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Diane Downs, the Glossary

Elizabeth Diane Downs (Frederickson; born August 7, 1955) is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children near Springfield, Oregon, on May 19, 1983.^[1]

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1983 in Oregon
Crimes in Oregon
Criminals from Oregon
Escapees from Oregon detention
Female murderers of children
People convicted of murder by Oregon
People with histrionic personality disorder
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Oregon

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents.

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Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (42 million shares), and Warner Bros.

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Affair

An affair is a union of more than two people in one romantic and sexual relationship,, passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has betrayed their partner (regardless of formal or informal relationship status) with a third person or more people (regardless if the partner and the third person(s) were aware, not aware, and/or disagreed to having an affair).

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Ann Rule

Ann Rae Rule (née Stackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American author of true crime books and articles.

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Anti-abortion movements

Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality.

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Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD), sometimes referred to as dissocial personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterized by a limited capacity for empathy and a long-term pattern of disregard for or violation of the rights of others.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Assault

An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.

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Associate degree

An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years.

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Attempted murder

Attempted murder is a crime of attempt in various jurisdictions.

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Blood squirt

Blood squirt (blood spurt, blood spray, blood gush, or blood jet) is a projectile expulsion of blood when an artery is ruptured.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is the penal law enforcement agency of the government of California responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems.

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Carjacking

Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.

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Cartridge (firearms)

A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Chowchilla, California

Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States.

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Cottage Grove, Oregon

Cottage Grove is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.

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Crime Library

Crime Library is a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books.

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Dangerous offender

In Canada and England and Wales, certain convicted persons may be designated as dangerous offenders and subject to a longer, or indefinite, term of imprisonment in order to protect the public.

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Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women

Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) is a prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey Department of Corrections, located in Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, near Clinton.

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A view of the break-action of a typical double-barrelled shotgun, with the action open and the scalloped triangularly shaped extractor visible at the base of the two barrels. The opening lever and the safety catch are visible In breechloading firearms, an extractor is an action component that serves to remove spent casings of previously fired cartridges from the chamber, in order to vacate the chamber for loading a fresh round of ammunition.

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Familicide

A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which an individual kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouses, siblings, or parents.

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Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Leni Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett; February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress.

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Fetus

A fetus or foetus (fetuses, foetuses, rarely feti or foeti) is the unborn offspring that develops from a mammal embryo.

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Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.

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Forensic identification

Forensic identification is the application of forensic science, or "forensics", and technology to identify specific objects from the trace evidence they leave, often at a crime scene or the scene of an accident.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Handgun

A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand.

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Harpo Productions

Harpo Productions (or Harpo Studios) is an American multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey and based in West Hollywood, California.

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Heartland Baptist Bible College

Heartland Baptist Bible College is a private independent Baptist Bible college in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking behaviors, usually beginning in early adulthood, including inappropriate seduction and an excessive desire for approval.

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KATU (TV)

KATU (channel 2) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with ABC.

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KGW

KGW (channel 8) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Jefferson Street in southwestern Portland, and its transmitter is located in the city's Sylvan-Highlands section.

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Lane County, Oregon

Lane County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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List of homicides in Oregon

This is a list of homicides in Oregon.

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List of murdered American children

This is a list of murdered American children that details notable murders among thousands of cases of subjects who were or are believed to have been under the age of 18 upon their deaths.

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McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center

McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Springfield, Oregon, United States.

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Moon Valley High School

Moon Valley High School is a public high school in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, and is a part of the Glendale Union High School District, which opened in 1965.

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Murder in Oregon law

Murder in Oregon law constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Narcissistic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings.

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New American Library

The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948.

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New Jersey Department of Corrections

The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) is the government agency responsible for operations and management of prison facilities in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Orange, California

Orange is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oregon State Penitentiary

Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), also known as Oregon State Prison, is a maximum security prison in the northwest United States in Salem, Oregon.

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Paralysis

Paralysis (paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of motor function in one or more muscles.

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Parole

Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

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Personality disorder

Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Psychological trauma

Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy.

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Psychosis

Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.

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Razor wire

Barbed tape or razor wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent trespassing by humans.

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Runaway (dependent)

A runaway is a minor or (depending upon the local jurisdiction) a person under a specified age who has left their parents or legal guardians without permission.

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Salem, Oregon

Salem is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County.

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Small Sacrifices

Small Sacrifices is a 1989 American made-for-television crime drama film written by Joyce Eliason and based on the best-selling true crime book by Ann Rule of the same name.

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Springfield, Oregon

Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.

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Stalking

Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.

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Stroke

Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.

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Surrogacy

Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to childbirth on behalf of another person(s) who will become the child's parent(s) after birth.

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The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to as The Oprah Show or simply Oprah, is an American daytime syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011, from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications.

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The Register-Guard

The Register-Guard is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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TruTV

TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Downs

Also known as Cheryl Lynn Downs, Elizabeth Diane Downs.

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Diane Downs, the Glossary

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See also

1983 in Oregon

Crimes in Oregon

Criminals from Oregon

Escapees from Oregon detention

Female murderers of children

People convicted of murder by Oregon

People with histrionic personality disorder

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Oregon

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