DIANE DOWNS - CHILD KILLER — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey guys what's up my name is sky webb
2. 0:01and i'm here to talk about a two gram
3. 0:03story that i cannot
4. 0:04get off my mind but before i get started
5. 0:07i just want to put out
6. 0:08a little disclaimer that i mean no harm
7. 0:10to any of the victims or the victims
8. 0:12families and i wish everyone who was
9. 0:14hurt within this story that most peace
10. 0:15and saw this iron rest or in
11. 0:17recovery with that out of the way happy
12. 0:19true crime thursday
13. 0:21welcome back to my channel or just
14. 0:23welcome if you've never been here before
15. 0:25i'm not gonna waste any time today i'm
16. 0:27gonna get straight into the story
17. 0:29actually i do have to waste a little bit
18. 0:30of time i just need to put out a
19. 0:32disclaimer
20. 0:33that this case involves children so if
21. 0:35you don't
22. 0:36like the murder of children do not watch
23. 0:38this video today's case is about diane
24. 0:42downs
25. 0:45diane downs was actually born elizabeth
26. 0:47diane downs and she was born in phoenix
27. 0:49arizona on the 7th of august
28. 0:521955. we don't know a whole lot about
29. 0:54diane's childhood but from the people
30. 0:56who knew her we can pretty much gather
31. 0:58that she was a little bit of a wild card
32. 1:00she was very
33. 1:01energetic and out there and she
34. 1:04liked to have fun and she liked to get
35. 1:06her own way she claims that when she was
36. 1:0812 years old she was sexually assaulted
37. 1:10and she actually did testify
38. 1:12to that um but it's it's unclear whether
39. 1:16or not that's the truth or not
40. 1:19purely because diane has a very long
41. 1:21history of
42. 1:23lying and you'll you'll see
43. 1:26a demonstration of that very shortly she
44. 1:28met her husband steve downs in high
45. 1:30school and they dated for a couple of
46. 1:32years before
47. 1:33she went off to college but she was only
48. 1:36in college for a year before she was
49. 1:38kicked out for being
50. 1:40too promiscuous but it was a baptist
51. 1:43bible college so i mean
52. 1:45take that with a grain of salt the word
53. 1:47promiscuous but anyway
54. 1:48then in 1973 she married steve and she
55. 1:51actually ran away from home
56. 1:53the following year the couple had their
57. 1:55first baby christy
58. 1:56anne and then in 1976 they had cheryl
59. 1:59lynn
60. 2:00followed by stephen daniel in 1979.
61. 2:03unfortunately steve believed that their
62. 2:05only son who they nicknamed denny
63. 2:08he believed that denny was the result of
64. 2:11an affair
65. 2:12so he wasn't very happy and he left
66. 2:16the couple got divorced and i'm not
67. 2:18entirely sure about the custody like
68. 2:20agreement that they had
69. 2:22but from what i can see diane had the
70. 2:24kids majority
71. 2:26of the time she worked for the postal
72. 2:28service
73. 2:29and she did provide for her kids but her
74. 2:32kids also spent a fair
75. 2:33chunk of time with their grandparents
76. 2:35because
77. 2:37diane liked to go out and do what she
78. 2:39wanted to do
79. 2:40the kids were at the grandparents so
80. 2:42often that they actually
81. 2:43developed relationships with their
82. 2:46neighbors with the grandparents
83. 2:47neighbors that's how
84. 2:48often they were there and like
85. 2:49socializing with everyone
86. 2:51and one of the kids actually told her
87. 2:53neighbor that they were afraid of their
88. 2:55mum
89. 2:56diane for the most part remained single
90. 2:58but she was
91. 2:59known for playing the other woman quite
92. 3:02a lot so
93. 3:03when she did date she was usually dating
94. 3:06married men
95. 3:07then in 1982 she fell pregnant and she
96. 3:11actually gave birth
97. 3:12but this time it was as a surrogate so
98. 3:14she gave birth to a beautiful
99. 3:16little girl and she was able to name her
100. 3:18jennifer before giving her to the
101. 3:20parents
102. 3:20on the 19th of may 1983 diane and the
103. 3:24kids
