MAY 23, 1983: FOUR DAYS AFTER SHOOTING ALL THREE OF HER CHILDREN, KILLING ONE AND LEAVING TWO FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES, DIANE DOWNS RETURNED TO THE CRIME SCENE TO REENACT THE ATTACK. And the cameras captured it all. Four days earlier, 27-year-old Diane Downs had pulled up to a hospital emergency room in Springfield, Oregon, with three children bleeding from gunshot wounds inside her car. Cheryl, 7, was dead. Christie, 8, had suffered catastrophic injuries, including a stroke. Danny, just 3 years old, had been shot in the back. The injury would leave him paralyzed. Diane had a gunshot wound to her left arm. She told investigators a terrifying story. A mysterious, bushy-haired stranger had flagged her down on a deserted country road. When she refused to surrender her car, she claimed, he opened fire on her children. But something about her account wasn't sitting right with detectives. So on May 23, they took Diane back to the scene. Her arm was in a cast as she began demonstrating how the supposed attack had unfolded. She showed investigators where the stranger had stood, how he approached her vehicle, and what she claimed happened next. At moments, she appeared unusually animated, even laughing during the reenactment. And consider what was happening at that exact moment. Her daughter Cheryl was awaiting burial. Her other daughter, Christie, was recovering from injuries so severe that doctors had initially feared she wouldn't survive. And her little boy Danny was facing a lifetime of paralysis. Yet their mother was standing on that country road, acting out the night all three had been shot. Then came a peculiar moment caught on camera. While reenacting the incident, Diane apparently struck her injured arm and began to say: "This is worse than..." But she stopped before finishing the sentence. Years later, Detective Doug Welch would suggest that Diane had nearly compared the pain to shooting herself in the arm. It was his interpretation of an unfinished sentence, but it was one more moment investigators found troubling. What Diane didn't know was that one of her children would eventually tell the story she had been trying to conceal. Christie survived. After months of medical treatment, the little girl recovered enough to describe what she remembered about that night. At her mother's murder trial in 1984, Christie identified the person who had shot her and her siblings. "My mom." Diane Downs was convicted of murdering Cheryl and attempting to murder Christie and Danny. The reenactment footage you're watching was shown to the jury during her trial. More than four decades later, it remains a disturbing piece of true-crime history. A mother returned to the road where her children had been shot, demonstrating an attack she blamed on a stranger. Her daughter's funeral was approaching. Her two surviving children were still in the hospital. And the woman reenacting the crime was the person who had committed it.