darlie
my sister actually requested that i buy some cause she needs to use darlie. i don’t mind colgate actually but i would actually prefer darlie .
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around 2. 30am, on 6 june 1996, darlie called police, frantic .
welcome to the darlie routier forum. mary yes i believe darlie murdered her two precious boys also but i also believe that her husband darin had something to do with it also .
however, the defence called a string of witnesses, all vouching for darlie’s good character. a chief medical examiner also testified darlie’s wounds were actually extremely serious, missing her main artery by 2mm .
on 6 june 1996 darlie routier’s two young sons were brutally butchered. did she commit the unthinkable crime ?
i thought you might like to see a memorial for darlie mollohan bush i found on findagrave. com .
if it hadn' t been for that crazy silly string, darlie lynn routier might be a free woman today .
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“there’s so many exonerations now, ” kee said. “and i just keep thinking, ‘when is it darlie’s turn? ’”
be careful what you wish for. macdonald' s dna tests only reaffirmed his guilt and so will darlie' s .
unthinkable. but darlie was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder. soon, the evidence began to mount up .
as prayers were said, there wasn’t a dry eye to be seen…apart from darlie’s. she didn’t shed a tear. and just eight days later, darlie held a graveside birthday party to celebrate devon’s 7th birthday. smiling and laughing, she sprayed silly string everywhere .
at her trial, in january 1997, darlie pleaded not guilty. but the prosecution branded darlie a heartless killer, self - centered and materialistic. coroner janice townsend - parchman testified the boys’ wounds were savage and deep, but described darlie’s as ‘hesitation wounds’, possibly self - inflicted. next there was the kitchen sink clean - up, done by darlie after she’d made the alleged self - inflicted slashes to her neck and shoulder. then of course there was the lack of any real evidence of an intruder in the house. detectives believed the crime scene looked ‘staged’ .
on top of all the inconsistencies, a picture was emerging of a family in dire financial troubles, and of darlie struggling to maintain her lavish lifestyle .
and still in china, darlie is referred to as, ‘the black man toothpaste’. with the symbol of a black man in top hat on its cover .
yes, darlie is guilty. i also think the aisenbergs had something to do with sabrina' s disappearance. (sorry - - subject change .) karen
i believe that darlie is guilty also and i also believe that darin has something to do with the murder of their 2 precious boys also. i do believe that she does deserve a new trial due to the first court reporter errors so that the ng' s can' t say that justice was denied for darlie .
a bloody fingerprint has been found that does not belong to darlie, darin, the children or any of the police or other people in the routier house the night of the murder .
when they arrested darlie, we just pretty much lost it ,
says darin, and says they have never been able to grieve for their children but it is darlie' s husband and mother who have steadfastly continued the fight. they have appeared 10 times on nationally televised talk shows, printed up bumper stickers and have a toll - free phone number (( 888) 883 - fair) appealing for donations and information that could help
find the real person who attacked darlie and murdered her children .
they have gathered support. right now, they say, freeing darlie is the only fight that counts .
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the birthday party film that was viewed by the jury that made me think that is a killer, showed darlie dancing on the graves of her son along with other family members, but did not show the hours previous to that scene when darlie sobbed and grieved over the graves with her husband darin. why was the entire footage not shown ?
“they ended up deliberating on the silly string, ” her mother, darlie kee, told the dallas morning news this week. “silly string is not a lethal weapon. ”
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no she should not. darlie' s appeals process is ongoing and if there were anything that would exonerate her, they' d have already gotten a new trial imo .
if i ever import darlie at a mass scale, i would love to have a celebrity endorse my toothpaste. who could i have endorse darkie…. hm…. . i know !
why don’t they sell darkie in us? well, maybe because darkie is offensive and racial. well, it’s fine, we’ll just change the name to darlie! that sounds flowery .
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if there really was anything new to warrant a new trial, yes sure why not, but there isn' t. darlie and her family just want the public to think there is .
darlie has no history of mental illness. she was not abusive to her sons. she was faithful to her husband and there is no fact from anyone saying differently on any of this .
