When Your Own Mother Is A Notorious Killer

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Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Original Air Date: 10/22/2010 Becky Babcock opens up about living with the secret that her biological mother was notorious child killer Diane Downs. Then, twenty years after the murder of her husband, Pamela Smart sits down with Lisa Ling to maintain that her only crime was becoming sexually involved with the teenager who eventually killed her husband.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.1	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.7	The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	to some words.
0:30.9	I'm bringing them back.
0:33.4	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.9	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.6	Before Susan Smith drove her two boys into a South Carolina lake and Andrea Yates drowned
1:05.6	her five children in the bathtub.
1:08.1	There was Diane Downes.
1:10.7	The year was 1983, parents were horrified.
1:15.1	The story seemed too brutal to imagine.
1:18.0	Three children shot at point-blank range while they were asleep in the car.
1:24.4	It was unthinkable.
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