I've done transcription before and have it on my resume (Steph Hopkins). That night, her two eldest sons had joined her while her husband, Darin, slept upstairs with the baby. SUSANNA REID: Exam results week was like a slow motion car crash (And today it's my other son's turn! Joe Biden puts Kamala Harris in charge of stemming flow of migrants at border amid 'serious spikes' in immigration, Four retired Border Patrol chiefs call situation 'grave' and warn 'criminal organizations are capitalizing on Biden's crisis, Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'close friend', activist Anthony Aguero is seen on footage taken inside US Capitol building during January 6 riot, California foster parents are being asked to take in '26 or more' migrant children as social services scramble to place a 'record number' of unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Darlie’s appeal lawyer says that in a signed affidavit, Darin admitted to one insurance scam as well as a plot for a staged home robbery so he could collect a claim. Januar 1970) ist eine Amerikanerin aus Rowlett, Texas , die 1996 wegen Mordes an ihrem fünfjährigen Sohn Damon verurteilt und zum Tode verurteilt wurde. daughter Routier sat for her first me-dia interview in four years at the Moun-tain View prison unit in Gatesville. I did not kill my two children. While talking to … UPDATE: "The Last Defense" can be viewed on Hulu and is being re-run on Investigation Discovery. In 2018 Darin tried to retract that in his interview on “the last defense” claiming Darlie and her lawyers forced him to sign the affidavit, the truth is every thing in those affidavits was the truth. In a… What of the bread knife, which had a screen fibre on it? The State had "enhanced" a version. UPDATE: "The Last Defense" can be viewed on Hulu and is being re-run on Investigation Discovery. But after giving birth to three sons, she felt that motherhood was ruining her looks It came at the end of an emotional two-hour memorial prayer vigil by the grieving family, which was also filmed, but never shown in court. The people who put it together were dedicated and diligent in examining all aspects of the case. There’s no doubt the ‘Silly String Tape’, as it came to be known, shows a grieving mother behaving in the strangest way possible and it’s something I’m desperate to ask Darlie about. I didn’t do this. Sentenced to death for the murder of Damon, five, she was also charged with six-year-old Devon’s murder on the same night. It muffled out the "background noise" to amplify Darlie Lynn. That is, of course, if Darlie is truly guilty. She is adamant police resorted to reputation smearing in the absence of real evidence against her. ‘I never forget this is one of the states that has the most executions. While I am quietly missing my boys, having travelled all the way to Mountain View women’s prison, Texas, for this interview, Darlie is on Death Row for killing her offspring. There were also claims of money worries — they were two months in arrears with their mortgage — and concerns that the growing family was draining finances. Yet nearly 25 years on, concerns remain over whether an innocent grieving mother has been unjustly punished, torn from her surviving son, whose life has been overshadowed by unbearable loss. In the clip that has been shown over and over again on TV news programmes, there was no crying or solemn reflection. She has been here awaiting execution by lethal injection ever since. Mother-of-three Darlie Routier, 48, has been awaiting execution in … Kee was in her mid-40s when her daughter was sent to death row; she’s 60 now. She says she didn’t wake up as the boys were stabbed, or even as her own throat was slit, but was woken by little Damon pressing on her shoulder. Her appeal lawyer says that when the screen was slashed, the fibres would have gone everywhere, coating the knife — not just leaving a single fibre. As for the graveside party, the jury watched the footage as many as eight times. But there are times when Darlie breaks down in front of me, crying about the sight of her slain sons, and I feel the tears stinging my own eyes…times when I have to remind myself that my instinctive maternal empathy does not mean she’s an innocent woman. They investigated the ripped screen and dusted for prints. This blog/page is not maintained by Darlie Routier. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. I … Defence lawyer Stephen Cooper, who has worked on several appeals on Darlie’s behalf, told me: ‘I am about as close to it as anyone else on Earth and I can tell you she didn’t do it.’. They range from her ex-husband and surviving son, now 25, to the friends who say she has been wrongly painted as a sadistic killer and the experienced appeals lawyer who says no one will ever convince him of her guilt. Copious amounts of blood around the sink suggested she cut her own throat next to the taps in the kitchen. Soon after Routier called 911, claiming an intruder had attacked her and slashed her children, a crime scene investigator, James Cron, was brought in to assist the inexperienced suburban Rowlett police. I remember going over to Damon. Darlie Routier is interviewed in prison on The Last Defense. I am in agony over her tears. Darlie Lynn herself I had no problem understanding except for a couple of very small portions. Her motive? In it she is seen laughing with friends, chewing gum and — in an act that would ultimately condemn her — spraying Silly String at the gravestones. ‘I’m being judged by people who did not know me.’. While talking to the British journalist, Routier continued to maintain her innocence and said she "didn't do this". It has yet to be identified. 