In 1983, Diane Downs brought her three children to an Oregon hospital, claiming a stranger had attacked them on a rural road.

Downs, heavily pregnant, faced an uphill battle to prove she was not guilty as the crime scene was reconstructed and her daughter Christie, who survived the shooting, was about to take the stand.

An Oregon mother made national headlines in the ‘80s when she was convicted of murdering one of her children and attempting to murder the other two. More than 40 years later, she has maintained her ...