Does anyone remember the whole Aunt Diana saga?

It was Diane, so I guess you yourself don't remember it very well.

Aunt Diana? Was she the one speeding down a Paris tunnel?

Yeah, that one R2.

Diane, Diana....whatever.

[quote]Aunt Diana? Was she the one speeding down a Paris tunnel?

No, not Princess Di, you dolt.

The Long Guyland NY hausfrau who was involved in a deadly car crash.

R4, I believe R2's post was a sarcastic comment on the fact that the OP couldn't even manage to correctly type the name of the person he started a thread about.

There have been several threads over the years about Aunt Diane. Here is one.

Aunt Diane had a brain aneurysm. All the vodka, weed and pills in her system were purely coincidental and had nothing to do with her driving the wrong way on the Taconic and killing a bunch of people..

R4 yes I know, hence why I said she was drunk and high

They always keep it on the down low when there’s a pay out involved.

Diana?

Grandmama? Papa talks about her all the time.

Yes, please, let's talk about Aunt Diana! I can talk about her for hours! Anything to change the subject please!

Oh! Diane

Fabulous!

I remember she died of atlanto occipital dislocation (learned this term from her autopsy report) - internally decapitated

Crocodile.

I think it was murder-suicide

She had a blinding toothache!

To expound on r15: I think she stopped at the Zappen Tee bridge and considered jumping. I can't remember if any of the kids had cell phones (I don't think so), but apparently she changed her mind about her method and left her phone at the bridge so the kids couldn't call for help.

I think one of the girls called her parents and told them “there’s something wrong with aunt Diane”, which is where the name of the HBO doc came from. They’ve replaced the old bridge with the Mario Cuomo bridge, but I’m calling it the Zappen Tee bridge from now on.

The kids didn't have a cell phone, I think the girl managed to speak to her dad (Diane's brother) on her Aunt's phone, scared, saying "There's something wrong with Aunt Diane". There's where the title of the documentary comes from.

Oh R18 snap!

She was used to being in control and calling the shots. She also thought she could handle her level of drug-taking and drinking. I think she had a little too much, didn't realise she took too much, and snapped. For some reason, she became convinced that she needed to get the kids home ASAP, even though they had plenty of time. Perhaps the amount of intoxicants in her body triggered an underlining undiagnosed psychotic response. I watched the 20/20 (or Dateline) special on back in 2013 or 2014.

It's a haunting story.

There was a great moment in the documentary where her sister-in-law sneaks a smoke and tells the film crew that nobody knows she's a smoker. Well um. So much for the claim that Diane couldn't possibly be an alcoholic because her family would know.

From an old Aunt Diane thread -- one of my all-time favorite DL responses:

I think it's interesting that she left the phone and drove off. Probably didn't want to be confronted by her brother. I think the husband and sister in law knew more than they were letting on. I think something happened. Something must have gone on. She was sick of doing everything. Her husband was having an affair, probably with a guy in the parks. He told his son he wished he never had him. She demanded chicken selects and pain killers. Somebody might have put vodka in her sealed McDonald's orange juice. if the tumor on her thyroid caused her to go mental that could be what happened. She was extremely controlling. They said she was throwing up outside the car. Straight as a pin. I was so freaked out when they showed the death photo. She looked drunk, but dead. And also fat. She carried a lot of heavy drinking weight. She gained weight on the drive because her brother was coming to get her. He didn't call 911 because he assumed the worst and feared getting in trouble himself. The phone was on the barrier near the toll booth. She drove a number of miles in the wrong direction and rather swiftly. It is a mystery. Something must have happened. An undetectable brain aneurysm.

Aunt Diane was a cunt.

R21 she didn't just have just a little too much. She drank the best part of a litre of vodka plus at least 2 joints. On a Sunday morning.

[quote]She also thought she could handle her level of drug-taking and drinking. I think she had a little too much, didn't realise she took too much, and snapped.

*a little too much for her

What I think? She was deeply closeted. She married a lazy loser.

She wanted to destroy everything on her way out. Just like the Hart cunt who drive her car full of kids off the cliff.

[quote] There was a great moment in the documentary where her sister-in-law sneaks a smoke and tells the film crew that nobody knows she's a smoker. Well um. So much for the claim that Diane couldn't possibly be an alcoholic because her family would know.

I remember that. I also think the sister-in-law and Diane's husband were in a relationship. The husband was such a potato. I would encourage anyone interested to watch "There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane." I'm posting it.

There was one survivor (child). The crash killed other motorists as well. Sad.