104. 3:24left home at around 9 30 p.m and they
105. 3:27went to go visit one of diane's friends
106. 3:30on the way home diane decided to take
107. 3:33the back roads instead of going
108. 3:36you know directly home uh and she said
109. 3:39she did this because her and the kids
110. 3:41were sightseeing
111. 3:43even though it was late at night and it
112. 3:44was dark uh
113. 3:46she said that that's something that they
114. 3:48did quite often was ghost sightseeing
115. 3:50at night time about halfway through
116. 3:53their sightseeing trip going home she
117. 3:55said that the kids had fallen asleep and
118. 3:57she saw a man on the side of the road
119. 3:59like flagging her down
120. 4:00so she stopped and asked like what's
121. 4:02that how can i help you
122. 4:04and she claims that this man
123. 4:07asked for the keys and in response she
124. 4:09said you've got to be kidding
125. 4:11so he pulled out a gun uh got diane out
126. 4:14of the car reached into the car and shot
127. 4:16the three children
128. 4:17in the back seat before she pretended to
129. 4:21throw her keys
130. 4:22and he's turned around to go and try and
131. 4:24find this case that
132. 4:25she didn't actually really throw and
133. 4:26then she's jumped in the car
134. 4:28and sped off she said that he fired one
135. 4:31last bullet and that hit her arm
136. 4:33and then you know she was out of there
137. 4:35so she drove to the hospital and she
138. 4:37started yelling out hey my kids are
139. 4:39being shot my kids are being shot
140. 4:40unfortunately by the time she got there
141. 4:43her seven-year-old
142. 4:44cheryl had already died her
143. 4:46eight-year-old christy
144. 4:48she had suffered from a really really
145. 4:49bad stroke um
146. 4:51so she was in a very poor way and then
147. 4:53the three-year-old denny
148. 4:56he was paralyzed from the waist down
149. 4:59christy had been so badly injured that
150. 5:02her surgeon actually thought like she
151. 5:05was dead
152. 5:05like her vitals were so low she was in
153. 5:07such a poor state she was in such a bad
154. 5:09way
155. 5:10no one really thought that she would
156. 5:13like
157. 5:14pull through like they all thought she
158. 5:16was gonna die all the nurses
159. 5:18who were there that night they were all
160. 5:19in tears for these children it was a
161. 5:21really really horrific
162. 5:22scene and it was just horrible and this
163. 5:25is where things start to get a little
164. 5:26bit
165. 5:27weird because the police show up and
166. 5:29they obviously
167. 5:30talk to diane and they want to know what
168. 5:32happened and she was just very flat and
169. 5:34very emotionless
170. 5:36like she knew that her daughter had died
171. 5:38she knew that her other daughter was
172. 5:39clinging to life and her three-year-old
173. 5:41was paralyzed he's three years old
174. 5:44like that that should evoke some kind of
175. 5:47emotion surely and it didn't and the
176. 5:50police thought that that was weird
177. 5:52then the surgeon came and spoke to her
178. 5:53about christy and he was very emotional
179. 5:56about how badly injured christie was
180. 6:00and so he was expecting a really
181. 6:01emotional response from her mother
182. 6:03but again she was emotionless she was
183. 6:05very just
184. 6:07flat and didn't really seem like she
185. 6:09cared
186. 6:10and she said something that he found
187. 6:12really really really inappropriate and
188. 6:14he was just taking him back by
189. 6:15and she was complaining that she got
190. 6:19blood
191. 6:21all throughout her new car
192. 6:24of all the things to whinge about in
193. 6:26this moment
194. 6:27it's not your car despite her really
195. 6:30weird demeanor the police took her story
196. 6:32very very seriously
197. 6:34and they started a manhunt for this man
198. 6:37with shaggy hair who she described
199. 6:40that flagged her down they went out to
200. 6:41that location they were searching for
201. 6:43clues
202. 6:44they found like shell casings
203. 6:47and they were just surveying the entire
