santaclaus723]

Yeah but a burglar and a killer are 2 different things? What are you even trying to say dude? You people act like you know everything. I think she is guilty but at the same time you people really say some dumb shit lmao

[@feelingbetternaturally1099]

My son was murdered and we held a birthday party for his sister 5 days later. She had lost her brother and it wasn't right to take her birthday party as well.

[@TawnyC_]

I'm so sorry for your loss 💔

[@vampiraJ]

My condolences for your son.

[@happycazable]

I can't imagine your pain. But immense respect to you for carrying on as normally as possible.

[@chelseapthib36]

I don't think there was anything wrong with the way she behaved for HER SON'S BIRTHDAY at his grave site. Why would people have rathered see her having emotional breakdown after breakdown? She was honoring her son, she was celebrating his life. She could have been smiling thinking of all their fond memories. I think that prosecutor had tunnel vision. He was so sure she did it. And I think she was being sarcastic when she said "well if I did it I don't remember" because she couldn't believe she was being accused. Idk if she did it or not, but I think the graveyard thing was blown out of proportion. A 2 hour long video and only that was shown? Her entire family was smiling, laughing, spraying silly string, did they kill her boys, too? You can't convict someone based on 30 seconds of a video. The Dr says they "could have been self-inflicted", she didn't say they were definitely self-inflicted.

[@donnagpalk912]

Exactly 💯

[@chelseapthib36]

@@donnagpalk912 everyone grieves differently. Some people don't like parading their emotions around to make strangers feel better. When my dad died, my mom never cried, at least not in front of me or anyone else but her twin sister. I was in hysterics for days, flying into unprovoked rages (I was 14 when he died), i didn't care who was around! My mom kept it together, she would choke up when talking, and the morning of the funeral is the only time I saw her shed tears. I did hear her crying in her room a few times at night. She said she had to be strong for me because I was already losing my shit. I don't judge anyone by the way they grieve, that's their own personal business. This prosecutor was very smug and just came off as an ass.. like he wouldn't even entertain any other theories, his was the one that was be all end all.

[@donnagpalk912]

@@chelseapthib36 Yup.. my dad died I was out of my mind. That was 1990. 2009 My mom died and when I looked at her in the casket it didn't look like her at all. I didn't cry any. I felt as if she was alive and well bc that wasn't my mom. But 3 years later when my sister gave me my mom's doll's...wow.. I broke down in the streets screaming and everyone thought I was crazy. I had to be held up to get in my apartment. Cried for days. My brother got each of us a huge picture of my mom took before she got bad. I opened it up and saw my mom and I couldn't breath. I gave that picture to my oldest son. Can not look at that picture at my sister's home. It makes no sense. I can look at any pic of her but that life like Pic. 2 years ago my brother in law passed. I was only 5 when my sister married him. I got a call that he died. I went to my sister's home and there he was dead on his hospital bed. He was warm and I kept saying he's not dead..look...he's not dead..I fell out at the door when they came to pick his body up. He was my brother and I loved him as much. 1 of my brothers passed on new years day. 6 months later my oldest brother died. Bout drove me crazy. I'm 64 tomorrow and youngest of 5 brothers and 2 sisters. Well 3 brothers now. I have nightmares of me being the last one left watching my other siblings die.. At times it's almost unbearable. Sorry for your loss.. But everybody acts differently.. I could punch that DA in the face. Hope he never finds out how grief can hit ya...

[@donnagpalk912]

@@chelseapthib36 Didn't mean to write a book 😕sorry

[@chelseapthib36]

@@donnagpalk912 I'm truly sorry for each of your losses. It never gets easier. We can't predict how we will react to someone we love dying. My paternal grandfather passed when I was about 10 on Christmas night, a couple hours after we had gone home from Christmas dinner and spending time with the whole family. He went outside on the porch sometime after midnight for some air, and he collapsed. He had a heart attack. He passed in the ER. I remember crying, being so heartbroken, my dad and my aunt were inconsolable, my uncle sat there like a statue, staring off into space. My dad died 12 days after my 14th birthday. Lost my sanity for that. 11 months later, on my dad's birthday, my other grandfather died. I was still very numb after my dad passed, and 5 months after that, my paternal grandmother died. I don't remember her funeral much.. I was so lost and defeated. At the graveyard I just remember walking over to my dad's grave, lying on it and crying. To lose so many people you love in such a short time, it would rip anyone apart. 💔 Hoping you are well and sending much peace and love ❤

