There is a story at http://nymag.com/news/features/62043/ that states…

“I want to know if Danny feels guilty in some general way, for anattention or absence or anything. “Absolutely not,” Danny says.”

Wow. How can someone have no feelings of guilt at all? It is incomprehensible. Not even guilty for not following her down the road? For not calling her when she didn’t show up? He was home before they even crashed. I can’t possibly imagine not second-guessing every minute of that day and being overcome with guilt? Come on, guilt is one of the most basic human emotions there is, even when you have no control over a situation it is there. Is it possible this man has no emotions whatsoever? All he has lamented over is the loss of his wife and child, he never even mentions the 3 relatives, or 3 strangers that lost their lives.

The story in NY Magazine that said how Diane Schuler cut her mother out of her life completely since the age of 9, pretending she did not exist due to her leaving the family, even though the other siblings and her father did not and her mother reached out to her for a relationship, stating it was her choice to keep her away. That is a huge thing to hold inside for 27 years. I do think this is the elemental key to the whole story. The public photos released of her wedding are telling, how could she, or anyone there, not be thinking about her mother, who was not invited. How do you go through your wedding day holding that inside? Since it was her wedding day, everyone had to suck it up and it was all about her and not mentioning the obvious absence, the rest of the family would have invited her to such an event. Then having children and depriving them of their grandmother, and vice-versa. This pattern of controlling social situations and punishing people who love you most due to perceived transgressions only makes me believe the murder/suicide theory. Did she punish her husband and brother for something we will never know about? I think everyone needs closure on this case, I am on the side of the victims who feel there is much more to the story. They said she is frugal and that’s why they carried the same bottle. The NY Magazine article says she was compulsive shopper, buying $300 purse for her sister in law, going out for milk and coming back with a Jeep, or a plasma tv. This sounds like someone with an impulse problem to me.

I am afraid the Hance’s are not telling the whole story about the phone calls with Diane. Both of them talked to her, but I really think it was the kids that called scared, then Warren called back and got her on the phone. The content of this call is the key to her mindset. I really doubt she said she wasn’t feeling well and had tunnel vision, etc…if she was slurring and calling Warren Danny, she was out of it and not going to be describing her symtpoms like that. I think they are putting words in her mouth. What was said that made her get out of the van and put the phone on the divider? What made her drive away in the opposite direction they would have thought she was going in to look for her. She hung up on Warren, left the phone and took off in the opposite direction fully aware of what she was doing and she wouldn’t be distracted by his repeated calls her phone picked up as missed calls. So why didn’t he call the police right away? He drove all the way to Westchester looking for her and then stopped at the police station. It was Jackie who called the police from home after Warren left. In the police calls when they were looking for her, they never mention the vision, or confusion problems, he only describes it a possible medical emergency. The cops were probably looking for someone stopped by the side of the road when they should have put out an APB for a crazy confused driver menacing the population of the roads. Another thing I noticed on the tapes of the brother at the police station is that when they are discussing the cell phone they mention that the voice mail says “Diane Hance” not Schuler even though the phone was registered under the name Diane Schuler and they were married for 6 or 7 years (according to the MY Magazine article, Danny didn’t know how long they were married).

So what caused the rage? Was it the husband having an affair or was it her? There was a ‘wrong’ number dialed from her phone to a local guy, only 10 minutes from where she works that morning (i will not type his name, but it is out there in the news). How coincidental that a random wrong number would go so close to home. I bet the kids had the phone and accidently dialed a contact or recent call? Who dials numbers on a cell phone once they have contacts, espcially when calling someone you just talked to?)

She was left to her own devices when Danny was at work every night. Anyway, i think it was the kids who called their father scared about Diane, not her, and then the truth came out in a blinding rage.

Or the husband confronted her about this other guy and it blew up? He went camping thursday morning, she came up friday night with all the kids, that leaves her alone Thursday night.

So, in conclusion, since there are really no plausible medical conditions that make you randomly drive on the wrong side of the road, disputing the intoxication option leaves only premeditated murder suicide. So which is it? They can’t have it both ways.

“I know it sounds insane in theory, but I am so inclined to agree with you on this.”

So i am not the only one? Good to know. The story just never added up, thats why i became obsessed with it.

I just heard about this story for the first time, tonight. Been reading the hell out of it and the only thing that I thought about was this being a pre-meditated murder/suicide. When I finally came across a comment that nailed my thoughts, I nearly fell over! The phone being found on SawMill sealed that theory for me.

I know it sounds insane in theory, but I am so inclined to agree with you on this.