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Downs' two surviving children eventually went to live with the lead prosecutor on the case, Fred Hugi. He and his wife, Joanne, adopted them in 1986. [17] Christie Downs, Downs' first child who testified at her trial, suffers from a speech disability. She has a son, and a daughter whom she named Cheryl in memory of her late sister. [27]
Downs' children Christie, Cheryl and Danny were renamed Karen, Shauna, and Robbie for the film. Her ex-husband, Steve, was renamed Boyd Paul. The prosecutor and his wife who later adopted Christie and Danny were also renamed. In both the book and movie Downs' lover, Robert Knickerbocker, was renamed Lew Lewiston.
Ann Rae Rule (née Stackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy, with whom Rule worked and whom she considered a friend, but was later revealed to be a murderer.
Susan Diane Eubanks of San Marcos, California, sought revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons. All three women were sentenced to death. While Routier and Eubanks still await execution on Texas's and California's respective death rows, Newton was executed in September 2005 by the State of Texas.
Susann Sills’ family couldn’t fathom that her husband Scott Sills was involved in her murder — until his arrest and eventual sentencing of 15 years to life in prison.
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]
Michael Downs, a 71-year-old Fort Worth man who is a retired Cook Children’s Medical Center chaplain, was charged in March and pleaded guilty in July to two counts of sexual exploitation of ...
A West Virginia couple are charged with human trafficking, child neglect, forced labor and more after, prosecutors allege, they adopted five Black children from a shelter to do forced labor and ...