[@missyfaulker3797]

I have my thoughts but it still comes back to the Dad! Look at it! I think if you look at it in that matter its pausible! I think she might have been druged or given substances that causes damage! He was destitute he had motive! I dont put anything past a rich Man loosing everything and the means to maake it happen!

[@lisawarner5337]

His actions afterwards don't support that theory. She was tox screened. Nothing in her system but amphetamine.

[@mrs.handyjay6542]

I'd love to be able to believe Darlie is innocent.

[@scarlettbutler2873]

I used to feel that way also. Then I finally sat down and read all of the court transcripts. Looked up all of the actual facts that I could. Studied the blood DNA map of the den kitchen area , etc etc etc............. Finally I couldnt deny it anymore. But for years I wanted them to find some solution to free Darlie. I just felt so sorry for her ..... she just seemed so sincere. It made me very sad to realize the truth, and I am still fascinated with the case but now I can see it for what it is.

[@sharonkv777]

I wanted to believe she was innocent. For years. But I didn't know jack about the evidence. Once I did, I felt pretty foolish. She is as guilty as sin.

[@jehmiahmitchell9289]

she not innocent she killed her kids

[@PnkLuna-po8te]

Notice all of the interviews after, none of her family members or her push the issue to find out who did it

[@kristis4147]

911 call she says “ I just stabbed me and my kids “. Listen carefully she doesn’t say THEY she says I ( 2 time she says it at beginning )

[@Katarina-yq2qo]

She sed they

[@nolwazi_khumalo]

How is it that her kids got stabbed and she only got a cut on her neck? Come on. She did it

[@sistagalsistagal8136]

As Juan Martinez said of Stabby, (AKA Jodi Arias,) "she only cries for herself." "Behind Criminal Minds" is doing a intriguing reviewing of her whole case. They released ones on Jodi Arias, and the most recent one, Scott Peterson, and others. Check them out folks, you won't be disappointed.

[@tonysangster7383]

THANK YOU FOR That!! am off to watch now:)

[@johnpixton5626]

I've seen numerous documentaries regarding this and believe she's innocent. When I first read about it, I thought she was guilty as sin, but as time has gone by, I think an innocent women in locked up.

[@lisawarner5337]

Why ?

[@ttnz3932]

Do you believe Bundy's innocent too..come on, she is sooooo guilty ..she's a convicted child killer

[@amyntut]

What's keeping them from setting an execution date ?

[@candiceparr4174]

She still has an appeal left.

[@steelermia]

she won't be executed

[@endtimesareuponus8930]

@@candiceparr4174 what the hell? Why?

[@NevadaLamb]

Cases like this annoy me because I just want to know what happened and why!! I’m certain she was involved, but did she do it alone or was the husband involved? I’m incline to think so, and something he knows is keeping her from turning on him. Regardless of the answer, she showed so little concern for the children!!! It was just me, me, me.

[@Katarina-yq2qo]

How do you know?you were there when this happend?

[@lisawarner5337]

​@@Katarina-yq2qo Were YOU ?

[@Ronnie500]

She did it

[@hillarymack8287]

I don't believe she killed her children. Darin hired someone to rob the house and this happened. Just my opinion.

[@endtimesareuponus8930]

BULL

[@carrieday8423]

Any Normal parent who is Sleeping inches away from thier Children would definitely hear them being Stabbed to Death... Darlie Didn't !!

[@pennythpmas5787]

A thin veneer of normalcy, but underneath real problems. Sounds like Watts family. Everybody seems sadder than the Mother???

[@zuckerkane]

Whoa I’ve never heard of the “if I did it I don’t remember” confession! They could have pressed her more if she gave that up.

