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3. Diane Downs
The murder of children is never an easy thing to stomach. It is even harder to accept when those children were hurt by people who are supposed to protect them, like relatives. In this case, a woman by the name of Diane Downs killed one of her children and severely injured her other two. She even went as far as to stage the murder scene to look as though she had been attacked in a carjacking gone wrong.
Downs shot herself in the forearm and carefully devised a story to share with medical personnel and police: that she and her children had been brutally attacked by an unknown assailant and that she was desperate to get to the hospital. Unfortunately for her, eye-witness accounts of the incident didn’t quite match up with Downs’ version. Her eight-year-old daughter was fatally shot and her other two children survived but sustained serious, life-changing injuries. Downs was sentenced to life in prison. Her motive? She was deeply infatuated with a man who stated he did not want children.
