SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) — Diane Downs, the woman convicted of murdering her daughter and attempting to kill her other two children, appeared before the Oregon Parole Board on Tuesday for a parole hearing.

Downs was convicted in 1984 of the death of her 7-year-old daughter near Springfield. Investigators said Downs shot the girl, her other two young children, and put a bullet in her own forearm. She then drove them all to the hospital and blamed the shootings on a man she said tried to carjack the family.

During the hearing that lasted several hours, Downs maintained her innocence.

“I’m innocent of shooting but I am guilty of putting my kids in danger,” Downs said. “That is something I have never reconciled. Through all the classes I have not reconciled that. I can’t. There is no excuse for i

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