My conclusion: she was drunk, suicidal, was sick of being mother to her husband (in addition to kids). Maybe she knew husband was fucking SIL.

Weed is a great hangover cure. She realized she was too drunk or hungover so she smoked. Sometimes if you’re too hungover, you get very dizzy from it and have whiteout flashes. It went wrong in the worst way possible.

I don’t believe for one second that it was intentional.

That BITCH Aunt Diana hasn't spoken to me since I was 3!

As I recall the documentary, Diane Schuler was a tv exec and under a lot of pressure. She wanted to be perfect. She was a closet alcholic and weed user. She was drunk and stoned out of her mind. I believe she had every intention of ending it; she couldn't stand the thought of going back to the grind, and took the kids along with her. It was too much pressure.

The documentary covered Diane's childhood. Something happened (I forget now) and she had too much responsibility as a child. She carried that over into her marriage. Husband was an under-achiever, yet somehow now has all this energy to deny that his wife was drunk, high, etc. Maybe the SIL helps the husband to have the energy. They both seem pathetic, frankly (husband and SIL).

In the doco, I remember motorists being interviewed who saw her pass them describing the look on her face as if she was not all there. I can't imagine Diane was pure evil, which is what she had to be to take the kids down with her if she was suicidal. She probably had a high tolerance for booze and drugs, but went passed her limit without realising and snapped into some kind of somnambulist state.

Otherwise, she would have not knowingly allowed any of the kids to have the phone. We would have heard her getting angry that they were on the phone. Or we would have heard her being performative about the suicide she was about to commit. There was none of that. The phone was eventually ditched as an afterthought.

Maybe she was just tired of being JUDGED by her brother’s kids.

[quote]the amount of intoxicants in her body triggered an underlining undiagnosed psychotic response.

It’s a good thing it wasn’t bold or italicized then.

I remember the documentary and it was sad as hell to me. Heartbreaking.

Her husband was a dunce in denial and I think he worked a third shift job of some sort. It was like he was a teenager trapped in a grown man's body. I'm not trying to blame him for what Diane did in any way but I think she should have sought out someone better.

The sister in law I think it was play acted her way through the documentary. She knew deep down what was up and sometimes the very countenance of her face would give that away.

Diane was obviously a hard core drunk. No one noticed? Maybe she was a closet bing drinker? But still? No one noticed her perhaps acting out of sorts in general maybe? There's a cover-up of some sort behind the whole thing and what a sad thing it was.

[quote] I don’t believe for one second that it was intentional.

Well, it is a rather dramatic way. There are easier ways.

For R32 - the something that happened in Diane's childhood is that her mother left the home and broke off all communication with her 5 kids. Diane was the only girl and the doc says that her father essentially made her the woman of the house - cooking, cleaning, etc. for him and her brothers. Diane became a control freak from having to take on all those responsibilities. It also surmised that Diane was emotionally damaged by the fact that her mother didn't want anything to do with her family and decided to be Superwoman. That was more pressure that may have contributed to her later issues (drinking to cope?).

Aunt Diane had a shitton of booze and weed in her system.

[quote] she died of atlanto occipital dislocation (learned this term from her autopsy report) - internally decapitated

her cappa was detated from her head?!

This is a prime example of how this woman who cracked under the pressure of an immature loser spouse and through a haze of substances killed a bunch of people is absolved. “She didn’t mean to” “she wasn’t evil, just emotionally damaged”

Pussy pass, as per usual.

"Pussy pass"

translation:

"I'm an MRA shitstain"

[quote] Diane was obviously a hard core drunk. No one noticed? Maybe she was a closet bing drinker? But still? No one noticed her perhaps acting out of sorts in general maybe? There's a cover-up of some sort behind the whole thing and what a sad thing it was.

They had all (Diane's family & extended family) been at a campground before the deadly drive home. IMO, the adults were *all* partying together, drinking & smoking marijuana. That's what adult party-ers do while camping. For whatever fucking reason, they now want to act like they were playing Monopoly all weekend.

R29 she wasn't trying to cure a hangover with weed, she was guzzling a litre of vodka all through Sunday morning.

R31 she was not a TV exec, she was a "accounts executive" or something similar. She did make a $80k salary or something.

But did anyone ask her if she was OK?

R21, Diane may have been in a rush to get home because one of the girls had a dance recital that afternoon. That’s why she made the call to say she was running late.

R41 = total bottom who wishes she had a pussy.

