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Authors: Christopher Barry-Dee;Steven Morris
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Susanna Blackwell met her husband through an internet marriage agency and in 1994 left her native Philippines to move to Washington State to marry him. During their short marriage, Timothy Blackwell regularly abused his wife physically, and within a few months she had left him and begun divorce proceedings. The couple had been separated for more than a year when Timothy Blackwell learned that Susanna was eight months pregnant with another man’s child. On the last day of the divorce proceedings, he shot and killed Susanna, her unborn child and two friends who were waiting outside the Seattle courtroom.
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Darlie Lynn Routier: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
“Here’s a mother who has supposedly been the victim of a violent crime. She has just lost two children, and yet she’s out literally dancing on their graves.”
—DALLAS COUNTY ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREG DAVIS, LEAD PROSECUTOR IN THE DARLIE ROUTIER CASE
Often the internet’s link with a murder is not that it was trawled to find the victim; instead, it is exploited to rally international support for the convicted killer. Yet, when I see a glossy, constantly updated website dedicated to promoting a death row inmate’s innocence, I smell a rat. What is the need for this global exposure, and what use are the pleas for support? More often than not, of course, donations are welcomed.
These sites are always maintained by the well-intentioned anti-death penalty lobby, whose campaigning would be better served if they concentrated their efforts on genuine cases. In short, such websites seem redundant to me.
The thousands of people who visit them are mostly not professionals in criminology-related professions, so what of value do they offer in assisting a convicted prisoner to gain his or her freedom? Surely the inmate’s own attorneys are capable of presenting a well-balanced legal argument before the appellate courts without all the hysteria these sites bring.
As to the internet debate rooms that attach themselves to these cyberspace ventures like clams to a rock, more often than not they simply post the ramblings of the ill-informed.
All such websites, and Darlie Routier’s pages are not exempt, publish selective material favoring the prisoners concerned. Rarely, if ever, do they expose the full facts, so they are patently misleading—a smoke-blowing exercise designed to deceive otherwise honest, often gullible people into supporting a cause that has already been lost.
A glance at the self-serving site dedicated to Darlie Routier’s case alludes to “evidence” that can prove this woman’s innocence of the stabbing to death of her two young sons. Documents and affidavits sworn by expert witnesses are listed. Case photographs of the badly injured Routier are also posted to gain public sympathy for the loss she has suffered: her freedom and the lives of her two children.
However, on closer scrutiny, the documents and “evidence” contained within documents are revealed to be all but worthless, and nowhere do we see the horrific truth.
We have studied this website, and we can state that nothing there will influence a court of appeal, and it is this—not the
general public—that will be the final arbiter. We will also note, in the wider public interest, that, while the pro-Routier camp pours scorn on the police and trial court’s actions, the public prosecutor has remained admirably quiet.
But perhaps the website is of some value in that it brings to light many red herrings. For its content and raison d’etre confirm the manipulating, scheming persona of Darlie Routier. The woman is the mistress of homicidal trompe l’oeil , for, despite her apparent wide-eyed innocent charm, she is one of the most evil and cold-blooded child-killers of modern times.
This is the story of the dog that didn’t bark in the night, and it is a fascinating and educational one at that, for it confirms the widespread and
Susanna Blackwell met her husband through an internet marriage agency and in 1994 left her native Philippines to move to Washington State to marry him. During their short marriage, Timothy Blackwell regularly abused his wife physically, and within a few months she had left him and begun divorce proceedings. The couple had been separated for more than a year when Timothy Blackwell learned that Susanna was eight months pregnant with another man’s child. On the last day of the divorce proceedings, he shot and killed Susanna, her unborn child and two friends who were waiting outside the Seattle courtroom.
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Darlie Lynn Routier: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
“Here’s a mother who has supposedly been the victim of a violent crime. She has just lost two children, and yet she’s out literally dancing on their graves.”
—DALLAS COUNTY ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREG DAVIS, LEAD PROSECUTOR IN THE DARLIE ROUTIER CASE
Often the internet’s link with a murder is not that it was trawled to find the victim; instead, it is exploited to rally international support for the convicted killer. Yet, when I see a glossy, constantly updated website dedicated to promoting a death row inmate’s innocence, I smell a rat. What is the need for this global exposure, and what use are the pleas for support? More often than not, of course, donations are welcomed.
These sites are always maintained by the well-intentioned anti-death penalty lobby, whose campaigning would be better served if they concentrated their efforts on genuine cases. In short, such websites seem redundant to me.
The thousands of people who visit them are mostly not professionals in criminology-related professions, so what of value do they offer in assisting a convicted prisoner to gain his or her freedom? Surely the inmate’s own attorneys are capable of presenting a well-balanced legal argument before the appellate courts without all the hysteria these sites bring.
As to the internet debate rooms that attach themselves to these cyberspace ventures like clams to a rock, more often than not they simply post the ramblings of the ill-informed.
All such websites, and Darlie Routier’s pages are not exempt, publish selective material favoring the prisoners concerned. Rarely, if ever, do they expose the full facts, so they are patently misleading—a smoke-blowing exercise designed to deceive otherwise honest, often gullible people into supporting a cause that has already been lost.
A glance at the self-serving site dedicated to Darlie Routier’s case alludes to “evidence” that can prove this woman’s innocence of the stabbing to death of her two young sons. Documents and affidavits sworn by expert witnesses are listed. Case photographs of the badly injured Routier are also posted to gain public sympathy for the loss she has suffered: her freedom and the lives of her two children.
However, on closer scrutiny, the documents and “evidence” contained within documents are revealed to be all but worthless, and nowhere do we see the horrific truth.
We have studied this website, and we can state that nothing there will influence a court of appeal, and it is this—not the
general public—that will be the final arbiter. We will also note, in the wider public interest, that, while the pro-Routier camp pours scorn on the police and trial court’s actions, the public prosecutor has remained admirably quiet.
But perhaps the website is of some value in that it brings to light many red herrings. For its content and raison d’etre confirm the manipulating, scheming persona of Darlie Routier. The woman is the mistress of homicidal trompe l’oeil , for, despite her apparent wide-eyed innocent charm, she is one of the most evil and cold-blooded child-killers of modern times.
This is the story of the dog that didn’t bark in the night, and it is a fascinating and educational one at that, for it confirms the widespread and
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