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Happy Face Presents: Two Face

The Escape

Happy Face Presents: Two Face

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.28.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Eric Mason recounts Diane Down's strange escape from prison. Her post conviction attorney, Steve Gorham, shares a bizarre letter written after her trial that changes her story of what happened the night of the shooting.

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0:00.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:16.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

0:23.0

Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

One thing I learned in representing people at the state hospital and sort of representing people at the state planet entries.

0:39.0

As Americans we have taught ourselves that freedom is the most important thing in the world.

0:47.0

We want our freedom.

0:50.0

We don't want to be in prison or state hospital, so it's not surprising that someone would want to escape.

0:58.0

It didn't do much other than add to her mystique.

1:04.0

She had the ability to jump over a fence that had lots of barbed wire on the top and physically be able to do that.

1:20.0

My name is Steven Gorham, G-O-R-A-M.

1:27.0

I'm an attorney in Salem.

1:33.0

I've been in the attorney since 1975.

1:36.0

I went to Cornell University as an undergrad.

1:41.0

And then as a graduate, I went to, as a law school, I went to Williamson University in Salem, Oregon.

1:49.0

Where I have been practicing since 1975.

1:55.0

Steve represented Diane Downs as her post-conviction attorney.

1:59.0

Post-conviction attorney is represented client after the verdict, and will typically assist a guilty party in making the case that they were not adequately represented by their counsel in the courtroom.

2:09.0

They try to help them appeal the verdict or provide other post-conviction relief.

2:13.0

My first step in representing somebody at the time in a post-conviction was to go visit them.

2:20.0

So I'm sure that Diane One was in the Oregon's Correctional Center here in Salem.

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