Precious Angels: A True Story of Two Slain Children and a Mother convicted of Murder (Onyx True Crime, Je 853) (Paperback)

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On June 6, 1996, the tranquility of Rowlett, Texas was forever shattered by a frantic 911 phone call from Darlie Routier to police, claiming an intruder had broken into her home and stabbed her two little boys to death. But the subsequent investigation revealed a darker truth--the murder of two innocent children by their own mother.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451408535
• ISBN-13: 978-0451408532
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #863,546 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading, June 17, 1999

By A Customer

How can Barbara Davis claim to be an investigative reporter when she now says that her "non-fiction" book was actually fiction! Don't buy the book. I foresee it being required reading for journalism students. Professors will use it to demonstrate how not to investigate a story. She has said that her portrayal of the facts was incorrect because she was misled by the attornies and police. A real reporter is skeptical about everything they hear and see. She should have known to never take anybody's word as truth. Even the Routier's neighbors have said that Davis didn't contact them for interviews. Neighbors are character witnesses. What was she thinking? (She was probably thinking, the quicker I write this book, the quicker I get paid.) Her publisher should sue her for not doing her job and make her give all of her profit to charity. Since she has recanted her story, I now question everything else she has written, and everything else she'll write. The next time she tries to write a book, look for it in the "Your Guess is as Good as Mine" section.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chilling, December 2, 2000

By A Customer

I thought that Ms. Davis did a terrific job of telling this horrible story. But it now seems that she has recanted her theory about Darlie being the murderer? I guess the dog, (who barked at strangers) not barking that night to wake her husband up, is not true. And no blood leading out of the house was not true, Darlie's strange behavior was not true either? How could someone write a book like that, and then go on to say she was misinformed by the police? Why would the police go after Darlie and not her husband? I guess people don't want to believe a mother could kill her child. As for the self inflicted wounds -- Jeffrey McDonald inflicted his own wounds. And why would a man break into a home and kill two small children and leave two adults alive? How did the killer leave? With all that blood why wasn't any found outside? I believe Darlie did it and her husband is not too far behind her in the lunacy department. Darlie is right where she belongs - ok - not yet -- she belongs in hell and it's waiting for her.

As for reading that the author's child was murdered over this book -- I find that hard to believe - Is it true?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Undisputable Accuracy Welcomed, March 3, 1999

By A Customer

It is a welcome breath of fresh air, to finally read an unbiased, unsolicited opinion of this sad blot on American gothic suburbia. As a former resident of the county and state under examination, and someone who attended the trial, it is very refreshing to find someone not swayed by the histrionics that the family of the convicted murderer so diligently deploy. Ms. Davis' review of the trial is unerring, and ultimately this is what matters most...not Darlie's supporters' unverified claims of new evidence and "shocking untold stories." I doubt that this review will earm me much more than a ton of unwanted email, but it must be said that this book, as part of the Darlie Routier canon, finally lays the question to rest for any person of reason and rationality. I have no doubt that Darlie Kee can find all manner of falsehoods and dis-information here, but if she didn't, her new career as a talk show victim would be over, then, wouldn't it?