1983年,Diane Downs谎称一名陌生人袭击了她的家人,但被判杀害她的女儿并打伤她的儿子。 In 1983, Diane Downs falsely claimed a stranger attacked her family, but was convicted of killing her daughter and injuring her sons.

1983年5月,一名27岁的俄勒冈州邮政工人Diane Downs声称一名陌生人在一条农村公路上袭击她的家人,杀死她的女儿,打伤她的两个儿子,因此她因枪伤住院。 In May 1983, Diane Downs, a 27-year-old Oregon postal worker, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after claiming a stranger attacked her family on a rural road, killing her daughter and injuring her two sons. 调查员发现她的故事前后矛盾, 司机身上没有血迹, 她手上没有枪伤残留物, Investigators found her story inconsistent, with no blood spatter on the driver’s side, no gunshot residue on her hands, and evidence the car moved slowly. 幸存的儿童和法医调查结果支持了她为了捏造袭击而向她们自己开枪的结论。 Surviving children and forensic findings supported the conclusion she shot them herself to fabricate an attack. 她于1984年被判犯有谋杀罪和谋杀未遂罪,被判处终身监禁加50年,后来于1987年越狱,逃脱了10天的抓捕。 She was convicted in 1984 of murder and attempted murder, sentenced to life plus 50 years, and later escaped prison in 1987, evading capture for 10 days.