Lullaby and Goodnight Author:D. T. Hughes Pretty, popular Darci Pierce wanted a baby. She wanted a baby so much that for a full nine months she convinced her husband she was pregnant, when she wasn't. With time running out and her lie catching up with her, Darci took to the mountains of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and committed a crime so grotesquely brutal, it riveted... more » millions with lurid headlines--and shocked hard-nosed investigators who thought they'd seen it all.
On July 23, 1987, Darci strangled a pregnant woman into unconsciousness, then, using a common car key in a macabre feat of impromptu surgery, took what she wanted. Finally, she abandoned her victim, 23-year-old Cindy Lynn Ray, by the side of the near-desolate road to die--and left a nightmare legacy that will haunt the survivors of her desperate act for the rest of their lives.« less