S3 Ep314: Darlie Routier: The Verdict Is In (Part 5)

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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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.
0:12.6	Welcome back to Crime Weekly.
0:14.1	I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:15.3	And I'm Derek Levasseur.
0:17.3	So we are now...
0:18.7	Levasier.
0:21.6	It's Leveseur. But we're going to say Levasseur.
0:23.6	We will, but we could say Levasseur.
0:25.6	You could say there's different options out there.
0:28.6	You sound like an explorer then.
0:29.6	Some would say that my, I say my own name wrong.
0:32.6	Like Derek Levasier, the famous, you know, colonial explorer has a lake named after him, Levasierre Lake.
0:40.3	Does sound pretty good.
0:41.5	Okay, so we are here to talk about Darley-Routier.
0:44.2	We are going into part five of this case, and we're about to talk about the trial, which is going to be quite interesting.
0:50.4	So should we dive right on?
0:52.8	We can't because we have a big announcement.
0:54.5	Oh, yes, we do. You're right. Thank God for you.
0:57.5	Do you want to do the honors or do you want me?
1:00.0	So I will do the initial announcements and then you can give the details.
1:06.0	Okay.
1:07.0	Okay. Sounds great.
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