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the neighbors never saw them as wild though. she had kids in she baked cookies for and those kids stood up for her against the accusation that she killed her sons. darin and darlie helped out a cancer patient neighbor with a mortgage payment and seemed to have a heart. whose idea was that, i don & # 8217; t know, but darlie was baking the cookies .
after hours of deliberation a jury found darlie routier guilty of murder. three days later she was handed the death penalty. she’s currently still on death row awaiting execution, but has appealed her conviction .
and, what was the killer’s motive? expensive jewellery and cash remained untouched, and there’d been no sexual assault. meanwhile, darlie and darin had to endure the horror of going to their own children’s funeral .
that’s what the manufacturers did anyway. you know what? i want to import it to us. maybe i should try selling the 15 darlie toothpastes that i have imported from penang the last trip back home .
drake lives in lubbock with his father. darlie and darin routier divorced in 2011. neither darin nor drake could be reached for comment, but darin routier has previously said he believes his ex - wife is innocent .
the company said it would change the name of the toothpaste to darlie and make the logotype a portrait of a man of ambiguous race wearing a silk top hat, tuxedo and bow tie. two - year changeover planned
now, i don’t pretend that suddenly the symbol or name of darlie ought to be changed outright. that’s not possible, but in this article i intend to educate the public on the toothpaste’s dark - racist past .
also of concern, which were never brought to the attention of the jury, comprised the pictures of darlie' s cuts and bruises on her arms which were taken when she was hospitalized the night of the murders .
before long, the routier home was flooded with police. but the key piece of evidence – the bloody knife – was covered in fingerprints, including darlie’s, after she’d picked it up from the lounge floor after the attack .
with darlie what i did not see was the same as others did not see, any proof, and how long will our rotten dirty judicial system keep getting by with having their say, right or wrong and hiding information to make things go the way they want? why do they continually do this? what i and the jury did not see was darlie' s horrible cut and bruised black arms and hands, defensive wounds, without one doubt .
darlie was said to be obsessed with the trappings of wealth and, apparently, had little patience for her boys, who she blamed for losing her looks. but despite the whispers, in october 1995 the couple had their third son drake .
china has been selling a toothpaste for years with an offensive and dark - racist past. between the 1920s and 1950s, darlie toothpaste was called, “darkie”. the latter, a racial slur used commonly used towards africans and african - americans .
i don' t understand how someone can read the transcripts and come to a different conclusion than the rest of us. i truly believed the girl didn' t do it until i found those docs. that imooc sealed darlie' s fate .
some writers who have interviewed darlie routier have decided to help her fight to get a new trial. since reporting their opinions on her situation, they report that their ability to visit her has been blocked or made so inconvenient that little can be accomplished .
we also know that they both committed perjury on the stand when they claimed that their finances and their marriage were
healthy .
they were up to their eyeballs in debt, darin was bringing in less than ever before and darlie was stuck at home with three boys (not an easy thing to do). we know that they had an argument that night that led to darlie asking darin for a separation. we have no way of knowing whether this was a typical thing for darlie to do since she and darin both lied on the witness stand. it would have been a good time to say they did it all the time, so we don' t put as much emphasis on it, but who am i to tell them what to do ?
darin routier has admitted to trying to arrange an insurance scam, which included someone breaking into their home. he has admitted that he had begun the initial steps to arrange a break - in, but that it was to be done when no one was at home. no jury has heard this admission. surely any law would be all over this, how many ways could this be the answer? maybe not even the way darin meant it to be but caused with unlawful schemes. i could understand them suspecting him, i really could, and why don' t they? i don' t believe darlie would even suspect him, but if i were darlie i would have to give that some serious thought, but i think darlie is as i say so much like my own daughter. either a lack of intelligence or too much into her self, which does not equal a murderer. i keep waiting for my daughter to change and act more mature, but i suspect like darlie it is just who she is. no changing .
darin and darlie moved into her mother' s home after the murders and lost the $ 200, 000 house they built, also their 35 - foot cabin cruiser,' 86 jaguar, plus some. legal fees and bad publicity about the case ruined him financially. his electronics business, bringing a salary of $ 500, 000 in 1995, lost 14 of its 17 clients and all employees. there was many bad testimonies from people making darlie look bad, there was no testimonies of the people who saw her much differently. darin and ms. kee claim darlie' s trial mocked the judicial system. evidence that would have cleared her was never presented, witnesses who could have contradicted the prosecution' s assertions never testified, forensics testing was botched, depositions were distorted. forensic fingerprint tests done after darlie' s trial still show that she is innocent of the crime for which she was convicted. a bloody fingerprint taken from her living room coffee table did not belong to anyone living in her home, and two more fingerprints in the utility room and door leading to the garage in which darlie thinks the murderer escaped the darin' s home after attacking her and her two sons. no matter, repeated requests, the court will not grant the evidential hearing necessary to investigate and evaluate this evidence .
