About

My interest in the Routier case started after I had seen a TV documentary in the UK.

Until then I had no knowledge of the case, but as I watched I could see that there were serious flaws in the way the case was presented by the prosecution, and their case seemed to be more a piece of theatre than based in fact.

I have worked in various professions spanning thirty years, all of them related to human behaviour, investigations, and adult mental health in some form or another to varying degrees.

Of particular interest are the various forms of extreme personality disorder, which include psychopathy, narcissism, and others that appear alien to most reasonable thinking people. My interest was spurned when I met an individual who is the only person I have ever met in my life who I could describe as truly chillingly evil (and I have encountered some truly ‘bad’ people in my time) – they were a particularly nasty serial killer – an experience I will never forget.

From that encounter I had to challenge my own beliefs about humans and learn to understand what makes someone who I would normally consider to be a member of our ‘normal’ society think and act in a way that is at odds with the basic humanity most of us feel.

Inevitably, part of the process of learning about these extreme psychological conditions has brought me into contact with people in forensic settings, as well as our normal society.

It is from this base of experience and knowledge that I objectively approached the Routier case, neither presuming guilt or innocence. My main interest was to find out how such an obviously flaws prosecution managed to persuade a jury to convict Darlie Routier and sentence her to death.

In the process, I have discovered that there is much more to this case than a mother suddenly turning on her own children. As I researched and learned more about the real facts of the case, it became clear to me that this was the work of a serial offender of the most dangerous kind – the sexually sadistic killer – a serial murderer.