but there were the few that were not. >> in 2010 becky babcock was the mother of a 7-year-old son.ot of ups and downs. i actually spent a year completely bedridden. i had to find my own strength to get over it, much like i found my own strength to get over diane downs. i started doing yoga. i started meditating. and i started being healthier. i'm a behavioral health coordinator. i help children and their families find counseling. i love working with kids. it's shaping our future. it's, you know, the next generation of leaders. what did you learn? math. did you have a good day? >> i had a great day. >> her son is now a sophomore in high school, and does jujitsu and knows that his mother's birth mother is diane downs, the notorious child killer. >> i'm very indifferent about a lot of things. the past is the past and you just kind of move on with it. >> doing good, kiddo. i compare where i was at that age to where he is. and my heart overflows with joy. we just enjoy spending time together. walking the dog, hangin' out at home watching a movie, eating popcorn. >> like an orange jell-o

but one name stood out, a name and face detective babcock knew quite well from 1999 when babcock wasl up, drive to a remote location. we approached the vehicle, opened the door, first words out of this girl's mouth, who's a known prostitute, was that he was trying to kill her. >> and the man in the car was? >> lorenzo montoya. >> lorenzo montoya, a short powerfully built man in his 30s, known to have an equally short temper and a taste for prostitutes. >> babcock said he saw marks on the woman's throat and that she told him montoya looked like he was enjoying it. >> did you believe her story? >> yes. >> so lorenzo was arrested on charges beyond just patronizing a prostitute. >> yes, he was. >> that assault charge against lorenzo montoya went nowhere because the victim later refused to testify. but it was what had happened next that really focused the detectives' attention. in 2006, years after being caught in the act of choking one prostitute, lorenzo montoya was caught in the company of a dead one. >> on the surface, seems like a pretty good suspect. >> yeah. >> but we don't know if

becky babcock learned as a child that she was adopted and that her birth mother was diane downs who shot and three children. killing one of them. >> reporter: according to elizabeth diane downs, she and her three children were shot by a strange man. it was 1983, an unimaginable crime. >> diane downs was a case that captured the imagination and horror of people at the time. >> we haven't overlooked any possible suspects. >> reporters covering the story were getting hints that downs herself was a suspect in the case. >> reporter: a mother accused of murdering one of her three children and trying to kill the other two. >> i can see kristin reaching her hand out to me while i'm driving. that haunts me the most. >> a part of me was afraid that's where i came from. does that mean that's where i'm going? >> diane downs was a 27-year-old mother who had just moved up to oregon from chandler, arizona. >> she was mother of three children, ages 8, 7, 3, christie, cheryl and danny, a postal worker. >> reporter: on the night of may 19th, diane downs went out for a drove taking her three children with

i spoke to michael babcock from tmz sports and asked for his recap of exactly what went down. >> he reached for a cell phone that she had in her hand, and while reaching for it , he kind of pushed her to the ground. she let out a big screen, and at that point the person who was filming the video along with another guy went and broke up the fight and they put their hands on larry, and at that point they said he got up very fast and kind of scurried away and got out of the area. >> can you give us any ideas to what might've led up to the argument? >> i was told that they were having a very heated conversation, a conversation where larry a couple times got up, walked away, and then his wife pam called him back, and they would reengage in the argument. i was told it went on for at least five minutes before this section of video where we see it turned physical. >> major-league baseball released a statement, saying it is aware of the incident, angela can have a situation like this, we will immediately begin to gather the facts. we will have no further comment until this process is completed. it w

abc interviewed a young veteran, brian babcock,- a couple years ago. his plan was police work when he graduated. pursue a criminal justice degree at itt tech, which we all know what happened with that. he heard of them on a commercial. all agenciesthat would accept his credential. he borrowed up to 75 -- $70,000. he went on to apply to 23 we just discovered today, and this is particularly important point in nevada, we have a lot of for-profit universities that have shut their doors, 30 in the last 10 years. we just discovered today that 1733 g.i. bill recipients were affected by the most recent closures of the dream education schools, of which one is in my district alone. can you explain more specifically, speak to why minority students and veterans tend to be the target of these predatory recruitment practices by for-profits? >> i think in many cases, students don't have experience with college, they have family members who don't have experience with college. we know that for-profit colleges engage in very high- pressure, sometimes deceptive recruitin