Darren Newman

Darren Newman is a rapist, murderer, and one of Frankie’s former patients. Because he orchestrated at least one of his murders to be blamed on a fall guy, it is poetic justice that Todd uses Darren as his fall man when he performs the Night Bird murders. Todd presents a story that points detectives in the direction of Darren, making them think that he is responsible for kidnapping, tormenting, and programming women to have psychotic breakdowns and kill themselves when they heard a particular song.

Frankie met Darren when he was on trial for rape. Darren’s mother paid Frankie to meet with Darren and listen to his story. Even though Frankie did not realize it at the time, Darren lied to her about all of his life experiences with the exception of the story about how he almost died when a snow fort he was...