She ordered a huge container of orange juice at McDonald’s. She had vodka in her vehicle. It sounds to me like she was drinking screwdrivers while the kids were playing on the playground equipment. That explains why the guy at the gas station didn’t think she looked intoxicated. Because she wasn’t. Yet.

IMO, she could have been drunk / high / impaired already while at the gas station. Not everybody is weaving and slurring and obviously drunk / high.

I just don’t think she was the type to be drinking screwdrivers in a parking lot on a Sunday morning. She was probably still very drunk from the night before but had to get the kids home.

Who is saying this wasn't intentional?! She wasn't rushing the kids home for a recital, she was fucking hammered! You can't drive for minutes against oncoming traffic, with kids screaming in the back and not realise something is wrong. Plus she was speeding

R50 are you serious? She can't have that blood alcohol level without guzzling booze all morning. She had an almost empty vodka bottle at her feet in the minivan

“Pussy pass, as per usual.”

You mean like the cop who said about the spa shooter who killed seven women and one man that “he was having a bad day.”

There isn't a "type" of person who becomes a hardcore alcoholic. Addiction cuts across all demographics. The only people who find the Aunt Diane saga mysterious are the ones who insist that a perfectionist housewife with a high-pressure job would never ever EVER drink and drive. On a Sunday morning! With kids in the car!

Alcoholics do exactly that (and worse), and you've no way of knowing who is or isn't one.

There was a nearly empty vodka bottle at her feet, and toxicology showed weed and a BAC of .18. there's no mystery here.

[quote] She gained weight on the drive because her brother was coming to get her.

Huh?

I swear some of you know nothing about alcohol addiction. This woman was in an alcohol induced blackout.

My aunt was married to a functioning alcoholic who was high up in the Air Force. She said he was drunk all day but functioned perfectly in meetings with superiors until he got home and really started drinking and got abusive.

Auntie Diane had a high tolerance but she drank more and faster that morning than usual. Vacation, you know.

I think Aunt Diane said "fuck it" and floored the gas, just like Jen Hart.

I didn't realise the minivan burnt after the crash.

She left her phone on the barrier on the shoulder of the Tappan Zee Bridge after speaking to her brother (the father of the three girls she killed). He either knew she was wasted and/or suicidal and instead of calling the cops he told her to stay put because he was coming to get her. From Long Island, at least an hour to 90 minutes away. He bears some complicity.

She then exited the N.Y. Thruway, maybe at her brother’s instruction, at Rt 9. From there she made her way to the Taconic where she entered the northbound lane the wrong way. This is not the route she would have taken to get to Long Island unless possibly the Thruway was backed up, which it wasn’t.

Aunt Dionne?

Is this about when she shouted out the car window while on the LIE that she had some hussy's number?

There's something wrong with Aunt Diana!

The brother probably didn't want to let her get in trouble, wouldnt she be jailed for driving drunk and stoned with kids in the back?

Nah. We’re very liberal here.

I remember the startled look on her face, there are a few gruesome photos of her corpse

Here's what I don't understand. If she was completely wasted, how could she continue driving for hours--and while kids are screaming and crying in the back, calling their parents, etc?

It was supposed to be less than an hour drive, I think, but she drove for several hours--from what I remember it was like 8 hours or so. Wouldn't she have sobered up at some point?

She did have a high alcohol blood level. Maybe she was drinking while actually driving and getting progressively drunk. Did they find booze in the car?

Yes R65 there was a litre bottle of vodka which broke on impact

[quote] Here's what I don't understand. If she was completely wasted, how could she continue driving for hours--and while kids are screaming and crying in the back, calling their parents, etc?

I'm not proud of this, but in my 20s, I did drink and drive a few times. One time, I was by myself, in a familiar place, and was driving around in circles (trying to get home). Being hammered can be disorienting.

I've also reached home (drunk) and couldn't remember the drive.

I do think she may have been in a black-out state. Yes, she was actively drinking, IMO, not just working off a hangover.

I don't she was driving for 8 hours.

[quote] there are a few gruesome photos of her corpse

Link?

I remember feeling great empathy for Aunt Diane.

She really doesn't get the credit she certainly deserves!

Diane’s mother walked out on the family when she was young. I think she reconciled with Diane’s brothers but Diane wanted nothing to do with her. Her mother died in 2013, I wonder if she felt her abandonment of the family played a part in this.

R69 just type Diane Schuler dead onto Google images. Don't want to upset the sensetive souls

I wish those kids would have gotten and stayed out of the car on the Tappan Zee. They would have been picked up by police sooner or later.