Diane Downs' Daughter Christie Speaks Out and More Post-Trial Evidence — Transcript
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- 0:04do you still your name still Christian
- 0:07downs
- 0:08Hey jizz your middle name still the same
- 0:11yeah it's Christian huger now you're not
- 0:13even allowed to say downs at all I never
- 0:17do you want me to send that tape to you
- 0:20would your parents get mad if you if I
- 0:21did alright don't think so is it alright
- 0:25if I send it to you okay what's your
- 0:28address four one nine three four one
- 0:31nine three okay okay okay
- 0:53I'll send it to you my dad plugged
- 0:54everything better for me and I made that
- 0:56tape for you that night and do you like
- 0:58Michael Jackson my sister Lindsey likes
- 1:03them all right my sister Lizzie has a
- 1:04couple Michael Jackson tapes in my dad's
- 1:06there was a lot more room on that tape
- 1:08it would be a waste just to send you
- 1:09that one video you said I should put
- 1:11more stuff on it for you because it's a
- 1:13waste of a tape what are your other
- 1:15favorite groups do you know do you ever
- 1:18better the video store in videos your
- 1:20eyes do you ever go to the video store
- 1:22and rent videos because if you look into
- 1:26video stores and you see a video you
- 1:27want to sit down and tell me and then
- 1:29I'll tape it for you on that same tape
- 1:30cuz there's a lot more room on that tape
- 1:35there's clones just killing me nobody in
- 1:39our family has been sick for so long
- 1:42did ya did you brother get sick - yeah
- 1:55just the wintertime I guess you know I
- 1:59really think you should call your
- 2:01grandma grandpa I really do I think they
- 2:04would really love to hear from you I I
- 2:05wish I knew a phone number I could call
- 2:07my mom said I'm I'm not my mom sorta in
- 2:10a way I mean I try not to be you know
- 2:12that she never even said goodbye or
- 2:15anything or explained or anything did
- 2:19your mom ever get to explain to you do
- 2:25you remember when you're in the hospital
- 2:27you do do you ever talk to your real dad
- 2:37why do you ever think about calling them
- 2:41and just telling them things thanks a
- 2:43lot man to do friend Yuki are they nice
- 2:51to you are they like do you guys do
- 2:52family stuff are they like best friends
- 3:01he's sort of like a loner he like he
- 3:05likes quiet things doesn't like - dude
- 3:07are you gonna do some kind of G you guys
- 3:14ever get in trouble if you like punish
- 3:16you do you get good grades in school do
- 3:24you get victory right I get like C's and
- 3:30B's and I always gonna am PE
- 3:37call 1-800 excellent business B's right
- 3:45[Applause]
- 3:50well you know just this time these
- 3:53ladies that are trying to work with your
- 3:54mom if if there was a way like that you
- 4:00can tell them without having to like you
- 4:02know how for you or anything but there
- 4:04is a way that you can tell them they you
- 4:06don't think your mom's taught you that
- 4:07you don't remember it anymore something
- 4:09like like tearing them do you don't
- 4:11remember because you just can't remember
- 4:13it or is do you remember like because
- 4:15your doctor was like talking you all the
- 4:16time and so that's what you thought you
- 4:17remembered you can just don't remember
- 4:21it would if it would there be a way you
- 4:24could tell them that that you don't
- 4:25remember it so that because you know and
- 4:27when when she went to jail because they
- 4:29thought you did remember but you can
- 4:31tell them that you didn't remember it
- 4:32was so long ago and you were young and
- 4:35you were confused and all those things
- 4:37you know and they should understand that
- 4:38especially since you're still yelling
- 4:40since you're still you know under 18
- 4:44nothing oh I'm gonna get your driver's
- 4:46license and what's your birthday October
- 4:49so you'll be sixteen us on time yeah
- 4:52he'll be able to get a driver's license
- 4:54in the car and everything
- 4:56big cruising my cousin Nicky just got
- 5:01her driver's license right before
- 5:03Thanksgiving and we went to go cruise
- 5:04and listen to Paula Abdul and cruising
- 5:11yeah you know it because if you don't
- 5:14remember it the nation they should know
