Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 6 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries a vicious murder of two defenseless children their
mother a waste execution for the crime but her family claims to have new evidence that proves her innocence
it has ghostly red eyes enormous wings and can reach speeds of over 100 miles per hour what is a strange creature
stalking the woods outside a Point Pleasant Virginia the hundreds who have seen it have given it a name
the Mothman a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are on the loose in the American West bank robbers by day and lovers by
night maybe you can help end their crime spree join me for this intriguing addition under saw mr. eyes
[Applause] [Music] [Music] darlin routier a Rowlett Texas housewife and mother of three makes a harrowing
call to 911 [Music] [Music] within five minutes the first police officer arrives he walks into a scene of
unbelievable bloodshed darlie's eldest son Devin just three days shy of his seventh birthday is dead four gaping
knife wounds have ended his brief life his brother five year old Damon has also been savagely attacked with a knife
Damon gasps his last breath in the care of a paramedic Darlie is a deep gash in her neck and wounds on her arms she is
immediately transported to a local hospital for emergency surgery and survives we the jury find the defendant Darlie
Linn routier guilty eight months later Darlie routier is convicted of killing her two little boys she is sentenced to
die by lethal injection it is a verdict that her mother Darlie ki will never accept I never thought
that Darlie did this Devin and Damon's killer is running free and that's what this is about the truth and finding
justice for Devon and Damon you know I live my life every day for Darlie and everything else has to come second
because that's the most important thing is for you know we've got to save her life before they execute this innocent
girl after her conviction Dottie Lynn routier agreed to be interviewed in the visiting room with a
Gatesville state prison while behind bars her bleached blond hair has returned to its natural color
I've been wrongfully convicted I'm innocent I've been done wrong there has been a
lot of terrible wrong things that have been done to me me and my family Darin routier was convicted of a crime
that most of us find incomprehensible but is she guilty unlike other high-profile cases of
mothers killing their own children Dottie has always proclaimed her innocence her mother and family have
mounted a massive campaign to free Darlie insisting that overlooked evidence exonerated
a juror who voted to convict her is not convinced he made a mistake but authorities argued that the case against
Darlie is overwhelming join us as we examine both sides of this tragic story and judge for yourself if the true
killer of Damon and Devon routier is behind bars when Darlie Linn met Darin routier 18
years ago it was love at first sight within the next several years Darlie and Darin were married and had two children
Damon and Devon when Darlie was 26 she was blessed with a third son whom she named Drake it was only in the aftermath
of Drake's birth that Darlie is usually cheerful mood darkened she did have a little bit of postpartum depression and
that pretty much I mean it was like maybe a four-week period that she was kind of stressed and depressed I didn't
see any signs of depression at all after that small short period of it after the
baby in fact by all accounts the root ears were living the American dream three beautiful children a happy healthy
marriage and a majestic house in an affluent suburb of Dallas but in one night the root ears would lose it all
On June 6 1996 Devon and Damon were murdered and Darlie claims she was viciously attacked her youngest son
Drake was unharmed this is routier can you tell me anything at all about Robert police detectives
interviewed Darlie shortly after surgery while she was still sedated I was asleep
on the couch Darlie told investigators that on the night of the attack she Devon and Damon had fallen asleep in
the downstairs family room while watching TV her husband Aaron slept upstairs with
eight-month-old Drake a coating to Darlie at 2:30 a.m. she suddenly awoke and saw a man hovering over her with a
knife and then she saw the back of the guy leaving the house so she followed him and when she went out the door she
saw the knife in the utility room she picked it up to defend herself if he came back in Darlie told police that it
was only then that she realized she was injured and her boys had been attacked did you see any any body at all when you
came down the stairs besides your wife her husband Darren was also interviewed by Rowlett homicide detectives I hear
this scream I run down the stairs Dalia at that point is yelling Devon Devon Devon Devon Devon Devon I mean
she's just freaking and I get to Devon and he's got these two huge gashes in the top of his chest he's laying face-up
I mean just blank in his eyes and you know I'm thinking CPR I pop his head back I start blowing into his mouth and
as soon as I blow into his mouth air comes out of his chest blood splatters all over me not only
have you just been woken up to the worst nightmare in your whole life your your child is dying in front of you and you
just you don't know what to do it's okay just just take your time investigators did not question dara'a account but they
were immediately troubled by several aspects of Darlie story how could she have slept through her
attack and the children's murders and why couldn't she give a clear description of her assailant can you
tell me what this person looked like yes sir can you tell me when it came time to
describe the so-called suspect she was unable to describe the person even though the person was supposedly