i have always had the feeling that darlie was guilty. it' s not just spraying the silly string on her children' s graves either. it was just something off about her. i believe she killed her sons or knows the person who did it .
nothing points away from darlie. only to darlie. the silly string party at the grave isn' t evidence, but it does give one pause. there is discussion of a mourning video at the grave, but it has not reared it' s head in 19 1 / 2 years. would that not have been played after the state played the ss tape? also, the jurors did see all of the pictures, that is one of the oldest rumors about this case. i just can' t see anyway that anyone other than darlie could have done this. now that her date is drawing near, she is starting to throw it back on darin. i' m so hoping that he will finally tell all he knows about what she did that night as darlie herself will never tell what she did. she is a combination of many things - narcissistic, selfish, etc. look up
profile of a sociopath
and it practically comes up with her picture on it. the only time she seems sad or mournful is her mug shot .
as paramedics tried to patch darlie up, she was hysterical, convinced the intruder was still hiding somewhere. but detectives found no trace of him. finally, they found the murder weapon in the kitchen. a butcher’s knife, presumably left behind as the attacker fled .
hi and welcome to websleuths 4baddogs (love that name! !). my opinion about the darlie / darin pack is that they both have enough on the other that neither of them will spill what they know for fear the other one will spill what they know .
if they were in cahoots, i wonder why darlie never implicated him. and he divorced her a few years after she was put on death row. if my husband helped me plan the murder of two of our sons, i' d be singing like a canary .
among the first steps the company took was to run a computer program that listed all possible one - letter changes in the name darkie. from this list, and from names suggested by several professional marketing firms, came a list of around 20 names, from which darlie was chosen .
someone in an earlier post said the silly string episode was darlie' s way of celebrating her freedom from her burden in life being lifted of taking care of two very active boys 24 / 7. i agree. at the grave site she looked absolutely giddy and
free
. on the trip to penn. with the boys for two weeks would have been tiring and time consuming. without the boys she could have basked in the limelight of her relatives. drake being an infant would have been no problem as many there would have taken care of him for darlie .
i believe the courts (in good faith and to shut darlie up) should retest the evidence with the new dna techniques. just to see if these new tests come up with a different outcome. but that is it. no new trial. it would be a waste of money .
the attorney that represented darlie routier at trial had an apparent conflict of interest, because he was said to have had a prearrangement with darin routier and other family members not to pursue any defense that could implicate darin. this attorney supposedly stopped key experts for the defense from finishing forensic examinations .
suffering from post - natal depression, and unable to lose her baby weight, darlie, then 26, confided to darin about having suicidal thoughts. but as they talked, it seemed things were looking fixable for the young couple. until, tragedy struck. something no - one could fix .
note from american girl: penang boy isn’t kidding. there really is a brand of toothpaste named darlie (formerly darkie) and it is the toothpaste to use in asia. the chinese name for the brand translates to “black man toothpaste”. unlike the u. s. , there are no negative connotations in naming something “dark” or “black” in asia. darlie uses a racial caricature, yes, but it’s also a brilliant marketing ploy since i’ve known many taiwanese who fervently admire the “shiny white smile” of black people. seriously though, you’ve got to use it. it tastes like clean candy .
when the paramedics arrived at the scene they said that darin routier was outside, but darin was inside trying to save his children, so who was the man they thought was him? it was reported the testimony of the nurses was coached and rehearsed in mock trials by the prosecution prior to their testimony. saying the cut in her neck was 2mm of the carotid sheath but external to the carotid artery was what darlie' s operating surgeons reported, and that the necklace she had on blocked the cut from going deeper, showing the seriousness and unlikely darlie would or even could have done this herself .
