Hi crime junkies, I'm Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt. Are you all ready for one of those cases that will make your head hurt?

Because I didn't think that's what I was getting into when I started researching this case,

but I literally spiraled in circles

over transcripts and evidence photos and case documents for six days straight.

And I eventually just had to like...

Yeah, I was going to say you even like cancel a recording session because you

were going to research more yeah and I literally had to like eventually just a pull the

plug and decide to tell you the story and let you decide for yourself what you think

because I'm not sure I can come up with a solid answer

about what actually happened in the Rutier home on June 6, 1996. 96. the I want to start our story back just a couple of hours before everything unfolded.

This is June 5th in Rowlett, Texas.

It's a normal day in a small suburb town. Darren and

Darley Rutier lived in a beautiful newly built home with their three sons,

Devon who's six, Damon who's five, and a newborn Derek who's less than a year old. Now school's out for

the summer so that night the two older boys wanted to have a camp out in the

living room, which if we can take just like two seconds to try and remember being six,

living room campouts were the greatest.

Oh my gosh, I loved them.

I know.

I don't know why sleeping in your living room, like over your bedroom is so much cooler, but it's like pure freedom

at that age. Oh yeah, age. So Darley decided that she

was going to sleep with the boys downstairs. She has been sleeping on the couch

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