Maternal Filicide Victim. Cheryl was one of Diane Downs' three children whom she shot while they lay sleeping in her car on a dark road in Willamette Valley, Oregon on May 19, 1983. Her other daughter, Christie, almost died and her son, Danny, was left a paraplegic. Downs tried to blame it on a "bushy-haired" stranger, but was prosecuted for it. The crime was the subject of Ann Rule's book "Small Sacrifices," which was made into a mini-series starring Farrah Fawcett and John Shea.
Maternal Filicide Victim. Cheryl was one of Diane Downs' three children whom she shot while they lay sleeping in her car on a dark road in Willamette Valley, Oregon on May 19, 1983. Her other daughter, Christie, almost died and her son, Danny, was left a paraplegic. Downs tried to blame it on a "bushy-haired" stranger, but was prosecuted for it. The crime was the subject of Ann Rule's book "Small Sacrifices," which was made into a mini-series starring Farrah Fawcett and John Shea.
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