childhood sweethearts, darlie and darin routier were the ultimate all - american family. with darin’s computer business booming, they were ‘living the dream’ in an upper middle class area of texas. with a flash car, lavish home and expensive clothing, their two sons, devon and damon, wanted for nothing .
darlie moved to lubbock as a teenager with her mom and step dad, meeting darin in a western sizzlin' where her mother worked and so did darin as a cook. he was 17 and she was 15 and they married four years later. after moving to the dallas area he began his own small company that tested electronic components and when he became a success in the early nineties they bought a nice house and spent thousands getting it just how they wanted. darin bought a thirty - foot cabin cruiser and a 1982 jaguar. they went a little wild with their money and darlie bought new boobs and flashy jewelry .
luckily for darlie, her wounds were only superficial. distraught she managed to explain an intruder had entered their home and climbed on top of her on the sofa while she slept. she struggled with him before he eventually fled the scene. it was only then she noticed her two sons lying butchered on the floor .
routier’s family says the silly string, provided by darlie’s sister, was part of a birthday celebration. her oldest son, devon, would’ve turned 7 that day. the party followed a prayer service for both devon and his younger brother damon, but tv cameras didn’t capture the tears, kee said, only a frolicking routier .
june 6, 1996: routier brothers damon, 5, and devon, 6, are found stabbed to death in the family' s rowlett home. darlie routier, 26, has cut and stab wounds on her neck and upper body. husband darin routier, 28, and son drake, 7 months, are unharmed .
officers soon arrived to find a sickening scene. damon, then 5, and devon, 6, lay on the floor in the living room by the telly, in pools of blood. snuggled up with their 8 - month - old drake, darin had slept through the whole horrific ordeal. only woke to darlie’s gut - wrenching screams .
we know that darin had been thinking about some illegal insurance fraud scheme that he may or may not have done previously. we also know that he failed the lie detector tests. while the results of darlie' s tests have not been made public, i pretty much think if she had passed, we' d have heard about it before now .
the second print taken from this door is a latent print located below the patent bloody fingerprint. latent print consultant robert lohnes checked this print in 2003 and said that it matched the second finger joint of darin routier on the middle finger of the left hand. in addition, langenburg currently is conducting a second examination of the bloody fingerprint on the utility room door to determine whether darin routier can also be excluded as the source of this print. if, as darlie expects, darin routier is not the source of this print, darlie definitively will have demonstrated that an unknown third party deposited two separate fingerprints, one of them in the victims' blood, while fleeing the scene on the night of the murders .
this is also new information to me. do you know a website where i can read about the most important details of this case (from the beginning)? i am still on the fence about darlie' s guilt, but i now have a better understanding of why people believe she' s the murderer. still, why was the blood concentration on the back of her gown / shirt? if she stabbed her own sons, wouldn' t the splatter have been on the front? also, what is the deal with the unknown fingerprint? why hasn' t that been matched yet (the print itself, not the dna from the blood content)? finally, wasn' t there a strange car spotted in darlie' s driveway the night of the murders? this case is so complex and messy .
its long been my opinion that we will hear from darin one day. now that it looks like darlie' s getting desperate enough to at least be hinting that she' s ready to throw him under the bus, he may talk to save his neck. after all, he' s already said he wants to help her, but not if it means he has to change places with her. what a man !
i rememer seeing photos of darlie' s bruises and injuries, which seemed too severe to be self - inflicted. i remember hearing that these photos were not shown to the jury, but i don' t know why. i heard one or more jurors saying that if they had seen the photos, they would have voted ng. then there was also something about a bloody sock being found outside, a ways away from the house .
never brought to the attention of the jury were other things of alarm and great importance included the pictures of darlie' s cut' s and bruises on her arms taken when she was hospitalized the night of the murders. one juror told reporters he would never have voted to convict if he had seen the photographs. i would be sure others would have agreed. that is when i knew without a doubt! these are defense wounds, clearly .
