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

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—a childhood friend and next-door neighbor to the girls—can't forget his hometown's shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Exploring the nature of a small town's memory and the poison of survivor guilt, The Darkest Night races toward a shocking ending. The result is one of the most provocative true-crime stories of the decade, told by one of the nation's finest narrative journalists.

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"Chilling true crime book about two innocent sisters (aged 18 & 11) who were terrorized by abduction, beaten, raped and then thrown from a bridge into a dark canyon in the middle of the night in 1973. Amazingly, one of the sisters survived and was able to identify the two men responsible for such a brutal crime. Years later, author Ron Franscell - a childhood friend of the girls writes about his town's most shocking crime. The story is well written, but is so very sad. If ever there was a reason for the death penalty, these two monsters would be it. "

— Julie (4 out of 5 stars)