Tragedy on the Taconic | The Diane Schuler Wrong-Way Crash

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jump ahead using timestamps
(12:24) - Madeline Kingsbury Update
(13:43) - Diane Schuler

In 2009, Diane Schuler was returning to her New York home after a camping trip with five young children in the minivan she was driving - her two children and three nieces.

She took the kids to McDonalds for breakfast and witnesses said the family seemed fine and nothing was amiss. Diane made another stop at a gas station looking for a specific over-the-counter pain medication, but the store didn't carry it.

After this, Diane pulled over multiple times and was seen hunched over appearing sick outside of the vehicle. One of her nieces called their father and said, ‘There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane.’

Family members told Diane to stay where she was, but Diane continued the drive regardless. She drove the wrong way onto the busy Taconic State Parkway and struck another vehicle head-on at a high rate of speed.

The crash became known as the worst fatal motor vehicle accident in Westchester County. 8 people were killed, including Diane, her daughter and all of her nieces.

An empty bottle of vodka was found in the wreckage of the vehicle and Diane’s BAC was reported to be 0.19%. She also had high levels of THC in her system and was suspected to have smoked marijuana as recently as 15 minutes prior to the collision.

Diane’s husband remains adamant that driving under the influence is not what caused the accident and believes Diane suffered a medical emergency.

Join us on Patreon for exclusive, ad-free content.

Read our blog for this case

This episode is sponsored by:
It’s holiday season! Check out Uncommon Goods and Skylight Frames for perfect gifts for loved ones.

Uncommon Goods - To get 15% off your next gift, go to UncommonGoods.com/tcs. Don’t miss out on this limited time offer! Uncommon Goods. We’re all out of the ordinary.
Skylight Frame - Get twenty dollars off your purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go to SkylightFrame.com/SOCIETY

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.5	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.6	And if you'd like to skip the intro or move to any specific part of the podcast, please refer to the timestamps listed in the episode description.
0:14.5	Thank you.
0:37.9	Thank you. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Saturday podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:46.6	It is November 13th, 24 right now. It is very cold in New York. It's funny because I was editing the episode that will come out tomorrow yesterday. And in that episode, I was talking about how
0:53.3	hot it was because it was like 80 degrees
0:55.5	in New York. And now it's dropped down to, I think, the low last night was 26, so below
1:01.0	freezing, obviously. Very chilly. The weather finally is where it's meant to be.
1:07.2	Yeah, I think so. I can't even remember because the weather's so out of control. It also hasn't rained here for months and there's huge brush fires all around, which is kind of scary. I know you can relate to that because you've been through that. Luckily none too close to me, but it's really sad to see. I feel like our weather's weird here too. I feel like in November it gets quite humid. Like I just looked it up, the humidity is like 85% or something. So it's quite cloudy. And like this is when it gets a little bit more tropical, I guess, like hot, rainy, wet, sticky. So it is quite cloudy. The weather forecast for a little while looks cloudy, but, you know, at least it's getting warmer.
1:44.6	Yeah. And I feel like the opposite here, obviously, I was saying with the drought and everything,
1:48.6	I feel like it's so dry between it being cold, the drought, and just like putting my heat
1:54.2	and stuff on dries out your skin. I'm like, man, I need to drink gallons of water because
1:58.6	I feel like crusty.
2:00.9	Yeah.
2:01.8	I can't remember why I talk about on what podcast, like Patreon versus this, but I know I've
2:08.0	talked in the past about how I've been trying to have these friggin plants in my garden or
2:14.4	outside and obviously it's winter now.
2:16.6	So I brought some into the garage and I bought
2:18.9	UV lights for them to have them in the garage since it's getting colder. But I have this one
2:24.6	plant. It's a tropical plant that I'm really trying to like, I really want to thrive. And it's a
2:31.3	white bird of paradise. And I was looking it up because I was like, it's getting
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -130 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.