- 5:16that because then that way you don't
- 5:18have to do like living with friend
- 5:19Johanne I mean do you like like oh oh
- 5:23I don't even live near any of your
- 5:37friends huh
- 5:39how that socks your parents every list I
- 5:51have sex I live on a cul-de-sac with
- 5:54lots of people that's a pain in the ass
- 5:56little kids like my little sister Lizzie
- 5:58she is such a brat give birth to babysit
- 6:01your brother Danny okay yeah well did
- 6:07anybody ever like explain to you why you
- 6:09can't see your grandparents or your
- 6:11pants or anything are they just say
- 6:12you're never going to see them again
- 6:21really Christy call your grandma grandpa
- 6:25tell him you don't remember your mom
- 6:27hurting you tell me you don't remember
- 6:29and that you just you'd like me to talk
- 6:31to you cuz you used to be able to trust
- 6:33your grandma grandpa huh huh and you
- 6:35still could you still could trust him
- 6:38that means so much for them if you'd
- 6:39call them and just say hi like before
- 6:42you know before you like Fred and Joanna
- 6:44get home do they get home soon are we
- 6:45almost are we running out of time you
- 6:54know that when you were in therapy in
- 6:58the beginning did you have more than one
- 6:59therapist one and he just talked to you
- 7:04over and over about what happened and
- 7:06wants you to tell him who it was so you
- 7:08finally just said your mom cuz he was
- 7:09bugging you so much I just want him to
- 7:11shut up already that's kind of how I did
- 7:15it too except Titus didn't say anybody's
- 7:17name I just said I can't remember I've
- 7:18tried to tried but I just wasn't gonna
- 7:21say anything I wasn't going to town with
- 7:23my downright being because I had to stay
- 7:26with my dad they didn't take me away
- 7:27from him or anything
- 7:29we shop so you know you should see you
- 7:36just like remember him talking you so
- 7:38much that you finally just sent out in
- 7:39court and did you stay out in court
- 7:41because you thought you that you'd be
- 7:42able to see her once you said it like
- 7:45what she said on the interview you know
- 7:48like on that interview on it where your
- 7:50mom said that she thought you finally
- 7:52just said said her name because by then
- 7:54you knew what they wanted you to say and
- 7:56they told you you couldn't see her mom
- 7:57until you told him who did it so finally
- 7:59you just said your mom's name so that
- 8:00you could finally see her was that true
- 8:06[Applause]
- 8:12they she did it and I should say that
- 8:15she did it but you really didn't
- 8:17remember it huh just just pride because
- 8:21you were knocked out right when you were
- 8:22shot I couldn't remember anything cuz
- 8:24because you were knocked out but they
- 8:26want to just you know how somebody say
- 8:28they saw it and he said she could be in
- 8:30trouble for it do you wish that she was
- 8:32out of prison now since she really
- 8:34didn't do it or do you think she really
- 8:35you think she really did do it huh I
- 8:38could tell you really
- 8:47[Applause]
- 8:51if she did it first someone else's
- 8:54because I don't know that's but that's
- 8:57exactly what you shouldn't say that you
- 8:58just you really don't reno you really
- 9:00don't know and that's because you know
- 9:02that's and if they forced you to
- 9:04testifying you were a little girl and
- 9:05you just they told you it was the right
- 9:07thing to do and you want to do the right
- 9:09thing so you did it they told you that
- 9:11was the right thing to do huh like the
- 9:13person for my attorney that to Freddie
- 9:20[Applause]
- 9:26yeah that's weird that you said you live
- 9:29with him after that to do you wish you
- 9:33lived with your grandparents or
- 9:34something strict she just like strict
- 10:09people that way especially if you have
- 10:11lots of kids do your mom grew up with
- 10:13lots of brothers and sisters you gotta
- 10:20be strict when you got lots of kids but
- 10:24I've got anything they'd love for you to
- 10:25call them are you gonna call okay think
- 10:30about it cuz I know they would want you
- 10:32to I know they'd like to hear you just
- 10:33to say hi and then stuff give or go by
- 10:37their house
- 10:39[Music]
- 10:54you
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