Small Sacrifices

Ann Rule investigates Diane Downs, the Oregon postal worker who in May 1983 shot all three of her young children on a lonely rural road, killing one, then calmly drove to a hospital claiming a stranger had attacked them. The book unravels a pathologically narcissistic mother's carefully constructed deception and the determined prosecution that ultimately exposed her guilt.

ISBN 9780751535563 · Penguin Publishing Group · 1987