204. 6:50area looking for
205. 6:51anything that could assist them to
206. 6:53trying to find this guy
207. 6:54i'm not sure how the public came to this
208. 6:57conclusion that they sort of
209. 6:58came to the conclusion that this man was
210. 7:01only dangerous to kids
211. 7:03uh for the fact that the kids were all
212. 7:04so badly injured and she was just like
213. 7:07scraped on the arm type of thing and so
214. 7:10the community was like terrified they
215. 7:11were really petrified
216. 7:12and like kids weren't allowed to go out
217. 7:14in the streets no one was allowed go out
218. 7:16by themselves they had to stay close
219. 7:18like
220. 7:18everyone was just very guarded and
221. 7:20protective at the moment because they
222. 7:22thought there was a crazy dangerous
223. 7:25happy go lucky shooter like out in the
224. 7:28world
225. 7:28i meant to say trigger happy not
226. 7:30happy-go-lucky
227. 7:33that's fine so at this point police were
228. 7:36knocking on doors they were literally
229. 7:37going from door-to-door asking if anyone
230. 7:39had seen anything suspicious they were
231. 7:41stopping cars that were going back and
232. 7:42forth on those roads
233. 7:44checking boots searching cars they had
234. 7:46uh divers
235. 7:47in the lakes looking for the murder
236. 7:49weapon looking for the gun to match the
237. 7:51casings
238. 7:52they were surveying all throughout the
239. 7:54grass and wooded areas and
240. 7:55everything they also drew a police
241. 7:58sketch of this man with shaggy hair
242. 8:00uh and i don't know how anyone ever gets
243. 8:03caught
244. 8:04with place sketches because they
245. 8:06literally never look like anyone
246. 8:08let alone the suspect like um anyway
247. 8:11so at this point the police really
248. 8:12wanted to try and like cement
249. 8:14in diane's story because they hadn't
250. 8:17found anything they had nothing else to
251. 8:19go off other than
252. 8:21her story and so they asked her could we
253. 8:23do a reenactment
254. 8:24and this reenactment was going to be
255. 8:27broadcasted on tv
256. 8:29and she said yes she was happy more than
257. 8:31happy to do it
258. 8:33this was probably a poor decision on her
259. 8:35part because she was a total narcissist
260. 8:37and
261. 8:38literally anyone could see that she was
262. 8:40seen on tv
263. 8:41in the car fixing her hair checking her
264. 8:44makeup like making sure
265. 8:46she looked her best before she went on
266. 8:48which
267. 8:50i mean i probably would too i don't know
268. 8:51if i had just lost
269. 8:53a child whether i would do that i don't
270. 8:55think i would give a [ __ ] but
271. 8:57each to their own i guess and then when
272. 8:59they start she's like
273. 9:00laughing and giggling and like she goes
274. 9:03to throw her keys because it's a
275. 9:04reenactment and then she's like laughing
276. 9:06about the fact that she goes to throw
277. 9:07her keys
278. 9:08and again i could understand that if you
279. 9:10had not have just lost
280. 9:11a child and you were reenacting how you
281. 9:14lost a child and how your children were
282. 9:16shot i could understand
283. 9:17that you like awkwardly giggling because
284. 9:19like you're on tv and everyone's
285. 9:21watching you and you feel silly but not
286. 9:23in that circumstance and then she jumps
287. 9:25in the car and she hits a cast and she's
288. 9:27laughing because she hit
289. 9:28her cars and she's like oh that really
290. 9:30hurt and then
291. 9:31while she's still laughing and like
292. 9:33getting out of the car she's like that
293. 9:36was worse then
294. 9:37and then stops and just laughs again and
295. 9:39doesn't say anything
296. 9:40and detectives at this point assumed
297. 9:44that what she might have been about to
298. 9:46say was this is worse than when i shot
299. 9:48myself
300. 9:49which i don't know if that's like a big
301. 9:53connection to sort of draw from that but
302. 9:57so instead of like cementing in her
303. 9:59story they kind of just really
