The Disturbing Lies of Murderous Mother Diane Downs — Transcript

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6. 0:17hey guys welcome back to my channel so
7. 0:19happy to have you here for another
8. 0:21video today and today we are going to be
9. 0:23talking about
10. 0:24diane downs and this case
11. 0:27is truly i don't even have words i
12. 0:31really don't
13. 0:32i'm surprised that i haven't covered
14. 0:33this on my channel yet
15. 0:35i've covered it on my podcast but it's
16. 0:37one of those cases that has always
17. 0:39intrigued me scared me frustrated me
18. 0:43but also fascinated me because diane
19. 0:45downs
20. 0:46is up there with some of the most
21. 0:48bizarre
22. 0:49people out there some of the most
23. 0:51genuinely evil
24. 0:53people out there i think she's right up
25. 0:55there with casey anthony
26. 0:57jodi arias she is rotten to the core
27. 1:00and i'm honestly surprised that more
28. 1:01people don't talk about this case that
29. 1:03it's not more
30. 1:04well-known to the average person because
31. 1:06it is truly one of the craziest true
32. 1:08crime stories
33. 1:09out there so if you haven't yet heard of
34. 1:10diane downs get ready
35. 1:12because this is going to be a wild one
36. 1:14let's go ahead and get started
37. 1:16she was born on august 7th 1955 in
38. 1:18phoenix arizona
39. 1:19to her parents wellesley and willardeen
40. 1:22frederiksen
41. 1:22she had three younger siblings and diane
42. 1:24grew up in a very
43. 1:26conservative home very strict home they
44. 1:29also moved around a lot for wellesley's
45. 1:31work
46. 1:32he ended up finally working in the post
47. 1:34office so they ended up settling in
48. 1:36phoenix when she was about 11.
49. 1:38and eventually she attended moon valley
50. 1:40high school up until high school
51. 1:42diane was a pretty well behaved kid she
52. 1:44was okay
53. 1:45but when she got into high school she
54. 1:46really started rebelling against her
55. 1:48strike conservative parents
56. 1:50this mainly seems to be driven by a need
57. 1:52to feel accepted by the popular crowd
58. 1:54she wasn't really feeling true
59. 1:56acceptance and love at her house so
60. 1:58she really was seeking it elsewhere at
61. 2:00the age of 14 she started going by the
62. 2:02name
63. 2:03diane also around this time she cut her
64. 2:05hair really short
65. 2:06dyed it bleach blonde and started
66. 2:08dressing pretty edgy
67. 2:10just trying to be more in style for the
68. 2:12time and diane was described
69. 2:14by a lot of people as boy crazy and was
70. 2:17always looking for the next person to
71. 2:19date
72. 2:19and this directly went against her
73. 2:21parents rules she was not allowed to
74. 2:23date yet
75. 2:24but she did it anyway and eventually she
76. 2:26started dating this 16 year old boy who
77. 2:28lived pretty close to her
78. 2:29and his name was steve downes and of
79. 2:31course when her parents found out they
80. 2:33didn't approve of it at all but that did
81. 2:35not stop
82. 2:36diane she really liked this guy steve
83. 2:38but after graduation
84. 2:39they went separate ways steve ended up
85. 2:41joining the navy
86. 2:42and diane went to the pacific coast
87. 2:44baptist bible college in oregon
88. 2:46california but the two of them
89. 2:47were really in love they considered
90. 2:49themselves to be high school sweethearts
91. 2:51so they wanted to continue their
92. 2:52relationship
93. 2:53long distance he promised to be faithful
94. 2:55to her
95. 2:56and she promised that she would be
96. 2:58faithful to him back
97. 2:59but that did not last very long and as
98. 3:01soon as they were separated
99. 3:03diane started hooking up with several
100. 3:05different guys and she also started
101. 3:06getting in trouble a lot at school
102. 3:08and after a year at the baptist bible
103. 3:10college that she was at she was expelled
104. 3:12for
105. 3:13promiscuous behavior so she moved in
106. 3:16with
107. 3:16her parents again which of course was
108. 3:18diane's worst nightmare because they
109. 3:20were super strict
110. 3:21and living with them was not fun she
111. 3:24felt kind of suffocated
112. 3:25being under their rules once again so
113. 3:27steve was also back around this time so
114. 3:29the two of them decided to get back
115. 3:31together
116. 3:32and run away together and they decided
117. 3:34to go ahead and get married on november
118. 3:3613th
119. 3:361973 and it was a rocky marriage
120. 3:40right from the start it was built on a
121. 3:42pretty bad foundation you know
122. 3:44previous cheating pretty much in a
123. 3:45failed relationship people who were
124. 3:47around them said that they fought
125. 3:48all the time especially about finances
126. 3:51and about the possibility of diane
127. 3:53cheating again and every time they got
128. 3:55in a big fight
129. 3:56diane would run back to her parents
130. 3:58house and to make
131. 3:59matters even more dicey they ended up
132. 4:01having a child in 1974.
133. 4:04her name was christy anne and then just
134. 4:07six months after christy was born
135. 4:08diane left her and went and joined the
136. 4:10navy so
137. 4:11steve had to take care of their baby by
138. 4:14himself but luckily for steve
139. 4:15this whole navy thing didn't last long
140. 4:18diane only made it through
141. 4:19three weeks of training before coming
142. 4:21home and at the time
143. 4:22diane said that she had to leave the
144. 4:24navy because of
145. 4:25severe blisters but later on in other
146. 4:28interviews she claims that it's because
147. 4:30steve was neglecting the baby and she
148. 4:32had to go home and take care of her
149. 4:34so eventually they have another child in
150. 4:371976.
151. 4:38their second child is named cheryl lynn
152. 4:40and after cheryl was born
153. 4:42steve decided to have a vasectomy
154. 4:44shortly after this diane ended up
155. 4:45getting pregnant again
156. 4:47so you might be wondering how that
157. 4:48happened since steve got a vasectomy but
158. 4:51it turns out
159. 4:52diane had an affair she ended up having
160. 4:53an abortion actually
161. 4:55but before she did she named the baby
162. 4:58she named her
163. 4:59carrie but they stayed together through
164. 5:01this and a few years later they moved to
165. 5:03mesa arizona diane and steve both got
166. 5:06jobs working for a mobile home
167. 5:08manufacturing company
168. 5:09and it wasn't long until diane met some
169. 5:11new co-workers and started having
170. 5:13affairs with them
171. 5:14eventually diane got pregnant once again
172. 5:17and this time she decided to go through
173. 5:18with the pregnancy
174. 5:19and she gave birth to a baby boy in 1979
175. 5:22and his name was stephen
176. 5:24daniel now diane was one of those people
177. 5:26who would
178. 5:27use pregnancy to get what she wanted
179. 5:29from men she became a mom for
180. 5:31all the wrong reasons she did not
181. 5:34actually care about being a mom
182. 5:35whatsoever
183. 5:36it was a way to manipulate situations
184. 5:39and even though
185. 5:39diane was still sleeping with other men
186. 5:42and had cheated on him
187. 5:43many times steve continued to stay with
188. 5:45her mainly for
189. 5:47the sake of their kids he said he even
190. 5:49knew that danny wasn't his kid but he
191. 5:52wanted to be like a father figure to him
192. 5:54but this did not last
193. 5:55and they ended up getting divorced in
194. 5:581980.
