Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee in the conversation today about Diane Downs. Diane was a terrible mother and a terrible wife. How do you become a not-so-terrible mother? In Diane’s mind, that means killing your children so you do not have to be a mother anymore. Diane loved attention, but when one man said she could only receive attention if she did not have the baggage of children, that set a plan in motion for Diane.