"Darlie Routier Is Dangerous!"

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Teenage college student Ryan Kester made news this year when he petitioned the Texas courts to examine the court exhibits in the Darlie Routier case. Routier sits on Death Row for the murder of her five year old son Damon. She is suspected but never charged with the murder of her six year old son Devon.
Ryan Kester spent years pouring over the court records, even recreating the evidence determined to prove Routier's innocence until finally concluding Routier was guilty. Kester joins Roberta to talk about the "Free Darlie" movement, the forensic evicence and what finally changed his mind and his mission.
The Roberta Glass True Crime Report is produced by Ati Abdo MacDonald.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.
0:26.1	From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.
0:43.8	My guest, a 17-year-old college student, Ryan Kester, made news this January, when he petitioned the Texas courts to examine the physical evidence in the Darley-Routier case.
0:51.7	Routier sits on death row for the June 6, 1996, murder of her five-year-old son,
1:01.5	Damon. She has been accused but never charged of killing her six-year-old son, Devin, as well.
1:10.4	The courts rejected Kester's request, but he told the press he would fight on to prove
1:17.3	Darley Routier's innocence.
1:20.5	It was to my great surprise to find out that upon further examination of the case, Kester now believes Darley-Routier guilty.
1:33.2	Welcome, Ryan Kester.
1:36.7	Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
1:39.3	Thank you. So you are my youngest guest.
1:42.8	How do you get to be a 16-year-old college student?
1:48.3	I actually graduated when I was 15. I'm 17 now. Basically, I started off in a private school,
1:54.9	and then as I progressed my parents after the eighth grade, they pulled me out and had me privately educated. They would
2:02.7	hire people to come in and teach me. And I guess that's kind of how my interest in true crime
2:09.7	really started. I mean, I've always kind of been interested in it, but I took a forensics class
2:14.1	my junior year and that really piqued my interest.
2:18.6	Your junior year of high school. Yes. What made you interested in the Darley Rootier case?
2:24.7	I don't remember the first time I heard about it because I grew up and I currently live in
2:30.0	Rockwall, which is literally I'm a mile from Darley's house right now. I live right on Lake
2:35.9	Ray Hubbard and they live right on Lake Ray Hubbard, so we're just a lake away from each other.
2:40.1	Oh, interesting. And the cemetery where the boys are buried is in Rockwall and the Rootiers
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