kneeling or sitting standing on top of her at the crime scene investigators reportedly were not finding evidence to
corroborate darlie's version of events they discovered the alleged entry and exit point of the killer an open window
in the garage that had his screen slashed yet there was an undisturbed layer of dust on the sill suggesting
that nobody actually came through it detectives also found a long bleached blonde hair in the cut screen at the
time Darlie routier had long bleached blond hair [Music] police found nothing missing from the
home and ruled out robbery as a motive they also felt that the blood evidence did not support the story of an intruder
the lack of a blood trail leading from the crime scene continuing out the path that the intruder supposedly took was
problematic to say the least this individual miraculously manages to keep any sense of blood or any evidence
off of him doesn't leave any footprints all the Bloods contained in one area that was one of the things that again
did not jive with her story a final strange clue was discovered in an alley three houses down from Donnie's
home a tube sock with small amounts of blood from the two murdered boys splattered on it one of the
characteristics of cases where mothers are involved in the killing of children are that after the fact there's a very
amateur is to cover up I believe the sock is is part of the part of the cover-up amateur istic way of trying to
throw the police off the trail I don't want to believe you did it but all the evidence points that way a
week and a half after the murders Darlie was interrogated by a detective reportedly known for extracting
confessions from suspects will you push to the edge will you push to the limit Darlie was stated that if she did it she
didn't yet being the murders she didn't remember kind of a strange thing to say the red flags started going out the
detective who conducted the interview asserts that it was not recorded at to say for yourself
darlie's family insists she never made the incriminating statement should have been audio taped and
videotaped but yet on this high-profile case he didn't have an audio tape or a videotape which i think is a total lie
I think he has both he just won't produce it because then it would prove that darlie's telling the truth and then
he's lying no one wants to believe that a mother would do something like this to
their children that's even police officers don't want to believe that but at some point when you're presented with
this type of overwhelming physical evidence you have to start accepting some of it I never suspected that they
were looking at Darlie I thought at the hospital they were looking at Darin but never Darlie I mean but they didn't know
Turley like I knew Darlie and then on the news there was breaking news and it showed darling in handcuffs and I
started screaming and crying we went up to the role at police department and the
lead detective was out there smoking a cigar and high-fiving all his detectives and told me to get the hell out of his
police station and you know just unbelievable Darlie routier was charged with capital murder incarcerated and put
on suicide watch attorneys and investigators hired to defend Darlie challenged the accusations according to
them evidence used to secure the arrest warrant was hopelessly flawed when the officers examined the window which had
been cut they found there was no dust disturbed on the windowsill and also found a blonde hair stuck into the
screen area they assumed that blonde hair was darlie's later that hair through DNA examination was determined
to belong to a riot police officer though that the windowsill is 10 inches off the floor if you went through the
window and crouched down and put one leg through the window it's more probable you wouldn't disturb the dust than you
would disturb the dust [Music] but the heels of justice were already moving rapidly against Darlie Linn
routier her bail was revoked and the trial was transferred to Kirk County a conservative community in south-central
Texas with a high rate of conviction and death penalty cases still Donnie Lynn routier held out hope that she would
ultimately be vindicated you keep thinking that you know you're innocent and you know you keep waiting for them
to come back and tell you that oh we've made a terrible mistake and we're so sorry and you know we found who did this
I just could not believe you know what was happening [Music] Darley Lynne routier a young Dallas
housewife stood accused of viciously stabbing to death two of her children her trial began on January 6th under
intense media scrutiny ladies and gentlemen I want you to listen very the prosecution opened their case by
offering the state's theory of the crime according to the state Darlie routier was a greedy selfish and vain woman
whose extravagant lifestyle was being threatened by the responsibilities of motherhood
the prosecution insinuated that if her two boys were dead dotty could collect on their life-insurance and resume her
wild ways the DA argued that Darlie in the throes of postpartum depression murdered two of her children slit her
own throat and then tried to make it appear that an intruder had committed the crime
and I know it sounds diabolical but the evidence shows that she went they were crucifying her character trees to make
this very conservative jury hate Darlie and it was all a buncha lies if the children were interfering with her
lifestyle when you think it would be the newborn baby that would be the biggest problem I mean why would she kill two
and not three and why wouldn't she kill the baby versus the two boys it's my opinion that the crime scene was staged
that the medical examiner testified that darlie's wounds were superficial and self-inflicted dramatically different