195. 5:59for the next couple of years after that
196. 6:00diane continued to hook up with
197. 6:02several different men both single and
198. 6:05married men and sometimes diane would
199. 6:06even move in with these guys for a short
200. 6:08amount of time which was really weird
201. 6:10she was constantly
202. 6:11between places so obviously it was a
203. 6:13very unstable situation for her kids
204. 6:16of course after steve finally left her
205. 6:18diane felt an increased
206. 6:20pressure to take care of her kids to
207. 6:22provide for them
208. 6:23and pregnancy seemed to be something she
209. 6:25was good at she was good at getting
210. 6:26pregnant having babies so
211. 6:28she decided to become a surrogate and of
212. 6:30course you can't just become
213. 6:32a surrogate thankfully you do have to
214. 6:34pass some tests
215. 6:35past some evaluations diane ended up
216. 6:37failing two
217. 6:38of the psychiatric exams one actually
218. 6:41noted that she
219. 6:42was psychotic but she was still accepted
220. 6:46as a surrogate which is very concerning
221. 6:48in 1982
222. 6:49she gave birth to a little girl named
223. 6:51jennifer and was paid
224. 6:53ten thousand dollars for that after that
225. 6:55she felt like she really wanted to
226. 6:56jump into the surrogate industry a
227. 6:58little more and start her own
228. 7:00surrogacy clinic but that failed before
229. 7:02it even got off the ground so
230. 7:04meanwhile she was dating a co-worker who
231. 7:06was named robert
232. 7:07nickenbacher he also went by nick and
233. 7:10she said that he was
234. 7:11the love of her life now this guy nick
235. 7:14was married but he was separated from
236. 7:16his wife at the time so the two of them
237. 7:19had a relationship going but
238. 7:21he said that the relationship was very
239. 7:23intense and a bit overwhelming for him
240. 7:25so
241. 7:25eventually he broke it off and one of
242. 7:28the reasons why he broke it off was
243. 7:29because he
244. 7:30did not like kids in general didn't
245. 7:32really like her kids so
246. 7:34you know he just felt like it wasn't a
247. 7:35good fit but diane was
248. 7:37absolutely devastated and it really made
249. 7:39her feel angry
250. 7:41at her kids she felt like she lost the
251. 7:43man of her dreams
252. 7:44because of them and diane started to
253. 7:47resent
254. 7:48her own children when diane was 27 years
255. 7:50old she moved with her kids
256. 7:52to cottage grove oregon and took a job
257. 7:54at the post office there
258. 7:55cottage grove is a pretty small place
259. 7:57it's a friendly town known for
260. 7:59its outdoor activities and hiking trails
261. 8:02it's a pretty quiet area
262. 8:03you know most of the people know each
263. 8:05other that live there and look out for
264. 8:06each other
265. 8:07but even after diane moved there she was
266. 8:09still obsessed with robert and was
267. 8:11obsessively
268. 8:12writing him letters one time she even
269. 8:14visited him in 1983
270. 8:16but he made it clear when they were in
271. 8:18person that it was
272. 8:20over and you might be wondering where
273. 8:21her kids would be when she was out
274. 8:24working or with men and most of the time
275. 8:27they were with her parents but some of
276. 8:29the time they were with their fathers
277. 8:31but oftentimes they were just left home
278. 8:34alone
279. 8:34and the six-year-old christy was left in
280. 8:37charge of watching the other younger
281. 8:39kids
282. 8:39also their neighbors started to notice
283. 8:41that the kids didn't seem
284. 8:42very well taken care of at all they were
285. 8:44often hungry
286. 8:45and sometimes they were out in the cold
287. 8:47without jackets or coats
288. 8:49and diane reportedly seemed to pay the
289. 8:51least amount of attention to her middle
290. 8:53child
291. 8:54cheryl and when cheryl was six or seven
292. 8:56years old she actually told
293. 8:58one of their neighbors that she was
294. 8:59afraid to be around diane so diane's
295. 9:01life
296. 9:02is quite a mess she doesn't take good
297. 9:04care of her children
298. 9:05they are not happy with her at all and
299. 9:08she holds a lot of resentment
300. 9:09against them for her failed relationship
301. 9:13for holding her back in life it was an
302. 9:15absolutely
303. 9:16toxic situation so that brings me to
304. 9:19thursday
305. 9:20may 19 1983 diane and her kids
306. 9:24had just gotten done visiting a friend's
307. 9:26house and they stayed pretty late
308. 9:28i mean the kids were fairly young
309. 9:29christy was eight cheryl was seven
310. 9:31and danny was just three years old and
311. 9:33they didn't leave until about 9
312. 9:3530. but at 9 30 diane gets all of her
313. 9:38kids in the car
314. 9:39and they're going to start heading home
315. 9:41cheryl was sitting up front with diane
316. 9:43and the other two kids were sitting in
317. 9:45the back seat
318. 9:45and according to diane here's how the
319. 9:48car ride went
320. 9:49even though it was late at night for her
321. 9:51kids to be out diane decides to go
322. 9:54on the scenic route home and all the
323. 9:57kids according to her were asleep in the
324. 9:58car at that point
325. 9:59and diane said this is something that
326. 10:01she did often she liked to just
327. 10:03drive on roads they hadn't been on
328. 10:05before and kind of explore
329. 10:06so diane and her kids are driving down
330. 10:09this rural road near springfield oregon
331. 10:11and exploring and while they're driving
332. 10:14down this scenic route the song
333. 10:16hungry like the wolf by duran duran is
334. 10:18playing on the radio which is
335. 10:20quite a weird song to be playing in this
336. 10:22moment
337. 10:23[Music]
338. 10:27she said they were just driving along
339. 10:29listening to the song
340. 10:30when all of a sudden she sees this man
341. 10:33standing in the road
342. 10:34and he's like flagging her down it was
343. 10:37about 10 pm
344. 10:38at this point but that did not stop
345. 10:40diane from pulling over
346. 10:41for this strange man in the middle of
347. 10:43nowhere with a car full of kids
348. 10:45she pulls over at the intersection of
349. 10:47marcola road and old mohawk road
350. 10:49on one side of this intersection is the
351. 10:51mackenzie river and on the other side
352. 10:53is this kind of empty field it's a very
353. 10:56isolated spot
354. 10:57diane said that she stopped the car
355. 10:59looked behind her and saw her kids
356. 11:01sleeping in the back so she decided to
357. 11:03get out and talk to this
358. 11:05bushy-haired stranger that's how diane
359. 11:08described this guy
360. 11:09she walks up to the bushy-haired
361. 11:10stranger and he
362. 11:12automatically demands her car keys at
363. 11:14this point diane
364. 11:15tries to fight with him they have some
365. 11:17type of struggle
366. 11:19and he shoots her in the left arm then
367. 11:22diane throws her car keys in a bush
368. 11:24the guy believes that they're in the
369. 11:26bush but she actually still has them
370. 11:28on her so she runs over to the car the
371. 11:30guy's over at the bush and she has just
372. 11:32enough time to jump in the car
373. 11:33and take off with all three of the kids
374. 11:36who were
375. 11:36lying in the back and had been shot then
376. 11:39she says
377. 11:40she starts driving wildly like a lunatic
378. 11:43to the hospital but that's actually not
379. 11:46the case
