DAUGHTER OF A KILLER
Who is Becky Babcock and where is she now?
DIANE Downs made international headlines for callously shooting three of her children - her fourth wasn't yet born.
Now, her children are all grown up and many want to know what they are up to now
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Who is Diane Downs' daughter Becky Babcock?
Born June 27, 1984, Becky, 37, is famously known as the daughter of Diane Down, 66.
Becky is the fourth and youngest child of Diane who is currently serving a life sentence for shooting three of her children - killing one.
Becky, who was named Amy upon her birth, was born after her mother sat trial for murder.
Following Becky's birth, she was adopted by the Babcock family and given the name Becky.
Becky went public about her mother in 2010 and has also met her in a bid to find out about her roots.
Over the years, she has told her story numerous times and has been seen on 20/20, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Kids of Killers, and the Happy Face podcast series.
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What did Diane Downs do?
The "mommy murderess" allegedly planned an attack to "free" herself from the burden of her three children, Christie, Cheryl, and Stephen, with husband Steve Downs.
The murder plot was reportedly part of her plan to be with the man she was infatuated with, who reportedly told her he did not want children.
Diane drove her car to a remote roadside in Springfield, Oregon, where she shot her three children and herself in the forearm in May of 1983.
She then drove at a pace of between 5-7 mph to the local hospital, according to witnesses, where she claimed she had been car-jacked by a stranger who shot herself and her children.
By the time Diane arrived at the hospital, Cheryl, who was 7 at the time, was already dead and the other two children had suffered devastating injuries.
Becky's half-sister Christie was able to be revived but left with a speech impediment.
Half-brother Danny was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down as a result of his injuries.
Christie and Danny were adopted by Lane County Prosecutor Fred Hugi and his wife, Joanne, in 1984.
Diane was arrested the following February and sentenced to life behind bars.
Many have chastised Diane for "deliberately becoming pregnant" in order to garner sympathy from the jury.
Diane said: "I got pregnant because I miss Christie and I miss Danny and I miss Cheryl so much.
"You can’t replace children, but you can replace the effect they give you.
"And they give me love, they give me satisfaction, they give me stability, they give me a reason to live and a reason to be happy, and that’s gone, they took it from me, but children are so easy to conceive."
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Where is Becky Babcock now?
Becky now lives in Salem, Oregon, and works as a behavioral health coordinator.
She is also a mother to a son named Chris.
Becky also gave birth to a second child but reportedly gave the child up for adoption.
It was then she decided to reach out to her biological mother.
"I wanted her to be a person. I wanted to relate to her not as a mother, because I had a mother, just as somebody that was heartbroken to give up their child," she said. "I was hoping to have a connection," she told News in 2019.
She told the program that when she was 11 years old, she tricked her babysitter into revealing the name of her biological mother: Diane Downs.
She said: "The impact of Diane Downs being my mom has altered the course of my life so many times. But I'm on track and I'm really happy with the way life is.
"My childhood was of dreams and we had every opportunity that we wanted. My parents wanted us to prosper, to learn and to grow ... I had a great family, a great life. … It was honestly picture perfect."
Her half-siblings have been less public, wanting to live their lives "without the stigma of being Diane Downs' children".
According to , crime author Ann Rule said: "Christie and Danny – who somehow survived their gunshot wounds – have no contact with Diane.
"They have both graduated from college. Christie is married and had a baby boy in 2005.
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"Danny, a computer whiz, is still partially paralyzed from the bullet in his back, but he is living a happy and normal life. They have grown up in a very happy home with the Hugis," she continued.
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