In 1983, Diane Downs said a stranger shot her 3 kids, but police decided On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs pulled her car over to the side of a rural Oregon road and shot her three young children in the back seat, beginning with her eldest daughter, eight-year-old Christie Downs. Then, Diane shot herself in the arm and drove to the hospital, where she claimed to have been the victim of a carjacking. By the time Diane arrived, her youngest daughter Cheryl had already died, so doctors raced to save Christie and her brother Danny. When Christie took a turn for the worse, Diane told the doctors to "pull the plug" on her. But instead, the doctors convinced a judge to issue a court order making them Christie's legal guardians so that they could save her life. See the photos and learn how Christie Downs survived her mother's cold-blooded attack — and then bravely testified against her in court — Elizabeth Diane Downs (née Frederickson; born August 7, 1955) is an American criminal...
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