380. 11:47diane drove really slow actually finally
381. 11:50diane gets to the hospital
382. 11:52and by the time she gets there cheryl is
383. 11:54unfortunately
384. 11:55already dead the others were in horrible
385. 11:58condition
386. 11:58christy had been shot twice in the chest
387. 12:01and danny had been shot in the back
388. 12:03danny could barely even move and both of
389. 12:06them were barely
390. 12:07alive at this point diane's injury was
391. 12:10of course the least
392. 12:11serious injury she had just been shot in
393. 12:13her arm conveniently
394. 12:14the bullet shattered her radius and it
395. 12:16exited in two different places
396. 12:18and diane said it was a horrible injury
397. 12:21for her
398. 12:21so clearly the whole hospital staff was
399. 12:24just
400. 12:25shocked to see this woman pull up with
401. 12:27these children
402. 12:28all shot it was a terrible terrible
403. 12:31scene
404. 12:32and they expected the mother of these
405. 12:34children after working on them
406. 12:36to be just devastated when they
407. 12:37interviewed her when they tried to
408. 12:38figure out what happened
409. 12:39but when they started talking to diane
410. 12:42they were shocked
411. 12:43that she had no emotion whatsoever
412. 12:46she did not seem upset at all that her
413. 12:49kids were
414. 12:50clinging to life and that one was dead
415. 12:52she was completely
416. 12:53emotionally flat with the police and the
417. 12:55doctors i just kept thinking about doing
418. 12:58this
419. 13:02another thing they noticed is that diane
420. 13:04had a towel wrapped around her
421. 13:06own wound when she arrived to the
422. 13:07hospital but she had
423. 13:09not attempted to wrap any type of towel
424. 13:11or clothing items around her children's
425. 13:13wounds
426. 13:14also the back seat of her car was
427. 13:15completely covered
428. 13:17in blood but none of it was on diane and
429. 13:20one thing that was very odd to them is
430. 13:22that diane
431. 13:23seemed very concerned about the fact
432. 13:24that her car her new car
433. 13:27had blood on it and she seemed way more
434. 13:29concerned about that
435. 13:31than the current condition of her
436. 13:32children and when she was told that
437. 13:34cheryl
438. 13:34was dead she accepted it right away in
439. 13:36fact she seemed relieved of course
440. 13:38normally when a parent is
441. 13:40informed that their child is dead they
442. 13:42have a
443. 13:43horrible reaction it's the worst moment
444. 13:45of their lives but diane
445. 13:47didn't even seem to be phased by this at
446. 13:49all then they told her that dany was hit
447. 13:51in the spine
448. 13:52and was paralyzed and her response
449. 13:55wasn't
450. 13:56any type of concern it was shock that he
451. 13:59wasn't hit in the heart
452. 14:00so the people at the hospital definitely
453. 14:02knew something was up
454. 14:04right away i mean diane was acting
455. 14:06completely bizarre
456. 14:07and to my complete surprise diane was
457. 14:11non-emotional not a tear in her eye
458. 14:14and then she says that really ruined my
459. 14:17new car
460. 14:18i got blood all over the back of it i've
461. 14:20never
462. 14:21seen a reaction like that at all she
463. 14:24called robert
464. 14:25right away from the hospital but she
465. 14:26didn't even try to call steve or
466. 14:28danny's father and of course a lot of
467. 14:30these details were not made public at
468. 14:32first so
469. 14:33most people felt really bad for diane
470. 14:36they were horrified to hear about this
471. 14:38child killer out on the loose people
472. 14:40felt like this guy could strike at any
473. 14:42time
474. 14:43people were scared to bring their kids
475. 14:44out scared to drive alone
476. 14:46a lot of women stopped going out at
477. 14:48night at this time and especially with
478. 14:50young children
479. 14:51danny was only three years old and these
480. 14:53gunshot wounds had left him
481. 14:55completely paralyzed and the fact that
482. 14:57cheryl
483. 14:58had died just really scared people
484. 15:01however christy
485. 15:02was still alive she had had a stroke
486. 15:04though so she was in and out of
487. 15:06consciousness
488. 15:06and unable to communicate at all so that
489. 15:09means the only
490. 15:10witness was diane and even though the
491. 15:13public had a lot of sympathy for diane
492. 15:15at first and felt really bad for her
493. 15:16the police had mixed feelings on her
494. 15:19from the start
495. 15:20but they decided to go out and search
496. 15:21the area where she said all this
497. 15:23happened
498. 15:23and tried to look for this bushy-haired
499. 15:26man
500. 15:26they searched the whole area they even
501. 15:28had divers go and search the mckenzie
502. 15:30river since it was
503. 15:31right next to it and all that they found
504. 15:34was a few
505. 15:35bullet casings on the ground they had
506. 15:37diane give them an official
507. 15:39description of the suspect but this
508. 15:41didn't really lead anywhere
509. 15:42here's the composite sketch that they
510. 15:44came up with and of course
511. 15:46the media was really interested in this
512. 15:48case it was
513. 15:49very unusual and people wanted answers
514. 15:51as to what happened that night
515. 15:53so she started giving interviews and
516. 15:56diane started saying some really weird
517. 15:57[ __ ]
518. 15:58we were just out i guess sightseeing i
519. 16:00guess you'd say
520. 16:01and the kids got tired they fell asleep
521. 16:02in the car so i decided just head on
522. 16:05home
523. 16:05but i saw a road i hadn't been on before
524. 16:08we liked to take back roads
525. 16:09and just went down that road and there
526. 16:11was a guy standing in the road
527. 16:13flagging me down so i stopped everything
528. 16:15was done in a matter of five or ten
529. 16:17seconds
530. 16:17he swung himself around and fired twice
531. 16:20one caught him in the arm the other one
532. 16:22i went off somewhere danny cried the
533. 16:24whole way
534. 16:25i could hear him softly just moaning and
535. 16:28christy was dying
536. 16:31god all the blood all the pain this man
537. 16:35shot my daughter my first reaction was
538. 16:37to snap back
539. 16:38to my childhood to the pain that had
540. 16:40happened to me
541. 16:42back then my marriage my entrapment by
542. 16:45society this man was bigger than me he
543. 16:47was stronger than me he had more power
544. 16:48because he had a gun and i stood there
545. 16:50and i looked at christy reaching
546. 16:53and the blood that just kept gushing out
547. 16:56of her mouth
548. 16:57and and what do you do
549. 17:00so the public sympathy for diane did not
550. 17:03last long
551. 17:04people started to quickly question her
552. 17:07whole story it was very suspicious
553. 17:09why was she on this dark rule road so
554. 17:11late at night with three kids in the car
555. 17:13and of course why would she pull over to
556. 17:15help some strange man in the middle of
557. 17:18nowhere
558. 17:18not only that why did she get out of the
559. 17:21car and put herself in that situation
560. 17:23we were always out on dark roads light
561. 17:25roads city roads country roads
562. 17:28i was a single woman i had been divorced
563. 17:31for a couple of years and quite frankly
564. 17:33i got pretty used to driving by myself
565. 17:35with the kids
566. 17:36so late at night 9 30.
