Seems like both Krissi and Libby were coached into giving false testimony back in the day. Krissi, now a stripper, confesses she made everything up. So Libby does her own detective work, interviewing her estranged father, Runner, and finding Krissi Cates. Ben has kept Diondra's identity a secret, and he won't tell Libby the truth when she visits him in jail. She uses the baby to guilt trip Ben and wrap him around her little finger.īack in the present, Libby doesn't know any of this. The big gun in her arsenal: she's totally pregnant.

When she isn't laughing at Ben with Trey, she's manipulating Ben. We put friend in sarcastic quotes here, because Trey is terrible to Ben, making fun of him at every opportunity. Krissi had accused Ben of molesting her, and when Ben's mother, Patty, found out, she and her sister, Diane, tried to find Ben and get the true story.īut Ben was with his girlfriend, Diondra, and their 'friend,' Trey. Rumor had it that Ben was engaged in inappropriate conduct with a young girl in his sister's class, Krissi Cates. So what did happen that fateful day to those fated Days in 1985? Well, that was the day a rumor started. Libby Day is no stranger to trading the victim card for cash. So when Lyle offers to pay Libby to talk to people involved in the case and find out who the real murderer was, she jumps at the opportunity for a paycheck. The Kill Club is a group of people fascinated with crimes and murders-Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, Libby's Kansas Farmhouse murder.Įver since the murder, Libby hasn't worked a day in her life, living off the kindness of strangers. No, he doesn't want to travel around the country with her, Natural Born Killers-style. Libby starts to suspect her brother may be innocent after she is contacted by Lyle Wirth, the head of the Kill Club.

As the only survivor, Libby testified that Ben did it, and he was locked away. The suspect: Libby's brother, Ben, who in 2009 is still in jail for the crimes.

That night, Libby's mother and two sisters were brutally murdered. There are multiple dark years covered in Dark Places-and multiple dark Days, too, as Libby Day circa 2009 works to uncover the truth behind her family's murder on the night of January 2, 1985.

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