cami
Keep your fork......
Cami, I appreciate your help in trying to help me understand this case. As I said earlier I am from the UK, where this case doesn't really have a profile at all. I'm not sure that many people would know of it.
I am trying to understand it as much as I can. I have no reason to be for or against Darlie Routier. I just started looking at the case after I found this site and it's fascinated me. I felt that the trial transcripts were the best place to try and start to get the facts of the case. But I'm just starting at the beginning, I guess I have a lot of reading to do.
I don't know if you have any sources you can recommend to me to help me further understand this case.
Well I'm from Canada and you can be assured we never ever had any news on this case in Canada. That's why I bristle whenever anyone suggests that the media has influenced me or the jury. Many of us are intelligent enough to separate the wheat from the chaff, we know the media goes for sensationalism only...and ratings..it's the nature of the competitive beast.
I became aware of this case in 1998 when I was flipping around channels looking for tennis, most likely. I don't watch mainstream american tv, news or otherwise. I do watch the cable networks once in a while. I believed her to be innocent but at the time, I didn't know I was being lied to and manipulated by the family. Once I read those transcripts however, I could see how I was being lied to and manipulated.
The trial transcripts are the one true record of this crime. The trial transcripts bust the allegations by the family and those death penalty organizations, like Anne Good. For instance, many many times the family and lawyers lie that the jury did not see the photos of Darlie's bruises, they were hidden by the prosecution. The transcripts prove the photos of the bruises were discussed with the medical team and then handed to the jury for their perusal.
Another false allegation: The necklace was embedded in Darlie's neck wound and had to be removed by surgery. Absolutely false and the trial transcripts prove it.
Yes the transcripts are long and boring but it is the only way to learn this case..unless you read back in the threads here and in the archives where we have discussed everything and tore everything apart.
If you can't read all of them, read the medical staff's testimony, Cron, Linch, Darlie and Darin, read the coroner's reports on the autopsies they performed. Read Bevel and DiMaio although Bevel is the blood expert and DiMaio is a coroner. If you want to join our facebook page, we have some people from the UK there. BTW, my mother was a war bride from Mancester so I still have strong ties to England. We have the crime scene photos on the site, we have broken down the blood evidence and listed it point by point. Read Barb Davis's book Precious Angels. Oh she has pubically changed her stance since her book came out but she gives a very credible and logical explanation for the bruises and how the crime went down. Until she retracts her book and re prints it with an update, it stands.
Here's the link for the facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/350356998348134/permalink/389995364384297/