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Hello, welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. What is up, babes? How's it hanging? I will tell you what. I am very late this week, but here's the thing. I was annoyed. I sat down twice to record this episode, but I was in such a funk. And I have like a role with myself now that if I'm not

feeling good and the episode's not sponsored, I don't record because it always ends up just frustrating me. But this week has been one of those weeks where everything is so fucking annoying. Yesterday I actually sat down and I spent about three, four hours trying to tell this story and I just could not like spilling coffee trying to open my fucking old apartment door, but it's stuck because weather somehow affects that.

And just like everything that makes you want to yell. So needless to say, I'm in a much better place today. I got some really cool news about the show yesterday that hopefully I will be able to share with you in the next coming weeks. But last week, man, the trolls were coming for me hard for two reasons really.

The first being that I posted something on my Instagram that just said like, hey, we're still in a pandemic. And I'm telling you the fucking controversy that that caused. I've never received more insane messages and comments than on that particular post. And I think I deleted and blocked most of those people. So don't waste your time scrolling kids.

The other reason was because there's all these insane conspiracy theories popping up, especially between TikTok and Twitter. And I saw Chrissy Teigen getting attacked by like thousands of people because of a fake typed up Jeffrey Epstein flight log. And I was like, what the fuck? Come on guys. So I tweeted something pseudo defending her. And the next thing you know, I'm getting like 10, 15 messages a day on Twitter and Instagram telling me that I am a

pedophile sympathizer, just like the wackiest of the wackiest group of people. And it like normally that kind of shit does not bother me. I'm just like block and move on. But like anything with pedophilia is so fucked. I'm like, please do not ever use that word around me. I'm over it now, but I'm begging you. Just please don't tag me in any more conspiracy videos about Hollywood. I don't want to see it. That goes for a TikTok. Please, it's very trendy right now on TikTok for people to post these weird conspiracy theories.

These are like true crimes story times. And I am just not interested in them. I mean, that's not fair. Like if there's like a mattress firm conspiracy tag me. I like to see those. I want to know why there's five mattress firms on the same street. But I just cannot see another stupid like Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of children type things. It feels like that part of the internet is just like one big addition of the national inquiry. And I'm just over it.

Shit, last word on trolls actually I got trolled on Twitter and they took my profile picture and wrote cult of stupid across it. And I loved it.

So did my graphic designer. We made a design of it with the cult leader logo and I made stickers. And I will tell you guys how to get one on Instagram soon.

And now let's get to the good stuff because I have a good one for you guys today. You guys know already I live for a made for TV movie a 1989 made for TV movie even better.

Small sacrifices. That's the movie. It's a movie based off of the book by the same name written by true crime author and icon and rule. And I'll talk about the movie and book and stuff later on.

But I will say it's like three and a half hours long. You can watch it on YouTube. It stars.

Barra featherback faucet. That's what I call that hair when it goes back with that. Barra featherback faucet. But it's a it's a really long movie.

So let's talk about all of it in our typical 20 minute span. We're going to go a little all over the place bear with me here because what started out as a typical Thursday and may of 1983 for 27 year old Diane Downs turned into one of the most bizarre stories in 80s true crime history.

And the 80s are probably I don't know what it is maybe because so many like slasher's were based in the 80s or came from the 80s but it's probably like my favorite true crime era to learn and talk about.

But Diane down quite a character. She was born on August 7th of 1955 in Phoenix, Arizona to her parents Wesley and Willady Fredrickson.

She had what a lot of people would call a relatively normal childhood and early adulthood with the exception of a later claim that when she was around 12 years old she was sexually abused by her father will have more on that later on.

She feared pretty well in her classes at school. She went to Moon Valley High School which just sounds like a 80s high school to me. I don't know the moon valley thing.

She had a pretty solid group of friends there. She had a boyfriend there. His name was Steve Downs. He would later become her future husband as you can tell by the last name.

But they didn't end up really getting together seriously until later on. But they had a good time. They all kind of fed into each other's like rebellious attitudes towards the world.

Because come on you're in high school the world sucks parents are a bummer after she graduated high school.

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