304. 10:03had like a concrete suspicion of her now
305. 10:06they went and searched a house and they
306. 10:07found letter after letter after letter
307. 10:09addressed to a man called robert
308. 10:10nicobacca
309. 10:12and this was a man that she was totally
310. 10:14obsessively in love with
311. 10:16and he was married she called him nick
312. 10:19with a k and
313. 10:23they worked together at the post office
314. 10:25and as i said he was married
315. 10:27he and his wife had been like on and off
316. 10:29they'd had their issues and been up and
317. 10:31down
318. 10:32but there's no mistake in this they were
319. 10:35having an affair
320. 10:36they started to really sort of hone in
321. 10:38on the forensics at this point
322. 10:40because again they had nothing else to
323. 10:42go off um and
324. 10:44they realized that the blood spatter was
325. 10:46really inconsistent with diane's story
326. 10:48so in diane's story
327. 10:49the man came in through the driver's
328. 10:51side and shot the kids in the back
329. 10:53so all the shooting was done inside the
330. 10:55car
331. 10:56and yet there was a specks of blood
332. 10:59found
333. 10:59on the lower door frame of the passenger
334. 11:02side at the front
335. 11:04uh which didn't make sense at this point
336. 11:08diane was pretty aware of the fact that
337. 11:11she was looking suspicious she was aware
338. 11:14that the
339. 11:15police were sort of taking a look at her
340. 11:17and not necessarily believing her story
341. 11:19and so she actually decided
342. 11:21to make her own appeal to the public
343. 11:24which is very different so she had a
344. 11:27news broadcaster
345. 11:29come to her house and she appealed for
346. 11:32any information she asked this man this
347. 11:34suspect
348. 11:35to come forward and you know like
349. 11:39hand himself in she also retold her
350. 11:41story and said that she wanted to make
351. 11:42it very very clear
352. 11:44what happened and then she goes on to
353. 11:46try and defend herself by saying
354. 11:49if i was going to shoot my children
355. 11:51wouldn't i have done a better job at it
356. 11:53when i have done a good job at it
357. 11:55like wouldn't have killed them all and
358. 11:57she did this a lot she did interview
359. 11:58after interview press conference
360. 12:01talked to reporters she loved the
361. 12:04limelight and she wanted to get her
362. 12:05story out and she wanted to be ahead of
363. 12:07it she wanted to be the one
364. 12:09uh telling this story essentially
365. 12:12she didn't want anyone else to have a
366. 12:14say or a spin on it
367. 12:16she really wanted exposure and i think
368. 12:18out of everything she really wanted
369. 12:20sympathy she did one interview in
370. 12:22particular that was really kind of
371. 12:24detrimental to her downfall and she was
372. 12:26actually
373. 12:27invited to bring her lawyers with her
374. 12:29but she declined this offer which is
375. 12:33not the brightest thing anyone could
376. 12:34really do and again she was seen as a
377. 12:37massive narcissist
378. 12:38she had the audacity to sit there and
379. 12:40say everyone keeps telling me
380. 12:42i'm lucky but i don't think i'm very
381. 12:44lucky
382. 12:45like my arm hurts like i i couldn't pick
383. 12:48things up
384. 12:49she's like i couldn't tie my shoelaces
385. 12:51for such and such amount of time
386. 12:53i'm not the lucky one i think my
387. 12:55children are lucky which is
388. 12:57literally [ __ ] mental she kept saying
389. 12:59that her daughter christy
390. 13:00would get her out of this and like she
391. 13:03would explain
392. 13:03that she's not the one who shot them and
393. 13:05it was this other guy and she was just
394. 13:07waiting for christy to wake up from
395. 13:09uh or not wake up but like regain the
396. 13:12ability to speak because at this point
397. 13:14she couldn't speak due to the stroke
398. 13:16and she just kept saying wait for
399. 13:17christy wait for christy despite the
400. 13:19fact
401. 13:20that christy couldn't yet speak the
