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Shop nowThe Darkest Night
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
Narrator
Rob Shapiro
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Length
10 hours 47 minutes
Language
English
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.
Ron Franscell is the author of numerous books, including Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived, Angel Fire, and The Deadline. His writing has been compared to Truman Capote, Charles Frazier, and Robert Olen Butler-diverse, poetic, evocative, and muscular. His writing has appeared in many publications, including the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been a guest on CNN, NPR, and other major broadcast outlets all over America. He appears regularly in crime documentaries on Investigation Discovery, History Channel, and A&E. Ron lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Rob Shapiro got his professional start as an entertainer doing stand-up in Minneapolis while still in high school (the Children's Theatre Company & School of Minneapolis). As a voice-over artist, he can be heard narrating such audiobooks as the bestselling The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick, Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan, and the fantasy noir Low Town by Daniel Polansky. He performed several seasons of radio comedy on Minneapolis Public Radio and voiced the titular lion in Leo the Lion. Rob is also a musician and composer; with his critically acclaimed band, Populuxe, he has released two CDs-A Foggy Day in Brooklyn and Deep in an American Evening . . .-and the EP, Daphne. He is one half of the Velvet Collar, who released their first record, Double Standard, an unlikely collection of cover songs by the Stooges, Hoagy Carmichael, and the Gershwin Brothers, among others, in 2011. Finally, Rob is a business consultant and software system designer, specializing in desktop publishing and workflow efficiency, with clients and implemented systems spanning the globe.