as far as the booze goes, experienced closet drunks are pros at spacing out visits to various liquor-buying establishments. there are probably plenty of stores that remember her buying a bottle of wine from time to time. they’d have no way of knowing the actual frequency of her drinking.

furthermore, you’re underestimating how easy it is to hide being drunk if you’re drunk often. it’s really fucking easy. you learn things, like how to be extra careful to enunciate, when to keep your mouth shut, and how to disguise clumsy movements. you chew gum or purposely eat garlicky foods. it’s especially easy if people don’t expect you to be drunk.

keeping secrets like that is second nature when you’re practiced at compartmentalizing your life and bottling up your feelings.

He also never lost a job due to his alcoholism, but he went to work already working on his buzz plenty.

What the hell does Diane not having priors have to do with her being an alcoholic? Not everyone gets caught. My grandfather was an alcoholic for years and never had a criminal record of any kind.

I mean, I could make stuff up too, but what’s the point? Seriously, this is the second time you’ve posted almost exactly this – why are you making stuff up and using that as your explanation?

Alcoholics/chronic drinkers almost always have multiple incidents. They are almost always fired from jobs, get DWIs etc. She had nothing like this as far as the records show. Unless I missed something, it does not appear she ever had priors.

I think she simply had a very bad day brought on by a migraine stopped to buy Tylenol but didn;t get what she wanted. The mIgraine caused her to get stupid and start drinking off a bottle they kept around. When that didn’t help, she went for some weed they kept around. Bad decisions with tragic consequences brought on by a very bad migraine.

I am almost certain she was not trying to do a murder suicide. She was trying to self medicate and kept making things worse. The alcohol and drugs made her drive aggressively. The combo of alcohol drugs and migraine caused her to get lost and misplace her phone etc.

Her husband doesn’t know what to do except back her up because he saw her being a good mother for years prior to drinking and driving and killing herself and those kids.

I am sure he does feel guilty but he is too stubborn to show it.

I don’t want your theory to be right; BUT, my gut says it may be very, very close … possibly too close. The part that makes me feel this way the most is Diane leaving her phone on the wall so that the kids could no longer call and tattle on her. Her actions afterwards also lead me to believe it was intentional.

I think Daniel Schuler is lying his ass off, not to clear her name, but to take the questions off of him and his actions. He wants everyone to question every element of this case … every element other than himself. What did HE do that was so bad that he’d rather look like a complete moron trying to clear his wife’s name rather than just admitting that something went wrong that even he can not comprehend. What happened that he does NOT want to come out?

I have a hard time believing Danny is completely innocent in this. Something set her off; and, I tend to believe that something had to be Danny or something he did (or didn’t do). I see Danny’s pathetic campaign as frankly insulting to the intelligence of anyone and everyone w/in earshot of his delusional “theories”.

We all know, from what has been revealed regarding Diane’s past, that she preferred to keep her emotions bottled up inside of her. Maybe she never said a word to him about whatever happened. It makes me wonder, did Danny find a note from Diane once he returned home? That would remove the need for Diane to call Danny during this time.

Danny must have an incredibly guilty conscience, despite what he says, to continue w/ this very bad attempt to distort the truth through smoke and mirrors. Why not say that he is just as shocked as everyone else; and, admit that he is at just as much of a loss as to what happened as everyone else. Offer condolences, then remove himself, his son, and family from the public and attempt to heal and move on?

Why put Diane on a pedestal that no one could possibly live up to? When did he start doing this … putting Diane on a pedestal start? A pedestal to which no human could ever fully live up to. Was this an ongoing thing? Could it have pushed her over the edge?

I believe Danny’s conscience is definitely very heavily burdened, despite the words he says. The man doth protest too much.

~ Just my opinion … for what it’s worth.