Diane Downs vs Ann Rule

This is quite a performance.

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by Anonymousreply 48January 26, 2021 10:51 AM

This is priceless video! I fuckin ate this up! Omg! Oprah’s skyscraper hair!

by Anonymousreply 1November 22, 2020 11:44 PM

Ann Rule is/was the queen of true crime novels. Her Small Sacrifices is a classic...

by Anonymousreply 2November 23, 2020 12:00 AM

That video was awesome! It’s required DL viewing!

by Anonymousreply 3November 23, 2020 12:01 AM

Diane Downs' daughter was on one of those news shows - 60 minutes or 20/20, whichever is on ABC. Fascinating interview. I felt so sorry for her but it made me again question the nature vs nurture theories. I'd like to hear opinions.

by Anonymousreply 4November 23, 2020 1:38 AM

Diane's outfit from prison...

by Anonymousreply 5November 23, 2020 1:58 AM

this is really weird. i watched part of this video last night and just randomly clicked on it on youtube. now it shows up on DL? conspiracy.....

by Anonymousreply 6November 23, 2020 2:40 AM

Did you all get a load of Oprah's hair? Fuck!

by Anonymousreply 7November 23, 2020 9:46 AM

I have been wanting to see this video since forever. It was never on YouTube. Thanks for posting it OP.

by Anonymousreply 8November 23, 2020 12:22 PM

I loved the interview! Diane comes off like she’s a celebrity being interviewed on Entertainment Tonight.

by Anonymousreply 10November 23, 2020 11:05 PM

I read the book when it first came out. It was riveting. Classic story of an evil malignant narcissist. It's interesting to watch her spin her lying web in the video without a trace of remorse. She lies so easily and is a bully as well. Her poor kids.

I also saw the recent interview with her daughter, born after the murder and attempted murders, conceived during the time her mother was a prison escapee. She said she tried to develop a relationship with the half sister who survived the attack but that it didn't work out.

by Anonymousreply 11November 23, 2020 11:25 PM

Kinda like an early Casey Anthony.

by Anonymousreply 12November 24, 2020 2:32 AM

Thank you for the link OP.

Farrah Fawcett captured this woman’s arrogant delusional ways perfectly in the made for tv film.

by Anonymousreply 13November 24, 2020 3:03 AM

Have their been any interviews with the grown daughter who survived?

by Anonymousreply 14November 24, 2020 3:09 AM

Oprah's insufferability seems to have sprung fully fledged like a buzzard out of a Gorgon's asshole.

by Anonymousreply 15November 24, 2020 3:45 AM

Oprah’s hair was the star of that clip.

I do remember this story. Farrah did a great job playing this psycho.

by Anonymousreply 16November 24, 2020 4:22 AM

YouTube suggested this video to me about a week ago. I've wanted to see this for years, and must have watched it on full 4 or 5 times already.

Boy, Diane just [bold]loved[/bold] to be in front of the camera, didn't she. Yeah, it's really believable that her ex-husband told their recovering daughter to her face that "he'd never given her anything".

"I had many lovers, I didn't need Nick". Her diaries told a different story.

by Anonymousreply 17November 24, 2020 3:30 PM

She seemed as if she thought she was Diana Spencer’s doppelgänger by the way she did her hair and by her affectations. She did have the same buggy eyes and small mouth and boxy chin, but she was much uglier than Di of course. Very strange person. I wonder what happened to her to make her so mentally sick.

by Anonymousreply 18November 24, 2020 3:44 PM

Her grandmother was Bessie Denker, r18.

by Anonymousreply 19November 24, 2020 3:48 PM

Diane isn’t trying to get caught doing this! She’s going to shoot the kids then drive to the hospital 5mph.

by Anonymousreply 20November 24, 2020 3:58 PM

[quote]I wonder what happened to her to make her so mentally sick.

She claimed that her father molested her when she was twelve. It was brought up during her trial, but she later denied it after Ann Rule's book came out.

by Anonymousreply 21November 24, 2020 4:23 PM

r18 she was raped a lot as a kid. that'll do it to anybody's mind.

by Anonymousreply 22November 24, 2020 6:01 PM

Are you telling me she liked...cock?

