Diane Downs

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".