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Elizabeth Diane Downs (née Frederickson, born August 7, 1955) is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children near Springfield, Oregon, on May 19, 1983. Following the crimes, she made claims to police that a man had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children.
On 19 May 1983, at approximately 10:48 p.m, Diane Downs drives to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon with a gunshot wound to her arm. She claims that an unknown assailant attempted to carjack her and shot her three children: Karen, 8, Shauna, 7, and Robby, 3.
Rule's 1987 work, Small Sacrifices, tells the story of Diane Downs, an Oregon woman who in May 1983 murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children. [10] The book was filmed for television in 1989, with Farrah Fawcett in an Emmy-nominated [11] and Peabody-cited [12] performance.
Nelson killed his six children and the family's dog. Diane Downs, May 19, 1983, Springfield, Oregon. Downs shot her three children, killing one and leaving the other two permanently disabled, and attempted to blame it on a carjacker. James Alan Day, October 18, 1984, Evansville, Indiana. Day killed his six children before committing suicide. [23]
Diane Downs – On May 19, 1983, in Springfield, Oregon, Downs shot her three children, killing one of them. She was pursuing a romantic relationship with a married man who did not want children and refused to leave his wife. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.
McKenzie-Willamette was the hospital to which Diane Downs drove her three children after shooting them in May 1983. [3] [4] Her utterances there would later be used against her in court. [3] By early 2002, the medical center employed 1,150 people and was the second largest employer in the city. [5]
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