darlie routier dna results 2021

Q. Do you have the links to the criminal's mugshots? I also submit to you that if the vacuum was there and neither of these police officers noticed it, they're not very observant and perhaps should re-think their career choice. Q. Please do not try to tell me that the print was Damon's; the DNA blood map clearly shows that the child went nowhere near the glass table where that print was located. According to Darlie, she had not had her period since giving birth to Drake and was feeling particularly low on that day. This means that Damon had to have been stabbed within about a minute before the 911 call began. What happened next remains a mystery. I swear these worms have been eating at me for 3 plus years at this point. When the 911 dispatcher picked up, Darlie was just blurting out the words, trying to get it all out. I'd also like to add that I have been to this very neighborhood, and it is a six-minute walk from Rickels' home at 8910 Miami Drive to 5801 Eagle Drive. I believe you are right, and the verdict was a "payback" of sorts. If she was just seeking attention, it would make more sense to call the police the very next day upon hearing about the murders. Did the Court get this one right? He may not have been able to see the ambulance from his bedroom window. In the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, 911 dispatchers in Rowlett, Texas received a panicked call from 26-year-old Darlie Routier. 2021. Okay. Darin and Darlie purchased the house toward the end of 1992 and moved in at the beginning of 1993. Were Darins pants found? His reply cannot be heard; he may have answered non-verbally with a nod, but he's in the room with Darlie when she asks the question. During the police investigation, one of the mistakes that hurt Darlie the most was giving several accounts and timelines of how the events occurred. All of them, most likely. She refused. SOMEONE had to have left that fingerprint in blood; the blood was still wet and fresh when the print was left. Despite her claim of innocence, she was tried for the death of the 5-year-old, sentenced to death and is currently on death row. No, she most certainly didn't. No, there's no recording of anything that was said after the 911 call ended, but according to Waddell's own words, this whole exchange took place during the first few minutes of his arrival, while Darlie was still on the phone. This was a 12 day investigation with Darlie in the cross hairs from the get-go. Routier has always claimed a stranger had broken into the home and killed the kids . She grabbed a butcher knife and just started stabbing her kids in a rage. Again, he wasn't about to flee with anything at all that could link him to this house or this crime. What happened next? I can understand that, except that I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I see a judge with a clear bias in favor of the prosecution that was blatantly trying to rush through the trial, never mind that someone's life was hanging in the balance. This case is unlike any other case that I have covered, because technically it's a solved case. But Judge Tolle overrode this. So it's clear, did youwere you able to determine what time it was when you woke up with Darin yelling? Yet, there were towels collected as evidence, and towels are also visible in the crime scene photos. There are a multitude of problems with the police investigation, the prosecution's case against Darlie, and the resulting conviction. We hear a desperate mother who was in shock, begging for help. Okay. WowI never really considered the possibility that perhaps Darin arranged it so that the "burglars" would come in when the family was in the house. If she was struggling and twisting away from the guy wielding the knife and he slashed at her, the cut would not be a perfect slice all the way across. WTH? It certainly isn't impossible, but I formed my opinion based on verifiable facts, and I just haven't seen anything that points to a woman's involvement. Far be it from me to critique another author's work, and I can say that the article is very well-written and the author appears to be highly intelligent. The prosecution successfully appealed to the conservative jurors' subconscious prejudices by usage of the above-mentioned emotional trifecta. So riddle me this: How is it possible that Darin can make it all the way through the house, out the front door, into the yard, wait for Waddell to get out of the police car, walk up to him, and ask him to identify himselfin the span of 12 seconds? One, two, donewitness dispatched. Paramedics arrived at the scene at about 2:40, and paramedic Jack Kolbye witnessed Damon gasp his last breath immediately after he began attending to him. Don't get me wrong: I'm not defending Darin, nor do I believe he's innocent as a newborn lamb. She went to the door and screamed for Karen Neal, the nurse across the street. I'm actually glad that you addressed that, Rachael. I think she was a bit of a drama queen that