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The couple built it from scratch, a business and a life with their three sons. Then one summer night it was taken away. Was there an intruder? The police didn’t believe the tearful mother. Mother on Death Row, 2001
2.30 in the morning on June 6th 1996 ... The evidence did not seem to match Darlie’s account. ibid.
A striking difference between Darlie’s wounds and those of her sons. ibid.
Defence attorneys accused the authorities of sloppy work in the collection of evidence. ibid.
The jurors announced she was guilty. ibid.
February 4th 1997 Darlie Routier was sentenced to death. Darlie Routier is now on death row. ibid.
There were evidence photos the jurors did not see. ibid.
Investigators found one bloody partial fingerprint on the Routier’s coffee table. ibid.
The trial transcripts were found to be full of errors – 33,000 errors. ibid.
Darlie: Some man came in and stabbed my babies, stabbed me. Darlie Routier’s 911 call
Two young boys brutally murdered. A mother searches for the truth while on death row. But can a new investigation uncover the truth. June 6th 1996 2.30 a.m. Crime Stories: The Wrong Man
A gash across her throat. ibid.
Sentenced to death by lethal injection. For over ten years Routier has maintained her innocence. Claiming she and her children had been attacked during a botched robbery. ibid.
‘We have serious doubts whether Darlie Routier is the right person.’ ibid. rozzer
New DNA evidence that points to a male perpetrator. ibid.
In an alley almost a football field’s distance from the house lay one of her husband’s socks, splattered with spots of blood. ibid.
Kill her own children and slash her own throat? ibid.
Why isn’t she finished off? ibid.
‘Her [husband] failed on a number of questions.’ ibid. rozzer to mother
This is Darlie Routier, sentenced to death for the murder of her two children. Werner Herzog on Death Row, Discovery 2014
From the moment of her arrest she has proclaimed her innocence. ibid.
In Texas a housewife has been found guilty of murdering her five-year-old son and could now get the death penalty. Death Row’s Women with Susanna Reid: Darley Routier, news report, ITV 2020
If ever there was a crime that warranted the death penalty in America this was it: two young boys murdered, their mother convicted and sentenced to death. But the case against Darlie Routier is far from simple. ibid.
‘If they choose to kill me, my innocent blood will be on their hands.’ ibid. Routier
When the police arrived the house was covered in blood. ibid.
In the 23 years that Darlie has sat on Death Row, 15 women have been executed in America. ibid.
‘Darlie should not be where she is today when she is yet to have a fair trial.’ ibid. Stephen Cooper, present pro bono brief