Hush Little Babies: The True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children

The true crime story of the Texas mother who murdered her two young sons in 1996.

Not since the Susan Smith case have two murders so shocked the nation . . . 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 had come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with the same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant sons 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.

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Ebook: 16 april 2025