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Crime scene consultant James Cron testified that evidence suggested the scene inside the Routier residence had been staged. [ 24 ] The prosecution also suggested there was a financial motive for the murders since both boys had a life insurance policy on them.
In 1996, police in Rowlett, Texas received a call from Darlie Routier telling them of the murder of two of her three sons. However, police were unsure about the validity of her story and began an intensive search of the crime scene.
The first season examines the death row cases of Darlie Routier and Julius Jones and seeks to trace the path that led both Routier and Jones to their places on death row, while taking a deep look into their personal stories. [2] Jones' sentence has since been commuted to life without parole while Routier remains on death row. [3]
The defendants’ petition for a new trial came after new DNA testing, which took place in 2021, further linked evidence from the crime scene to the unknown male and excluded the three defendants ...
Other crime scene experts have publicly criticized the case against Routier and one juror has publicly stated that he now believes she is innocent. [74] Routier is collecting funds to perform new DNA testing on evidence at the crime scene [75] and wrongful conviction advocacy group Investigating Innocence has taken her case.
Three men who have served over two decades in prison for the murder of a 70-year-old woman in her home outside Philadelphia asked a judge to throw out their convictions, citing new DNA evidence ...
Now 80, Ramsey is pushing for local authorities to allow an outside lab to test crime-scene evidence from the case. “We have requested a meeting with [Boulder Police Department] Chief [Stephen ...
Darlie Routier, a housewife from Rowlett, Texas, fatally stabbed two of her sons and staged a break-in. To date, Routier maintains her innocence in the crime, attributing it to an unidentified intruder. In 1987, Frances Elaine Newton shot her husband and her two young children for their life insurance money.