Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek Labasser.

So today we are diving into part four of the Darley-Routier case, the deaths of her two sons.

I'm going to give you kind of a quick recap to get us back up to date because, like I said,

this is part four.

I know you have been following along, but just to refresh everybody in the days following

the June 6, 1996 murders of 6-year-old Devin,

Routier and his 5-year-old brother Damon,

investigators zeroed in on their mother, Darley, who had offered several shifting accounts of what happened,

none of which seemed to match the evidence.

On June 8th, just hours before the boys viewing, she was brought to the

police station and gave yet another statement that didn't align with the physical evidence.

As the investigation continued, questions swirled about Darley's behavior, especially after she

was filmed, smiling in spring, silly string on her son's grave during a birthday tribute. Meanwhile,

test results from the crime scene began rolling in and they told a very different story than the

ones, the several different stories Darley had been sharing. There was no conclusive evidence that

an intruder had ever been in the house and detectives were getting ready to make an arrest.

So aside from the physical evidence not matching Darley's story, there were several

circumstantial red flags that detectives could ignore. Those have all come up already in previous

parts, but I do want to recap some of the most suspicious elements just to lay it all out.

First, Darley never made an effort to stop her son's

bleeding. She didn't touch them or provide first aid. Not even when she was told to do so by an

officer on the 911 call or by Officer Waddell after he arrived. And later she lied and said that

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