10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes.

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This is 10-minute murder.

Welcome to the brief and bingeable true crime podcast, 10-minute murder.

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The story today is of a lady that claimed she was carjacked, and in that attempted carjacking,

they shot her children who were in the back seat. It turns out

her story was complete BS and so crazy that a book was written about it and also a made-for-TV

movie.

On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs drove to the McKinsey-Willamette Hospital ER with her red Nissan sports car.

Diane exited the vehicle yelling, someone killed my kids.

On the back seat were her three children. Two boys and a girl, all shot at close

range and covered in blood. Seven-year-old Cheryl had already died. Eight-year-old Christy had lost so

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