S3 Ep316: Darlie Routier: Our Interview With Her Sister, Danelle (Part 6)

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🗓️ 27 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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1:12.7	Hello everybody.
1:14.3	Welcome back to Crime Weekly.
1:15.4	I'm Stephanie Harlow.
1:16.7	And I'm Derek Lavasser.
1:24.6	So today we are actually sitting down and talking to Darley-Routier's half-sister, Dineau.
1:28.9	And during this conversation with Denault, which we intended to be much shorter,
1:34.4	but she was actually super cooperative. She had a lot of good information. You know, she answered a lot of our questions. So we had so many questions that the conversation did just end up going.
1:40.6	She had a lot to say too. Yeah. So we kind of just let it develop organically. We were initially going to do a full episode about, you know, Darley, Routier, and from her side, why she might be innocent. We're still going to do that next week. But we're going to sort of cut in clips from this interview into that episode. But because it was such a good conversation, because we had so many questions, because she had a lot to say, we decided to just give this interview to you in full. So this will be part six. Next week will be our seventh and final part of the Darley-Ruti series. We'll give our final thoughts. Unless we get some more interviews. Yeah. And you guys can tell us your final thoughts, too. After it all's been said and done, and we had, you know, several episodes where we talked about why we think that Darley is guilty.
2:21.2	Now we have a few episodes where we can hear from Dinell and see why her camp thinks that Darley is innocent.
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