Serg Orshovskiy

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@0_oRai Cold-blooded for me. Did she ever say sorry to her kids at least?

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On June 14, 1996, Darlie Routier stood at her sons' grave on what would have been Devon's 7th birthday. Eight days earlier, Devon, 6, and Damon, 5, had been stabbed to death in their living room. A TV crew filmed what she did next. Her jury watched it too:

She told police a stranger broke into the house in Rowlett, Texas, while she was asleep on the couch with the boys. She said he stabbed them, cut her throat and ran out through the garage, and that she chased him and called 911. Her husband Darin and their 7-month-old baby were asleep upstairs. Police found a cut window screen in the garage, but the dust on the sill was undisturbed, and a bloody sock with both boys' blood turned up 75 yards from the house.

In the video below, at 0:10, she's smiling and spraying Silly String over the grave, under balloons that say "Happy Birthday Devon." Then she tells the camera the boys are in heaven having the biggest birthday party anyone could imagine, and that they wouldn't want the family to be sad, "even though our hearts are breaking." At 0:38 the prosecutor who watched it on the news says he was sickened.

Within days she was arrested for capital murder. At her 1997 trial the prosecution played the tape for the jury and called it "grotesque." Her lawyers said it was a grieving family trying to cope, and that the newscasts showed the celebration but not the prayer service before it. The jury convicted her of killing Damon, and she was sentenced to death.

She is 56 now and has been on death row in Texas for almost 30 years. No execution date has been set. Courts have ordered new DNA testing three times, and a bloody fingerprint from the house has never been matched to anyone. She still says she didn't do it.

Was that a mother who had already stopped grieving, or a grieving mother judged by a few seconds of tape?

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@0xjakke Probably both. Without Moore's recorded calls, maybe there's no confession at all

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@ItsJezMyOpinion @0xSammyAlpha @DrPhil Thanks for clarification, need to check it too

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On June 14, 1996, Darlie Routier stood at her sons' grave on what would have been Devon's 7th birthday. Eight days earlier, Devon, 6, and Damon, 5, had been stabbed to death in their living room. A TV crew filmed what she did next. Her jury watched it too:

She told police a stranger broke into the house in Rowlett, Texas, while she was asleep on the couch with the boys. She said he stabbed them, cut her throat and ran out through the garage, and that she chased him and called 911. Her husband Darin and their 7-month-old baby were asleep upstairs. Police found a cut window screen in the garage, but the dust on the sill was undisturbed, and a bloody sock with both boys' blood turned up 75 yards from the house.

In the video below, at 0:10, she's smiling and spraying Silly String over the grave, under balloons that say "Happy Birthday Devon." Then she tells the camera the boys are in heaven having the biggest birthday party anyone could imagine, and that they wouldn't want the family to be sad, "even though our hearts are breaking." At 0:38 the prosecutor who watched it on the news says he was sickened.

Within days she was arrested for capital murder. At her 1997 trial the prosecution played the tape for the jury and called it "grotesque." Her lawyers said it was a grieving family trying to cope, and that the newscasts showed the celebration but not the prayer service before it. The jury convicted her of killing Damon, and she was sentenced to death.

She is 56 now and has been on death row in Texas for almost 30 years. No execution date has been set. Courts have ordered new DNA testing three times, and a bloody fingerprint from the house has never been matched to anyone. She still says she didn't do it.

Was that a mother who had already stopped grieving, or a grieving mother judged by a few seconds of tape?

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@Osakamoti probably a lot, not sure if someone counted

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@ItsJezMyOpinion @0xSammyAlpha @DrPhil Which 2 men did she name? Did police ever check them

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@0_oRai Yeah but weird grief alone doesn't prove someone did it

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@0xSammyAlpha Not sure yet, I want to check his statements. People grieve so differently

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@DailyLoud Now the prosecutor is checking if the budget covers extra fries🥲

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@Quantex0x sounds like a confession. Why did he even agree to do this interview?

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@0xSammyAlpha Police failed her imo. Even the review said she should have been treated as the victim

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@low_perplexity Yes I think so. How did the deputies miss the purses in that closet?

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@xbtDraco Victim for sure. Lying to cops was just what Dee Dee taught her

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@lctrnotes The neighbors. Did those men ever get any reward from the city?

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@levijunior220 A bit. He says "strong delusions" himself, and that tells more than the devil part

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@Quantex0x After a year of that fear, I can't blame anyone who joined in

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On August 31, 1985, the most wanted man in California walked into a corner store in East Los Angeles and saw his own face on the front page.

For more than a year, the Night Stalker had been breaking into homes at night across Los Angeles. He killed people in their beds. The day before, police had finally released his photo.

He had just come back from Arizona on a bus. He didn't know.

Richard Ramirez ran.

He tried to steal a car on Hubbard Street. The owner, Faustino Pinon, fought him for the wheel. He ran to the next car and pulled Angelina De La Torre out of her driver's seat. She knew his face. She screamed.

Her husband Manuel pulled a steel bar off his gate. A neighbor, Jose Burgoin, dropped his garden hose and ran. His son Jaime caught Ramirez first and knocked him down.

Manuel hit him over the head.

When the deputies arrived, the most feared man in Los Angeles was slumped against a fence. In the patrol car he kept saying the same thing. "It's me."

In the video below, raw news footage from that afternoon. The neighborhood crowds around the police cars. Then at 0:48, detectives walk him through the cameras with his head down.

He was convicted of 13 murders. At sentencing in 1989, he told reporters: "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland."

He was never executed. He died of cancer in 2013, still on death row.

The police hunted him for more than a year. A street full of neighbors caught him in a few minutes.

Would you have run toward him?

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@0_oRai I say murder. He dated the doc editor, so I doubt the whole film

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@tiltdiaries Lying. Innocent people don't try to pick how many murders they take

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@xbtDoni I'd say grieving mom. "I guess I did it" after hours of questioning isn't strong proof