He responded to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital and immediately interviewed Downs, a postal worker. ... Police Arrest Diane Downs. Police arrested Downs Feb. 28, 1984, nine months after the shootings.

Late one May night in 1983, Diane Downs sped into an emergency room dropoff in Springfield, Ore., with a horrifying story to tell. Her three small children, Christie, 8; Cheryl, 7; and Danny, 3 ...

In May 1983, Downs, a 27-year-old divorced postal service worker, told police that a "bushy-haired stranger" flagged down her car and shot her three children on a back road near Springfield, Oregon.

At the time, Downs was a 27-year-old postal worker who had recently relocated to Oregon from Arizona after a divorce. She is now 53. After shooting the children, Downs shot herself in the arm ...

At the time, Downs was a divorced, 27-year-old postal worker. After shooting the children, Downs shot herself in the arm before driving to a hospital, where medical staff noted her calm demeanor ...

In May 1983, Downs, then a 27-year old-divorced postal worker, reported to the authorities that a "bushy-haired stranger" had stopped her vehicle and shot her three kids on a secluded road near ...

On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs drove herself and her three children to an emergency room in Springfield, Oregon, saying she had been shot by a “bushy-haired man" who had tried to steal her car on ...