# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diane-downs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:15.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diane-downs"
name: "Diane Downs"
slug: "diane-downs"
description: "Elizabeth Diane Downs is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children on May 19, 1983, in Oregon. She claimed to police that a man had shot her and the children during an attempted carjacking. In 1984, she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after twenty-five years. She escaped in 1987 and was recaptured after ten days. Downs has been repeatedly denied parole, and has been diagnosed with narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders, and labelled a \"deviant sociopath\"."
tagline: "American convicted murderer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diane_Downs_1984.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1955-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.23
  momentum:             3.106562027231467
  historical:           8.996056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs"
    title: "Diane Downs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3243839"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump