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The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Franscell
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1644
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0312948468
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230978793
EAN: 9780312948467
ASIN: 0312948468
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Product Description
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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 dissapointed October 11, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I wanted to know more about the killers and less about all of the other people involved in the case. I didn't care to know about the prosecutor's life, or what he looked like, ect. This would have been a tighter better book had a lot of the descriptions been shorten. I like a book that gets to the point and not just fills the pages with words to hit certain page count.
 The Fall- The darkest night October 8, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
THE FALL by Ron Franscell. (A MUST HAVE)
A roller coaster ride from heck!! Keeps you on the edge of your seat from the time you open the cover. Very well written and a book you can't put down. Get ready to pull an all nighter. I shall not ruin it by giving details but I will say throw away your 3 D glasses and latest graphics card for this book will take you away to the place it happened, you will feel as if you are living it. Based on a true story, this book will open your mind and slap you in the face. Beyond brilliant. The Author does something very unique in this story. He watched the story unfold right in front of him. He chooses not to judge or really give a complete opinion. He allows the reader to be Judge and Jury. You can tell it deeply effected him but he presents itFall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small TownFall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town in a way that he leaves out his own emotion so that it can be replaced by yours.
To this day I can not obtain a copy of Mein Kampf that the author does not have to give you his own opinion of how awful. We know how it ends, we the people do not need other people making our conclusions. I'd like to think we know the difference between right and w
 Tragic story September 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was 5 years old when this crime occurred. Despite being a Montanan, I hadn't heard of this Wyoming crime before seeing this book. The book is well written and fairly well organized. It is a very good book and one that I couldn't put down for long.
However, although it's interesting, I didn't think the excerpts from Ronald Kennedy's unpublished autobiography needed to be included. It was long and out of place. I'd much rather have read a life sketch of Becky and Amy. Although there was a slight one of Amy, there wasn't much on Becky. We learned about the killers' personal and family histories, but not that of the victims. I felt that was a tad unfair.
Because other Natrona County and Casper area crimes were included in the book, I felt that the murder of Lisa Kimmell, who was kidnapped from a Casper area rest stop, held hostage, raped, and then murdered and thrown off Government Bridge in 1988 should have been included as well. It wasn't solved for 14 years, but was publicized nationally over the years.
Personally, I do hope that Kennedy and Jenkins rot in the hot place. The death penalty sentence should never have been overturned in my not so humble opinion.
You Won't Forget It September 5, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This has to be one of the most haunting crime stories I have read. The torture, both mentally and physically, these two young girls were subjected to is gut wrenching. The residual result of survivor guilt for one will tear your heart out.
I must say the writer does repeat himself over and over again. This became frustrating causing me to skip through the book to the actual case.
One other comment...It bothered me that the writer would write many pages of the book using one of the murderers memoirs that the murderer had written while in prison. I don't think we needed to know about the murderer's own book of "memoirs." There were so many excerpts of it published in this book. I didn't quite understand why. It wasn't necessary. We were already informed of his past. Perhaps not giving it a title would have been a better choice. And I certainly didn't think it was appropriate to name a chapter of the book after the name the murderer chose for his own title for the memoirs. I'm sure the sociopathic murderer enjoyed reading his memoirs in the book. He's just that kind of murderer. Just my opinion.
A little disappointed September 1, 2008
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
This was not written well. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. See what I mean.
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