Small Sacrifices - Ann Rule
Category: Bestsellers
Narrator: Ann Rule
Tags: Bestsellers, True Crime
Somebody just shot my kids!, In May of 1983, Diane Downs drove to a Springfield, Oregon, hospital emergency room with her three children, all gravely wounded; one did not survive the first hour, and the other two were disabled for life. Thus begins the shocking tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community., As police searched for the shaggy-haired stranger Diane accused of shooting eight-year-old Christie, seven-year-old Cheryl, and three-year-old Danny in cold blood, a suspicion grew that was even more horrifying than the crime itself: did Diane shoot her own children?, A dedicated district attorney, haunted by this question, searched for the destructive forces that seemed to possess this young mother and uncovered a chronology of incest, psychological wounding, desperate affairs, and surrogate motherhood. Under police questioning she recalled her childhood with a cold, domineering father who abused her sexually, her weak mother, a rape by