than the wounds sustained by the young victims but the defense introduced medical records showing that the knife
slashed to darlie's neck came within one sixteenth of an inch of severing her carotid artery and killing her
photographs taken at the hospital show extreme bruising on darlie's arms but the notes that you took that you tell
darlie's defense attorney also attacked the prosecution's contention that she committed the murders to collect on her
boys life-insurance policy and how long did you talk to Darren Madhu why not kill her husband who was insured for
$800,000 far more than the small policies taken out on Damon and Devin they're trying to say she did this for
the money was $5,000 life-insurance on those boys that's ridiculous it cost thirteen thousand to bury them
Your Honor can we ask the witness to step down for demonstration well when you are the prosecution countered with a
blood spatter expert his testimony focused on a tiny blood stain on the back of Darlie shirt this
spot contained both Devin and Damon's blood a shirt that Darlie was wearing it had
cast-off blood on the back over the shoulder area and this would have come as the knife was being pulled out of the
children's body and being brought over her shoulder and then dripping and the analysis of the DNA indicated it
belonged to the children and that was a very important piece of evidence how did
that blood get there if not that manner all the blood evidence was handled by police officers that were not
experienced with collecting evidence and instead of drying that evidence that bloody evidence out and putting it the
proper way for storing for the trial they threw it into bags and multiple pieces of blood on top of each other so
that the blood stains could transfer from different areas we were very careful and methodical in our gathering
of evidence our officers have been trained in it just like officers across the nation we haven't just fallen off
the hay wagon recently do you recall any state ultimately however the prosecution
moved away from the physical evidence and once again focused on their central thesis Darlie routier was an unfeeling
self-centered woman more than capable of murdering her own children and approved
their point they played this videotape for the jury eight days after the murders the routier
family decided to celebrate Devon's 7th birthday posthumously having just been released from the hospital Darlie was on
painkillers antibiotics and antidepressants a news crew captured what happened next
[Music] this does not appear to be the behavior of a grieving mother and all right fine
let's discount it she grieves differently than everybody else in the world but what about all this other
preponderance of evidence that's still out there we can't ignore all the rest of it that was a celebration of Devin's
birthday we had everything ready to have his birthday we had invitations sent out
we had the presents already bought and he was murdered three days before we got to have his party now some people might
not choose to use silly-string we use silly string because Devon and Damon always played with silly string it was
one of their favorite things it's dead out of a memory of them they twisted that and made that into something ugly
they made it into something that completely wasn't we decided that the kids couldn't from the neighborhood that
were invited to Devon's birthday could come up and that they could bring their gifts to Devon there and I remember
telling darling not to scare the kids you know because we were ho so hysterical at times that with little
children around you wouldn't want to be screaming and hollering and bawling and crying because you'd be terrifying those
kids you know so it was not like it was real anyways it was like we were in some
sort of a dream during deliberations the jury watched the so-called silly-string video eight
times it took them only ten hours to reach a guilty verdict Darlie routier was immediately taken to deathroll at
Gatesville state prison till the boys [Music] but darlie's family and attorneys are
outraged by her conviction and are spearheading a drive to overturn the verdict they claim that during the
investigation and trial crucial details were overlooked darlie's family contends
that the photos of her extensive wounds were not properly presented to the jury after the trial one of the jurors had
convicted Darley charles sanford had a chance to take a close look at the pictures after I saw the pictures that
made me feel that she's not guilty she did not cut herself and that she put up a heck of a fight to protect her own
self I believe with all my heart that Darlie routier is innocent there's not a doubt in my mind darlie's defenders also
point to the mysterious tube sock found 75 yards from the crime scene the sock contains both boys blood and probably
epithelial or skin DNA of Darlie there are no blood stains that belonged to Darlie on the sock so it obviously had
to be touched by someone after both boys have been stabbed who also had contact with darlene accoding a dolly supporters
the tube sock makes the prosecution's account of the murders impossible medical testimony established
the damon who didn't die until paramedics arrived could not have lived for more than nine minutes after
receiving the fatal wound Darlie was talking to a 9-1-1 operator for five minutes and 40 seconds of those nine
minutes the police secured the scene for an additional two minutes before paramedics were allowed in that leaves
Darlie routier approximately a minute and a half to place the sock down the street
stasia crime scene and then cut her own throat I believe that the intruder had the sock on his hand probably used as a
glove or something and I believe that he was covering her mouth I don't believe she did sleep through it
I believe that she was a fixie ated i believe that she was completely unconscious and then she became