402. 13:22nurses
403. 13:23did notice and they made a note of this
404. 13:26that every time diane walked into the
405. 13:28room poor little christie's vitals would
406. 13:31just like
407. 13:31[ __ ] spike through the [ __ ] roof
408. 13:34and it was
409. 13:35very apparent that she was scared of her
410. 13:37mother
411. 13:38luckily the kids weren't ever placed
412. 13:40into her custody they both remained in
413. 13:42hospital
414. 13:42uh until you know later by now the
415. 13:45police were starting to piece together a
416. 13:47story
417. 13:48or a theory of what might have really
418. 13:49happened and they believed that diane
419. 13:52had planned this she'd turned around and
420. 13:54shot all three children
421. 13:56they believed that uh poor cheryl
422. 13:58actually managed to open the door and
423. 14:00try and
424. 14:00like climb out and so diane has
425. 14:04climbed across the passenger seat opened
426. 14:06that door
427. 14:07and then bent outside of the car and
428. 14:09shot her and then she's
429. 14:11obviously gone around the side put
430. 14:13cheryl back in the car who was already
431. 14:15dead
432. 14:16and then drove to the hospital on top of
433. 14:19this
434. 14:20they discovered that diane had a handgun
435. 14:23and she had from
436. 14:24day dot uh denied ever having a handgun
437. 14:28or having any gun for that matter um and
438. 14:32this handgun it matched the crime so
439. 14:35they obviously
440. 14:36examined this gun and they determined
441. 14:38that the shell casings and this gun and
442. 14:40the bullets and all that
443. 14:41it all matched up it all it
444. 14:44added up and then they found a witness
445. 14:47and obviously this case was sort of
446. 14:49plastered all over
447. 14:50the town all over the place it was all
448. 14:52over the news and everything else and so
449. 14:54this person
450. 14:55saw her car on the news and came forward
451. 14:58and said hey i was actually driving
452. 15:00behind that car
453. 15:02on that night on that road he said
454. 15:05that he drove up behind this car and
455. 15:08they were driving so
456. 15:09slowly that his speedo
457. 15:12wouldn't even register because that's
458. 15:15how [ __ ] slow they were driving
459. 15:17and that obviously contradicted with
460. 15:19diane's story
461. 15:20who said she was speeding there as fast
462. 15:22as she could like pedal to the metal
463. 15:24that wasn't the case according to this
464. 15:27witness
465. 15:27the only thing they needed now really to
466. 15:30hold against her was a motive and that's
467. 15:32where those letters from earlier to nick
468. 15:34come in handy because she was
469. 15:38obsessed and in love with nick but nick
470. 15:41didn't want to be like a dad or a father
471. 15:45to someone else's kids let alone like
472. 15:47any kids at this point in his life
473. 15:49and she wrote to him saying like my kids
474. 15:52are so easy like they're no
475. 15:53trouble they're no trouble at all like
476. 15:55it's fine like they're
477. 15:56fine and but he he just didn't
478. 16:00want that and so she felt like perhaps
479. 16:03if she didn't have the kids he would
480. 16:07fully commit to her and leave his wife
481. 16:10she really viewed her kids as like a
482. 16:12hindrance to her relationship at this
483. 16:14point and she thought
484. 16:15there's no way he'll ever commit to her
485. 16:16with all this baggage the package being
486. 16:18the poor kids
487. 16:19and so she just thought if if they
488. 16:21weren't there
489. 16:22she'd have him all to herself so at this
490. 16:25point the police finally like
491. 16:27really come down on her and they stop
492. 16:28even entertaining her story
493. 16:30and they say to her like diane your
494. 16:33story stinks your entire story
495. 16:35stinks and it has from the start and the
496. 16:38audacity of this [ __ ]
497. 16:40she says without missing a [ __ ] bee
498. 16:43well
499. 16:44you better go get some deodorant then
500. 16:46and your story stinks
