Creep of the Week - June 22, 1996

Darlie Routier

Correction - January 4, 1997 - One of Darlie Routier's supporters has informed me that in the piece below, I erred in stating that Darlie confessed to the crimes she is accused of. She HAS NOT confessed to anything and continues to maintain her innocence. I got the facts wrong and apologize to anyone who believed it just because I wrote it.
Do you remember Susan Smith, one of the Creeps of the Year in 1994? For about a week, she had the sympathetic eyes of the nation on her as she cried her tale of woe. It seems that she had been carjacked by some Dirty Black Man who not only took her car but also her two young sons who were snuggled all safe and sound in their seat belt in the back seat. "Oh my babies, please bring back my babies," she blubbered into the cameras. Now you remember. There was no Dirty Black Man, only Susan, who had pushed the car into the lake with the two boys still safely strapped inside. Her reason? The guy she was "seeing" had given her what he probably thought was an entirely safe brush off line: "Hey Baby, if you just didn't have those kids ..." Susan is now serving 40 years and most of us stopped giving her any thought long ago.

But Darlie Routier has, in addition to getting some knife wielding lessons from OJ Simpson. This week Darlie, of Rowlett, Texas, was arrested for trying the old Susan Smith routine. She stabbed her two sons, aged six and five, to death while they slept, and blamed the crime on a Dirty White Man who broke into her house. That was her first mistake. By blaming the crime on a black guy, she could have received a lot more publicity and maybe even seen a few of them hauled in for questioning. Besides that, since the Unabomber and the Zodiac Killer are now behind bars, there aren't any serial killers still on the loose. Faced with that overwhelming evidence, and some other evidence like the murder weapon being found in the kitchen drawer, she fessed up.

We still haven't heard what made Darlie do it. Was there another of those "Hey Baby" guys involved? Did God tell her that the boys were possessed by Satan and that they had to go? Were they escaped Freemen who kept harassing her about the evils of the Federal government until she just had to shut them up? Maybe she wanted to teach them a lesson about the hazards of playing with knives. Whatever the reason, there's a prisoner in Carolina and a golfer in LA who are well pleased with their protege.

Let me know what you think at montgome@servtech.com

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