cinsbythesea
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As seems to be usual for me - I'm late to the game. I had no idea about this awful crash until I happened to see a short clip with an interview with Matt Lauer as Jackie Hance had written a book. I watched the clip out of curiousity and upon learning her story looked her up on the Internet which led me to "Something's Wrong with Aunt Diane." And here's where I will start to think out loud, throw out questions from my own mind and also to vent. I watched the documentary three times- twice while working so my whole focus wasn't on the show and once last night in which I got to sit and actually watch it. I've been haunted by this case and the documentary, trying to make sense of something that can never make sense. But after sorting out my emotions, my impression is that *something* made Diane Schuler in a sense *snap* and cause all this pain and loss. I believe it probably has something to do with Danny. Had they had an argument? Did she want him to take at least one of the kids with him? Then I thought about her having five little kids in a car - no doubt the noise level was a little higher than she was used to with her own two. Did the kids' noise level give her a headache and thus she stopped for for headache medicine? And then I start to wonder if the vodka bottle was placed deliberately in the vehicle she would be driving, within arm's reach. But this is a woman who by all accounts was a very responsible GOOD mother who would never endanger her children, much less her brother's children. Then I see in the documentary when Emma calls home to say something's wrong with Aunt Diane that Jackie hears at least one of the children crying in the background. At some point these kids must have been terrified and all were crying which must have exacerbated an already bad situation - Diane just wants to get home and get away from all these crying unhappy children. Then my mind examines why in the world she has marijuana in the car with five children in her care - much less actually smoke it. Finally I have to wonder, if as one of the witnesses in the documentary put it, if this was a suicide-murder. Get drunk enough and stoned enough, with all the emotions she's got going on, to just end it. Witnesses said she wasn't driving in your "normal" DUI fashion- one of them even said she was driving "straight as a pin." Can you tell I've watched this documentary three times in two days?! I can quote an awful lot of it verbatim. They indicated in the documentary that Diane and Danny worked opposite shifts so it's quite possible she could be drinking at night and he would never know. The first two times I watched the documentary - while working - I was haunted and wondered what in the world would cause such a responsible woman to be as unresponsible as to endanger everyone's lives the way she did. Last night after having watched the documentary fully, when it was over I was angry at her. She could have stayed pulled over to the side of the road as her brother asked her to do. Instead she chose to continue to drink, smoke pot and drive with five children in the car while doing so. And this may have been answered in the posts above, but when Bryan says to Jay that "mommy says she can't see" - what does that mean? Was it the combination of the alcohol and the marijuana affecting her vision? I'm really stumped on that one. How anyone can fully forgive her is beyond my level of what can and cannot be forgiven.
I read that there are lawsuits everywhere now from this case - even Danny suing Warren and Jackie because it was THEIR vehicle involved in the accident. Has he gone completely nuts?
I ordered Jackie's book but feel like I need to let my emotions settle down a bit before taking it on.
Thanks for letting me ramble. Any input anyone can offer to settle down this fevered brain of mine will be most appreciated!
Sad, sad, sad story.![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I read that there are lawsuits everywhere now from this case - even Danny suing Warren and Jackie because it was THEIR vehicle involved in the accident. Has he gone completely nuts?
I ordered Jackie's book but feel like I need to let my emotions settle down a bit before taking it on.
Thanks for letting me ramble. Any input anyone can offer to settle down this fevered brain of mine will be most appreciated!
Sad, sad, sad story.