Book Reviews 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.

Franscell is a wonderful writer. This book far exceeded my expectations. I'll never look at bridges the same way again!

Very good book. It held my attention from beginning to end. It also left me thinking about this story for some time.

As a fan of Anne Rule's books, I found this book to be horrible and haunting at the same time. If you like the true crime genre, you would definitely like this book. In many ways I thought it to be maybe even a little better than most.

very moving story, a must read for true crime fans

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A true crime story that sickens the reader but reminds one of the dangers "out there" and how important it is to teach our children NO NO NO ... when it comes to strangers and accepting help. Better to err on the side of caution and take a chance which may end up being the last one you/they will ever have.