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by Anonymousreply 23November 24, 2020 10:34 PM

Oprah's hair made her look like a King Cobra snake.

by Anonymousreply 24November 24, 2020 10:55 PM

Diane Downs is EXHAUSTING

by Anonymousreply 25November 24, 2020 11:07 PM

Whoa... I was just thinking about this interview the other day for some reason and was wondering what had happened to the children the prosecutor and his wife adopted after their mother's trial. I actually watched this interview at the time it aired, and remember it well. Had read Ann Rule's book (and all her subsequent books, I was so impressed by Small Sacrifices) after reading about the Downs case in a Washington Post article the year before this interview. Diane Downs was an unbelievably facile liar, so facile that Ann Rule never comes off very well in this interview. It just goes to show how people like Diane Downs (whose instinctive, automatic lying reminded me of Donald Trump's) are total steamrollers.

by Anonymousreply 27November 26, 2020 2:29 AM

I'd love to see a version of "The View" with Diane Downs and Betty Broderick.

by Anonymousreply 28November 27, 2020 11:10 PM

Hard to imagine Farrah played her in a tv movie...

by Anonymousreply 29November 27, 2020 11:33 PM

I’m gonna finger my fauchie

by Anonymousreply 30November 27, 2020 11:59 PM

LOL, R24. I was going to post the exact same thing.

by Anonymousreply 31November 28, 2020 12:22 AM

I remember watching this as a kid after school, when it originally aired. I remember the audience members' gasps, shocked facial expressions, and nervous giggles.

I wonder if Diane Downs could pass a lie detector test; she lies so easily, it seems like she believes what she's saying. But, her emotions are off.

by Anonymousreply 32November 28, 2020 12:38 AM

"Oh Jesus, Ann, it's in the transcripts!"

That's my new go to saying when I'm frustrated with my partner!

by Anonymousreply 33November 28, 2020 2:01 AM

Where's that horrible 'delay' they have now, like on The View where they keep talking over each other? In the olden days it was immediate, like they were talking on the phone.

by Anonymousreply 34November 28, 2020 2:24 AM

[quote]It's interesting to watch her spin her lying web in the video without a trace of remorse. She lies so easily and is a bully as well.

If that bitch thinks she’s going to be Trump’s 2024 campaign manager , she’s got another think comin’!

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by Anonymousreply 35November 28, 2020 2:39 AM

"... was wondering what had happened to the children the prosecutor and his wife adopted after their mother's trial."

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by Anonymousreply 36November 28, 2020 2:41 AM

The two surviving children that Diane shot have always wanted privacy, so not much is known about them. As was mentioned above, they were adopted by the prosecutor who got Diane convicted. (I wonder if they still have contact with their biological father, and if he was around them much after Diane's arrest.)

While Diane was awaiting trial, she got knocked up again, and she delivered the baby in jail. The state put the baby up for adoption. This daughter has participated in several media interviews over the years. On 20/20, she met with Anne Rule, and she described how she had exchanged letters with Diane before their tentative relationship crashed and burned (because of Diane's behavior).

I don't think she can ever be let out of prison. Her three bio-children would probably live in fear.

by Anonymousreply 37November 28, 2020 2:57 AM

Farrah was decent but I wish she/the production had put in some effort into having her physically transform into the character. She looked like Farrah with bad girl hair during the entire miniseries!

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by Anonymousreply 38November 28, 2020 3:08 AM

You lost me at Oprah. Skinny or fat, I hate her guts.

Unwatchable.

by Anonymousreply 39November 28, 2020 3:33 AM

Oprah usurped Phil Donahue, and things got dumbed-down. Oprah is all over the place, and makes it all about herself.

Ann Rule is like Truman Capote had a sex change.

Interview with her brother, who seems the total opposite personality type from her.

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by Anonymousreply 42November 28, 2020 4:12 AM

Is there a summary or something before one commits to a 41-minute video?

by Anonymousreply 43November 28, 2020 5:01 AM

R7 that wasn’t even her final form

by Anonymousreply 44November 28, 2020 5:24 AM

Deavan from 90 Day Fiancé reminds me of her. Same crazy eyes.

Druzilla- you in danger, girl!

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by Anonymousreply 45November 28, 2020 5:26 AM

Whatever happened to the gun that she used?

by Anonymousreply 46January 26, 2021 10:20 AM

Where did she get that soap opera villainess cocktail dress in prison?

by Anonymousreply 47January 26, 2021 10:30 AM

I looked both Ann and Diane up today.

“Rule's family and publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced on July 26, 2015, that Rule had died a day earlier as a result of congestive heart failure. Her death followed an emergency-room visit because of a heart attack. Rule had been moved to hospice care the day before her death.[5][24][25][26]. “ Ann was 83.

This link has a recent picture of Diane, now 65.

I remember when all of this happened. It was huge news at the time. I read Small Sacrifices and watched the TV movie with Farrah.

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by Anonymousreply 48January 26, 2021 10:51 AM

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