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State Wednesday, January 8, 1997, Longview News-Journal 5A We make it our business to know yours, in Business, Sundays Officer testifies Routier didn't help dying children Introducing our New Year's Special KERRVILLE (AP) Darlie Routier didn't help her two dying sons alter they were stabbed and seemed more concerned with fingerprints on the knife, a police officer testified Tuesday. "I thought if she was worried mutes FreeiVi '-''Mm PIWsAFree nhnnt. finPPr- ROUtier The trial was moved to Kerrville because of pretrial publicity. If convicted of the capital murder charge against her, Darlie Routier could face death by lethal injection. Darlie Routier was on the phone and holding a towel on her wounds when he arrived shortly after 2:30 a.m., Waddell said.

"She appeared to be upset and; hysterical. She was screaming and yelling," said Waddell, now a Piano police officer. Although the officer asked Darlie Routier to apply towels to the bleeding wound of one of her sons, she never did, Waddell said. Later, when paramedics arrived, she didn't ask about the boys' condition, he added. Darin Routier, Darlie Routier's assisted one of the children, the officer testified.

In cross-examination Tuesday, defense attorney Doug Mulder cited Darlie Routier's comments in a 911 emergency call that he suggested showed she was worried about her children. He also played the tape in which Darlie Routier is heard screaming hysterically while on the line with a 911 operator. While jurors listened to the tape, Mrs. Routier sat at the defense table and cried, wiping her eyes with tissues. "Hold on baby, hold on, baby, hold on," Mulder quoted Darlie Routier as saying on the 911 call.

When the operator told her to talk into the phone, Darlie Routier said: "I'm talking to my babies. They're dying." 7 Later in the phone conversation, Darlie Routier was quoted as saying: "Devon, no. Oh my God. Oh my God." J- Waddell acknowledged he did not try to assist the children but said his first priority was locating the suspect Darlie Routier had described. The officer also said he didn't know if Darlie Routier tried to assist her sons before he arrived.

During questioning by prosecutor Greg Davis, Waddell testified Darlie Routier told him she had picked up the intruder's knife when he dropped it as she chased him. Darlie Routier mentioned that her handling of the knife might hinder efforts to detect fingerprints, the officer said. Mulder read again from the 911 transcript in an attempt to explain Darlie Routier's comments. "There's a knife? Don't touch anything," the 911 operator said. "I already touched it and picked it up," Darlie Routier said.

Waddell said police officers sometimes touch evidence. He also agreed with Mulder that everyone reacts differently to tragedies. OrPdvverPAK And50Off Activation prints on a knife she could cerj tainly take care of her kids," former Rowlett police officer David Waddell testified. Waddell was the first officer at the Routiers' home in Rowlett, a suburb of Dallas, the morning of the June 6, 1996, fatal attack on 5-year-old Damon Routier and 6-year-old Devon Routier. Darlie Routier contends an intruder stabbed the two boys and slashed her before fleeing through the Prosecutors allege Darlie Routier, 27, committed the killings because she was angry over financial problems' and the burdens of motherhood.

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