i remember this case. i' ve always been torn about her guilt or innocence. the prosecution used the fact that she and her husband were having financial problems as the motive for her killing two of her three boys, but the gruesome way the kids were killed indicates to me that whoever stabbed them had to really hate them or be really sick in the head. if she wanted to get rid of the kids for financial reasons, why didn' t she kill the baby as well? and wouldn' t she have found a cleaner, more simple way of killing them like suffocating them or poisoning them? and she herself was stabbed near her carotid, which could have killed her. i don' t see why someone would risk killing themselves because they were struggling financially. i also always wondered what, if any role, her husband played in the murders of the two boys. if darlie did kill them, did he know she was going to do it? he was upstairs sleeping with their youngest son when darlie said the alleged attacker broke in the house and allegedly stabbed darlie and the older boys. but the police claimed he made a very odd statement when they got there. it was something to the effect of he could see why a man would want a attack a beautiful blonde with double d' s .
i think she buckled under the pressure of money problems and children. she needed child care for those 3 boys more than she needed extra maids and cleaning help. devon was out of school for the summer and probably bored silly and seeking things to entertain himself. damon was a tag - a - long after devon. darlie wanted everything in her life easy and problem free. not so with two very active youngsters roaming the neighborhood and house and hot tub .
i voted
no
. i think she is guilty and should remain where she is until her date with the needle. this is my first post but i have lurked here for more than a year. after reading the trial transcripts and hearing the evidence against her it is apparent to me that no one else could have killed those two darling boys but their mother. someone in an earlier post said the silly string episode was darlie' s way of celebrating her freedom from her burden in life being lifted of taking care of two very active boys 24 / 7. i agree. at the grave site she looked absolutely giddy and
free
. on the trip to penn. with the boys for two weeks would have been tiring and time consuming. without the boys she could have basked in the limelight of her relatives. drake being an infant would have been no problem as many there would have taken care of him for darlie. i think she buckled under the pressure of money problems and children. she needed child care for those 3 boys more than she needed extra maids and cleaning help. devon was out of school for the summer and probably bored silly and seeking things to entertain himself. damon was a tag - a - long after devon. darlie wanted everything in her life easy and problem free. not so with two very active youngsters roaming the neighborhood and house and hot tub. i read she is receiving parenting magazines in prison. that' s closing the barn door a bit late. jmo ashley
drake routier looks just like his mother. the blue eyes, wide face, and his mother' s mouth. the court took darin' s custody of the child, who was 7 months old at the time of the murders, simply because he defended darlie! this is texas law? his parents were allowed to raise the baby and he was given rights to visit him but still! does this horror never end? if darin is guilty of nothing how could they take custody of his child from him ?
the blood on the back is in a splatter such as would be by raising the knife above her head whilst raising and lowering it during stabbing. in almost every murder case there is a
black car that was seen
. the print you mention is too smudged to be id' d, yet darlie has not been ruled out as it being hers. there is a fb page
justice for devon & damon routier
. it is a public page and all are welcome regardless of whether guilt or innocence is thought. at the top of the page are
file
and you can find everything there. start with the transcripts - a long tedious read but so much info right there. there are people there that have studied the case for over 19 years and don' t mind at all answering any questions regardless of how small or large it may be. i for one, believe fully in her guilt - evidence and dna do not lie. darlie has been caught in so many lies that i can' t possibly see innocence in her. no one wants to believe a mother could do this, yet it happens often. heartbreaking isn' t it ?
i saw darlie dancing around her children' s graves; spraying silly puddy, laughing and acting so happy. of course she killed those babies, i was filled with hate, seeing her acting this way and those babies of hers, murdered and in the ground beneath her. i can' t say that i accept this behavior even now but people are different and i know they are, it still doesn' t make them guilty of murder. i really felt so guilty the more i listened, read, and learned. i am not the only one with a change of mind .
all of a sudden their business went downhill and they got behind on their bills it is claimed; owing $ 10, 000 in back taxes and $ 12, 000 on credit cards. about a month before the murders darlie considered suicide it is said by darin and an incomplete diary entry. it was a fleeting thought apparently. my doctor once asked me if i had ever thought about suicide and my answer was ,
hasn' t everyone ?
he laughed, for it is true. maybe to different extents but if you know the word you have thought about it, if you have something you just think you can' t face you may think about it, so i consider that pretty normal and nothing to even consider in anyone' s sanity .