made a big deal out of absolutely nothing. Questioning by defense attorney Mr. Doug Mulder: Q. These maggots have been eating at me with their lies for too long. The affidavit is only mentioned again once more, very briefly, and its contents have never been revealed. When it comes to this case, I have never been confident with either the crime scene preservation or the collection of the evidence. When an arrest is made for a felony charge, the suspects are automatically fingerprinted and the prints are uploaded into the system. And this is the time when you told her to do that? Every time he would receive a mugshot, he would send it to Karl, who did not know Arkansas's real name and was not familiar with the man he had been arguing with. How long had they been in that house? There could be a perfectly logical explanation. As of 2021, testing is still underway. Okay. I do not fault him for that; he is human. Additional DNA tests ordered for Routier I guess we'll know soon if Darlie is indeed innocent. Rickels peered out the blinds and saw that the men had returned and were trying to get in the window. They did not return. The judge also ordered DNA profiles from each member of the Routier family also be sent to the California lab for comparison purposes. He, too, was instructed by the prosecution to avoid recording his findings in a written report. Still, the machine can't do it all. At around 2:30 in the morning of June 6, 1996, Rowlett, Texas homemaker Darlie Routier awoke on her family room couch to see the silhouette of a man walking away from her in the dark. It is in the toxicology report, but Greg Davis lied and would not turn over the results to th edefense during the trial. The wheels of justice turn excruciatingly slowly, and even slower in the state of Texas. That's actually in Kathy Cruz's book. In the event that Darlie is fully exonerated, I guess it would be up to the DA's office whether or not they have enough evidence to pursue charges. This resulted in both men invoking their 5th amendment right against self-incrimination; it also effectively robbed Darlie of her own 6th amendment right to cross-examine her accuser, since Patterson was the one who drafted her arrest warrant and filed charges of capital murder. With Darlie's appeal still pending, the results of this forensic evidence could allow her to retry her case. I have a pretty good idea of who was in there with Arkansas but I don't think it would be wise to speculate in an online forum. What they heard loud and clear was the subtext of Davis's remarks: a rap song? I wish you could say all the things too!!!! Why even cut yourself at the sink at all? When it comes to criminal investigations, there are three main indexes utilized by law enforcement: offender profiles of those convicted of crimes; arrestee profiles of suspects, and forensic profiles collected from crime scenes. This time, one of them had what appeared to be a screwdriver or knife. IMO. Blood spatter analysis was inconsistent with Darlie's version of events. I know mothers kill their children; the idea is not inconceivable to me. Last but not least, Devon was MOST DEFINITELY on his feet when he was attacked. The Routier's Home at 5801 Eagle Drive: Devon and Damon called it "The Home Alone House." Question: Tell me more about how the DNA and AFIS databases differ, what are we looking for? The timeline was presented by the prosecution and was based on the length of the 911 call, and the testimony of Dr. Janis Townsend-Parchman, the doctor who performed the autopsy on Damon. JustinCase976 (author) on August 22, 2019: Thanks for your comment, Fern; it's always nice to hear another standpoint from a supporter of Darlie's innocence. Fibers believed to be from a sliced screen were discovered adhering to a bread knife from the kitchen. Attorney's for convicted killer Darlie Routier are having old evidence tested again in an effort to try and prove Routier is innocent. Nabors Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. I don't believe the glass broke when it hit the floor. The stroke, the medication, the horror movie: none of this means that two men with a knife didn't try to break into her house that night. Because they were more than likely caused by two different people, with two different knives. She had suffered a stroke during childbirth the previous fall, she had cardiac issues and was treated for three minor heart attacks during the summer of 1996; plus, she had recently lost her brother and had been prescribed the anti-depressant Trazadone. Ted Bundy exhibited an intense amount of rage when he broke into that sorority house and brutally bashed and strangled those women, but he didn't know a single one of them personally. I believe she remembers bits and pieces and everything is out of order; I also believe she herself isn't even sure of what memories are real, and what has been confabulated. However, if there is one thing I would personally love to ask Darlene Potter, it would be this: How is it that, more than