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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.
Jul 24, 2020 · Thirty-five years ago, Diane Downs, now 64, was convicted of shooting her three children– Danny, Cheryl, and Christie– in Springfield, Oregon. While Danny and Christie survived,...
Feb 4, 2022 · Diane Downs gave birth to four children. Her first three children with her husband Steve are Stephen "Danny" Daniel (born 1979), Cheryl Lynn (born 1976), and Christie Ann (born 1974). Conflicting reports say Downs also acted as a surrogate during her fourth pregnancy, giving birth to a daughter after her trial in 1984.
Aug 19, 2023 · On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs shot her three young children in her car in Springfield, Oregon — then blamed the attack on a "carjacker." She tried to murder all of her kids because the man she was having an affair with told her that he didn't want children in his life.
Jan 29, 2024 · When Diane Downs rushed her three children to a hospital in Springfield, Ore., the evening of May 19, 1983, it was a bloody scene. The story she told would change with each retelling, but the gist was the same. While driving with her kids, a stranger had inexplicably shot them.
DIANE DOWNS. AGE: 68. BEST KNOWN FOR: Shooting her three children on a Lane County road on May 19, 1983. Before Casey Anthony misplaced Caylee, before Andrea Yates drowned her five children in...
May 11, 2010 · May 12, 2010 -- Late one May night in 1983, Diane Downs sped into an emergency room dropoff in Springfield, Ore., with a horrifying story to tell. Her three small children, Christie, 8; Cheryl, 7; and Danny, 3, were inside her blood-soaked car, shot at close range.
Mar 21, 2019 · When she was 11 years old, Becky Babcock tricked her longtime babysitter into revealing the name of her biological mother: Diane Downs. Downs was a notorious killer in Oregon, convicted in the 1983 shooting of her three children that left one of them dead.
Mar 20, 2019 · Elizabeth Diane Downs, the convicted childkiller who escaped July 11, 1987 from the women's prison in Salem, Ore., is escorted out of state police headquarters in Salem following her capture July ...
Feb 5, 2022 · Where is Diane Downs now? Diane Downs is currently serving her sentence of life plus 50 years at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Calif., where she's been since August 1993. Previously, Diane was housed in a maximum-security prison for women in Clinton, N.J.
