Revisiting Routier: Tale of the Tape
DALLAS, Texas – It was a hot day for an exhumation – a Friday afternoon in September, when summer refused to take its dying breath. The witnesses gathered in a room on the fifth floor of the Frank...
View ArticleQuestions raised by extensive notes kept at Routier trial
Sandy Aitken’s incessant note-taking during the murder trial of her nephew’s wife, Darlie Routier, agitated prosecutors and even the judge. Chronicled in the 405 handwritten pages is her perspective...
View ArticleWhen justice sleeps
After a long, bitter battle with Keller school officials in Tarrant County over the needs of her autistic, suicidal son, Sheryl Kaminsky hoped that a due process hearing would finally wake them up....
View ArticleForensics expert disagrees with state’s version of events in Routier case
Forensics expert Terry Laber was poised to challenge the state’s expert blood spatter witness — a man whose credibility has since come under question. But Darlie Routier’s lead defense attorney never...
View ArticleFamily of Darlie Routier believes that DNA testing could prove her innocence
A well-funded state machine claimed Darlie Routier murdered her two little boys and slit her own throat. Costly DNA tests might prove otherwise — but even if she could afford it, the state might not...
View ArticleIs money standing between those wrongfully convicted and freedom?
The Innocence Project of Texas has freed a half dozen wrongfully convicted men through the work of volunteers. They claim the prison gates might swing open for more inmates if they had more money to...
View ArticleProsecutors accused Rowlett homemaker of being a psychopath
A camera was rolling as Dallas prosecutor Greg Davis told a TV news reporter that Darlie Routier was “a psychopath” – a claim unsubstantiated and not supported by a state-commissioned forensic...
View ArticleHigh-profile case helped change justice system
Calvin Jerold Burdine’s lawyer slept through parts of his capital murder trial and, along with the prosecutor, used anti-gay slurs. So egregious was the behavior of those in the justice system that...
View ArticleJezebel
Breast implants and a girl’s night out at a male strip club are not inherently indicative of homicidal tendencies. But those details were used by prosecutors in the Dallas County District Attorney’s...
View ArticleHood County News underwriting statewide series
“Justice for All” and “Routier Revisited: Was Darlie unjustly convicted?” are series underwritten by the Hood County News and offered to newspapers across the state through the Texas Center for...
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