NO DOUBT IN THE DARLIE ROUTIER CASE!

There are many who believe that the state of Texas got it right when they prosecuted Darlie Routier for the murder of  Damon, one of her two young sons brutally stabbed to death on 6th June 1996.

The evidence that was shown at trial, together with the evidence that has slowly emerged over the years supports the prosecutions theory that Routier killed her two young sons.

Routier and her supporters are quick to try and place doubt into the minds of newcomers to the case, who are treated like idiots and fed propaganda. New supporters who are taken on board are then gently led into writing to Routier, and some go as far as sending her their hard earned money.

As much as Routier supporters spread propaganda and manipulate the facts, to confuse newcomers to the case, there are still clear points that highlight the mountain of evidence against Routier.

Assistant District Attorney Greg Davis was adamant that the crime scene inside the Routier home was staged and that the sole person responsible for the murders of Devon and Damon was none other than their own mother. It now appears that more recent evidence shows this to be true.

Many people believed this theory when it was presented because there was no getting away from the physical evidence against Routier. As much as she and her family and supporters lied, the truth of her guilt was right there in the evidence, and still is today.

What has become clearer over the past 16 years are the lies and manipulation techniques used by Routier and her supporters to claim ‘innocence’.

The lies, contradictions, changes in her story, and manipulation of the facts also tell a sorry tale – Darlie Routier will try anything to cop a chance at a new trial.

Routier and her supporters continually exaggerate or twist the facts to gain public support, and unsuspecting newcomers are duped into supporting a child killer, some even sending money to the Darlie Routier fund for ‘new testing’, or commissary goods in prison.

All of the claims of  Routier’s evidence of  ‘innocence’ have proved to be false, and include the following –

‘LIFE THREATENING’ INJURIES

The injuries Darlie Routier sustained can still be shown to be what they were, superficial and self inflicted, even though supporters have lied about this, and photographs have even been doctored and put on the internet, together with other propaganda pertaining ‘innocence’, the truth still shines through.

Darlie Routier’s superficial self inflicted injuries are constantly pumped up by passionate supporters, and claimed as ‘life threatening’!

The ‘life threatening’ injuries are a complete lie.

Had she have sustained life threatening injury, Darlie Routier would have immediately been
transported to hospital. As it was, Routier stayed at the house, where she killed her sons, and talked to the investigators, and others, for some time before she was eventually taken to hospital.

She remained in hospital for a couple of days, her superficial neck wound closed with steri strips. She would have been released sooner, but the doctors kept her in for a day because of the trauma of Devon and Damon being murdered. They did not realise at the time that she was the murderer, of course.

And so Routier spent a relatively short time in the hospital. Had her wounds been life threatening, or as serious as her supporters claim, then Routier would certainly have spent much longer in hospital than she did.

THE FINGERPRINT CONFUSION

There is absolutely NO evidence to suggest someone outside of the Routier family entered that house during the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996, before police responded to Darlie’s 911 call.

In the call Routier stated that she had already picked up the murder weapon and that ‘we could have gotten the prints maybe’. Her statement was a past tense statement. One might well ask how she knew there were no prints on the knife that could have been ‘gotten’!

Fingerprints at the crime scene included a single bloody fingerprint, sometimes referred to as a fingerprint or a partial palm print, (and used by supporters to cause confusion) was left on the glass table in the Routier’s family room the morning of the murders.

At trial, James Cron testified there was not enough detail to make an identification. He suggested the print was left by one of the two young boys.

In an attempt to put an end to speculation that the bloody print taken from the glass table belonged to one of the boys, the children were exhumed, after getting permission from the family, for fingerprints to be taken. This had not been done at autopsy because at that time it was a general rule to take footprints of children, and not fingerprints.

The children had been buried together, holding hands. The parents had placed knives in the coffin, and the song ‘Gangsters Paradise’ by Coolio, was played at the funeral. This was a funeral for two children aged 6 and 5 years respectively.

Richard Jantz had also conducted an analysis of the print taken from the glass table, and although Jantz’s report supports the defense’s contention that the print did not belong to either of the Routier children, it also DID NOT exclude Darlie Routier as the source of the print.