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She was never tried in the second instance as prosecutors wanted the option to pursue a second indictment if they couldn’t get a conviction in the first trial. The very thought of double infanticide is bone-shakingly horrifying for most people. Inside Prince Harry's happy clappy HQ: His new firm boasts yoga classes, punch bags and onesie parties... just don't mention the worker who complained about 'very inexperienced leaders'! SO MUCH of what they have marked (unintelligible) is VERY easy to understand. ‘Hopefully I will be exonerated. Darlie herself had a knife plunged in the arm and her throat cut so deeply doctors said her carotid artery was nicked, the blade just 2mm away from causing her to bleed to death in minutes. From red carpet to real life...SUSANNA REID: I tried saying 'yes' to everything - and it's left me exhausted! TV's never been better for women like me. Darin fell in love with Darlie when she was just a teenager. They were convinced of her guilt. On the night of June 6, 1996, Darlie was an exhausted 26-year-old mum. But that is not the same as innocence — and the jury, it would seem, held no such doubts. This is a community of "free world" United States citizens, and often, worldwide, SUPPORTERS for an innocent woman on Texas Death Row, with proof of innocence well beyond any "reasonable doubt." I lifted up his shirt and I put towels on him and I kept telling him: “Hang on, baby, hang on.” ’, A trial exhibit shows bloodstains in the Routiers' home after the knife attack. ‘The tape showed a very strange way to react to death.’ Within days Darlie was charged with murder. We are also both mothers of three sons — another similarity but one that highlights a cavernous divide between us. Meanwhile the sword of Damocles dangles ever closer to Darlie. From red carpet to real life...SUSANNA REID: I've promised not to cry - but I'm dreading my son leaving home, From red carpet to real life...SUSANNA REID: Washed up by 50? 20/20 is airing the two-hour special event "Last Defense"on the Darlie Routier case on Friday, May 10, 2019. I’m less frightened; I’m at peace with myself. Television news footage shows her staging a party next to the graves of her boys a week after the murders, on what would have been Devon’s seventh birthday. CBS correspondent Bill Lagattuta interviewed Darin Routier, incarcerated Darlie Routier and Davis about the slayings; associated public officials and defense attorneys were also interviewed. She weeps as she describes the scene and I find myself crumbling as she talks of her boys’ last moments. Routier (pictured in a recent mugshot, left), had told police an intruder broke into the home through, killed her sons and then slashed her neck (right) before fleeing. For example, Darlie wrote that while she was changing the baby’s diaper after dinner that the others, Darin and her sister Dana (who was living at the Routier home for at least two weeks prior to the murders), cleared the dinner plates and placed the leftovers in the food storage containers. Published: 17:00 EDT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 01:48 EDT, 5 December 2020. So what about Darin? We hope viewers with an open mind came away convinced of Darlie’s innocence. Then, when Darlie came out of surgery days later and did something so unexpected for a grieving mother, the course of the investigation changed entirely. Not many women receive the ultimate penalty in the United States: 53 women are on Death Row across the country, while there are around 2,500 men. Children interfered with her lifestyle. Nonsense! The mother suffered a slash to her neck and cuts to her shoulders (pictured in the hospital), She looks pained as she tells me: ‘There’s not a book that tells you how to do this, how to grieve. Was this an example of a traumatised, heartbroken mother? If they choose to kill me that’s my innocent blood that will be on their hands.’ Her tone is defiant but, incredibly, still hopeful of being believed. Subsequently Darin and Darlie Kee, have acted to suppress information about Darin, keeping Darlie isolated. On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution. Texas mother Darlie Router, pictured above with her three sons, has spent more than 20 years on death row for murdering 5-year-old Damon (left), and also stabbing to death 6-year-old Devon (right), though she was never tried for the latter. We are the same age with shoulder-length dark hair, pale skin and a nervous feeling in the pit of our stomachs. While Devon died at the scene, his younger brother lost his life in hospital. I had imagined a woman torn apart by her own hatefulness, stewing in fury that she didn’t get away with her imaginary claims that an intruder killed her children. Susanna Reid interviews Darlie Routier at the Mountain View Unit, Gatesville Texas the state's death row for women.In this new documentary for ITV's Crime & Punishment strand. But a jury was convinced and convicted her in 1997, making Darlie one of America’s most notorious female prisoners. Darlie Routier’s Son Lives the Crucible (“Invisible Intruder,” Forensic Files, and “Darlie Routier,” The Last Defense) After last week’s post about the persecution of Darlie Routier, many readers searched for information about her youngest son, who was 7 months old when a knife attack left his brothers dead on June 6, 1996, in Rowlett, Texas. ‘He wasn’t moving. Routier shows severe bruising on her right arm after the stabbing, which she blamed on an intruder. I notice the scar still visible on Darlie’s neck. Neither must I be swayed by her appearance. See these exclusive interviews and stunning details - 'Darlie Routier' - Tonight at 9/8c on ABC 'The Last Defense': An in depth look at the series exploring death-row convictions. Everything we did was out of love.’