Darlie Routier

Truer Crime

Celisia Stanton

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At 2:30am in June of 1996, Darlie Routier placed a frantic call to 911. A rough story starts to emerge: an intruder broke into the Routier home, attacked Darlie and her two sons Damon and Devon, and then fled into the night.. Almost immediately, cops have only one suspect. But the Routier family? They know that investigators have it all wrong. Today’s story is an episode that examines what it really means to be innocent until proven guilty. Today's episode contains references to violence against children, depression, suicidal ideation, and incarceration. Please take care while listening. A full list of sources, resources mentioned, and photos related to the case are available in the episode's show notes, https://truercrimepodcast.com/darlie-routier/. If you liked today's episode, leave us a review! It's the best way to support our work and helps other people find Truer Crime. Keep up with us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, want to hear a PC Game Pass advert?
0:04.7	I'll take your silence as a yes.
0:06.6	Want you games on day one like Call of Duty Black Op 6 or Stalker 2?
0:10.5	I thought so.
0:11.8	How about unlocking all the League of Legends champions when you link your Riot Games account?
0:15.6	All for one low monthly price.
0:17.3	Well, guess what?
0:18.2	We got you.
0:19.5	Learn more at Xbox.com slash PC Game Pass. Stalker to
0:22.6	available November 20th, 2024. Game catalog varies by region and overtime. And yeah, that's the
0:27.9	end of the script. Before we jump in, I wanted to give a heads up that today's story contains references
0:33.7	to violence against children, depression, suicidal ideation, and incarceration.
0:38.9	Please take care while listening.
0:40.8	Resources related to these and other topics mentioned in today's episode can be found on
0:44.4	our website, truercrimepodcast.com.
0:49.3	As I completed my research for today's story, there was one line I couldn't ever quite get out of my head.
0:56.0	Nestled at the top of a 2018 Vox piece that was written by Herman Lopez was this really simple, but honestly, really harrowing sentence.
1:05.7	If you murder someone in America, there's nearly 40% chance you'll get away with it. But it wasn't the 40% that sat
1:14.7	nagging at the back of my mind. It was the 60. Because if the cops can't get it right four times out of 10,
1:22.7	then who's to say they got it right the other six times? And that's the exact question we're asking today,
1:29.4	because this is the story of Darley-Rudier. I'm Slicia Stanton, and you're listening to Trure Crime. The
1:47.0	The The story of the Rudier family in many ways starts out not so differently than many of my own memories of childhood.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Celisia Stanton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Celisia Stanton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.