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

Hush Little Babies : The True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children by Davis, Don. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781568655741.

A killing so brutal it shocked the police and left the nation grieving, Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhoods 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 has come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant son slept upstairs. At first Darlies heartfelt testimony evoked fear and sympathy in her safe Dallas community. Then police became suspicious after these troubling questions were Why, according to a police report, didnt 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 murderers knife because she had picked it up? Why did the trail of blood left behind contradict Darlies 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