501. 16:48this whole
502. 16:50[Music]
503. 16:53which i know should make me like really
504. 16:55angry
505. 16:56but it's just so stupid like how can one
506. 16:59person
507. 17:00say something so stupid like it's
508. 17:03so hilariously dumb of a thing to say
509. 17:07in such a serious circumstance like by
510. 17:10now little christy
511. 17:11was seeing a therapist and she was
512. 17:14really working
513. 17:15on her communication skills and she was
514. 17:18starting to
515. 17:19regain her ability to speak but at this
516. 17:22point she was
517. 17:23still too afraid to sort of like talk
518. 17:26about the accident or not the accident
519. 17:27obviously was an accident
520. 17:29but she was too afraid to speak about
521. 17:30the incident that's what i meant to say
522. 17:33uh because obviously she was very
523. 17:35traumatized and so this therapist said
524. 17:37to her
525. 17:38write down who shot you and we'll put it
526. 17:40in an envelope and we'll burn it in my
527. 17:42fireplace
528. 17:43and we'll keep doing that until you're
529. 17:44ready so every visit with this therapist
530. 17:46she would do that she would write it
531. 17:47down
532. 17:48on a piece of paper they'd put it in an
533. 17:49envelope and then they'd chuck it in the
534. 17:51fireplace
535. 17:52finally when she was ready she handed
536. 17:54over the envelope and
537. 17:58it said my mom nine months after
538. 18:00shooting her kids
539. 18:01diane downs was finally arrested at this
540. 18:04point
541. 18:05diane was actually hugely
542. 18:08pregnant and not only had she planned
543. 18:11this pregnancy she actually completely
544. 18:13orchestrated it she she found this guy
545. 18:17on her postal route and decided that he
546. 18:19was attractive he had good features
547. 18:21high cheekbones and things that could be
548. 18:24passed down to a child
549. 18:25and she decided to go and visit him
550. 18:29with a bottle of alcohol and some weed
551. 18:33and she said that she knew her cycle so
552. 18:35well that if she had sex with him just
553. 18:37one time
554. 18:38she knew she'd fall pregnant and she
555. 18:40[ __ ] did
556. 18:41she was pregnant as [ __ ] so while she's
557. 18:45on trial
558. 18:46for shooting her own children she's got
559. 18:49a massive baby bump which is like the
560. 18:51most bizarre
561. 18:52terrifying thing to see she was charged
562. 18:56with first-degree murder and two counts
563. 18:58of attempted murder
564. 18:59and she pled not guilty she was seen by
565. 19:02psychologists and she was actually
566. 19:04diagnosed with narcissistic personality
567. 19:06disorder which i just got to say i
568. 19:08[ __ ] caught it
569. 19:09and then she was found guilty on all
570. 19:11counts and sentenced to life in prison
571. 19:14plus 50 years with the chance of pearl
572. 19:16after 25 years
573. 19:18so what's the point of adding 50 years
574. 19:20if she has a chance of parole i don't
575. 19:22[ __ ] know
576. 19:23so diane's children christy and danny
577. 19:25they were actually adopted by
578. 19:27the lead prosecution
579. 19:30man and his wife which i think is such a
580. 19:32beautiful
581. 19:33like wow like it goes to show how much
582. 19:36he he genuinely cared
583. 19:38to get justice for these poor [ __ ]
584. 19:41kids
585. 19:41shortly after her trial uh diane gave
586. 19:44birth
587. 19:45to her daughter
588. 19:48unfortunately her daughter and she named
589. 19:50her amy elizabeth but she was taken away
590. 19:52from her immediately and
591. 19:54given to adoptive parents who
592. 19:56immediately changed her name to rebecca
593. 19:58rebecca was told from a pretty young age
594. 20:00who her mum was
595. 20:01and she actually wrote to uh diane when
596. 20:04she was younger but since she's grown up
597. 20:06she lives to regret that
598. 20:08unfortunately she really really regrets
599. 20:10ever trying to communicate
600. 20:12and contact her and she thinks her mom
601. 20:14is just like a vile
602. 20:16disgusting human being which she's not
