Darlie Lynn Peck Routier was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six-year old son, Devon, who was murdered at the same time as Damon. To date, Routier has not specifically been tried for Devon’s murder.
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Darlie Lynn Peck Routier was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six-year old son, Devon, who was murdered at the same time as Damon. To date, Routier has not specifically been tried for Devon’s murder. The prosecution argued that Routier’s injuries were self-inflicted, that the crime scene had been staged, and that she murdered her sons because of the family’s financial difficulties. The defense argued that there was no reason Routier would have killed her children and that the case did not have a motive, a confession, or any witnesses. Two appeals filed by Routier, who maintains her innocence, based on allegations of irregularities during the trial were denied, but new DNA tests were ordered multiple times after technology had advanced. As of 2020, testing is still ongoing. The case has been the subject of multiple books and television shows. In February 1997, a jury found Routier guilty of the. murder of Damon, and sentenced her to death by lethal injection. Her youngest son, 7-month-old Drake, was asleep upstairs with her husband Darin at the time of the murders; both escaped harm.
Four days later, on June 18, 2001, Router was arrested and charged with the capital murder of Devon. She later commented on the video, saying, “He wanted to be seven. I did the only thing I knew to do to honor him and give him all his wishes because he wasn’t here anymore. But how do you know what you’re going to do when you lose two children? How do you do you act?\”Routier’s trial began on January 6, 1997, in Kerrville, Texas, and she was convicted of capital murder on January 8, 1997. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She died in 2010, at the age of 80. She is survived by her husband, Darin, and their two children, Drake, aged 7 and 6. She also has a husband and two step-children, ages 3 and 4. The couple have a son, 5, and a daughter, 3. The family lives in Rowlett, Texas. In June 1996, at 2:31 am, 9-1-1 dispatchers in Rowlet, Texas,. received a call from the Routier residence at 5801 Eagle Drive. Routier told the operator that her home had been broken in to and that an intruder had stabbed her children, 6-year,old Devon and 5-year to death.
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