motive the prosecution' s contention was that darlie routier murdered her sons because of the family' s financial difficulties. she was a full - time homemaker but her husband darin, a small business owner, earned a relatively high income. this was later referred to as
living large
by her husband darin routier in an interview a few days after the deaths with joe munoz of kxas channel 5 in dallas - fort worth. the family lived in a two - story home in a middle - class neighborhood, drove a mid - sized suv, owned a used jaguar automobile and a used boat. prosecutors described routier as a pampered and materialistic woman with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank who feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end'' - murderpedia
there is definitely something off about her. i can' t imagine calling the press to meet me at the graveside of my 2 kids that were murdered. she obviously had no fear of the
intruder
coming to finish her off. also, when the reporter is questioning her she' s all smiles - yet when she says
we' re sad
and then tries to appear sad, it just doesn' t appear to be real at all. the hardest point for me is that (other than her changing her stories) how the heck does someone come in (darlie is well known to have been a very light sleeper) violently stab 2 kids, cut on and leave the adult alive to tell? her staying on the phone for almost 6 long minutes doesn' t make sense to me either. give the address and then try like hell to save your kids. i just cannot find her innocent at all. and i tried. i really did .
i rememer seeing photos of darlie' s bruises and injuries, which seemed too severe to be self - inflicted. i remember hearing that these photos were not shown to the jury, but i don' t know why. i heard one or more jurors saying that if they had seen the photos, they would have voted ng. then there was also something about a bloody sock being found outside, a ways away from the house. also, there is lack of motive. just like in the ramsey and aisenberg cases, i don' t see a motive when there is still one or more children of the family uninjured. it' s not like in the susan smith case where she killed both of her children. in each of these 3 cases there are still children left in the family, that weren' t targets of the crime. like i said, i haven' t followed all the information on this case carefully, but based on what i have seen and heard, i think there is reasonable doubt .
latest dna results show no unknown dna. (she also requested that these results be sealed? ?? ? not looking good) it' s just not physically possible for anyone else to have done it. the fingerprints everyone claims are not hers and must be the intruders are so smudged yet darlie has not been ruled out on those as they are her size. so much of what she says has been proven as lies. her changing stories, the magical intruder not even leaving a single skin cell. she never lifted a finger to save her kids, stayed on the phone setting up alibi. darin knows she did it, knew the second he came down the stairs. you can hear her on the 911 recording saying
i didn' t do anything, darin, someone came in here and did this
. she also tells him nothing was touched. how would she know? she showed zero interest in the boys conditions, i believe she was hoping they would die before they could tell. both she and darin admit that they fought about divorce that night, that' s why she slept downstairs. i believe she did it to punish darin, to shirk her responsibilities and to garner attention (she needs it more than air). the screen being cut (with a knife from her butcher block) yet it wasn' t stretched out as tho someone had passed thru it. the blood trail (with the boys blood) magically stops at that window. the luminol proved a cleanup at the sink (nice intruder w / ocd ?). the letters she wrote in prison about knowing who it was and then naming 2 names (when questioned about the letters on the stand she asked the judge if it was legal for the prison to read her mail). the boys being brutally stabbed so they had no time to scream, darlie being cut (she didn' t know where any major veins or vessels were). she wasn' t as smart as she thought she was. why didn' t their dog - who was well known for being an annoying barker, not utter one yip ?
there was a pubic hair found in the living room. who' s? did debris on the knife in the kitchen get debris on the knife from police in the kitchen investigating the murder or did it come from the screen door? darin' s jeans had blood on them, no one should look into this? darin routier admitted to trying to arrange an insurance scam, which meant someone breaking into their home. he admitted that he had begun the initial steps to arrange a break - in, but that it was planned for when no one was at home. no jury has ever heard this admission! (dear god! he is walking around free, he looks the more guilty of the two !) sometimes i think children could run this world better. does nothing enter their minds about this? is it too late because they would be hanging themselves? are they just that lazy? pick someone, have it over? the court reporter made mistakes in the manuscript so was there an improper read - back of testimony? why is prosecution not forced to turn over evidence they have that should be available to both sides? gee anyone who watches tv knows this rule. why? dna testing could put many of these questions to rest. why is there such a reluctance to do the testing? many, such as people interested in writing darlie' s story have come to her side and since then have run into convenience problems seeing her or simply blocked !
