All the children were awake laughing with their mother as they took a long way home to do some sight seeing.
Diane claimed that her and the children had left a friend’s house at around 9:30pm that night.
Judy sat Diane down in a seat and asked her to recall the events that had proceeded that night. She’s reported as being the first heard the story from Diane Downs. Judy Patterson was the night receptionist on duty that fateful night. Her demeanor was eerily flat as she began describing the story to a receptionist in the waiting area who quickly called the police. To her disappointment, Diane was quickly escorted out of the room and into the waiting room. She claims she wanted her children to know she was there for them. Her hope was to stay involved in what what happening. Her eyes fell from one child to the other as she hovered behind the doctors and nurses. At this time their wounds could not be identified as they were covered completely in blood.ĭiane Downs followed the nurses into the trauma room without tears, but rather a shocked look on her face. An unconscious Cheryl lay on the floor of the front seat. Christie and Stephen Daniel “Danny” were in the back seat of the car potentially gasping their final breaths. The nurses worked quickly to remove the three children from their seats in the car. She seemed to be unharmed aside from a beach towel wrapped wound on her lower left arm. The 28 year old mother was in jeans and a plaid shirt calling for help when two young female nurses came out to her aid. Inside the car lay three dying children Christie Ann Downs (8), Cheryl Lynn Downs (7), and Stephen Daniel Downs (3). The car was blood spattered, and still running as a 28 year old mother ran out and yelled for help. A red Nissan Pulsar pulled into the front of McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield Oregon around 10pm on May 19th, 1983.
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