Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt. Are you already for one of those cases that will make your head hurt?

Because I didn't think that's what I was getting into when I started researching this case.

But I literally spiraled in circles over transcripts and evidence photos and case documents

for six days straight. And I eventually just had to like...

Yeah, I was going to say you even like cancelled a recording session because you were going to

research more.

Yeah. And I literally had to like eventually just pull the plug and decide to tell you the story.

And let you decide for yourself what you think because I'm not sure I can come up with a

solid answer about what actually happened in the Routier home on June 6, 1996.

I want to start our story back just a couple of hours before everything unfolded.

This is June 5 in Rallette, Texas. It's a normal day in a small suburb town.

Darren and Darley Routier lived in a beautiful newly built home with their three sons.

Devon, who's six, Damon, who's five, and a newborn Derek who's less than a year old.

Now, schools out for the summer. So that night, the two older boys wanted to have a camp out in

the living room, which if we can take just like two seconds to try and remember being six,

living room campouts were the greatest.

Oh my gosh, I loved them.

I know. I don't know why sleeping in your living room like over your bedroom is so much cooler,

but it's like pure freedom at that age.

Oh yeah, definitely.

So, Darley decided that she was going to sleep with the boys downstairs.

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