567. 17:399 45 9 50 10 o'clock at night the
568. 17:42stranger is in the middle of the road
569. 17:45and it so it didn't even occur to you
570. 17:47that maybe i shouldn't stop
571. 17:49well i've picked up many hitchhikers
572. 17:51before this man was not a hitchhiker but
573. 17:52i had picked up hitchhikers before and
574. 17:54nobody ever shot us before and quite
575. 17:57frankly nobody had ever been
576. 17:59no strange man had ever treated me or my
577. 18:02children in such a way and i
578. 18:04just had no preconceived notion that he
579. 18:07might do those things
580. 18:08how did this man know your children were
581. 18:10in the car because of the children were
582. 18:12sleeping and lying down in the back of
583. 18:13the car it's dark on the road
584. 18:15how would he know to reach into the car
585. 18:16and shoot three
586. 18:18children separately oprah i can only
587. 18:21give you
588. 18:22my conclusion as to what i think might
589. 18:24have happened because i don't know i
590. 18:25didn't take the time to ask him how or
591. 18:27why
592. 18:28but when he when he got inside the car
593. 18:33um there was a light on inside the car
594. 18:35he could have easily seen the children
595. 18:37if you want an opinion in my opinion it
596. 18:40is possible
597. 18:41there were witnesses that saw him out
598. 18:42there on the road that night about 30
599. 18:44people that saw him
600. 18:45and all agreed that he looked like he
601. 18:47was drugged in some way
602. 18:49things were definitely not adding up for
603. 18:52the public
604. 18:52and for the police so the police tried
605. 18:54to understand a little better
606. 18:56how the night unfolded and they decided
607. 18:58to have diane actually
608. 19:00act out what happened and this to me is
609. 19:03one of the scariest
610. 19:05clips in true crime honestly the way
611. 19:07that she acts
612. 19:08really freaks me out diane looks like
613. 19:10she was having fun
614. 19:11as she is reenacting her kids being
615. 19:14murdered
616. 19:15you can even see her kind of primping
617. 19:17her hair getting ready before they start
618. 19:19to roll the camera
619. 19:20she's joking around she's laughing i
620. 19:22mean
621. 19:23most mothers in this situation would
622. 19:25barely be able to function
623. 19:27and talk you know wouldn't even be able
624. 19:29to actually
625. 19:30reenact something like this i mean it
626. 19:32would be so traumatizing to kind of
627. 19:34relive it all again but
628. 19:36diane seemed to be having a great old
629. 19:38time
630. 19:41put the keys in i just hit my cast
631. 19:45started the car and left the car door
632. 19:48shut itself
633. 19:49god this is worse than okay
634. 19:53i'm sure he didn't intend to shoot my
635. 19:55arm towards the end of that you see she
636. 19:57bangs her arm and investigators to this
637. 19:59day believe that she was gonna say
638. 20:01that was worse than when i shot myself
639. 20:04so
640. 20:04even after she reenacts all this it
641. 20:07doesn't make any more sense to police i
642. 20:09mean
643. 20:10why would this guy believe that you
644. 20:12threw your keys
645. 20:13and you know it just didn't seem
646. 20:15plausible the whole story
647. 20:17and of course seeing diane's mood and
648. 20:19behavior in this reenactment police
649. 20:21felt like she definitely did something
650. 20:24here i mean she is lying for sure there
651. 20:26was a lot of red flags but
652. 20:28they didn't have the evidence that diane
653. 20:30had done it yet
654. 20:31so diane continued living her life as
655. 20:34normal and
656. 20:35started doing some more tv interviews
657. 20:37diane definitely seemed to like the
658. 20:39attention she was one of those people
659. 20:40who just thrives off of it positive or
660. 20:43negative
661. 20:43and in these interviews she doesn't even
662. 20:45try to seem
663. 20:47emotional at all she seems completely
664. 20:50unfazed by the whole thing
665. 20:51in fact she seems more concerned about
666. 20:54herself
667. 20:55sometimes she even had a disgusting like
668. 20:58smirk when she was speaking as if she
669. 21:00was
670. 21:01kind of getting off on what she was
671. 21:02saying and reliving it in her head
672. 21:04when he swung around he was pointing
673. 21:07when he swung around
674. 21:08it hit the tips of my fingers the gun
675. 21:09hit the tips of my fingers and that
676. 21:11snapped me and i went
677. 21:12wait a minute i'm not trapped by society
678. 21:15i don't care if he is bigger
679. 21:17if i stand here and i say yeah here
680. 21:21take the keys i mean there's nothing i
681. 21:22can do you win because you have the gun
682. 21:25my kids are gonna die and i'm not gonna
683. 21:28let my kids die
684. 21:29and so instead of giving him the keys i
685. 21:32feigned
686. 21:32throwing the keys diane explained that
687. 21:34the whole ordeal only took like
688. 21:36five to ten seconds which is a pretty
689. 21:39short amount of time for someone to kill
690. 21:41three children but of course it's
691. 21:43possible she said the man had actually
692. 21:45shot at her twice
693. 21:46she'd only been hit once in the arm but
694. 21:49one of them he just missed
695. 21:50and then he walked over and shot all
696. 21:52three kids so that's quite a lot to
697. 21:54happen in that short
698. 21:55of a time and hearing her say that the
699. 21:57whole thing was so short
700. 21:59made even more people question her story
701. 22:01and people started to be
702. 22:02more vocal about this and diane did not
703. 22:05like the criticism
704. 22:07in one interview she sounds just
705. 22:09irritated that people are asking any
706. 22:11questions
707. 22:12if i had shot my own children would i
708. 22:14not have done a good job of it
709. 22:16why would i have taken my kids to the
710. 22:18hospital wouldn't i have made sure they
711. 22:20were dead and then cried crocodile tears
712. 22:21that's insane to think that i would do
713. 22:23such a thing and then
714. 22:24bring the witnesses in against myself
715. 22:26that's crazy so then one day diane
716. 22:28decides to go and visit her daughter
717. 22:30christy in the hospital her vitals were
718. 22:33stable at this point but she was still
719. 22:34unable to communicate verbally
720. 22:37but when diane walked in the room her
721. 22:39heart rate
722. 22:40spiked the medical staff instantly knew
723. 22:43that she was afraid of her mom so they
724. 22:45reported this to detectives who took
725. 22:48note of it and as far as what the police
726. 22:50knew at this point
727. 22:51from what dianne had told them she had
728. 22:54hopped right in the car
729. 22:55after tricking this guy and drove
730. 22:58straight to the hospital as fast as she
731. 22:59can that she drove
732. 23:01like a lunatic but in reality like i
733. 23:03mentioned
734. 23:04she was driving really slow and the
735. 23:06police actually found out about this
736. 23:08by interviewing a witness who was
737. 23:10driving behind diane on the way to the
738. 23:11hospital
739. 23:12and this guy that was driving behind her
740. 23:14said that she was driving
741. 23:15so slow and seemed to be purposely going
742. 23:18slow to like piss him off
743. 23:20and he ended up having to just drive
744. 23:22around her and then
745. 23:24it came out that police had actually
746. 23:25searched diane's car
747. 23:27and they found blood on her passenger
748. 23:29side
749. 23:30door which does not make sense with her
750. 23:33story
751. 23:33she said that this man had shot her kids
752. 23:35on the driver's side of the car
