S3 Ep309: Darlie Routier: The Bloodstained Timeline of a Mother’s Story (Part 3)

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

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Summary

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, a frantic 911 call came in from a quiet neighborhood in Rowlett, Texas. On the line was 26-year-old Darlie Routier, who said she and her sons had been stabbed by an intruder while they slept in the downstairs family room. When first responders arrived, they found a horrific scene—six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds, while Darlie was walking around, bleeding from several knife injuries of her own.

As officers cleared the house and paramedics worked to save the victims, Darlie repeated the same story: a man in dark clothing had come into the family room, stabbed her and her children, then fled through the garage—leaving the knife behind. But as investigators began to process the scene and piece together what had unfolded in the Routier home, a new set of questions emerged—about Darlie’s version of events, the physical evidence, and what she did—and didn’t do—after the attack.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek
0:16.0	Lavasar. So today we're diving into part three of the Darley-Routier case with her two sons,
0:22.9	Devin and Damon, being stabbed to death in their family home.
0:27.5	Darley also had some wounds.
0:29.8	So this happened in the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996.
0:33.4	It was 6-year-old Devin Routier and his five-year-old brother Damon, who were brutally stabbed to death, and what followed would become one of the most scrutinized investigations in Texas history.
0:44.4	And Derek and I both agreed from the start something about the scene and the circumstances did feel off.
0:50.3	The evidence didn't match the mother, Darley's ever-changing account.
0:54.9	Items appeared to have been moved or staged, and there were few signs of the violent
0:59.2	struggle that she described.
1:01.7	And while investigators combed through the house, Darley was in the hospital with knife
1:05.3	wounds of her own wounds that ended up being very superficial, unlike her son's wounds.
1:10.1	And over the next two days,
1:11.9	she showed very little emotion. Her sort of demeanor was described as being flat. She gave
1:19.0	slightly different versions of what happened to detectives, to nurses, to family members.
1:24.0	Nurses were hearing her tell family members different versions of the story. Just an
1:28.4	absolute mess. And then on June 8th, just two days after the murders, Darley was released from the
1:34.4	hospital. But instead of heading straight to the boys viewing at the funeral home, she and Darren
1:39.5	would be escorted to the police station for another round of questioning where Darley would give yet another
1:45.2	version of what happened. That's where we're picking up today. Derek, before we dive in to the
1:50.0	meat and potatoes of this case, do you have anything you want to bring up, talk about? I think it just
1:56.1	kind of goes with what you just said as far as the recap with our comments on YouTube. There are
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