Episode 61: In Oregon in May 1983, a blood-soaked car pulled up to an emergency room, carrying a mother with a minor gunshot wound and her three young children who had been brutally shot at close range. The mother, Diane Downs, spun a terrifying tale, but as investigators looked, they found a chillingly calm, narcissistic woman who seemed more concerned with a love affair than the survival of her children. Today we will unmask one of the most chilling maternal predators in American True Crime history.

https://abcnews.com/2020/diane-downs-mother-shoots-children/story?id=10615736

https://www.kptv.com/2025/12/16/diane-downs-convicted-killing-7-year-old-daughter-springfield-1983-denied-parole/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs#cite_note-salem-news1-29

https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/diane-downs-hungry-like-the-wolf-22905cecdd97