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The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

by Ron Franscell

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ONE CAR RIDE. TWO YOUNG SISTERS. A BRUTAL FATE.

Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Beckys car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived. The other did not.

A CRIME THAT TORE A SMALL TOWN APART.

Years later, author and journalist Ron Franscellwho lived in Casper at the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Beckycant forget Wyomings most shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Neither could Becky, the surviving sister. The two men who violated her and Amy were sentenced to life in prison, but the demons of her past kept haunting Becky…until she met her fate years later at the same bridge where shed lost her sister.

“Heartbreaking…not unlike Truman Capotes In Cold Blood.”  Chicago Sun-Times

“This uncommon story has every chilling component of human terror, drama and suspense that readers of true crime look for… I highly recommend this engaging book.”  Vincent Bugliosi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter

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“Heartbreaking…not unlike Truman Capotes In Cold Blood.”  Chicago Sun-Times

“This uncommon story has every chilling component of human terror, drama and suspense that readers of true crime look for… I highly recommend this engaging book.”  Vincent Bugliosi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter

"This is a very, very, good book... written by a very, very, good writer."  Ann Rule, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stranger Beside Me and Green River Running Red

"It will haunt you long after you've read it. A remarkable achievement."  C.J. BOX, bestselling author of Free Fire and Blue Heaven and Wyoming native"Stand[s] out from the legion of true-crime books. The author here was an affected bystander, not a neutral observer... In the end, [The Darkest Night] is too horrifying to try to explain." Denver Post

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Franscell was just a child when a brutal crime shattered his close-knit Casper, Wyoming, community in 1973, ending the life of one friend and forever changing the life of another. Franscell returns to examine the widespread effect of evil and its poisonous effect on the people and town of Casper.

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Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Beckys car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived. The other did not.

Years later, author and journalist Ron Franscellwho lived in Casper at the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Beckycant forget Wyomings most shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Neither could Becky, the surviving sister. The two men who violated her and Amy were sentenced to life in prison, but the demons of her past kept haunting Becky…until she met her fate years later at the same bridge where shed lost her sister.

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Enlightening and a tragic story that unfolds into something of meaning and projects how life and time can change some of the most quiet places. It motives you and places you somewhere in time with the victims. A moving account of a true story and unfortunately the killers have a better existence than the victims..... Why is that?
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312948467
Subtitle:
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
Author:
Franscell, Ron
Publisher:
St. Martin's True Crime Classics
Subject:
Murder - General
Subject:
General True Crime
Subject:
Murder
Subject:
Crime
Subject:
Murder - Wyoming - Casper
Subject:
Murder - Wyoming - Natrona County
Edition Description:
Mass Market Paperbound
Publication Date:
March 2008
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
282
Dimensions:
6.74x4.23x.82 in. .34 lbs.

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