The Woman Who Shot her Own Children: Diane Downs, Part I
Killer Psyche
Audible | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong dives into the case of Diane Downs, a troubled woman who longed for motherhood, yet murdered her daughter and shot her other two children.
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| 0:09.0 | A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised. |
| 0:18.0 | The Night of May 19, 1983 was a quiet one for the doctors and nurses at the McKenzie |
| 0:32.0 | Willemette Emergency Room in Springfield, Oregon. But all that changed a few minutes before 10.30pm |
| 0:41.0 | when a car horn lasted outside, summoning the nurses in the ER. A woman was standing by the car. |
| 0:50.0 | She calmly told them that someone had shot her children and then she begged the nurses to help them. |
| 1:00.0 | But when they opened the car door, the nurses realized that it was not going to be that simple. |
| 1:07.0 | The nurses lifted a little girl out of the car and rushed her into the emergency room. |
| 1:14.0 | Calling out a code to alert the hospital staff of an incoming emergency, nurses and doctors returned outside |
| 1:22.0 | where they found two more children, a boy, gasping for error in the back seat, and another young girl who was face down and appeared not to be breathing. |
| 1:35.0 | As doctors and nurses worked furiously to save the children, the mother looked on blankly. |
| 1:43.0 | She was not crying and she did not appear nervous. |
| 1:50.0 | Those who were there that night believed her flatness could have been from shock. |
| 1:56.0 | And if we did not know the ending of this tale, we might just believe that. |
| 2:03.0 | The mother, Diane Downs, told how she and the children had been the victims of a man trying to steal her car. |
| 2:12.0 | But Diane was no victim. |
| 2:20.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 2:21.0 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 2:22.0 | And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. |
| 2:25.0 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 2:29.0 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 2:34.0 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
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