New twist revealed in Diane Downs case

Eugene - He was 27 years ago and one tomorrow, that the mother of Elizabeth Diane Downs shot her three children - killing one person and wounding two others seriously - on a rural road dark Linn County, in one of the most notorious cases of murder in Oregon history.

That night spring warm in May 19, 1983, when he claimed a stranger Downs "tousled hair" shot her children, to the scene of a strange year later when the Downs pregnant too and appeared in the trial for six weeks in Eugene, to escape briefly from the State Oregon three years in prison at a later time, and looks the whole story, such as those made for TV murder mystery.

In fact, this is exactly what became in 1989, two years after the book Seattle true crime author Ann Rule bestseller, "small sacrifices".

So, after all these years, what can else may be able to detect shock anyone?

I went and what about the fact that Downs was pregnant with the child during the trial, 1984 - the result of throwing Downs' short with reporter Cottage Grove - now the public a month before the birthday gala 26?

The story of Rebecca Christine Babcock's 20/20, "ABC News" on Friday, also appears in the number of June of Glamour Magazine, which recently hit newsstands, and cooperation between the TV show and magazine.

Babcock, is now a single mother and college student in Bend, remarkably similar to the murderer of the child that was born with. And rejected a request to interview and record - Guard.

"My interest in the present time, is to find a publisher / writer and get the book to go," she wrote in an e-mail. "I was told that even I do that, I should not speak to any press."

Adopted Babcock, 25, of Bend by a couple, Chris and Jackie Babcock, shortly after I was born in Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene in June 27, 1984. And discovered the truth about her mother's biological baby sitter when she was a child, in accordance with Article joy.

Babcock said ABC's Elizabeth Vargas on "20/20" that she would like now to find the biological father as well.

Babcock finally got the nerve to contact Downs - who is serving a life sentence plus 30 years in federal prison in California for women - about four years ago, according to a piece of charming.

After an initial positive response, and the message, a second letter from Downs to Babcock was "full of paranoid fantasies," says the article joy. "In 12 pages torn from the panel of legal and found Diane stories about a man who Confidential - 'someone very strong I have ensure that all your life for me' - and how she was in prison so they want to be safe from the real killer ".

Grown further letters of even more concern, "said Babcock Downs they should take her son, who was born in 2002 when he was 17 Babcock, turn away from, or is, too, will grow into a killer. Babcock then cut off contact with the Downs, in accordance with this article.

Describes how the piece begins with Babcock, and after childhood idealism, he sat down to watch the "small sacrifices" on video - Movie Star TV in late Farrah Fawcett - with her boyfriend when she was 16. She was horrified.

"It was like a dream," Babcock said in the article. "I can not be from the belly of the beast of this kind, but you are."

She has been working for years to sell books earlier, after the baby sitter told her the truth and flipped through the pages of the book, but did not fully understand the size of everything. Leading to episodes of teenage rebellion, drug abuse and fear as an evil blood flowing through her veins, teenage pregnancy and other similarities with life Downs', says: in this article.