It’s taken me days to go through all the posts on this site and now that I have I’ll leave my two cents.

1) There’s no way in hell she was “suffering” from a toothache. The autopsy results just don’t support that theory, plus the dental records were several years old.

2) Daniel is a hideous human being. Unbelievable that he would admit to anyone that he never wanted kids, especially to his sister-in-law, but what’s even more unbelievable is that the sister-in-law actually said this in the documentary. I had the same reaction as many of the posters. Well, that’s just great. Can’t wait until Bryan gets to see this when he’s older. I feel so bad for that boy being left with a jerk wad who never wanted him, and I think it was totally obvious at the end of the film as they’re walking the dog. The kid reaches his hand out for his dad and the dad ignores it. The kid is totally f*cked.

3) I thought it odd, too, that it’s JAY who is supporting Daniel in finding out the “truth”. Where’s his brother in all this? Looks like he (along with the Hances) have at least enough brain cells to realize they don’t want to be linked to this idiot as he carries on his crusade to “clear” his wife’s good name.

4) Obviously, Diane was a total control freak, probably from having to be in charge at such an early age taking care of the men folk after her mother left. Makes perfect sense that someone who seems to pride herself in being totally in control would not seek help when she so desperately needed it that day. Also makes perfect sense that she married someone so malleable as Daniel — someone she could control. But that might have become a double-edged sword in the long run as she probably got sick and tired of always being the one who had to take care of everything…bills, kids, laundry, dinner, etc.

5) If she was such a wonderful mom, her first thought should have been for the welfare of those kids, even above her control issues. As a parent, your natural instincts dictate that you protect kids in your care, regardless of the consequences to yourself. I would lay down my life in a heartbeat for my two grown kids and my grandkids. Her total disregard for those kids just flies in the face of the myth that she was such a great mom. It’s been determined that she stopped at least twice (once along the side of the road and the other at a rest stop). Why in the hell didn’t she just stay there if she wasn’t feeling well and call for help? Again, the control freak thing just wouldn’t allow it.

6) Leaving the cellphone at the side of the road was very telling for me. She obviously didn’t want to be bothered anymore by those pesky phone calls from her brother and sister-in-law, and she definitely didn’t want any of her nieces making any more calls.

7) I really don’t think the HBO doc did Daniel and Jay any favors. They looked pathetically in denial. Bottom line: Diane was drunk and high, and intentionally or not, killed a lot of people because of decisions she (and no one else) made that day. On one hand the “why” doesn’t matter, but on the other hand it sure would be nice to know what led up to it all.

8) I, too, thought it was weird that Daniel didn’t at least call Diane on the cell after four hours to find out where she was or if something was wrong. There have been a few occasions when my husband and I traveled separately, but we were in constant contact with each other. I just don’t get that he left her with all those kids and didn’t have the decency to at least follow her. Imagine if he had just done that one little thing. Total imbecile, and as far as I’m concerned, completely worthless as a husband and so-called father.

9) Anyone else think it’s weird that her cellphone was under her maiden name and not her married name even though she was known to everyone as Diane Schuler, not Diane Hance?

10) Her extremely brief visit to the gas station, supposedly in search of some pain killer, also struck me as strange. Like someone else said, if I don’t find something right away I look around for awhile and then I ask the clerk. Someone else suggested she might’ve been looking for some booze. That makes more sense to me. All she had to do was look toward the coolers to see if they stock the stuff. It’s not like she was going up and down the aisles looking for whatever she was looking for. She was in and out of there in a flash, so I’m not sure what that was about. Since the clerk refused to talk to the police, and since the only indication that she was looking for some pain killer came from the investigator hired by Daniel to clear his wife’s name, makes this information extremely suspect, IMO.

So many questions and so few answers. And, yes, Daniel might very well end up wishing he had never filed any lawsuits because he’ll be forced to answer some hard questions, which to date, he hasn’t had to do. I really do think something happened that weekend to send her over the edge…and it damn well wasn’t a stupid toothache!

I came to this story and website late, but I’m with the rest of you. I just want to know the truth about what led up to this horrible tragedy. In the meantime I’ll be checking back to see if anyone comes up with new info on this.

Not sure who wins the “most evil” award here…Diane or Casey Anthony. It’s a toss-up.

God bless us…every one.

That being said, I agree with you about Danny. He was no help to Diane. And since she was so, so, so bossy no one else wanted to help her either.

I just can’t figure out why he didn’t try to help her that last day. I know it might be a thankless job, but it hardly takes a genius to figure out that she might need help. She was driving five kids instead of only two and she was in a car that she wasn’t used to driving. He should have followed her. Both ways. And I don’t believe him when he said it was planned that he would leave her on her own. I think all that was planned was that she would take the van.

The responsibility for Diane’s behavior falls on her shoulders. But, Danny needs to learn a big lesson. Right now, he appears to be pushing too much off on Jay. Fortunately, I think she will handle it better than Diane although her way might just to get cusotody of Bryan and let Danny fend for himself. Much better than Diane’s way, but he won’t like it either.