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with: with: rupert pate, evamarii johnson, larry peterson. narrator, charles frank .
a faux ken burns - style documentary recounting the last 140 years of american history as if the south had won the civil war, “c. s. a. : the confederate states of america” is more intriguing on paper than when it actually unspools onscreen. kevin willmott’s small - scaled but ambitious picture is well - researched, sometimes amusing and not unintelligent. still, the laudably provocative impulse behind the project never busts loose into incendiary or subversive outrageousness due to a combination of historical fastidiousness, lack of stylistic bravado and an ever - growing feeling that the premise is played out well before the finale. after fest play, an enterprising distrib could chalk up some limited mileage theatrically, but most promising markets loom in cable and homevid .
willmott, an assistant professor at the u. of kansas who wrote and co - directed the 1999 vid - released feature “ninth street, ” displays his academic erudition throughout, from the way he deals with grand historical matters to his archival use of actual products like darky toothpaste and sambo axle grease .
unfortunately, his adherence to real history quickly straitjackets the narrative, as it forces the film to pretend that american and world history would have unfolded in much the same way had the confederacy prevailed. the non - viability of this approach fatally hits home once the chronology reaches the post - world war ii era and willmott tries to square such events as the jfk assassination, vietnam, the watts riots, etc. , with the continued existence of the confederate states. it just doesn’t wash .
partly for this reason, pic’s early stretch is easily the most successful. positioned as a history of the c. s. a. as reported by the british broadcasting service, pic recounts how french and british troops joined robert e. lee at gettysburg to rout the north and force the yankees’ surrender on april 9, 1864. a deftly rendered mock - d. w. griffith short entitled “the hunt for dishonest abe” helps recount how, with the help of harriet tubman, the defeated president lincoln attempted to flee in blackface before being arrested, imprisoned and ultimately exiled to canada, where he languished in disgrace prior to a final filmed “interview” in 1905 .
meanwhile, the nation goes through a reconstruction in which slavery is introduced in the north, “dixie” becomes the national anthem, new york city and boston burn, asians are made slaves along with blacks and jews are put on a reservation on long island. info is conveyed not only in usual combo of stills and narration, but via additional “fictional” creations, such as excerpts from “the jefferson davis story” (rko, 1946) and “i married an abolitionist” (1955), might - have - been tv shows (“leave it to beulah”) and commercials for the likes of “coon chicken inn” and “niggerhair” cigarettes (actual products through the ’50s, per willmott) .
some of the wittiest material posits canada as a haven for anti - slavery proponents. many eminent americans, including mark twain, susan b. anthony and ralph waldo emerson, move north, many negroes exile themselves there and the “cotton curtain” is constructed along the two countries’ massive border .
meanwhile, the confederacy pursues its ambition of a “tropical empire” by spreading its ideology into mexico and south america, then pursues world domination via a world war ii alliance with hitler, who is seen visiting the white house .
as the narrative crumbles nonsensically thereafter, willmott turns to mock tv shows and commercials to pad out the remaining running time, and climax turns on a “revelation” that scarcely seems far - fetched after the recent strom thurmond incident .
willmott offers up quite a few pointed ideas and imaginative flights of fancy that succeed, up to a point, in removing the insulation from the kind of race talk that most people avoid for one reason or another. but pic sorely needed an anarchic spirit and irreverent humor to provide both the hilarity and the discomfiture to make it really connect with audiences .
despite the inspiration provided by ken burns, aesthetic approach is at once zippier and less elegant than burns’ own. pic was made on modest means almost entirely in kansas .
production: a hodcarrier films presentation. produced by rick cowan. executive producer, marvin voth. co - producers, sean blake, matthew jacobson, benjamin meade. directed, written by kevin willmott .
crew: camera (color / b & w; video; 1. 33 aspect ratio), matthew jacobson; editors, david gramly, sean blake; music, kelly werts; production designer, scott murry; sound, mark bovos, rich stobaugh, robert sokol; associate producers, ollie hall, kerwin looney; assistant directors, timothy rebman, blake; additional camera, tim de paepe, mike gunter, niki newland, troy paddock, fred paddock, roland schlotzhauer; casting, wright / laird casting. reviewed at sundance film festival (american spectrum), jan. 18, 2004. running time: 89 min .
with: with: rupert pate, evamarii johnson, larry peterson. narrator, charles frank .