conscious and during the time of her becoming conscious as when she says I woke up in addition darlie's family
believes unidentified fingerprints at the crime scene will identify this intruder a fingerprint on the door
leading to the garage and a second print on the credenza behind the couch have never been positively ID'd by
investigators they're not darlie's they're not Darren's and they're not either of a two boys now it may not be a
problem in the sense that that's the end-all be-all of the case but I think it shows the overall problems with the
case that the state did not investigate the case fully that they focused on Darlie from not day one but minute one
as far as I'm concerned it's the most important piece of evidence that we have to prove that that Darlie routier is
innocent and that an intruder did come into my house and that that man does exist and that he's walking free while
my wife is on death row for something she didn't do but who would have murdered two innocent
boys and stabbed Darlie and why darlie's family believes the attack may have been
a sexual assault gone awry a series of violent rapes occurred in the Dallas area at the same time as a routier
murders these crimes exhibited a striking similarity to the attack on Darlie and her children the assailant
entered the unlocked homes of victims accosted them with knives found in the kitchen and wore tube socks over his
hands to avoid leaving fingerprints recently a suspect has been arrested for the rapes Darlie supporters feel that
Authority should consider the accused rapist a suspect in the routier case Brown at police however have stated that
no one has contacted them with any information indicating a connection between the two crimes today Darlie and
Darin sole surviving son Drake is now five years old Darlie was stripped of custody after the murders and the boy
now lives with Darren and his parents for the past four years dougherty's only contact with her child
has been through a plate of bulletproof glass I feel like I've been cheated out on so
much because I've missed all the first things that he's done I've missed holding him i I've miss singing him to
sleep giving him a bath wiping his face when it's dirty all the things that you do when you're a mother is they've taken
that from drink they've taken that for me shortly after dolly root ears conviction the official court transcript
of her trial was found to contain more than 30 thousand errors doggy's lawyers hope that this fact
alone will sway the court to grant her a new trial unless her appeal is successful dolly Ellen routier will die
in the execution chamber at Gatesville state prison [Music] these crumbling buildings outside of
Point Pleasant West Virginia are home to one of the most bizarre and terrifying creatures ever to walk the earth or some
what have you believe I could see something standing there that looked like a man but yet it wasn't
a man it was some kind of a creature [Applause] stood seven feet taller better enormous
glowing red eyes bat-like wings man-like legs that was biggest by far and the ugliest bird and I do mean bird I've
ever seen him alive and I hope in this lifetime I never see it for anything like it again you have your your
percentage of citizens who feel that it was a hundred and one percent of hoax you know I personally think that there
was something up there that scared the Wits out of most of the people who came face-to-face with it what is a strange
creature countless theories have been offered ranging from the far-fetched to the credible but answers have remained
elusive nevertheless one thing is certain hundreds of ordinary people have seen something they cannot explain in the
woods outside Point Pleasant Virginia they call it the Mothman on November 15th 1966 Linda Scarberry
her husband and another couple left Point Pleasant and headed for an area known as the TNT abandons us World War
two the TNT got his nickname from once being a munitions factory it was here that the Mothman would make his debut as
they approached it the headlights hit it and the red eyes were prominent it was a
very huge creature with a wingspan an estimated eight to ten to twelve feet as a Mothman let out a horrific screech the
two couples fled in a panic even though their car approached a hundred miles per
hour and became apparent that they had not escaped as they drove off the creature followed them from time to time
hitting the top of the car it flew above the car gliding from side to side but never getting in front of the car
and as they approached the lights of the city the creature backed off and fled but the Mothman sightings were only
beginning the next day Marcella Bennett left her brother's house with her four-year-old daughter
after a short visit when I got to the car and rich for the door handle then I saw what looked like legs I kept going
up looking through the feet up and when I did I could see that I was looking at something that I had never saw him
before what the creature was something that looked like a man but it was over six foot tall and it had feathers
instead of skin the way it looked I mean it was there something I never in my wildest imagination would have ever
thought that would be standing out there she's done believable then as quickly as it appeared a Mothman
vanished a few days later Tom URI was driving near the TNT area he is one of the few people who have seen the Mothman
in the clear light of day I caught something out of the corner of my eye just looked like a helicopter coming
over the trees first until I saw it it was a bird a huge bird that proceeded to circle my car making big loops but every
time it make a loop it would get lower lower lower and getting a little bit scared you know what this thing is