Pat Wertheim then concluded that all of Darlie’s fingerprints were excluded except the ring finger of her right hand, which is probably, and the most likely explanation for the print.

And so two little boys were exhumed, their tiny hands cut off, and fingerprints taken, so that Routier could get another shot at freedom. It seems that Routier will go to any lengths, however ghoulish or horrendous, for some kind of chance at a new trial.

Other fingerprints included two fingerprints taken from the utility room door, leading to the garage of the Routier home. One print was made in blood and the other was a patent print. The patent fingerprint below the bloody print was identified as matching the middle finger of Darin Routiers left hand.

So that left just one fingerprint unaccounted for.

The bloody fingerprint on the utility room door, could not be identified as Routiers, but that is not to say it is not hers.

In the new testing being undertaken, it is highly likely that results will show the print does indeed belong to Routier, especially since blood trails to and from that print are Darlie Routiers blood.

If an intruder had left the print with that much blood on him, it is highly likely that he would have left blood at the exit or outside the house, and yet none was found. This included no blood on the garage door, where Routier testifies she saw the intruder exit to and ‘the garage door close’.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

The prosecution’s case against Darlie was circumstantial, meaning that there was no direct eyewitness. A majority of cases are based on circumstantial evidence. ‘Circumstantial’ means any and all evidence other than a direct witness to the crime. The stark reality concerning the circumstantial evidence against Darlie Routier was that it all linked together to form a chain of evidence pointing to her guilt.

THE TIMELINE

Supporters claim that the prosecutions theory of a staged scene is not possible since Routier would not have time to ‘stage’ a scene to mislead investigators. This wild claim of a timeline is based on the minutes that Damon would have lived after having been brutally stabbed. The understanding from doctors’ testimony is that it would have been about nine minutes. However, there was no timeline, since Routier had as much time as she needed to stage the scene. After her husband, Darin, had retired to bed, Darlie Routier had ample time to plan and set the scene. Damon’s fatal stabs [he was attacked twice] came after Routier set everything else into play. The so called ‘timeline’ is non existent, and another supporter ploy to try and cast doubt on Routier’s conviction.

NO STRANGE OCCURRENCES, JUST MISCONSTRUED FACTS

Mary Rickells, a neighbour, testified that she was watching television around 1:30 a.m. when she heard banging on her door. She at first thought it was her husband returning from work. However, she became suspicious when she heard the sound of wood splitting and a loud cracking noise. She turned on her porch light and saw two men, neither of whom fitted the description of Routier’s ‘intruder’. The men then ran from Mary Rickels house. Even though the wood of her door had been split, and she was alone with her daughter, and on medication for various illness, Mary Rickels did not telephone police. Instead she returned to finish watching a horror movie. A little later the same men returned and tried to break into Mary Rickels bedroom window, and she testifies that again she turned on the light and they ran off. Rickels again did not call police.

The mysterious black car that Rickels says was parked across the road was still present at 7.30am, after the murders of Devon and Damon, and was not connected to them in any way.

Likewise, other ‘strange occurrences’ were reported to police, who checked them out and found no links to the murders, and nothing suspicious. These ‘strange occurrences’ can sometimes cause confusion when supporters manipulate the details and misconstrue the facts.

WILL DARLIE ROUTIER CONTINUE TO PAY FOR HER CRIME?

Since Routier’s  conviction in 1997, her defence has tried everything possible to bring about a new trial. However, the courts are not fooled lightly, although they have been extremely fair in granting Routier chances, even with the overwhelming evidence of guilt against her.

NEW TESTING

DNA testing using newer techniques was approved in April of 2012, and the court ordered the materials be delivered to the Department of Public Safety Laboratory no later than the 23rd of May.

The court ordered that the testing take place in a ‘timely and efficient manner‘.  Far from showing Routiers claim of ‘innocence’, the testing should prove once and for all what a manipulative liar Routier truly is.

Two little boys died horrific deaths and their mother is on death row for the crime, her punishment for brutally murdering Devon and Damon.

There is overwhelming evidence of Routier’s guilt, and lots more information worth reading on the case.

The very best sources to read about this case are the court documents, since none of the websites run by her family and supporters are at all accurate, and range from manipulation of the facts to outright bare faced lies.