a faux ken burns - style documentary recounting the last 140 years of american history as if the south had won the civil war, “c. s. a. : the confederate states of america” is more intriguing on paper than when it actually unspools onscreen. kevin willmott’s small - scaled but ambitious picture is well - researched, sometimes amusing and not unintelligent. still, the laudably [ … ]
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at least, that’s what many people believe about the notorious rowlett woman now on death row after savagely stabbing her 5 - and 6 - year - old sons 20 years ago monday as her husband and 7 - month - old son slept upstairs .
shortly after the murders, nbc5 (kxas - tv) captured video of routier — with bleached hair, smacking gum and giggling — spraying silly string on her sons’ graves. jurors in kerr county watched the video at least seven times before convicting routier of capital murder in 1997 for the deaths of one of the boys .
kee maintains her daughter’s innocence, saying an intruder killed the boys. and even two decades later, there are lingering questions in some minds about routier’s guilt .
some point to a bloody sock found in the alley behind the family’s home as proof routier was telling the truth about an intruder. others don’t believe routier is innocent but wonder if she really acted alone. and many people still have a hard time believing that a young mother could butcher her babies in cold blood .
prosecutors in the case believe the matter is settled, but it continues to wind its way through the state’s appellate court system. no date has been set for routier’s execution .
her attorney and family say they believe new dna testing will prove that someone else was in the home that night 20 years ago. they say the pending tests could give routier, now 46, a chance at a new trial .
“this is not solved, ” kee said. “they have not found who killed my grandsons. that person is still walking the streets. ”
the case of a suburban mom fatally stabbing her young sons and then faking her own attack to cover the crime made national news in june 1996 .
photos of devon and damon routier, wearing matching white jackets and bowties, peppered tv screens and newspapers. and people had suddenly heard of rowlett, then a town of 35, 000 people .
police were called to the routier home on eagle drive around 2: 30 a. m. on june 6, 1996. devon, 6, was already dead when paramedics arrived. he had been stabbed all the way through his torso .
damon, 5, was gasping for breath. he had been stabbed in the back and died shortly after .
“it just tears at your heart, what those two boys went through that night, ” said lead prosecutor greg davis. “even 20 years later, it’s hard to think about the suffering they went through. it’s something you never forget. ”
routier had stab wounds on her right arm and a slash across her throat, within 2 millimeters of her carotid artery. she was taken to the hospital, where she underwent surgery .
she told police that damon woke her up and she saw a man leave through the garage. the screen over a window in the garage had been slashed. but detectives quickly suspected someone inside the home killed the boys, and medical professionals said routier’s wounds appeared self - inflicted. police, doctors and nurses who talked to routier after her sons’ murders described her as unaffected by their deaths. she didn’t appear to be grieving. the silly string video played into that narrative. friends, family and former neighbors described routier as a good mother. she had no reason to kill her baby boys, they said. but that silly string video painted a different picture. it showed a gleeful woman literally dancing on her slain babies’ graves. she was charged with two counts of capital murder days later. “the defense claimed she was grief - stricken and shocked, ” prosecutor davis said. “the video shows she wasn’t either of those. ”
darlie ( chinese : 黑人 ; literally : " black person " ) , formerly known as darkie , is a toothpaste brand of hawley & hazel chemical company ( official slogan : ' powering your smile . ' ) . established in shanghai in 1933 and later based in hong kong and taiwan , hawley & hazel was acquired in 1985 by the united states corporation colgate-palmolive , although the product is not marketed by colgate-palmolive . 
darlie (chinese: 黑人; literally: " black person "), formerly known as darkie, is a toothpaste brand of hawley & hazel chemical company (official slogan:' powering your smile.'). established in shanghai in 1933 and later based in hong kong and taiwan, hawley & hazel was acquired in 1985 by the united states corporation colgate-palmolive, although the product is not marketed by colgate-palmolive.
darlie (chinese: 黑人; literally: " black person "), formerly known as darkie, is a toothpaste brand of hawley & hazel chemical company (official slogan:' powering your smile.'). established in shanghai in 1933 and later based in hong kong and taiwan, hawley & hazel was acquired in 1985 by the united states corporation colgate-palmolive, although the product is not marketed by colgate-palmolive.