curious about my car and I sure didn't want to be breakfast and then it made a loop back to the left and went back over
the riverbank and I went on to Mason West Virginia and called the Sheriff's Department in Point Pleasant West
Virginia over the next year sightings of the Mothman increased in frequency the descriptions of the creature were eerily
similar part man part bird with huge wings and hypnotic red eyes the national media descended on the small town
thousands swarmed into the TNT area hoping to catch a glimpse of the Mothman it was a sheer pandemonium the world had
focused its attention on its Point Pleasant West Virginia the press was everywhere and everyone just seemed to
be on edge just waiting to see what the outcome of the sightings would be as everybody searched for the Mothman other
weird occurrences began residents of Point Pleasant would go out on farms and find their animals dead and maybe just a
blood out or the heart going they reach someone and removed the heart of the animal the town also began to receive
visits from enigmatic strangers their penchant for dressing in black from head to toe has earned them the nickname the
many black the men in black were strange out-of-town visitors and who seemed to want to pretty much just quiet
everything down they would show up in people's doorsteps and show up at their house at night and basically just say
hey you know let's just keep quiet for now and they terrified a lot of the original witnesses who were these out
strangers some believe they may hold the answer to the Mothman mystery one of the
theories is that the Mothman was a government experiment gone awry and it escaped which would explain a little bit
of the men in black and a lot of people tied all that in with the government as a government experiment others believe
that there is a more logical explanation for the rash of sightings eyewitnesses were actually seeing a large bird
specifically the sandhill crane indigenous to the area the sandhill crane stands nearly as tall as a man and
has two red patches of flesh that under extraordinary circumstances might be mistaken for red eyes that's the basic
the reason why the sandhill crane theory came up but none of the rest of the bird
fits the description not even close one final theory focuses on the region where most of the Mothman
sightings occurred the TNT the area was originally a bird sanctuary World War two brought the mass production of
armaments to the region along with immense pollution one of the theories is that the Mothman is a mutant bird which
was created from the TNT residue left over from the plants from during the World War two effort and combined with
the genes of the animals during 1966 and formed a mutant bird type creature whatever the explanation the Mothman
terrified all who saw it and some even believe that the creature is somehow linked to the greatest
tragedy ever to befall Point Pleasant after nearly a year of sightings a silver bridge leading out of town
collapsed killing 46 people one witness claimed to have seen the Mothman on the bridge just prior to the disaster a
debate has raged ever since about whether the Mothman somehow played a role the Silver Bridge collapsed was
attributed more to a structural fault in the in the metal most of the key witnesses don't feel that the Mothman
sighting had anything to do with the collapse of the Silver Bridge today the bridge has been rebuilt
although Mothman sightings are virtually stopped thousands still travel each year
to Point Pleasant with the hopes of spying the mysterious creature books have been written and a major motion
picture made real or not the Mothman is more famous now than ever the Mothman has always been there and it'll always
be there it'll never go away it's a legend it's a it's a local legend now it's them it's a worldwide legend they
don't ever fade away [Music] the Klamath First Federal Bank in Bend Oregon is just seconds from closing bank
teller Rhonda dent looks forward to a serene evening at home with her husband and four children to control and he he's
scared as he intimidated us he doesn't because you're the one who's gonna kill there was no thought in anybody's mind
of trying to set an alarm off so he made us all go in to the ball and then he had
me fill the bags after I was done doing that he told me to go over and get on my
knees and he tied me up if I was scared I was terrified at that point because I thought he's gonna shoot us all coming
out are we clear ta'rhonda is relief the armed thief harms Muller the professionally executed
robbery is just one of 12 perpetrated by two elusive partners and crime to Wallis
lovers still on the loose the names are Craig Pritchard and Nova Guthrie but they become known as a modern-day Bonnie
and Clyde over the past four years they made off with over half a million dollars they conduct the robberies with
military precision and banished to live the high life among the wealthy perhaps you can help bring their good times on
their spree of terror to an end Craig Pritchard once seemed destined to gain Fame of a whole different kind a
baseball scholarship at Arizona State University was to be his ticket to a bright future Craig was a rising star he
was doing very well and I'm sure he probably projected himself to be in the majors probably making a lot of money at
some point in time the Barry Bonds came along and was offered a scholarship to ASU and once Barry Bonds got there
Craig pretty much was sitting on the bench or was in the shadows if you will I think that was devastating to him and
he had these high career aspirations of making a lot of money and didn't have any means to do it I think that led to a
quick immediate gratification which was bank robbery Craig pritchards lust for the quick
score led him to Las Vegas not to the casinos but straight to the banks over the next several years he committed an
