Jeremiah Crowell
Director
The Last Defense (2018)
Season 1
This docu-series explores and exposes flaws in the American justice system through emotional, in-depth examinations of the death row cases of Darlie Routier and Julius Jones.
Released June 12, 2018
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.true-crime, tmdb.wrongful-conviction, tmdb.murder-trial, tmdb.american-justice-system, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: JuVee Productions, Lincoln Square Productions, Xcon Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Darlie Routier: The Crime
After surviving the brutal stabbing that leaves her two sons dead in 1996, Dallas housewife Darlie Routier urges police to find the intruder she claims is the killer. To her horror, she becomes the No. 1 suspect. In his first interview in nearly 15 years, Darlie’s husband, Darin Routier, gives an emotional telling of the events leading up to her arrest while the prosecutors, Greg Davis and Toby Shook, walk through the crime scene as they prepare their case.
June 12, 2018, midnight
S1E2 - Darlie Routier: The Trial
Amid a media frenzy, Darlie Routier’s trial begins in the small, conservative town of Kerrville, Texas. Prosecutors know they will be up against a formidable adversary when Darlie’s family hires one of Dallas’ top attorneys, Doug Mulder. For the first time in the series, we hear from Darlie on death row and her first-hand account of what happened that night, an account investigators say was 100% fabricated after Darlie staged the crime scene. The state’s investigators will present its evidence pointing to Darlie as the killer, but 20 years later, defense experts examine their theories, one by one.
June 19, 2018, midnight
S1E3 - Darlie Routier: The Woman
The trial of Darlie Routier heats up. Facing one of Texas’ top defense lawyers, the prosecution argues that Darlie’s actions and demeanor are not that of a grieving mother but of a person capable of murdering her own children. The defense strikes back by questioning the state’s theory of motive and the characterization of Darlie. However, when the prosecution presents a video of Darlie having a party at her children’s gravesite in the now infamous “silly string video,” it seems her fate is sealed. Author Barbara Davis, who was at the original trial, gives a firsthand account.
June 26, 2018, midnight
S1E4 - Darlie Routier: The Fight
None
July 3, 2018, midnight
S1E5 - Julius Jones: The Crime
None
July 10, 2018, midnight
S1E6 - Julius Jones: The Trial
None
July 17, 2018, midnight
S1E7 - Julius Jones: The Fight
None
July 24, 2018, midnight
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ABC
42 min/ep
294 min
June 12, 2018
July 24, 2018, midnight
Ended
NR
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