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Rebecca Lafferty forgave her father, convicted killer Dan Lafferty — not to excuse his crimes but to free herself.
Ron Lafferty, her uncle and Dan's accomplice, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1984 killings of Brenda Lafferty, his sister-in-law, and Brenda’s 15-month-old daughter, Erica. Dan was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The shocking case was later chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book, "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith," and inspired the Hulu series of the same name.
Lafferty is now telling her story in a memoir, "The Lafferty Girl: Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father’s Crime." In it, the mother of three reveals how she quie