What is the name of the book written by Ann Rule about the May 1983 murder of Diane Down's daughter?
Diane Downs Elizabeth Diane Frederickson Downs (born August 7, 1955) is an American woman convicted of the May 1983 murder of her daughter, and the attempted murder of her other two children. Following the shooting, Downs told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. She was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison plus 50 years.
The Girl Next Door (Ketchum novel) The Girl Next Door is a crime novel written by author Jack Ketchum in 1989. It is about two teen girls who are left in the care of their aunt, and the systematic and escalating abuse both of them and one sister in particular suffer at the hands of their aunt and her children. It is loosely based on the true story of the murder of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965. In 2007 it was made into a feature film, "The Girl Next Door.