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Aug 2022
35m 50s

When Your Own Mother Is A Notorious Kill...

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Original Air Date: 10/22/2010

Becky Babcock opens up about living with the secret that her biological mother was notorious child killer Diane Downs. Then, twenty years after the murder of her husband, Pamela Smart sits down with Lisa Ling to maintain that her only crime was becoming sexually involved with the teenager who eventually killed her husband.

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