'The more she talked, the more things didn't make any sense': In 1983, Diane Downs said a stranger shot her three kids, but police decided she was lying.
of being flagged down by a bushy-haired stranger on a dark and deserted country road.
Downs said she then faked throwing her keys to divert the gunman's attention, pushed him out of the way, jumped back in her car and raced to the hospital with her badly wounded children. She says it was during the struggle with the stranger that she was shot in the arm. “I have used the term verbal ‘vomit’ when talking' about Diane because she talked a lot. Too much for her own good,” Welch said. “I think that's one of the things that-- ended up hurting her case. She didn't know when to keep her mouth shut.”
“The more she talked, and she talked a lot and frequently, the more she talked, the more things didn't make any sense. It was as if she thought that if she kept talking enough, that you would believe her,” Jaeger said. A break in the case finally came when investigators discovered Downs' secret diaries. They told of her obsession with a married man who didn't want her kids around.
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