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Christened Elizabeth Diane Fredrickson shortly after her birth in August 1955, Diane was always known by her middle name. Her mother was a teenage bride, her father, six years older, a strict disciplinarian. The couple, who were fundamentalist Baptists, went on to have another four children, who were raised on various Arizona farms. But when she was five, her father opted for a change of career and began to work his way up the ladder of the US Postal Service.

When Diane was 12, her mother began working nights and she was left with her father. She would later tell her husband that, during this period, her father began to sexually molest her, coming into her bedroom at night for a year. Eventually she became so insomniacal that her father took her to the doctor for sleeping tablets. Afterwards, he drove her into the desert to molest her but a Highway Patrol Man allegedly saw her crying, with her shirt unbuttoned, in the front seat. He approached the vehicle and asked the crying teenager what was happening and she said that she’d had an injection at the doctor and that’s why she was in tears. The officer took her father to one side and spoke sharply to him, and he never touched her inappropriately again.

The family continued to attend church three times a week, their social life also revolving around religious functions. Their home life was rigid and authoritarian and would perhaps explain Diane’s later hatred of – and determination not to follow – rules.