On the evening of May 19, 1983, Diane Downs drove up to an emergency room in Springfield, Oregon with her three children, Christie, 8, Cheryl, 7, and Danny, 3 covered in blood in the backseat. Diane claimed a "shaggy-haired gunman" had committed the crime, however as the story unfolds, police are baffled to discover so much more to the story.

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