According to Lane County Circuit Court documents, the now-70-year-old woman was additionally indicted for two counts of first ...

Downs was convicted in 1984 of the death of her 7-year-old daughter near Springfield. Investigators said Downs shot the girl, her other two young children, and put a bullet in her own forearm. She ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — Diane Downs, the Oregon woman convicted of shooting her three children in 1983 — killing one and severely injuring the others — appeared before the state parole board this week to ...

Long before the infamous cases of Susan Smith and Andrea Yates, the nation was gripped by the story of Diane Downs, who shot her three children, killing one. In May 1983, Downs, a 27-year-old divorced ...