753. 23:37no one was ever on the passenger side so
754. 23:39how did this blood
755. 23:41get there the victims had been shot with
756. 23:4322 caliber bullets but
757. 23:45diane denied even owning a handgun
758. 23:47however the police had talked to steve
759. 23:49and he confirmed that diane did
760. 23:51own a handgun and when police searched
761. 23:53her house they found a rifle
762. 23:55and bullet cartridges that had been
763. 23:57tampered with and these bullet
764. 23:58cartridges had been ejected from another
765. 24:00weapon
766. 24:01the extraction marks on the bullets were
767. 24:03unique though and they match the casings
768. 24:05that were found
769. 24:06at the crime scene but they also
770. 24:07confiscated diane's diaries
771. 24:10and they read several entries about that
772. 24:12guy robert
773. 24:13that diane was really obsessed with the
774. 24:15guy who broke her heart
775. 24:17and they also found several letters that
776. 24:19were addressed to him
777. 24:20she wrote things like i still think of
778. 24:22you as my best friend
779. 24:24and my only lover you keep telling me to
780. 24:26go away and find somebody else
781. 24:28you have got to be kidding in her diary
782. 24:30entries she talks about how robert
783. 24:32didn't want to have kids and how
784. 24:33sad it was making her she also wrote
785. 24:36some poems about him one of them said
786. 24:38i love you more than could your wife yet
787. 24:40it's brought sorrow to my life
788. 24:42i just keep hoping and hanging on how
789. 24:44much longer can i be
790. 24:46strong and in the diary entry she talked
791. 24:48a lot about how
792. 24:49robert didn't want to have kids and how
793. 24:51she was sad about it
794. 24:52so they started to feel like maybe it
795. 24:54was possible that diane
796. 24:56got rid of her kids because she felt
797. 24:58like they were holding her back from
798. 25:00finding love
799. 25:01or that maybe she could be with robert
800. 25:03if she didn't have the kids
801. 25:05and of course during this whole time
802. 25:07diane continues to
803. 25:09blab on to the media she's doing
804. 25:11interviews and eating up all the
805. 25:13attention but
806. 25:14public support is really starting to
807. 25:16shift he
808. 25:17said then that he was afraid because he
809. 25:20believed
810. 25:22that you had shot your children because
811. 25:24of him
812. 25:26yeah and
813. 25:28i don't know what to say to that i mean
814. 25:30jesus that's his problem and not mine i
815. 25:32mean that's his paranoia and his fears
816. 25:34give you know give me a break i'm not
817. 25:36the one that said that over the weekend
818. 25:38rumors began to fly about we have not
819. 25:40overlooked any possible
820. 25:42suspects reporters covering the story
821. 25:43were getting hints that downs herself
822. 25:45was assessing what has occurred here is
823. 25:46just inexcusable people could tell that
824. 25:48there was something off about her i mean
825. 25:50the way she talked
826. 25:51her lack of emotion lack of empathy at
827. 25:54one point she even insisted
828. 25:56that danny wasn't really paralyzed
829. 25:58danny's gonna walk again i don't care if
830. 26:00we just have to will him to walk
831. 26:01i think he's gonna walk the doctors all
832. 26:03say he won't but i know that your mind
833. 26:05controls your body and if i can love him
834. 26:07enough
835. 26:07and encourage him enough i believe he'll
836. 26:09walk and she seemed oblivious to
837. 26:11what was actually going on she seemed so
838. 26:14dead set in her story
839. 26:15and convinced herself that other people
840. 26:18were convinced by her
841. 26:20she really thought that everyone was
842. 26:21believing everything that she said
843. 26:23eventually after finding some more
844. 26:24evidence detectives brought diane back
845. 26:26in
846. 26:27for some more questioning they did a
847. 26:28two-hour interrogation with her
848. 26:30and during this time diane changed her
849. 26:33story
850. 26:34several times diane's one of those
851. 26:35people who lie so much
852. 26:37that she can't keep track of her lies
853. 26:39and they start to get twisted
854. 26:40at first she started telling them that
855. 26:42there were actually two attackers
856. 26:44and that one of them at least knew her
857. 26:46by name and knew about her tattoo
858. 26:50talk to you refer to you by name and
859. 26:52also refer to your tattoo
860. 26:54right as close as you can remember
861. 26:57what did he tell you if you say anything
862. 27:00about
863. 27:01what happened here they'd come back and
864. 27:03kill me then she starts claiming that
865. 27:05she knew
866. 27:06the person who shot her and she just
867. 27:08wasn't saying who it was for some reason
868. 27:10and when police pushed her to try to get
869. 27:12a name out of her
870. 27:13she got really mad and ended up storming
871. 27:16out of the room
872. 27:17come on diane it's your turn back
873. 27:20since you guys seem to think that i
874. 27:21should have brought the diane with me
875. 27:23i will get it myself because i know who
876. 27:25did it you do know who did yes i do
877. 27:28i damn sure do you know him by name
878. 27:31yes i did yeah yeah it's pretty
879. 27:34important
880. 27:34and i saw him grab my arm and yank my
881. 27:37arm out
882. 27:38and shoot my arm and say now try to get
883. 27:39away with it
884. 27:41and i'm leaving because i know who did
885. 27:43it bye the time is now
886. 27:4517 46
887. 27:48and diane is just a part of the office
888. 27:51by this time
889. 27:52people were completely over diane i mean
890. 27:55no one
891. 27:56was really believing her and people
892. 27:58wanted her to be held accountable
893. 28:00people were really calling for her
894. 28:02arrest and the police wanted to arrest
895. 28:04her too
896. 28:05but they needed a little bit more
897. 28:06evidence and the one thing they wanted
898. 28:08to do
899. 28:08was talk to christy but she was still
900. 28:11unable to talk
901. 28:12however she was on the path to recovery
902. 28:14and they felt like if they waited a
903. 28:15little while that eventually they would
904. 28:17be able to talk to her
905. 28:18now they knew that christy had to be
906. 28:20extremely emotionally traumatized after
907. 28:23being in that car ride and seeing her
908. 28:24siblings get
909. 28:25shot potentially by her own mother so
910. 28:28they knew they had to just go about this
911. 28:30really slow they didn't want her to be
912. 28:32scared and question her own memory of
913. 28:34what happened that night
914. 28:36or feel like she needed to defend and
915. 28:38protect her mom in any way so
916. 28:40they decided it was best that she start
917. 28:42by working with a therapist
918. 28:44so she did she started seeing a
919. 28:46therapist and eventually this therapist
920. 28:48really started to gain her trust and the
921. 28:50therapist starts having her
922. 28:51write down the name of who hurt her that
923. 28:53night and then throw it into
924. 28:55a fire and hopefully one day she won't
925. 28:59want to
926. 28:59burn it was the idea she did this over
927. 29:01and over again and eventually
928. 29:03she was comfortable enough to let
929. 29:05therapist read the piece of paper
930. 29:07and on the piece of paper that she gave
931. 29:09her therapist she wrote down
932. 29:11my mom at this point it was clear to
933. 29:13everyone that the shooter
934. 29:15was diane downes so nine months after
935. 29:18the shooting took place
936. 29:19diane was arrested on february 28 1984.
