True Crime Vault: My Mother’s Sins

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Diane Downs is charged with the murder and attempted murder of her own children. As she starts trial, Downs is pregnant with another child. That child is adopted and unaware of her heritage for years - until her curiosity leads to a shocking truth. Originally broadcast on 3/22/2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Twas a night in November at your pal's Christmas party when an elf arrives.
0:08.0	Oh, with a toffee night latte!
0:10.0	Hey everyone, who wants a Starbucks? Ooy! Same one for me!
0:16.0	Get the group together for Starbucks festive favorites.
0:19.0	It's IRL season.
0:21.0	At a Starbucks near you.
0:25.0	Ahem. Subject of aid with tea while stocks last.
0:30.0	Hi there everybody, it's Deborah Roberts here, co-anchor of 2020. I always like to know how a story
0:36.0	turns out and something tells me that you as a 2020 podcast listener feel the same way.
0:40.8	Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault where we are
0:44.9	revisiting some of the most memorable stories from our archives. We're also
0:49.2	going to give you an update on what's happened since the story first aired.
0:53.2	Take a listen.
0:54.2	Coming up.
0:57.8	She shot my kids, I pushed him I ran.
1:04.0	She said quick, my kids have been shot.
1:06.7	My kids are gonna die.
1:10.7	Oh my God, there is a crazy man on the loose who would gun down three small kids in a car.
1:17.0	First it was a bushy-haired stranger, and suddenly it was two cell assailants wearing ski masks.
1:24.0	If I had shot my own children, would I not have done a good job of it?
1:28.0	Wouldn't I have made sure they were dead and then cried crocodile tears?
1:31.0	That's insane.
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