Darlie Lynn Routier | June 8, 1996 - Darlie and Darin's Sworn Statements

This video does not intend to discredit and don’t want to mar mrs. Darlie Lynn and family image.

June 6, 1996: Routier brothers Damon, 5, and Devon, 6, are found stabbed to death in the family's Rowlett home. Darlie Routier, 26, has cut and stab wounds on her neck and upper body. Husband Darin Routier, 28, and son Drake, 7 months, are unharmed.
June 8: Darlie is released from the hospital. At the request of Rowlett police, she stops by the police station on the way home and gives a second interview to Det. Patterson.
June 9: Devon and Damon Routier are buried, hand-in-hand in a single casket.
June 10: Det. Patterson once again interviews Darlie at the Rowlett police station. Photographs of her injuries are also taken at that time.
June 14: On what would have been Devon Routier’s 7th birthday, family and friends gather for a graveside memorial service. A local television news crew films the service, which ends with Darlie and her sister spraying silly string over the balloons and flowers at the gravesite.
June 18: Darlie submits to a fourth voluntary interview. Told midway through it that the police already have a warrant for her arrest, Darlie continues to talk for another hour before asking for an attorney. She is then arrested and jailed.
Sep. 12: Judge Tolle grants a defense motion for change of venue, moving the trial from Dallas County to Kerr County.
Oct. 21: Trial court grants Mulder’s motion to replace Darlie’s court-appointed counsel, but only after Mulder agrees that the substitution will not affect the case schedule. Jury selection begins the same day.
Nov. 14: Jury selection concludes.
Jan. 6, 1997: Opening statements and first witnesses called at trial.
Jan. 31: After the attorneys make their closing arguments, the jury begins deliberations.
Feb. 1: Jury returns a guilty verdict.
Feb. 4: After one day of sentencing testimony, the jury sentences Darlie Routier to death.

source: Media Tried Justice Denied: Behind the Truth and Lies of the Darlie Lynn Routier Murder Case by Christopher Wayne Brown - McIntosh Press International, 1999.

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