937. 29:23of course once the arrest happened media
938. 29:25coverage totally blew up
939. 29:26and she was back in the spotlight again
940. 29:28and diane seemed to really enjoy
941. 29:30the renewed media attention diane was
942. 29:33said to be flirting a lot with the
943. 29:34officers and the guards and
944. 29:36she would smile for cameras like none of
945. 29:38it really mattered to her
946. 29:40she acted so light-hearted about it all
947. 29:43she didn't seem to have any guilt dianne
948. 29:45was charged with one count of murder and
949. 29:47two counts of attempted murder and
950. 29:49criminal assault
951. 29:50and by the time the trial started on may
952. 29:5210 1984 diane was
953. 29:54noticeably pregnant yup that's right
954. 29:57diane was pregnant
955. 29:59once again there's a clip of her walking
956. 30:01into the courtroom
957. 30:02showing off her pregnant belly and
958. 30:04smiling
959. 30:05as if she's very proud of herself for
960. 30:08getting pregnant once again
961. 30:09later on they interviewed her and she
962. 30:11said that the reason she got pregnant
963. 30:13again is because she missed her children
964. 30:15and she was
965. 30:16lonely once again it was clear that
966. 30:18diane was using pregnancy
967. 30:20to get something that she wanted and
968. 30:21this time it was sympathy
969. 30:23maybe diane thought she would get better
970. 30:24treatment in jail or have a better
971. 30:26outcome on her case
972. 30:28if she was pregnant you know maybe she
973. 30:30thought that the jury would be emotional
974. 30:32about sending an expecting mother to
975. 30:34prison
976. 30:35i was extremely lonely i missed my kids
977. 30:37desperately i had just seen christy on
978. 30:39the 2nd of october
979. 30:41and it just it's like opening a wound
980. 30:43and pouring salt in i was
981. 30:45extremely lonely beyond belief and
982. 30:47beyond explanation
983. 30:48and on october 13th i just went and got
984. 30:52pregnant because
985. 30:53i was so lonely i love my children i
986. 30:55miss my children and i know that sounds
987. 30:57simplistic it really does and i have to
988. 30:59admit that
989. 31:00and that's why i say there's so much
990. 31:01more feeling inside that i can give in
991. 31:03two minutes
992. 31:04i got pregnant because i miss christy
993. 31:07and i miss danny and i miss cheryl so
994. 31:09much i'm never gonna see
995. 31:10cheryl on earth again and i just
996. 31:13you can't replace children but you can
997. 31:16replace the effect that they give you
998. 31:18and they give me love they give me
999. 31:20satisfaction they give me stability they
1000. 31:21give me a reason to live and a reason to
1001. 31:23be happy and
1002. 31:24and that's gone they took it from me but
1003. 31:27children are so easy to conceive and
1004. 31:30going into trial diane seemed
1005. 31:32very confident that she was going to get
1006. 31:34away with this i mean diane's confidence
1007. 31:36really never slipped and the way that
1008. 31:38she was acting the courtroom
1009. 31:39was just as bizarre as her media
1010. 31:41interviews to really
1011. 31:42paint a picture in the jury's mind the
1012. 31:45prosecution played
1013. 31:46hungry like the wolf in the courtroom
1014. 31:48and diane
1015. 31:50was dancing to it like tapping her feet
1016. 31:53having a good old time they also played
1017. 31:55her interrogation tapes
1018. 31:56and while she was watching them she
1019. 31:58still had absolutely
1020. 32:00no emotion the prosecution also brought
1021. 32:03in a model of her car
1022. 32:04and they used dolls in the car to
1023. 32:07demonstrate how diane would have killed
1024. 32:09her children and this was very effective
1025. 32:11in court because it really helped the
1026. 32:13jury
1027. 32:14see how this would have happened and
1028. 32:16understand how the blood would have
1029. 32:17gotten on the passenger side door
1030. 32:19and it really painted a picture for them
1031. 32:22of how injured the kids were
1032. 32:23and how heartless diane had to be to
1033. 32:26drive slowly to the hospital i mean it
1034. 32:29was obvious that she thought the longer
1035. 32:30that she took
1036. 32:32the less of a chance the kids would have
1037. 32:34of surviving
1038. 32:35they brought in a mock-up of the car and
1039. 32:38fred hughey
1040. 32:39got a gun and he was reenacting the
1041. 32:42crime
1042. 32:42and when he was going through the
1043. 32:44motions of
1044. 32:46firing the gun at the christie doll and
1045. 32:48at the cheryl doll and at the danny doll
1046. 32:51he couldn't shoot the danny doll because
1047. 32:53the danny doll
1048. 32:54was back here and he raised up and he
1049. 32:58looked at me
1050. 32:58and i went like this and he went his
1051. 33:02face he had a
1052. 33:03look of incredulation on his face and
1053. 33:06his mouth started to open
1054. 33:08and i nodded my head yes and he had to
1055. 33:10switch the gun to the left hand
1056. 33:12a right-handed person could not have
1057. 33:14shot the danny doll they also made the
1058. 33:16very difficult decision
1059. 33:17to have christy actually testify but it
1060. 33:20was vitally important
1061. 33:22they were worried that christy may not
1062. 33:23be able to handle it you know testifying
1063. 33:25with her mother
1064. 33:26in the room against her that maybe she
1065. 33:28would be
1066. 33:29just too emotionally traumatized to even
1067. 33:33talk about it in front of people
1068. 33:34christy was only nine years old she had
1069. 33:36survived a horrific
1070. 33:38incident and they just had no idea how
1071. 33:40she would handle all of that pressure
1072. 33:41but she did
1073. 33:42a really good job she told the court
1074. 33:44that she remembered her mom
1075. 33:46stopping the car getting out and going
1076. 33:48back to the trunk to get something out
1077. 33:50she said that cheryl was in the front
1078. 33:52seat and that her and danny were in the
1079. 33:54back
1080. 33:54and then diane came around the car with
1081. 33:56something in her hand
1082. 33:58and she recalled her mother leaning into
1083. 34:00the car and shooting cheryl first
1084. 34:02at point blank range and christy was
1085. 34:05watching all this
1086. 34:06then she leaned over the back seat and
1087. 34:09shot danny
1088. 34:10and then reached over and shot her as
1089. 34:13well
1090. 34:13then she said she watched diane shoot
1091. 34:15herself wrap a towel around her
1092. 34:17arm and get back in the car and start
1093. 34:20driving
1094. 34:21slowly towards the hospital now there's
1095. 34:23no video of this testimony but
1096. 34:25according to everyone that was there it
1097. 34:28was extremely
1098. 34:29emotional listening to christy describe
1099. 34:31all of this happen
1100. 34:32and then she was cross-examined and a
1101. 34:35defense attorney
1102. 34:36actually tried to get her to admit that
1103. 34:38someone coached her into saying all this
1104. 34:40but she stayed strong and said that her
1105. 34:43mom
1106. 34:43shot her and her siblings so then diane
1107. 34:46gets up there
1108. 34:47and testified as well and claimed that
1109. 34:49she was
1110. 34:50innocent she tried to deny everything
1111. 34:52but then she also blamed a lot of her
1112. 34:54behavior
1113. 34:55on her multiple affairs her obsession
1114. 34:57with robert
1115. 34:58and on her abusive childhood as well in
1116. 35:00fact she
1117. 35:01accused her father in court of molesting