unknown number of robberies in 1992 his luck ran out a bank teller identified him in a lineup he was arrested and
convicted and sentenced to five years in an Arizona Penitentiary five years is a
long time to spend in prison and he met other people that had robbed banks and from past experience of cases I've
worked they exchanged thoughts I did way too perfect robbing a bank better the next time he actually learned how to
commit bank robberies and in a better way than he had previously there was a couple of
I can show you in New Mexico shortly after his release Craig met 24-year old Nova Gus yeah they
did have dinner and they hit it off sparks were flying they were very mutually attracted to each other I'll
take you out I think I could stay a couple of more days and within a week or so Craig had moved in with Nova Nova
Guthrie comes from a very small town and she was raised in a very strict conservative very spiritual family
setting and I think she's not had much excitement in her life until she met Richard
after meeting they they went on a bank robbery spree and that included the states of Colorado Arizona New Mexico
Washington Oregon - across the south and northwest pritchard would enter the bank
wearing a disguise he was always armed with an assault weapon he had a police scanner so he
could monitor any of the police in the area in the getaway car nova alerts Craig to any dangers via radio after
each robbery they drive to a pre-designated location to abandon their car they transfer to a second vehicle
and flee the area they're kind of natural-born rule breakers they love a challenge
and what's more thrilling than robbing a bank in broad daylight and my guess is that after these robberies you know it's
it's in Tibet it's a thrill it's exciting they just want to keep the thrill going in between the robberies
there were sightings of them really leading a very lavish lifestyle they liked frequent nice places the ski
resorts ocean resort areas they look like a very nice normal couple there is nothing that's going to stand out that
is going to make them different from others two years into their crime spree craig
anova risk capture by visiting Nova's family in phoenix at the time however Nova was unaware that only Craig was a
wanted fugitive the FBI had no evidence linking her to the robberies but Nova's family resented Craig for enticing her
to a life of crime beer yeah I just want to talk to you outside for a minute Novus brother confronted Craig what's
going on you're leaving right now you're gonna get in your fancy little car he didn't like what he had done and what he
had gotten over involved with go and he didn't want her to be any part of Nova's
life nobody's gone without Craig Nova was uncertain what to do next confused and contrite she heeded her
sisters advice to meet confidentially with police chaplain William fain what is it you want to tell me
I think deep in her heart she wanted to be forgiven but didn't know how to go about it at that point I took my Bible
and I began to share Scripture with her I said what do you think it is now that God would have you do Novus said turn
myself in I said let's go we interviewed Nova Guthrie and she provided information regarding her
involvement in the bank robberies and just the manner in which they were committed we didn't arrest Nova at that
point in time because we had not done any investigation to corroborate her story and we had insufficient probable
cause to have the United States Attorney's Office authorize on an arrest warrant the FBI hoped that would Nova's
help they could bring Craig to justice but after her surprising choice to cooperate
she made an equally astonishing turnabout she disappeared back to a life of crime with Craig
Pritchard when she first went McCreight she didn't quite realize what a big decision she
had made she had second thoughts about it step back from the brink and then realized his boring back here I'm going
back to the brink and that's what she did I've read publications for Nova and Craig of Inc all the modern-day Bonnie
and Clyde and tried to romanticize it if you will I don't buy it personally I don't think it's romantic if you walk in
and stick a gun in someone's face from two feet you threaten them just because they haven't shot anyone and they
haven't used their weapons doesn't mean that people aren't getting hurt you take
a look at the victims and the victim tellers specifically it's very traumatic for them you know I'd like to tie him up
and stick a gun in his face I'd like to have him feel that same helpless feeling
being terrified for your life thinking that you're gonna die [Music] [Music] [Music]
join me for more stories that challenged the mind and the imagination on the next
edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Darlie Routier's conviction, Mothman sightings, and a Bonnie and Clyde bank robbery duo are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mothman: A Mysterious Creature. A strange creature with ghostly red eyes and enormous wings is stalking the woods.
Darlie Routier's Tragic Case. Darlie Routier is accused of murdering her two children, but claims innocence.
The Silly String Video. Darlie's behavior during a birthday celebration raises eyebrows during the trial.
Darlie's Heartbreaking Loss. Darlie reflects on the moments she missed with her son after losing custody.
The Mothman Legend. The Mothman sightings captivated the town of Point Pleasant, leading to widespread panic.
Nova's Turnabout. Nova Guthrie initially cooperates with police but returns to crime with Craig Pritchard.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I’ve been wrongfully convicted. I’m innocent.

Darlie Routier asserts her innocence during an interview.

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Tension

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