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Page 6 • The Battalion • Thursday, June 20, 1996
Rowlett mother accused of
stabbing two sons to death
The woman said her childrens killer was a white man
ROWLETT (AP) — At a graveside birthday
party for one of her two murdered sons, Darlie
Routier sprayed Silly String and clutched her
sons’ photograph while family members sang
“Happy Birthday.”
“They wouldn’t want us to be down here being
sad even though our hearts are breaking,” Routier
said at Friday’s party.
On Wednesday, she was in jail, accused of stab
bing the boys to death then wounding herself to
cover the crime.
Routier had told police that an intruder came
through a window and stabbed 6-year-old Devon
and 5-year-old Damon while they slept in the liv
ing room, then stabbed her before fleeing.
She said the attacker was a white man, who
wore dark clothes and a baseball cap. Police say he
never existed.
“On the one hand we had a community thinking
that there was a psychopathic killer walking the
alleyways at night,” said Sgt. Dean Poos, a
spokesman for the police department in this sub
urb about 20 miles east of Dallas.
“On the other hand, we had a crime scene ... telling
us that what Routier was telling us didn’t happen.”
News reports quoting unidentified sources have
said blood evidence showed Routier was stabbed in
the kitchen, not in the living room as she told po
lice, and that the only set of bloody footprints
found in the house belonged to Routier.
Reports also said investigators found a knife in
a kitchen drawer with metal fragments on it that
matched a cut window screen Routier said the at
tacker came in through.
The 26-year-old homemaker spent two days ia
the hospital recovering from the wounds police
now say were self-inflicted.
At the time of the killings, her husband, Daria
Routier, was sleeping upstairs with the couple’s 8
month-old son. He is not a suspect but the investi
gation is continuing, police said.
Routier was arrested late Tuesday and is being
held on $500,000 bail, charged with murder in the
June 6 slayings. She could face the death penalty
if convicted.
The case bears some resemblance to that of Su
san Smith, the South Carolina woman convicted
last year of murdering her 3-year-old and 14
month-old sons. Before confessing to rolling her
car into a lake with the boys inside in October
1994, she claimed that a carjacker had abducted
the boys.
Authorities would not comment on a possible
motive in the Routier case or on reports that the
family had been in financial trouble and took out
life insurance policies on the sons.
“We haven’t been able to establish that that’s a
part of this at all,” First Assistant District Attor
ney Norm Kinne said.
There were no files on the couple or Routier’s
small electronics business on file in U.S. Bank
ruptcy Court in Dallas.
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simulated wind, current and wa
ter conditions to aid in setting
design requirements.
Dr. Wayne Duncan, associate
director of the OTRC, said the
testing done in the wave tank is
crucial to creating a design ap
propriate for ocean drilling.
“We (OTRC staff) try to tell
them how to build safe platforms
... and not to over-design or un
der-design them,” Duncan said.
“Our primary concern is develop
ing ways to drill in six to ten
thousand feet of water. This is
the only wave basin in the world
that can generate wind, waves
and currents simultaneously.”
Although the primary pur
pose of the tank is to research
ways of improving ocean drilling
techniques, companies with no
connection to the oil industry
can use the wave tank to help
design their products.
NASA has used the tank find
out if their Assured Crew Re
turn Vehicle, which was de
signed to make trips back to
earth in case of medical emer
gencies on the shuttle or the
proposed space station, could
withstand oceanic conditions.
Kay Choate, staff assistant,
said Boeing is currently using
the center to test a recovery
tool designed to save objects
ejected from the space shuttle
during lift-off.
“They (Boeing) are testings
device that will help save objects
falling off the space shuttle into
the ocean,” Choate said.
The center is available to
professors and students from
the two Universities conduct
ing research.
Oriol Rijken, graduate stu
dent of Civil Engineering, said
the facility is very important to
his research.
“Without being able to do
my experiments, I wouldn't
have been able to graduate,’
Rijken said. “The reason I’m
in College Station is because
the center is here.”
Lease
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Romero said these reasons are designated in
section 31 of the Texas Apartment Assoscia-
tion’s official lease.
“When you sign a lease, you are being
promised a service and you will provide the
money,” Romero said. “A lot of times, the com
plaints deal with shoddy maintenance and in
correct security devices, also, if they are being
obsessive and coming in at weird hours. The
landlord has a right to come in and check on the
unit, but it has to be reasonable.”
Students having trouble with a landlord or
manager can go to the Student Conflict Resolu
tion Center (SCRC). There, tenants can utilize
mediation or the campus attorney.
Bridget Jackson, coordinator for negotiation
and mediation services in the departments
student life, said mediation can work, but many
times landlords are unwilling to try it.
“The only problem with dealing with land
lords is that they have the lease and see it as
non-negotiable,” Jackson said. “They are sup
ported by that legal document and they sei
there is not much discussion beyond that.”
If mediation is not an option, the campus attor!
ney can offer free legal advice to A&M students.
Rick Powell, coordinator of student legal ser
vices, also works in the SCRC.
“I can give them advice and counseling
they can be informed of their legal rights ani
responsibilities and know their options,” Powell
said. “Students can decide how they wantti
handle the problem after they know their right 1
and what they can do.”
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