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Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

9. Darlie Routier Part 1

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8733 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On June 6, 1996, at 2:31 am, 911 dispatchers in Rowlett, Texas, received a call from 5801 Eagle Drive, the Routier home. Routier told the operator that her home had been broken into and that an intruder had stabbed two of her sons, Devon and Damon, and attacked her. Join us while we discuss this case and the possible culprits.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The President First thing I hear is this real light glass break.

0:29.6

The next thing I hear is Dolly screaming.

0:32.6

I mean screaming as loud as any person you've ever heard.

0:36.6

I ran down the stairs. And as soon as I get to the

0:41.1

edge of the stairs, I mean, gosh, she's freaking. I mean, she's devon, dev, dev, dev, dev, dev,

0:44.6

I mean, she's just going off and just saying it a million times in a row.

0:48.0

Oh my God. Oh my God. I get downstairs and run right straight over to Devon, and he's laying face up,

0:57.8

and he's got this look on his face of nothing.

1:02.0

He has these two huge gashes in his chest.

1:05.1

Devin had been stabbed while sleeping.

1:08.3

I was trying to wait out to go out and go out. My daughter was dying. I was trying to see what I was going to go out there my daughter died and they're dead.

1:13.6

I tried to revive him.

1:15.6

I gave him CPR.

1:16.6

I blew into his mouth.

1:17.6

As soon as I blew it into his mouth, blood came out of his chest.

1:20.6

And it was just a complete hole.

1:22.6

I put my hands over it, trying to hold the holes closed.

1:25.6

And then I look up and Damon's laying over 12 feet away from him up against the floor.

1:32.3

And he's just laying there.

1:34.2

And he's not, you know, he's moving a little bit.

1:36.4

Darren Routier was so intent on trying to save first Devon and then Damon that he didn't even realize his own wife's throat had been slashed.

1:44.9

And she was bleeding profusely.

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