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Media Tried Justice Denied, Behind the truth and Lies of the Darlie Lynn Routier Murder Case

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This book actually gave the reader some good food for thought concerning Darlie Routier's innocence. However, it is difficult to get past the blatant and NUMEROUS spelling, grammatical and syntax errors. And while Mr. Brown complains of inconsistencies and/or contradictions made by the Rowlett Police Department, there are many of his own in the book, some only paragraphs apart. Also, even if the Rowlett Police are as inept as Mr. Brown claims (which is hard to believe), his complete lack of respect for them is disturbing. Again, while Mr. Brown raises valid points that are worth considering, the book seems loaded with his own emotions and/or feelings toward Darlie. Another note: the pictures are very disturbing.

I believed after reading all the books written about the case that she was guilty. This 'book', (I use the term losely) did nothing to convince me otherwise. I mean lets face it; a mother who has been 'attacked' and has had two of her babies brutally stabbed to death, DO NOT say 8 days later......."Well, we had some good times with them..." This is on top of a complete lack of intruder evidence and let's face it...these cops KNOW....when they first start investigating and interviewing....they KNOW deep down if something is inherently wrong with the situation. Anyone who believes otherwise (including Brown) is a shirt-tailer and probably believes O.J. too! Thanks

To begin with, this really isn't a book - at least not in the typical fashion. CWB takes newspaper articles from the time period of the murders and trial and attempts to prove Darlie's innocence by showing inaccuracies in the articles. The vast majority of his comments are immaterial to the case or sarcastic in nature...

He gives no expert witnesses to back up his footprint theories... and other biased information is blatantly incorrect. He offers very little in direct quotes from the city attorneys or investigators because he obviously didn't solicit their opinions or thoughts on any of his wild theories or gibberish. He makes no attempt at objectivity, so don't expect any.

Having lived in the area many years ago, I found numerous claims to be outright lies. However, this is an anything goes book - as evidenced by the needlessly explicit photos - and CWB stops at nothing in his attempt to show a massive media and police conspiracy to railroad Darlie.

Even when a valid point was made, I was left wondering if this was more nonsense that would be obvious to me if I was more educated on the case issues as opposed to blindly accepting CWB's comments.

For the price of this book, you could buy all of other 3 books on the subject. Do yourself a favor and click to another book.

And I use the term 'written' very loosely, as anyone could have pasted this together and commented on it. The whole book is news columns interspersed with the author's comments, mainly sarcastic in tone. This makes for very disjointed reading. It would have been much better if the author had simply printed the news column with his comments at the bottom of the respective pages. Better yet would have been a true book, written by the author and not simple taken from new columns. Also, the author didn't caption the pictures very well. Speaking of the pictures, they should never have been done in color; how disrespectful to those poor children. There was no need to put color pictures in, and especially ones that didn't cover their faces completely. For Darli to agree to this (and her husband too, for that matter)is one more reason I believe she is guilty. Nothing in the book changed my mind on that; maybe because the author didn't back his commentary up with much, if any, facts. This was one of the most annoying, non-informative books to read, and a total waste of money. If you want to read it, wait for it at the library or look for it on auction; don't pay full price. Definitely not worth the $25. Not even worth $.25

The book is interesting but the author should have continued searching for facts. My brother knows the Routiers very well and was supposed to be visiting them that horrible week. No matter what you think of the Texas Justice System, you should know how Darlie has changed her story numerous times when talking to my brother.

This book is extremely overpriced. It is written on cheap newsprint and the writing is lousy and full of typos. The sarcasm is nauseating.

You can talk forever about Darlie's innocence but you'll only convince a half-wit that Darlie did not have some type of involvement in these murders."She loved her boys" is all we hear from some of the reviews so far -- wake up! Everyone said Susan Smith loved her boys too. What bothers me is some of the reviews mentioned "the photos were good, you could see they moved things around", but no one mentioned the absolute psychopathic personality that would publish let alone ALLOW these pictures to be seen by the general public.

What mother whose children were viciously murdered to the point of overkill would allow such gruesome and gory photos of her dead children to be published? What mother would spray Silly-String on her children's graves while chewing her gum like a hooker? How come no one mentions this?

Years ago I watched a pro-MacDonald program on Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, the convicted murderer of his wife, two daughters and unborn son. When I saw the program, I was outraged and thought there was no way he was guilty. When I read "Fatal Vision", which was about the murders (and one of the best true crime novels, along with "Bitter Blood", I changed my mind completely. In MacDonald's case too, police work was sloppy and dishonest, but when I read his police statements, there was no way this man was innocent. He was lying, it was so obvious. I suppose those who think Darlie is innocent because the investigation was sloppy still think O.J. is innocent too. Maybe we could look for the murderers of the Routier boys on a golf course --- maybe they also murdered Ron and Nicole!

Needless to say, the bloody pictures of the boys with large multiple stab wounds made me sick and the images bothered me for some time. I was just as sickened that a mother would try to get sympathy or money off of such gory photos of her children. I have seen numerous interviews with Darlie and I can only conclude that she is mentally ill or a monster.

I really wish Amazon would take the advice of the reviewers and make some kind of negative rating system because this book is the biggest trash.

The state's evidence photos used in this book are valuable for studying this case. That's the only good thing I can say about this book. It's so full of typos, misspelled words, unfinished sentences and sarcasm, I recommend buying it only if you want to look at the pictures and pay for an over-priced book.

Christopher W. Brown is just another one of those "SLOBS" who comes along and takes advantage of a family-in-crisis. At a recent fund-raiser banquet, he spoke of the donations from this book that will go to Ms. Routier's Defense/Appeals Fund. It would be interesting to know how much he has donated -- if anything. He's a "USER" and a "LOSER." Too bad the family got taken in by him.

I can't believe that I waited so long for this book. I have comic books that are better than this is. First of all, I agree with the reader about the cut and paste of the newspaper articles. I am also amazed, and angered at some of the comments the author makes about certain individuals. Has he never heard of being sued for slander and libel? He may not like the people, but it does not give him the right to call them names and flame their family. As for Darlie's innocence-how on earth (particularly after the last few years) can someone her age have NOT been read her Miranda rights and NOT realize it until our illustrious author asks her. Please. Darlie didn't get away with it, because she obviously wasn't smart enough to. It's just a good thing she was in Rowlett, where the PD made mistakes almost as foolish as hers. Brian Pardo needs to close his wallet and find someone else to champion.

The book was an obvious ploy to try to turn the readers opinion in the favor of Darlie Routier and he is ridiculous in his wording, pleading and groveling style. I thought her guilty before and this book only firmed up my opinion....

After reading this book, it was still clear to me that Darlie Routier is a murderer. This book did not disprove anything about the evidence found at the scene. Her story is not believable, I have boys of my own and I know that the story she told could not have happened the way she said it did. I think it's just so hard for most people, especially mothers to believe that a woman could kill her own children, that they refuse to believe it. So, there must be another explanation......but not so in this case. The right woman is in prison....may her children rest in peace.