. Darlie may well have been vain and materialistic but these aren’t crimes. The reality is there’s a very real possibility I could be executed. The defence says there’s no way she would have had time to murder her boys, run three houses down to plant the sock, slash the window screen and then cut her own throat before police and paramedics arrived. Sie wurde auch wegen Kapitalmordes angeklagt im Tod ihres sechsjährigen Sohnes Devon, der zur gleichen Zeit wie Damon ermordet wurde. A woman who so brutally bludgeoned the lives she had brought into the world. 'I cannot believe they are doing this to me when I didn't do... New DNA tests are underway for Texas mother-of-three... Death Row’s Women With Susanna Reid is at 9pm next Thursday on ITV. The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I’m against the death penalty. When Darlie was charged the police confirmed he was not a suspect. Darlie Routier has spoken to television presenter Susanna Reid in a documentary airing tonight (Thursday, December 10) on ITV. Routier is escorted into the Mountain View unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Gatesville, Texas, where she is now one of six women awaiting execution. Susanna Reid investigates whether Death Row inmate Darlie Routier is an innocent woman who tragically lost her two sons, or a twisted killer who stabbed her own boys in cold blood From red carpet to real life...SUSANNA REID: Am I the only one who now hates the thought of going to a party? The screen in the utility room was said to have been slashed with a bread knife kept in Darlie’s own knife block and she put it back there after she damaged the screen to create the impression of an intruder. Prosecutors contended that Routier was angry over money problems and the burdens of motherhood (pictured with her two eldest sons). The prosecution showed the jury this video of Routier giggling and spraying Silly String on her sons' graves on what would have been Devon's seventh birthday. It’s a story that haunts me still. Not long after the wrongful conviction of Darlie Routier, Sylvia Chase met with Darlie Lynn for her first interview from prison. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. A handsome husband, beautiful house, frequent holidays and three bouncing boys. Sharon Stone says she had a 'wonderful' and 'professional' experience working with Woody Allen amid sexual abuse claims made against filmmaker in docuseries, Over to you, Madam VP! What cannot be denied is that during the night Devon was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and Damon was stabbed in the back — in both cases with such ferocity that the knife went through their little bodies several times. And then there’s the moment when she muses about her work in the prison garden: ‘It’s wonderful to see plants grow, to nurture something.’. It didn’t belong to any family members or investigators. Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (geb. Darlie has been in Gatesville, where Mountain View is a unit, for 23 years due to endless appeals — the latest of which focuses on delayed DNA testing. He was lying on his back and I could see he’d been stabbed in the back. ‘I could see Devon lying there, his eyes were open,’ Darlie tells me tearfully. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. The grisly murders took place inside Darlie and Darin Routiers' home in Rowlett, Texas (pictured), on the night of June 6, 1997. You decide — because as she wept through the glass, I found I could not. She has al-ways maintained her innocence. Instead, I find a neat, demure woman with a carefully coiffed up-do, who has succumbed to middle-aged spread but still looks very presentable. Play it now. She was characterised as a bottle-blonde cheerleader who was superficial and vain and had grown frustrated with being a mother. 4. She said during the interview: "I’m at peace with myself. Here is the synopsis from TV Guide: "The case of Dallas housewife Darlie Routier. This is a community of "free world" United States citizens, and often, worldwide, SUPPORTERS for an innocent woman on Texas Death Row, with proof of innocence well beyond any "reasonable doubt." She picked up the knife he dropped, rang 911, screaming in distress that her boys were dying and shouting: ‘I don’t even know who did this.’ Darin raced downstairs hearing the noise and tried in vain to save their lives. Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. Over 20 years ago, Darlie Routier called the police claiming she was stabbed by an intruder who also stabbed her two sons, Devon, 6, and Damon, 5. Darlie Routier and I may only be separated by a pane of bullet-proof glass but we are worlds apart. Former cheerleader Darlie Routier had always been proud of her good looks. I am completely torn. Trial Aftermath. She fixes her dark eyes on me as she says: ‘I’m convicted but I am not a killer. Sylvia Chase hosted several shows featuring Darlie, and the many problems with her conviction. They married at 18 and she had the dream life. The comments below have not been moderated. I point out the shocking irony, considering she killed those it was her job to nurture. And the case is far from clear cut. Not long after the wrongful conviction of Darlie Routier, Sylvia Chase met with Darlie Lynn for her first interview from prison. Two of Darlie’s current attorneys, Steve Cooper and Richard Smith, were interviewed for The Last Defense. Her eight-month-old son Drake tended to be such a restless sleeper she’d taken to sleeping downstairs in the lounge of their large Dallas home in order to get some rest. Darlie told us she is concerned about some of the people she has since learned he was mixing with. ‘Devon and Damon were my heart,’ she tells me. 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