1118. 35:03her when she was about 12 years old
1119. 35:05the defense also tried to argue that the
1120. 35:07bullet casings that were found on the
1121. 35:09ground were
1122. 35:10placed there by police in order to frame
1123. 35:12diane
1124. 35:13but clearly that's not true they also
1125. 35:15tried to argue that she was manipulated
1126. 35:17by detectives when she was being
1127. 35:19interviewed but
1128. 35:20anyone who listens to the interview can
1129. 35:22tell that that's not true either luckily
1130. 35:24the jury
1131. 35:24was not buying any of this they knew
1132. 35:26that diane
1133. 35:27was guilty there are nine women on the
1134. 35:29jury and three men
1135. 35:31and they ended up deliberating for over
1136. 35:3336
1137. 35:34hours trying to come to a conclusion but
1138. 35:37after all that
1139. 35:38luckily the verdict was unanimous diane
1140. 35:41was
1141. 35:42guilty
1142. 35:45after she was found guilty diane still
1143. 35:48tried to convince people that she was
1144. 35:50innocent
1145. 35:51in fact she still tries to claim that
1146. 35:53she's innocent to this day
1147. 35:54i wouldn't walk in there and say this
1148. 35:56weird person came up out of nowhere and
1149. 35:58shot us for no reason and just
1150. 35:59left i mean that's not a believable
1151. 36:02story i could have if i had done this i
1152. 36:03could have come up with a believable
1153. 36:05story it really happened
1154. 36:07i could smell the blood i could smell
1155. 36:08the gunpowder i i could
1156. 36:10it was just a really really horrible
1157. 36:12feeling but before she was even
1158. 36:14sentenced 10 days before she was
1159. 36:16supposed to be sentenced
1160. 36:17she gave birth to a baby girl who was
1161. 36:20named
1162. 36:20amy elizabeth of course she only saw
1163. 36:23this baby once before she was taken away
1164. 36:25from her
1165. 36:26and she was adopted and renamed rebecca
1166. 36:29nicknamed becky around this time diane
1167. 36:31was also examined by
1168. 36:33psychiatrists and she was diagnosed with
1169. 36:35being narcissistic
1170. 36:36and had antisocial personality disorders
1171. 36:39luckily diane downs ended up being
1172. 36:41sentenced to life in prison plus 50
1173. 36:44years
1174. 36:45and she wouldn't even be given the
1175. 36:46chance for a possible parole
1176. 36:48for 25 years after that but very
1177. 36:51unlikely that she would ever get parole
1178. 36:53her father wes denied her accusations of
1179. 36:55the sexual abuse
1180. 36:56and diane later admitted that she just
1181. 36:58made it all up
1182. 36:59but even after all these false
1183. 37:01allegations were made against him
1184. 37:03he continued to support his daughter and
1185. 37:05believed that she was innocent he passed
1186. 37:07away in 2017
1187. 37:08but up until he died he believed that
1188. 37:11diane was
1189. 37:12in prison for something she didn't do so
1190. 37:14then in july
1191. 37:15of 1987 diane decided to try and escape
1192. 37:19prison
1193. 37:19she was out in the exercise yard getting
1194. 37:21some fresh air when she decided to
1195. 37:23execute her plan she climbed a 16 foot
1196. 37:26fence
1197. 37:27somehow used her jacket to get over the
1198. 37:29top
1199. 37:30and actually escape she hid underneath a
1200. 37:32car outside the jail
1201. 37:34and then when it was clear she just ran
1202. 37:37and diane is considered to be
1203. 37:38a very dangerous person so a massive
1204. 37:42manhunt for her started the story was
1205. 37:44reported on the news in multiple states
1206. 37:46and they had searches across multiple
1207. 37:48states to make sure that diane
1208. 37:50was found people were really worried at
1209. 37:52the time that she could possibly
1210. 37:53go after christy detectives searched the
1211. 37:56cell phone that she had in jail
1212. 37:58with her yeah she had a cell phone and
1213. 38:00they didn't find any clues about where
1214. 38:02she possibly could have gone any details
1215. 38:04about her escape all they found was
1216. 38:06a clipboard with a piece of blank paper
1217. 38:08on it but they noticed that there were
1218. 38:10indentations in the paper
1219. 38:12clearly another piece was pulled off the
1220. 38:14top
1221. 38:15so they did that classic trick where you
1222. 38:17sketch over the bottom piece
1223. 38:19and you can see what was written on the
1224. 38:21paper that was
1225. 38:22before it and there was actually a
1226. 38:24drawing with a map
1227. 38:26and an address 2262 state street which
1228. 38:29is just a few blocks from the prison
1229. 38:32and this address ended up being her
1230. 38:34former cellmate's husband
1231. 38:35so they went there and it turns out
1232. 38:37diane had been hiding there
1233. 38:38the entire time with this girl's husband
1234. 38:41and she had managed to
1235. 38:43stay there for 11 days before they
1236. 38:46finally
1237. 38:47brought her back to the prison and
1238. 38:49because of her attempted escape
1239. 38:51they tacked on an extra five years to
1240. 38:53her sentence
1241. 38:54after this diane was transferred to a
1242. 38:56maximum security prison in new jersey
1243. 38:58and was denied parole multiple times
1244. 39:00while she was there
1245. 39:01and by this point she was looking pretty
1246. 39:03rough
1247. 39:04so now that diane was back in prison
1248. 39:07hopefully
1249. 39:08danny and christy could move on with
1250. 39:10their lives
1251. 39:11after being through so much trauma but
1252. 39:14luckily they were both alive
1253. 39:15her youngest daughter who is now named
1254. 39:17becky and had been adopted
1255. 39:19was living a really good childhood
1256. 39:22thankfully
1257. 39:22away from diane and had no idea that
1258. 39:25diane
1259. 39:26existed or anything about her biological
1260. 39:29mother but as she got older
1261. 39:31she started to have suspicions that
1262. 39:33there was a reason
1263. 39:34that her parents didn't want her to know
1264. 39:36who her biological mother was
1265. 39:38and when becky was 11 years old she came
1266. 39:40up with a plan to trick a babysitter
1267. 39:43into
1268. 39:44telling her who her mother was basically
1269. 39:46she pretended to
1270. 39:48know who it was when she really didn't
1271. 39:50and the babysitter just
1272. 39:51said it then she found the book small
1273. 39:53sacrifices by anne
1274. 39:55rule at a local bookstore and this is
1275. 39:57the most famous book that's been written
1276. 39:59on diane downs anne rule is a very
1277. 40:01famous author
1278. 40:02but finding this book was absolutely
1279. 40:05shocking to her finding out who her
1280. 40:07mother
1281. 40:07really was scared her so much
1282. 40:10finding out that her biological mother
1283. 40:13attempted to kill
1284. 40:14her other siblings was devastating to
1285. 40:17her
1286. 40:17becky was so upset at the time that she
1287. 40:19just left the bookstore
1288. 40:21and tried to kind of forget about it all
1289. 40:23then she was hanging out with one of her
1290. 40:25boyfriends
1291. 40:25and she watched a mini series on diane
1292. 40:28downs and something about that just
1293. 40:30really got to her it just really made it
1294. 40:32all sink in
1295. 40:33and she was devastated by the time she
1296. 40:36left his house
1297. 40:37becky felt totally lost i mean she was
1298. 40:40scared that she had come from this woman
1299. 40:42scared that she could have ended up with
1300. 40:45her
1301. 40:45a part of me was afraid that