six years later, she can be absolutely sure that the date she saw these men was indeed June 6, 1996? When questioned on the witness stand, Rickels stated, "Well, it was over at that point, the men were already gone. He didn't bark because he was never aware those people were in the house. By L.P Phillips, NewsRadio 1080 KRLD April 30, 2021 8:31 am DALLAS (1080 KRLD)- The Rowlett woman convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death over the 1996 deaths of her two sons is getting a powerful ally. The case of Darlie Routier is controversial and has the support of the innocence project. Answer: AFIS is the automated fingerprint identification system that was implemented in 1999. As the man made his escape, he dropped a large butcher knife onto the floor. "DNA map" of blood trails belonging to each of the injured Routiers. He began submitting open records requests of all inmates that were at Potter County Jail in the fall of 1996. He stated: "Whoever killed those boys knew them, and knew them well.". Routier has been fighting her death sentence since 1997 when she was found guilty of murdering one of her two boys. What the prosecution does not say is that there was no evidence of Devon's blood present on the knife that was recovered from the Routier home; only Damon's and Darlie's blood were present. Why wouldn't her prints be on it? Listen carefully; what do we really hear on that tape? Guilters insist the only way this could happen is from Darlie raising the knife over her shoulder while stabbing Damon. TWELVE DAYS! Q. I believe you're right on the money as far as why it looked like there was "clean up" in the sink area. He did not become fully awake, nor did he look at the clock. Darlie's plaintive reply is "Now I hang up?". The Rowlett PD was under tremendous pressure to solve this case and solve it quickly. The presence of blood and water alone does not indicate a cleanup job, in my opinion. Id be on the hunt if I were Darlie Lynn Routier .. Timothy gene harris dead but I think I read somewhere theres another guy thats walking around .. if hes approached hell be singing like bird lions and tigers and bears oh my! Its just that I . He usually came home between 1:50 and 2:00 in the morning. That's the number one thing convinces me she is guilty. That may have been part of the problem, but the biggest nail in the coffin was a downright dirty trick pulled by the prosecution. JustinCase976 (author) on February 26, 2020: I do not have actual links to the photos I have seen. You never told him that any time he was in your house? Can you show me ANY picture of him crushed by this major catastrophic event in his life. The officer, of course, is Matt Walling. When Karl learned her name, and the fact that her children had been stabbed to death in June of 1996, he put two and two together. I see. James Cron, a retired "crime scene analyst," arrived at the Routier home around 6:00 am. Did Darlie get a fair trial? I also believe Devon and Damon were killed by two different people, with two different knives. I read the transcripts. The prosecution called a number of so-called experts and analysts to the stand. His affair with Karen Neal has been exposed for years and yet people keep asking questions about that stupid sock. If it quacks like a duck. It proves nothing. Did Sergeant Walling ever tell her to administer first aid? I do need to do some fact checking, but if everything checks out, I will indeed update the article to include what you shared with me. I don't believe that Darin actually communicated with any of the intruders directly; I think there was a middle man who set this all up and somewhere along the line there was a miscommunication with regard to the dates the house would be empty. He would have had to be in the house for all that time until the cop got there, what was he doing hanging around the crime scene? 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. The biggest discrepancy was that the article cited Greg Davis as the attorney who cross-examined Darlie, when in reality, it was actually Toby Shook. "What is a yoot?" How do you know if the bedroom door was closed with the dog in there? Under Toby Shook's brutal cross-examination, Darlie became non-responsive, argumentative, and even downright angry. It can make them too confident and arrogant in their opinion. Cron did not see Darlie's injuries. JustinCase976 (author) on December 05, 2019: I'll tell you exactly what I think, and have always thought: it's downright IRRESPONSIBLE to rely upon the fractured memories of a traumatized crime victim whose entire recall of that night is like a piece of Swiss cheese. Trollslayer is probably Bryan st john or Slemmons or Arthur. What kind of mother wears such revealing clothing, all that flashy jewelry, and a ring on each finger? Thanks for commenting. In April, though, the Innocence Project in New York entered the case and its review of the evidence and subsequent petition won court approval for further testing. Why would anyone