603. 20:18wrong and she's had a lot of issues
604. 20:20like admitting that that's her mom
605. 20:23which is really sad it really is a shame
606. 20:25but she's done a lot of interviews and
607. 20:26she's done a lot of work on herself and
608. 20:28within herself
609. 20:29and she's got a bright future ahead of
610. 20:31her diane
611. 20:32actually ended up escaping prison in
612. 20:341987
613. 20:35insane and she was recaptured 10 days
614. 20:38later
615. 20:39that's a long time to have a crazy
616. 20:42kid-shooter
617. 20:43like out in the open she was only 66
618. 20:47miles or like
619. 20:48around 100 kilometers i don't exactly
620. 20:50know the conversion
621. 20:52um away from where christy and danny
622. 20:55lived with their new parents
623. 20:57so they were petrified that this woman
624. 21:00diane would come and try and make
625. 21:03contact with the kids or try and hurt
626. 21:05them
627. 21:05even and so when she was recaptured
628. 21:08uh their dad their adoptive dad the
629. 21:12lead prosecutor he really petitioned and
630. 21:15fought hard
631. 21:16for her to be transferred to a different
632. 21:18prison because it was just too close to
633. 21:19home and it petrified them
634. 21:21and so he won that luckily and she was
635. 21:24moved
636. 21:24she applied for parole in 2008 and 2010
637. 21:28but luckily both times she was denied as
638. 21:29she still claims innocence which i don't
639. 21:31think she'll ever get out if she's still
640. 21:33claiming that because everybody knows
641. 21:35she's not innocent so it goes to show
642. 21:36she hasn't learned or changed or evolved
643. 21:38in
644. 21:39any way shape or form her next parole
645. 21:41hearing was supposed to be 2020
646. 21:44this year but i believe it was
647. 21:46rescheduled for 2021 but it could
648. 21:48actually be later than that i'm not
649. 21:49entirely sure
650. 21:51um and that's due to the pandemic and
651. 21:53the virus and the virus is something she
652. 21:55was actually very very vocal about this
653. 21:57year she did an interview
654. 21:59um and back in february of this year she
655. 22:02claimed she had the virus
656. 22:05because she loves the tension that much
657. 22:06she claimed that she had the virus
658. 22:08despite there being two negative tests
659. 22:12and no one else in the entire prison
660. 22:14being tested
661. 22:15positive for it she plucked it out of
662. 22:19thin air she must have
663. 22:21which is wild she also said that
664. 22:24she watched uh the oregon map
665. 22:27very very closely of like where um
666. 22:30positive
667. 22:31tests were popping up um and she claims
668. 22:34that she
669. 22:34she was doing that to keep an eye on her
670. 22:37children that she still loves and cares
671. 22:39about very very deeply
672. 22:40and it's a shame that uh she'll never be
673. 22:42able to show that to them and they'll
674. 22:44never believe that
675. 22:45of course they're never gonna [ __ ]
676. 22:46believe it you shot them you tried to
677. 22:48kill them you psycho [ __ ]
678. 22:50that is the story of elizabeth diane
679. 22:53downs thank you guys so much for
680. 22:55watching make sure you leave
681. 22:56your opinions down in the comments below
682. 22:59i would love to hear your opinion on
683. 23:01this case
684. 23:02because it's it's crazy and i don't
685. 23:05understand why you would ever be able to
686. 23:06do that to your children
687. 23:08be sure to give this video a big thumbs
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692. 23:17true crime and i would love to have you
693. 23:18be a part of it
694. 23:19make sure you guys are being safe out
695. 23:21there don't go sightseeing in the middle
696. 23:22of the night when it's dark and you
697. 23:24can't see anything
698. 23:25don't fall asleep while your mom's
699. 23:27driving and most importantly
700. 23:29don't shoot your [ __ ] kids people
701. 23:31thank you guys so much for watching stay
702. 23:33safe bye
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