Further reading for Darlie Routier/ Fatty Arbuckle:
A Killer in My House: The Darlie Routier Story
June 6, 1996 Darlie Routier says that she fell asleep on the couch with her two sons, 6-year old Devon and 5-year old Damon. When she woke up in the early hours of the morning, she discovered there was an unknown man in her house. She claims he had a knife and as she got up and approached the man, him he dropped the knife and ran.
It was only after the intruder left that Darlie realized that she and her two sons had been wounded and she called 9-1-1. When the police arrived they found the two boys had died from stab wounds that were consistent with a large kitchen knife from the Routier’s kitchen and that Darlie had sustained knife wounds to her throat and arm.
Her husband during this ordeal was asleep upstairs with their baby and didnt come down until after the intruder had disappeared and Darli started screaming.
As evidence is collected investigators become more convinced that Darlie has more to do with this then she lets on, and that her wounds are self-inflicted. To make things even weirder and creapier, is not long after the burial the Routier’s hold a birthday party a the gravesite for one on the boys an a local news crew films it. In the video Darlie can be seen chewing gum, laughing and singing and sprays silly string all over the grave.
With all the evidence pointing at her, Darlie was arrested for the murders the prosecution arguing that she had staged the scene and killed the boys because of the families financial difficulties.
As of today Darlie still sits on death row.
Hollywoods first big scandal!
Fatty Arbuckle giant movie star of the 1920’s finds himself at a party in a glorious suite of an LA hotel. One of the other guests is 30 year old Virginia Rappe a struggling actress who suffered from chronic cystitis. The two find themselves behind closed doors together and soon thereafter her screams can be heard.
Arbuckle claims to have found the woman passed out on the bathroom floor, and as he picked her up and put her on the bed, she fell off. But as her condition worsened she was brought to the hospital and it was claimed by a friend of hers that Arbuckle had raped her. Short days later she died of a ruptured bladder.
Did Arbuckle have anything to do with her death? Weather her did or did not, his career never recovered.
Episode 56
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