attempt to clean up blood while continually bleeding from a gaping wound on their throat? Okay. Darlie's first words to the dispatcher were: Somebody came herethey broke in! The notes in Darlie's chart indicated that she was tearful, emotional, and experienced long periods of crying. Days later, Darlie began menstruating again, and the relief washed over her. As anyone who is familiar with this case already knows, the original transcripts contained over 33,000 errors. I believe that when Darlie turned her back to tell Damon to stay back, the guy doubled back down the hallway. Alan Brantley, a Special Agent with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, testified that the force of the wounds on the children indicated extreme rage. It's laughable. It has always amused me that Guilters so readily dismiss Rickels as a liar or a hysterical little woman who imagined the whole incident because she was watching a horror flick. To this day, they cannot prove that Devon was attacked with the same knife, and many speculate that there were indeed two intruders in the house that night, one who brought his own knife and one who used the butcher knife from the kitchen. Justice will be served. I agree completely. Darin was a successful entrepreneur and Darlie was a. Even if you add a couple of minutes to Parchman's opinion that he only lived eight or nine minutes, that still does not give Darlie enough time to accomplish everything the prosecution claims she did. The case has received worldwide attention and has been featured on several TV shows as Routier works to prove her innocence through post-conviction petitions in Dallas County and in the U.S. District Court in West Texas. If she was laying on the couch, and a man with a knife mounted her, the first thing anyone would do would be to raise their arms up defensively, thus accounting for the black-and-blue bruising up and down her arms. I honestly have no idea. 3) I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you've never been to Eagle Drive. Wouldnt a new investigation begin? What would happen next? Now, one might ask why Waddell would lie; what does he gain? Q. I'm not saying it's impossible for his kicking to have caused that bruising, but it is improbable. She's lucky she didn't kill herself. When I asked her that, she told me that he was stillsomebody was still in the house. A. In Darlie's case, she probably subconsciously realized there had been more than one person, but since she only has a memory of seeing one of them, her confusion is understandable. I scoured the documents with a fine tooth comb looking for the answer to that question. I happen to know that bit about the frog planter is true, but it is not common knowledge. Just my theory. It is known that Darin did go outside to get help from Karen Neal, another neighbor across the street who happened to be a nurse. What happens next? The 2021 DNA came back with "foreign eligible profile" has turned up, that sample is to be sent to Acadiana Criminalistics Laboratory in Iberia Parish, La., to determine if it matches the profile of anyone in the national DNA database. She was first tried in the media, then she was tried in the court of public opinion, and, finally, she was tried in a courtroom. The Routiers had significant financial problems, including a substantial drop in income from the previous year, credit card debt, a late mortgage payment, and back taxes owed to the IRS. The two boys both died, but she was . Did she struggle with the intruder? She has also been widely criticized for not calling the police that night. Many people believe the call itself is a huge indication of Darlie's guilt, but that's strictly a matter of perception and open to interpretation. Where did they come from, the towel fairy? C'mon Justin, you really asking me how I know about the frog planter? The logs will verify that both Bryce and Vanessa have been to see Darlieand I highly doubt they are flying to Texas from New York just for their health. On December 28, 1996, Arkansas was found hanging in his cell once againthis time with his hands tied securely in front of him with a bed sheet. Police discovered that a window screen had been cut in the garage, a possible entry point for the intruder. As a rule, most claims made by inmates are taken well-salted. Drake preferred to sleep/nap with his face and head covered. Guilters have been quick to dismiss Rickels as a "lying lunatic" or a "brain damaged stroke victim on a cocktail of drugs.". And she told me that she probably should not have done that, because she messed up the fingerprints on the knife. That does not, and never will, fall under the category of lying. Someone alleged a 'fired housekeeper & her boyfriend' did it. A. I walked back over to where she was, and I asked her again who had done it, and if there had been any problems in the house, or if they had had any problems with anybody that she might think would have done it, and she told me no, and she kept telling me, that the guy was still in the