I read 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.

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. What happened Thursday night?

One outlandish theory suggested he may have been having an affair with his sister-in-law (or his wife thought so) and that’s why she killed her nieces – I don’t like hearing that or accusing anyone, but this had to be suicide and it’s hard to think why she’d take her nieces, though parents kill their own kids often enough to “get back at a spouse”. I’m curious what happened to the “Sheila” (her alleged drinking partner) who said Diane said her marriage was on the rocks – seems there would have been other witnesses from that bar who would have seen her there.

Sheila’s comment here about the Hance’s not being forthright makes sense. I’ve heard no comments from him saying he wish he’d have told the cops she was really out of it/may have been drunk when she was slurring (my first thought when hearing slurred speech is drinking). There is a trooper station less than a mile from the TZ tollbooth and a heavier warning may have sent them out (I agree that cops would likely look for a sick person at a rest area instead of one traveling down the road). Bad story – only comfort is knowing that it’s such a rare incident – there’s not much the law can do to stop suicide by auto – certainly not stricter drunk driving laws (though those never hurt).

But it wasn’t the speed that killed them. This was intentional. —— from The Intentional Traffic Crash: “The intentional traffic accident is probably the most common means of suicide that is typically misclassified. Unless the person has left a suicide note, it is not obvious from the physical evidence that the crash is anything other than an accident. This is especially true because it is not uncommon for such drivers to be drunk at the time of these “accidents”… Head-on car-truck accidents should also be analyzed as possible suicides when it appears that the lone [not in this case] driver was in the wrong lane and should have seen the truck coming. “

Sadly, the public obsession with this case will not go away until Warren, Jackie, and Danny tell the truth. Why are they protecting her when it is so clear the truth is being hidden,

On page 10 of the police report, a witness describes travelling north on the Taconic at 1:15 pm and being cut off by the minivan ALSO TRAVELLING NORTH getting on the Taconic from the Saw Mill Parkway. This is right where the crash happened, about 200 yards north of the Saw Mill/Taconic merge. This means she went up the Taconic past the crash site, then turned around and got back on the same exit ramp in the wrong direction. She scouted the route! Probably saw a perfect spot to end it all and headed back down the road heading south knowing what was going to happen and where, there is a blind curve with a hill right at the crash site, no chance for the unwitting accessory to the crime to react evasively. There are two (2) turnarounds in that stretch of road, plus a lot of wide grass median and shoulder to change your mind if you wanted to.

This is not the ‘mommy’s a secret addict’ story like the media has jumped on the bandwagon with to no end, she was uniquely crazy and suicidal and had to know what she was doing. Those people know what happened and have been protecting themselves since the brother first called the police and sugar-coated the situation as ‘a possible medical emergency’ and the husband only can say ’she was sober when she left..” not my fault. CYA.

Also, the husbands story about the vodka being his is total BS. He drinks beer, very few men drink vodka as their drink of choice, especially when they are beer drinkers. Vodka is a chick drink.