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

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

The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
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Author: Ron Franscell
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: 0312948468
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime

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Book Review: Sad, but well written
Summary: 4 Stars

Well written book, but such sad and disturbing material. What a shame that the surviving sister struggled so much and that her life came to such an abrupt end, although it is not a shock that she could not handle what she went through that night. I hope the parole board turns down all parole requests and that this con artist/sick so-called man stays in prison until his death. He should have been executed.

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

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, Becky’s 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 Franscell—who lived in Casper at the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Becky—can’t forget Wyoming’s 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 she’d lost her sister.

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