house. Guiltersthose who believe Darlie is guiltyhave a number of familiar reasons for doubting her story. And as her lawyers prepare to head into court yet again, new information . "Tell me what's going on?" She asked repeatedly when the ambulance would arrive. That is when Gorsuch saw Darin and Waddell outside, at 2:40 am. Darlie replied with the only thing she could possibly have saidthat she had already touched it when she picked it up. Even the state's expert witnesses conceded that an intruder may not necessarily have tracked blood while making his exit. The sock had to have been placed in the alleyway after the children were stabbed, since spots of blood on the sock were sourced to both of the boys. The state of Texas gave Darlie Routier the trial and verdict they WISHED they could have given Susan Smith. The belief is that Darlie grabbed a wine glass from out of the wine rack and tossed it on the floor to make it look like there was a struggle. She turned on the porch light and the men ran off. I don't believe that Waddell encountered or spoke to Darin when he first arrived, and here's why: If you listen to the 911 call, at the 3:29 mark, Darlie asks Darin if the children are dead. Smith pointed out that many of the items being sent for analysis have never undergone DNA testing. At the time of his death, Devon weighed 46 lbs. In another, she has no memory of fighting with him. There could be any number of reasons why blood could have appeared to be wiped away, but please don't expect me to believe that an actively bleeding woman made a half-hearted attempt to clean up blood and then just gave up. Just my opinion. I'm stunned that Darlie's lead defense attorney Doug Mulder did not immediately jump on this discrepancy but I have long suspected that Mulder may have purposely "thrown" this case, for reasons known only to him. They could not have an unsolved double homicide of two young children and the general public panicking about a lunatic on the loose. 20, 2008, edition of the last DNA results Explore the story! Was it Officer Waddell? The pre-trial reference to Teresa and her affidavit was so brief that if you blinked, you missed it. What gives? One has to wonder how much evidence was missed, and not collected for testing. Trollslayer is one of several fake profiles causing chaos on hubpages. Still, Karl had nothing to gain by telling this story. I believe his shady business deals were the reason this happened, and he knew it, and did everything in his power to keep it from coming back on him. Reminds me of that scene in My Cousin Vinny: Judge: Mr. Gambini, that was a lucid, intelligent, well thought out objection. A Dallas County judge has signed an order for DNA testing on nearly 30 items in the appeal of Darlie Routier of Rowlett. JezMyOpinion from The South on August 29, 2019: Fern, omg, what are you smoking? He also claims that Darlie described to him how she struggled or fought with the intruder by the kitchen bar, but that conversation never took place. These fibers are also consistent with the brushes used for fingerprint dusting, and the knives were dusted for prints immediately after the screen, making a great case for cross-contamination. Seen lotsa ER people looking neat for the unplanned visit. Darlie's husband, Darin Routier, was sleeping upstairs with 7-month old Drake. The purpose of this database is to link crimes to other crimes and offenders. You almost have it. One of Darlie's non-supporters uploaded a video of him having a chat with Barbara Jovell about this very thing. Well, after you told her to apply the pressure, and she sat down. The ambulance that was directly in front of Walling parked along a curve on Eagle Drive, across from the Routier's house and directly underneath where Gorsuch was standing. It was one of the attorneys that shared with me the detail of the frog planter. There is no logic to support the theory of her planting that sock, even if she is the killer. I see nothing in them that definitively points to Darlie's guilt, but I do see numerous red flags with regard to how the case was handled by both the prosecution and the defense. Well, if there was, I can't find a record of it. Or perhaps the glass on the footprints truly was staged after Darlie was taken to the hospital. He's a wealthy businessman from Waco who hired his own investigators to look into the case. There is no tone, no inflection, no facial expressions or body language. Shaking my head. The emotion, the anguish, the terror, the panic you're getting a glimpse into another person's living helland every parent's worst nightmare. There were no lies in those letters, only misinformation. Bevel met with the defense team prior to the trial, including Lloyd Harrell, who was the investigator for the defense. For the love of God, think of the children! If anyone ever looks at it all they'll see is "did you really think I'd be dumb enough to write anything personal? They just stabbed me and my children!" So why the discrepancies? Some people swear they have, other people say it's a load of crap. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. A. I assumed it was two to three or four minutes, somewhere in that area. Also, Darlie was probably fighting and struggling. Okay. Patterson. Okay. She sat down on the floor right where she was standing. He reiterated the time during cross-examination, and was adamant that his clock is set for the actual, precise time, and not a few minutes fast as some people are prone to do. He may have been an experienced police officer, but he was still a parent, and I believe the man just plain froze. In the crime scene photo below, you can clearly see that a shard of glass remains in the holder where the broken glass had been. Rickels went to the door and looked out the peephole. At the time, Darlie had two different private investigators working on the case and feeding her (sometimes conflicting) information. All he manages to get out is "Daaaaa----" before a beefy hand is clapped over his mouth and he is flung back to the floor. But just because it's my theory doesn't mean it's right; you might have nailed it. I am not responsible for what other supporters say, but I at no time ever stated that her necklace was embedded into her wound, nor did I say it had to be surgically removed. About 1520 minutes later, Rickels heard noises again, this time coming from her daughter's empty first floor bedroom. and we do tend to presume it is a male unconsciously i though male intruder up until you mentioned what the psychic said about been a female. Bill Gorsuch was a neighbor who lived across the street and worked nights. Last but not least, the amount of fiber recovered from the knife was so minuscule that when Linch was finished with his analysis, there was nothing left for the defense to perform their own analysis! A. I believe the first thing I asked her was, who had done this. "Ma'am, I need you to talk to me." It is estimated that there are over 13 million offender profiles, more than 3 million arrestee profiles, and 840,000 forensic profiles in the system as of 2018. They had the nurses pass around various photos of Darlie's injuries and the crime scene, but they also slipped Devon's and Damon's autopsy photos in with them. Copyright Altoona Mirror | https://www.altoonamirror.com | 301 Cayuga Ave., Altoona, PA 16602 | 814-946-7411. "; Darlie: "They killed our babies!") The great news is that Darlie will finally be free. Innocence Project is not taking her case. Combine these details with the affidavit filed by Darlene Potter, and one can say that not only was there more than reasonable doubt in this case, but it looks possible, or even probable, that Arkansas and Dwayne were involved in the deaths of Damon and Devon Routier. I often hear people say something to the effect of: "Darlie was unduly concerned with her fingerprints being on the knife." Even if he heard something, the dog would not have realized there were strangers in the house; he wasn't close enough to smell them. I would have loved for Mulder to call her in rebuttal of the other nurses's testimony. Nothing happens overnight; it's all a process. The Innocence Project is paying for the shipment of evidence between laboratories, according to the judges orders. DNA testing not available at the time was recently conducted and the results are discussed in the special. To hear them tell it, Darlie was unemotional with a flat, disinterested affect. ", At the time, Karl had been in jail for months and knew nothing of the Rowlett murders. The whole attack happened in a matter of minutes, and wasn't necessarily as noisy as some may assume. JustinCase976 (author) on October 29, 2019: Heather Rose, I agree with you completely. I beg to differ. Where is Darlie Routier case > the Darlie Routier free /a > Darlie Routier 2021 update - Darlie Routier is the source of the DNA from the national of. That much I believe; I also believe that in the time it took to park the vehicle, step out, draw his gun, and walk from where he parked to where the man had been standing, he lost sight of him. Darlie's DNA trail is shown in green, Devon's in yellow, and Damon's in red. The implants were a gift from Darin. He also said that the post-conviction hearings in Dallas County could continue while the additional testing is underway. I said, "Get down and help your little boy there, and I will keep an eye on the garage.". There's so many details that just don't add up. Do you know who was involved in the insurance fraud Darin/Jag/ 1993? The scene was most definitely staged. There are other indexes as well, such as missing persons and unidentified human remains. A. I don't know what Sergeant Walling told either one of them. Dwayne out. So, Darlie attempted to clean up the sinkwith what? She was injured as well, but not as severely. The defense wanted to put Mr. Harrell on the stand to bring this discrepancy to the attention of the jury. From what I know about the suspects, they were definitely high on something, most likely crack cocaine.