Episode 72 - Darlie Routier: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In 1997 Darlie Routier was convicted of murdering her 5 year old son, Damon, and sentenced to death. But for 21 years she has sat on death row protesting her innocence, claiming that the real killer was a stranger who broke into the house and attacked her and her sons.

Is she a lying cold-blooded killer, or a tragic victim of brutal injustice? The evidence seems to point in every direction.

Join the girls this week as they tackle one of their most frustratingly convoluted cases yet.

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:06.0	I'm Sauruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.
0:28.0	Dali Routier is currently sat on death row in Gatesville, Texas for the murder of her two sons.
0:34.0	She's been there for 21 years and from the day she was arrested to today she has maintained her innocence.
0:41.0	Law enforcement and state prosecutors, however, claim that she is an evil, self-absorbed psychopath who deserves the needle.
0:50.0	But there are several holes in this case that in our opinion raised serious questions about Dali's guilt or, at the very least, the way in which this investigation was handled.
1:01.0	And with Dali having exhausted two of her three allowed appeals, the state right now, a sky high, one more failed appeal and Dali Routier will be headed to the death chamber.
1:12.0	And finally, as of this month, November 2018, new DNA testing is being carried out, some on evidence that has never previously been examined.
1:23.0	But let's rewind to the beginning so that we have the full picture.
1:26.0	Dali was just 18 in 1988 when she married Dali Routier.
1:31.0	The two had met several years before as teenagers in Lubbock, Texas and when Dali hit success with his career testing circuit boards, the couple moved to Dallas.
1:40.0	They went on to have three little boys, Devon, Damon and Drake.
1:45.0	They were just a totally ordinary family.
1:48.0	And the 6th of June 1996 started out as a totally ordinary day.
1:53.0	Before that is, it spiraled into a nightmare.
1:56.0	That evening, 26-year-old Dali fell asleep downstairs in front of the TV with her two eldest sons, 6-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon.
2:06.0	DARREN was asleep upstairs with their baby Drake, who was just 7 months old.
2:11.0	Suddenly, DARREN was woken up when he heard Dali screaming and the sound of glass breaking.
2:17.0	He ran downstairs and found a total blood bath and a hysterical Dali screaming about a man in the house.
2:26.0	The blood soaked Dali called 911 and the police were on the scene in minutes.
2:30.0	David Waddell, one of the first responding officers from the Ralepp Police Department, said that when he arrived at the house, he saw a man running out of the front door.
2:39.0	He yelled at him to stop and asked him what he was doing.
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