1302. 40:49that's where i came from does that mean
1303. 40:50where i'm going
1304. 40:52and with all the stress she ended up
1305. 40:54turning to drugs she dropped out of
1306. 40:56school
1307. 40:57and she ran away from her parents house
1308. 40:59at this point her life
1309. 41:00just spun out of control and she was
1310. 41:02severely traumatized for
1311. 41:04years after finding out who her mother
1312. 41:07really was
1313. 41:07becky got pregnant young just like her
1314. 41:09mother when she was 17
1315. 41:11and her child was taken away from her
1316. 41:13right away she got pregnant again
1317. 41:15at 21 and at this time she was living in
1318. 41:17a homeless shelter
1319. 41:19and she made the decision to put this
1320. 41:21baby up for adoption
1321. 41:22after that she wanted to reach out to
1322. 41:24diane
1323. 41:25and so she ended up writing her letters
1324. 41:28in prison
1325. 41:28and surprisingly diane actually got back
1326. 41:30to her and she had seen pictures of her
1327. 41:33and the first thing that she said to her
1328. 41:35in the letters was wow you look just
1329. 41:36like me
1330. 41:37don't you hate that chin we have in the
1331. 41:40beginning of the letter she was talking
1332. 41:41about how becky was beautiful and
1333. 41:43it was great to hear from her blah blah
1334. 41:45but as it continued
1335. 41:46she started accusing becky of being
1336. 41:48involved in a mass conspiracy
1337. 41:51against her she accused becky of being a
1338. 41:54spy
1339. 41:54so becky decided that it was time to
1340. 41:57stop talking to diane
1341. 41:58after some time and some self-healing
1342. 42:01becky came to the conclusion that just
1343. 42:02because she was biologically related to
1344. 42:05diane
1345. 42:05it didn't mean that she had to be
1346. 42:07anything like her she worked really hard
1347. 42:09and ended up getting her life together
1348. 42:11and was a really great mom
1349. 42:13to her son chris after all she got a
1350. 42:15degree in psychology
1351. 42:16and ended up working as a behavioral
1352. 42:18health coordinator for children
1353. 42:20and there was also somewhat of a happy
1354. 42:22ending for diane's other two children
1355. 42:24christy and danny
1356. 42:25they were actually both adopted by one
1357. 42:27of the prosecutors in this case
1358. 42:29fred hughey and his wife joanne danny
1359. 42:32tragically was paralyzed from the waist
1360. 42:35down because of his injuries and christy
1361. 42:38also has a speech impediment but they
1362. 42:40were adopted by
1363. 42:41great people and they made sure that
1364. 42:43they had all the resources that they
1365. 42:45could to heal and process everything
1366. 42:47that they had been through
1367. 42:48he adopted my children and according to
1368. 42:51christie never said a bad word
1369. 42:52against me ever that was out of
1370. 42:55christie's mouth
1371. 42:56fred hughey in all the time that he
1372. 42:58raised her never spoke ill of me
1373. 43:00i believe that fred hughey knows that
1374. 43:02there is a man out there
1375. 43:04that was hunting my children and it
1376. 43:05wasn't until after christie told
1377. 43:07her schoolmates she drew pictures in
1378. 43:10school and she said this is the man who
1379. 43:12shot us
1380. 43:13i didn't i lied in court because
1381. 43:16they wanted me to say this and they
1382. 43:18wouldn't leave me alone dr peter she
1383. 43:20said dr peterson kept pressuring me and
1384. 43:22he wouldn't leave me alone
1385. 43:23they now live a very quiet and peaceful
1386. 43:25life with their families
1387. 43:27and they stay out of the media diane is
1388. 43:30currently in the central california
1389. 43:31women's facility in chauchila california
1390. 43:34and in 2020 she actually got coven and
1391. 43:37had
1392. 43:38pretty bad symptoms but she said she
1393. 43:40worked really hard through it
1394. 43:41she actually said i dragged myself to
1395. 43:43work on the 11th and 12th of march
1396. 43:45exhausted and fuzzy in the brain dry
1397. 43:47cough headaches sinuses clogged with
1398. 43:49very thick mucus
1399. 43:51i showered and slept for four hours woke
1400. 43:53up and drank water
1401. 43:54and then went back to sleep for 16 more
1402. 43:55hours when i see what others have
1403. 43:57suffered i think my boss probably saved
1404. 43:59my life
1405. 44:00she also spoke about her children and
1406. 44:02said every time the world news shows big
1407. 44:04red circles on the national map
1408. 44:06i look at oregon because that's where
1409. 44:08christy and daniel are
1410. 44:09compared to other states it appears that
1411. 44:11oregon's red circle is smaller than most
1412. 44:13places
1413. 44:14is organ relatively virus free or are my
1414. 44:17children in greater danger than the red
1415. 44:18circle size suggests i still worry about
1416. 44:21them
1417. 44:21and love them though they will never
1418. 44:23know it so clearly diane is still
1419. 44:25in complete denial and she probably will
1420. 44:28never
1421. 44:29show any type of remorse for what she
1422. 44:31did to her children that night
1423. 44:32you remember now pretending to throw the
1424. 44:35keys
1425. 44:36yes i do and that was after he turned
1426. 44:38back towards me
1427. 44:39and kicking him and managing to jump in
1428. 44:42the car and race to the hospital
1429. 44:44yes and as a matter of fact you didn't
1430. 44:47mention the fact that
1431. 44:48my arm was so absolutely contorted after
1432. 44:51the shooting it was twisted and shoved
1433. 44:53back two inches twisted at a 90 degree
1434. 44:55angle which proves
1435. 44:56that there was a struggle and there's
1436. 44:58also blood on the driver's seat
1437. 44:59which is evidence of the fact that i
1438. 45:01jumped in the car and my arm fell
1439. 45:03against the seat helplessly
1440. 45:05as i stated but there was no blood at
1441. 45:07all
1442. 45:08in the driver part and your arm went
1443. 45:10back to the hospital
1444. 45:11was completely wrapped in a triangle
1445. 45:14bandage that made out of a towel oh jeez
1446. 45:17and you're comical
1447. 45:18you are so far-fetched i'm serious there
1448. 45:21was a towel wrapped around my arm yes
1449. 45:23there absolutely was and i don't know
1450. 45:24how it got there anymore then you know
1451. 45:26how it got there
1452. 45:27i think diane should definitely be up
1453. 45:29there with some of the most
1454. 45:30evil women of all time i mean she is
1455. 45:34cold to the core like she has
1456. 45:37no ounce of empathy in her soul
1457. 45:41at all i really want to know what you
1458. 45:43guys think about this one so
1459. 45:45leave me a comment below tell me your
1460. 45:47thoughts on dying downs
1461. 45:49i mean diane still claims that she's
1462. 45:51innocent to this day and
1463. 45:52maybe you agree with her so if you do
1464. 45:55plead your case below
1465. 45:56and if you want some more content on
1466. 45:58this case you should check out small
1467. 46:00sacrifices by anne rule on audible it is
1468. 46:03so well done i mean anne rule is one of
1469. 46:05the greatest writers in true crime
1470. 46:07history
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1507. 47:11guys of course let me know your thoughts
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1510. 47:16guys in my next video but until then
1511. 47:18stay safe out there
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