You just don't do that." So he assaulted me and my children, and from that point, I took the kids to the hospital.
Oprah: What smart remark? What did you say?ĭiane: Well, he said he wanted my car, and I said: "You've got to be kidding.
He asked for my car, and I made a smart remark and perhaps I shouldn't have.
When I stopped, he approached the car, and by the time I got out of the car, he was standing beside the car, and he assaulted us. I stopped because he was flagging me, and I thought he was in trouble or thought that he was hurt. On the way home, a stranger was in the road. She was recaptured and sent to a New Jersey prison to serve the remainder of her life sentence.ĭiane still maintains her innocence to this day and joined The Oprah Show via satellite on September 26, 1988, to tell her story.ĭiane: On the night of May 19, 1983, my children and I went to see a friend to take her a newspaper clip. There was a 14-state manhunt for her, which she eluded for 10 days. While in prison, Diane scaled an 18-foot razor wire fence and escaped from her Oregon cell in July 1988. Diane was nine months pregnant when she was convicted on one count of aggravated murder and two counts of attempted murder. The gun was never found.Įarly on in the investigation, police claimed Diane was responsible for the shootings of her children, but she publicly voiced her innocence, claiming that a shaggy-haired stranger shot them.Īt the trial, Diane's surviving daughter, 9-year-old Christie, took the witness stand and testified that her mother was the shooter. 22-caliber gun that wounded Diane and her 8-year-old daughter Christie, paralyzed her 3-year-old son Danny and killed her 7-year-old daughter Cheryl.
Police scoured the crime scene for months searching for the weapon, a. On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs and her three children were shot on a rural road in Oregon.
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