[@clalvis]

Officer Patterson/Parks said she said it 6 times. She lied and said she didn’t say that and then said it a million times on cross examination.

[@xraeee]

She prob wanted to unalive herself & stopped & couldnt do it at the last minute. Or she panicked & couldnt go through with the full slitting of her own throat cuz your body does somewhat stop itself

[@forreal245]

Her knife wounds, bruises, SHOCK, leave reasonable doubt. She could have been in total shock standing at sink trying to stop her bleeding & pulling out vacuum to clean up bloody mess. Any reasonably thinking person knows blood can not be cleaned with vacuum. Indicates shock. Normally, one can't remember every second of a traumatic event plus when she says she "woke up" is probably coming out of unconsciousness.

[@candiceparr4174]

She murdered her sons. So much evidence and it all points right to Darlie Routier

[@tsully4368]

The paramedic testified Darlie wasn't in shock. Her wounds were superficial and the deep bruising on her right arm was found at trial to have occurred days after the crime. Darlie's story changed only as evidence was revealed. There was no traumatic amnesia which was made clear during her testimony. The only way to learn this case is to read the transcripts and appeals. The defense and family have polluted the willing media with too much misinformation.

[@candiceparr4174]

Her vital signs were tested multiple times At the scene, in the ambulance, by the triage nurse, exploratory surgeons , icu nurses and docs, all normal every single time. No shock , no major blood loss She stopped bleeding at the scene. She was put in ICU not because of her condition , but because the doc felt like if someone were after her it would be easier to protect her there. She was in the hospital 48 hours. That's it

[@NSully7]

I remember this happening in my neighborhood when I was 13. So incredibly sad, and definitely shook the community.

[@StarSurvivor1585]

In your neighborhood..just wow

[@ballscrapcock6178]

I remember this happening when I lived there in that town I was in the bathroom cleaning off shelves and dusting

[@kimmyfreak200]

neighbors placed huge stuffed animals in the front yard for the 2 boys..darlie and darin made a game out of it..jumping up and down like a cheerleader as darin tossed her the animals and into the car and laughing... they are wack jobs

[@TheStreetAngel]

This case has always baffled me monumentally. I have watched many KZbin videos about it to try to make up my mind about her guilt as the perpetrator or her as a victim. This video by far seemed to do the best job of explaining how she could’ve been the perpetrator. I feel like I’m at 98% sure that it was her at this point, but I still struggle with how she got so many terrible giant deep bruises. I suppose if she’s crazy enough, she could beat herself with some object to cause those bruises, but they were pretty severe, but so are her knife wounds, so that’s pretty bizarre self-infliction. But I always did think her knife wound on her neck looked self-inflicted. Plus her response to the police interview where she said “If I did it, I don’t remember”, seemed like an admission of guilt to me.

[@sharonkv777]

Darlie didn't have any bruises on her arm, when she was in the hospital nor did she complain of any pain in that area. She presented with the bruises 4 days after the murders, at the police station (the 10th of June). Medical professionals testified that the bruises were 24-48 hours old, not 4 days. None of her wounds were severe. Her surgeon, Dr. Santos testified that all of her injuries were superficial and non life threatening. Also, he testified that he would have sent her home from the hospital the same day, if not for the circumstances of why she was there.

[@TheStreetAngel]

@@sharonkv777 Oh wow I didn't know that!

[@juliedrummer2656]

I almost thought this was me writing it exactly 😜👍 I am baffled. What would her motive be? And yes I have also watched and read almost everything on this case. Another one is Jeffrey McDonald there’s just a couple things that make him look innocent in that one also. And not everybody bruises within one day or three days or five days it’s all different -arms😳

[@christiecobb2974]

bruises were inside her arms unusual

[@juliedrummer2656]

@@christiecobb2974 I’m leaning towards the side that she might be guilty. I didn’t realize she had postpartum. The hardest part is why why 💔

[@brookewoodside6123]

They forgetting that damon was barely alive when paramedics arrived and was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital