Marcola

Late in the afternoon of May the 19th, Diane Downs took her three children, eight-year-old Christie, seven-year-old Cheryl, and three-year-old Danny, on a fateful journey.

They were headed to a farm in the small rural town of Marcola, just 12 miles away from their home in Springfield.

She's going kind of out of the way from, from where she lived.

She's on the opposite side of town.

She's completely smashed any of our expectations about mothers.

They should put their children first, and that is something that she's never done.

Diane Downs drove her three children to a coworker's house in Marcola.

And her children get to see the horses and pet the horses, and she talks to this coworker, and they visit for a while.