Hush Little Babies: The True Story Of A Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children

Donald A. Davis

Apr 2007 · Sold by St. Martin's Paperbacks

About this ebook

A killing so brutal it shocked the police and left the nation grieving, Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood's most wonderful mom, who one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood...

Darlie claimed an intruder has come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant son slept upstairs. At first Darlie's heartfelt testimony evoked fear and sympathy in her safe Dallas community. Then police became suspicious after these troubling questions were raised:

Why, according to a police report, didn't Darlie make any attempt to help her dying sons?

Why, when she called 911, did she tell the dispatcher that her own fingerprints would be on the murderer's knife because she had picked it up?

Why did the trail of blood left behind contradict Darlie's testimony?

From the dark forces that drove her to kill her own flesh and blood, to the evidence that snared her in her own twisted web, here is a chilling account of homemaker, loving wife, mother of three, and cold-blooded killer--Darlie Routier.

Ratings and reviews

I think that this woman is actually innocent. What did the police do with all the other evdience that actually suggested an intruder went & did this? Blame it on her instead of looking for the killer.

Intriguing. How they gave her the death sentence on little evidence, other than circumstantial. Still, it was enough to convince a jury. If she did I indeed do it, God help her soul...

A case of a mother wrongly convicted of killing her precious little boys! So sad for the whole family!!

About the author

Donald A. Davis is co-author of New York Times bestseller Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper and author of Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor. He lives outside Boulder, Colorado.