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By now, Diane had told detectives that she’d seen the bushy-haired stranger before and that he’d used her name, so it couldn’t have been a random shooting. She added that her ex-husband or Dave’s wife might have hired someone to kill her and the kids.

Detectives pointed out how bizarre it was that the man had managed to shoot three little children in the centre of their bodies, despite their being in a darkened car, yet had only shot Diane, the largest and closest body, in the arm. She then alleged that she knew who the killer was and that he had deliberately tried to kill the children to devastate her. On another occasion she said that there were two men present who were wearing ski masks and that she’d pulled one of the masks off. Later she decided that this version of events was only a dream.

Incredibly, she deliberately got pregnant for the sixth time, seducing a casual boyfriend at her most fertile time of the month. She would later tell author Ann Rule (who wrote an impressively-detailed book about the case, Small Sacrifices) that ‘for nine months I had love again… Someone I could love who was with me.’ She had somehow blotted out the fact that she was so bad at actual motherhood that her children were emotionally and physically neglected, and that she’d attempted to take all three of their lives. She and her parents also put a bizarre happy birthday poem for Cheryl in the local paper, writing ‘Jesus loved you… he took you to heaven.’

Fortunately, by now Christie was beginning to heal emotionally and was able to confront the reality that her mother had shot her and her siblings. Asked to play the role of her mother in a reconstruction, she stood outside the car and pointed her finger at the dolls representing herself and her brother and sister. After pretending to shoot them, she burst into tears.