Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 18:07     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Watched this back in 2011.

1. The husband was in major denial
2. She was hiding her addiction(s)
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 18:05     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:She was drunk (.2 BAC with 6 grams of yet to be digested alcohol in her stomach, and high levels of THC) as could be and high drove the wrong way down the road - no evidence it was intentional. She was drinking a bottle of vodka in the car. She had stopped a few times to vomit and had pulled over a couple times. The last call to her brother, she was confused, slurring her speech and had blurry vision. She was pulled over during that call and he told her to stay put and he was on his way but she drove off again, leaving her cell phone behind.

There was no evidence she was drunk when she left in the campground in the morning. Her family said she did drink but never in excess and not frequently. There was no evidence of alcoholism in the autopsy. Her husband was convinced she had a stroke but the toxicology report really says otherwise.


Her family was/is in denial. Maybe she was hiding it, but she obviously had a severe drinking problem. The husband saying the "same" bottle of vodka had been in the car for a year. Come on. What that means is she always had a bottle of vodka in the car! And of course it was not the same one.

I feel sorry for everyone involved, but IMO Diane was a pretty advanced in her alcohol addiction - think of Anne Heche. Same level of dependency.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:35     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
She had a BAC of .19 and high levels of THC. This was not the "Oopsie, I took too much Aleve for my toothache!" that her DH is making it out to be.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:19     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Her husband also worked nights so she could have been drinking in the evenings after he left for work but sober during the few hours they were awake together in the afternoons. He may not have known at all if she was drinking regularly.

Even years later, her sister in law (Jackie) who lost her 3 daughters says it just still seems so out of character - they had been friends for 20 years and she never had any feelings of anything being off or a concern with Diane.

Jacke had another daughter a couple years later and the family runs a charity dedicate dto empowering girls in memory of their 3 kids.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:17     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:^^Also, I thought it was an accident, not a murder-suicide. I thought she was in a blackout and didn't know what was happening. She was in a drunken rage and out-of-control.


Well how does one decide what it was?
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:16     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:This was a fascinating documentary but I haven't watched it in years. I remember thinking that she had been a secret drinker and dope smoker (or maybe she was open about pot?) and she was really angry and unhappy and had been for a long time. It's also possible that her husband knew about the drinking but lied about or was in denial about it but i had the sense thst she concealed it. He seemed like a piece of work. She was holding it all together and she just lost it.


How was her husband a piece of work? I feel like this was a murder suicide or her dh and family are lying about what they knew or didn’t know of her issues. Also I thought I read there was no tooth abscess. That was the family’s cover. No medical evidence to support it
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:07     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wish I could see this documentary. I was in the traffic caused by her accident that day. The highway entrance she used is clearly marked one way/ wrong way/ do not enter. Sad story all around.

Do you mean because it's not on streaming or it's too traumatic for you.


I don't have HBO.


You can find it on youtube


Thanks! I will do that.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:06     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Theories?

There’s a pretty good discussion here from when it first came out.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/178916.page
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:05     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wish I could see this documentary. I was in the traffic caused by her accident that day. The highway entrance she used is clearly marked one way/ wrong way/ do not enter. Sad story all around.

Do you mean because it's not on streaming or it's too traumatic for you.


I don't have HBO.


You can find it on youtube
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 17:04     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wish I could see this documentary. I was in the traffic caused by her accident that day. The highway entrance she used is clearly marked one way/ wrong way/ do not enter. Sad story all around.

Do you mean because it's not on streaming or it's too traumatic for you.


I don't have HBO.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 16:57     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:I wish I could see this documentary. I was in the traffic caused by her accident that day. The highway entrance she used is clearly marked one way/ wrong way/ do not enter. Sad story all around.

Do you mean because it's not on streaming or it's too traumatic for you.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 16:32     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
I wish I could see this documentary. I was in the traffic caused by her accident that day. The highway entrance she used is clearly marked one way/ wrong way/ do not enter. Sad story all around.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 16:30     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She was drunk (.2 BAC with 6 grams of yet to be digested alcohol in her stomach, and high levels of THC) as could be and high drove the wrong way down the road - no evidence it was intentional. She was drinking a bottle of vodka in the car. She had stopped a few times to vomit and had pulled over a couple times. The last call to her brother, she was confused, slurring her speech and had blurry vision. She was pulled over during that call and he told her to stay put and he was on his way but she drove off again, leaving her cell phone behind.

There was no evidence she was drunk when she left in the campground in the morning. Her family said she did drink but never in excess and not frequently. There was no evidence of alcoholism in the autopsy. Her husband was convinced she had a stroke but the toxicology report really says otherwise.


So she wasn’t an alcoholic but she suddenly decided to go on a bender that morning driving with kids in the car from a family camping trip?? How is that possible?

The husband said that vodka bottle was always in the car and had been there- partially full- for a year c

It’s been years since I watched the documentary, but didn’t her husband claim she had a dental issue that may have been causing her pain? Maybe she was self medicating?

Yes. She'd had a tooth abscess for like two months before the crash. She was just a horrifically unhealthy person in general, even when you take away the alcoholism. She was a stoner, overweight, and apparently had some lump in her leg that she apparently thought was an embolism but didn't get checked out.

It sounds like she was a ticking time bomb. So sad that she killed so many.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 16:27     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
Anonymous wrote:What streaming service is this on?

HBO
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 16:25     Subject: There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane doc. Anyone see this or follow this tragedy?
^^Also, I thought it was an accident, not a murder-suicide. I thought she was in a blackout and didn't know what was happening. She was in a drunken rage and out-of-control.