19: There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

True Crime Obsessed

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🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday, July 26, 2009, Diane Schuler left the campgrounds in upstate New York where she was vacationing with her family and set off towards home on Long Island. With her were five young children: her son, her daughter, and three nieces. Four hours later, she drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway for nearly two miles – eventually crashing into an oncoming SUV, killing herself and seven others. Nine days after her deadly crash, Diane’s toxicology report revealed she had a blood-alcohol content of .19% – the equivalent of ten drinks and more than twice the legal limit – as well as a high blood level of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. In sharp contrast to the toxicology report, Schuler had no known history of substance abuse or psychological problems and was generally known as a loving and stable wife and mother. In the aftermath, Diane Schuler was portrayed as a reckless drunk and a mother who cracked. But was she the monster the public made her out to be? Or the perfect wife and mother described by so many who knew her?

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0:57.0	I want to know how much while I live, what they're saying is not true. I wouldn't be doing this.
1:09.0	I said to Diane, have a safe trip home. If she stopped for Advil, something was bothering
1:13.6	her. If you just come forward and say, I'm sorry, she made a mistake, you could accept
1:17.8	that. What are you trying to cover up? You tell me she was having a stroke or she was hallucinating
1:22.7	due to an abscess. We're going to have to live with that.
1:25.2	There will never be a concrete and so with absolute certainty, which can be given as to
1:31.0	what happened.
1:32.0	All right. So, Julian, tell the people how we're, this is how we're going to do this episode.
1:37.1	Yeah. This movie is very well done, but it's not the best to talk to you on, talk about
1:41.2	it on a podcast because it goes everywhere. So what we're going to do is talk about just
1:44.9	the timeline of what happened, the incident, the crime. Yeah. And then we're going to go
1:50.7	back and talk about the people we meet during this documentary. There are many of them.
1:57.3	So the husband and wife are Dan and Diane Schuhler, not Skyler. Not Skyler. My phone
2:04.2	and computer auto corrected to Skyler. That's a Hamilton reference people. Okay. So this
2:09.9	happens on a camping trip. What is the date of the camping trip? So it's Sunday, well,
2:13.7	it's this whole weekend. It's the weekend of Sunday, July 26, 2009.
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