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1. 0:00office.
2. 0:01We're at the Lane County shops off of
3. 0:03Delta right now. The date today is May
4. 0:06the 23rd, 1983.
5. 0:09Time is approximately 15:05.
6. 0:11Um we're going to do a video tape
7. 0:15reenactment
8. 0:17of
9. 0:18uh
10. 0:19a murder that took place on Old Mohawk
11. 0:22Road near Marcola Road on May the
12. 0:2519th, 1983.
13. 0:27Case number is 83-3268.
14. 0:32Um
15. 0:34sitting in the car is Elizabeth Diane
16. 0:36Downs,
17. 0:37one of the victims of this uh murder
18. 0:39attempt murder.
19. 0:41Uh the car we're using is a police car,
20. 0:45detective car.
21. 0:47Um
22. 0:49what we'll do is walk through this
23. 0:52um
24. 0:53simulation
25. 0:54and uh Elizabeth will tell us what
26. 0:57happened. I'll play the part of the
27. 0:59suspect walking up from the front of the
28. 1:01car.
29. 1:03Um
30. 1:04we'll go to the car and
31. 1:06and see
32. 1:08a couple of dolls that were placed in
33. 1:10the back seat simulating their position
34. 1:12in the back seat of the car.
35. 1:15Uh
36. 1:16Mrs. Downs' car is a two-door. This is a
37. 1:19four-door. There's a little difference
38. 1:20there, of course.
39. 1:21Uh we'll open the door and we'll let you
40. 1:24look in and see the position of the the
41. 1:26children in the back seat and the little
42. 1:28girl who was in the front seat covered
43. 1:30uh with a sweater, a postal sweater. So,
44. 1:32I'll walk up to the front of the car and
45. 1:35uh Mrs. Downs will open her car door and
46. 1:38we'll go from there.
47. 1:52>> What's the problem?
48. 1:53>> I want your car.
49. 1:54>> Nope, he's further. He didn't say
50. 1:56anything and I just
51. 1:57I just kept waiting. Okay, he got this
52. 1:59far.
53. 2:00Okay.
54. 2:02>> I want your car.
55. 2:03>> You got to be kidding.
56. 2:05I shut the car.
57. 2:08He's got
58. 2:09He reaches in, starts firing.
59. 2:11I was watching Christy.
60. 2:13>> Fires in the Christy.
61. 2:14>> Christy first, Danny.
62. 2:15>> Fires in the Danny.
63. 2:17>> Sheryl.
64. 2:18>> Fires in the Sheryl in the front seat.
65. 2:20>> Okay, he swings halfway back.
66. 2:22He looks at me, but he's not all the way
67. 2:24around.
68. 2:25>> I want your car.
69. 2:28>> Like that. Okay, your attention goes,
70. 2:31you swing around at the same time.
71. 2:32>> indicating there?
72. 2:33>> I'm throwing the keys, okay? I'm
73. 2:34throwing the keys.
74. 2:35>> Simulating the keys.
75. 2:36>> Yes, but I didn't let go of them. He He
76. 2:38thinks I threw them, but I did not throw
77. 2:40them, okay?
78. 2:41He swings around at the same time. He's
79. 2:43watching the keys and he swings around
80. 2:45and shoots. Probably he thought he shot
81. 2:47me in the stomach. I don't know.
82. 2:48Caught my arm. Okay, your attention
83. 2:50keeps following the keys. I go like
84. 2:53that.
85. 2:53Right in the car.
86. 2:55I put THE KEYS IN. THAT JUST HIT MY
87. 2:57CAST.
88. 2:59STARTED THE CAR
89. 3:01AND LEFT. The car door shut itself.
90. 3:05This is worse than it Okay, now
91. 3:07>> John, can we Female doll in the right
92. 3:10rear
93. 3:11of this vehicle simulates
94. 3:14>> Christy.
95. 3:15>> Christy
96. 3:16uh Ann Downs
97. 3:18uh
98. 3:18and how she was lying on the seat that
99. 3:22night
100. 3:23when uh this occurred.
101. 3:26The male doll
102. 3:31uh represents the position of Danny
103. 3:35Steven Daniel Downs
104. 3:38the way he was positioned when Mrs.
105. 3:40Downs reached the hospital.
106. 3:43She doesn't recall, is that right?
107. 3:45>> Right, I don't know how I was laying
108. 3:46when it happened.
109. 3:47>> happened.
110. 3:49Okay, in the front seat
111. 3:52on the floorboard on the in the front of
112. 3:54the vehicle, on the floorboards,
113. 3:56there's a sweater
114. 3:58over some debris.
115. 4:00That represents
116. 4:02um
117. 4:02Christiane. Uh
118. 4:04excuse me, Cheryl Lynn
119. 4:06Downs
120. 4:07who was curled up in the sweater,
121. 4:10uh
122. 4:10apparently asleep. Is that the right
123. 4:13at the time
124. 4:15uh Mrs. Downs stopped.
125. 4:18Think that
126. 4:20We're simulating using
127. 4:22uh Detective Doug Welch the throwing of
128. 4:24the keys
129. 4:26uh or the simulation of the throwing of
130. 4:28the keys by Mrs. Downs because obviously
131. 4:32she's incapacitated now.
132. 4:34Uh she'll direct us the way this
133. 4:36happened.
134. 4:37Uh she recalls it. So,
135. 4:39uh I'm again the the suspect.
136. 4:41Doug is uh Mrs. Downs.
137. 4:44Okay.
138. 4:49>> I want your car.
139. 4:50>> I want your car. When you throw, you
140. 4:52only throw about that far. You're just
141. 4:54throwing like that. Only your body's not
142. 4:55that far. Not like that.
143. 4:57>> All right.
144. 4:57>> Okay? Your arm is out here like this.
145. 5:00And that's it. And then he swings around
146. 5:02and fires.
147. 5:04>> Bang. Bang.
148. 5:05>> I'm sure he didn't intend to shoot my
149. 5:07arm, but okay, but that's where it
150. 5:08caught right there.
151. 5:10>> And this arm
152. 5:11was extended
153. 5:12>> Yeah.
154. 5:13>> above and out.
155. 5:13>> Right. It was out like this.
156. 5:15>> Okay.
157. 5:15>> Okay.
158. 5:16>> All right. Then
159. 5:17>> And his attention kept going.
160. 5:20And I just pulled back, kicked, and
161. 5:22pushed.
162. 5:24>> In the car?
163. 5:25>> Stuck in the car, stuck in the ignition,
164. 5:26took off. The car door shut itself with
165. 5:28the rest of the rest of the car, I
166. 5:30suppose. It just shut itself.
167. 5:33>> Okay.
168. 5:35We are ending this uh simulation of the
169. 5:38the incident uh
170. 5:40on Old Mohawk Road. The time is
171. 5:42approximately 15:16
172. 5:44hours. Again, the date is uh May the
173. 5:4623rd, uh 1983.