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Danny keeps saying he won't tell anyone why he murdered his aunt. [[spoiler:What if Karen pushed Danny to do it at the age of 11 so she could effectively escape the legal consequences of counselling to murder? She's proven to be pretty calculating and willing to jump in with both legal feet at the slightest sign of official notice of Danny in any way.]]
* [[spoiler:Jossed with respect to Karen's complicity, but confirmed in that there's hints she's had affairs in the past which may have aftereffects in the present day.]]

[[spoiler:He killed Regina to get the necklace back, and is hoping the fact that he's the most ''unobvious'' killer will throw suspicion off of him.]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]
[[WMG: [[spoiler: Jo murdered Regina]]]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Lacey murdered Regina]]]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]

*** [[spoiler:Even more plausible as of the latest episode "Three for the Road".]]
*** [[spoiler:Very confirmed.]]

Danny's father was having an affair with Jo's mother. This went on until Danny's aunt found out about it and his father killed her, accidently killing her in front of Danny as a kid. Knowing that he would go to jail for life, whereas Danny would go to Juvie for a few years, he let his son take the blame for killing her. This is why he drunk himself blind since he went to prison and eventually died. Jo's mother even coldly mentions how absent her husband was and is now.
* Given Danny's latest revelations, [[spoiler:this is even more likely. He could have taken the blame, and CSI episodes notwithstanding, a small town is not going to have a fully-staffed instant evidence sifting service in which "the epithelials after being run through Trace and DNA" will instantly vindicate Danny and convict Vikram. Far more likely that Vikram set Danny up with or without Danny's knowledge, and then let his kid take the fall. Danny, in turn, wants to keep his dad's secret, and refuses to say why he "killed" Tara.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed! "Dead Men Tell Big Tales" shows that Vikram killed his sister, and made Danny take the blame for it.]]

* [[spoiler:So maybe Vikram really is dead, but the mayor's been using the apartment in Connecticut as some kind of a dead drop, only Regina found out and threatened to tell all.]]
* Given that [[spoiler:the mayor has commissioned a private detective who has been basically told to throw enough mud at Danny and make something stick]], it seems the mayor does have something to hide. [[spoiler:Remember those missing building permits?]]
** This part is confirmed. Chief Masterson [[spoiler:finds articles of incorporation for Marna, which meant he was connected with Vikram and Gloria. So the mayor is at least guilty of various monetary offences - probably operating a business under false pretenses, fraud statutes relating to misappropriation of corporate funds, and any conflict of interest legislation that affects him as well.]]
* [[spoiler:Awfully convenient that the "murder weapon" gets found after the private detective engaged by the mayor, who we the audience know has been in contact with Regina, insists on combing the lake one more time. Danny presumably handled wrenches at his house. Karen doesn't seem the type to be overly concerned with auto mechanics, so the tools probably just sat intact in the time since Vikram "died". All it would take is for our detective with an agenda to wear gloves, bash Regina over the head, hide the weapon, and then be conveniently available when the mayor needs to pin the whole thing on Danny to make it go away.]] Legally, even if he didn't kill her, ordering someone else to kill her is equivalent in severity and will get the same sentence.

** [[spoiler:And Karen "confessing" is her way of taking the heat off Danny without knowing who the true murderer is.]]
** Seems to be confirmed. [[spoiler:Karen retracts her confession after the chief makes it clear he doesn't believe her story hangs together, and he discovers plausible evidence someone who is not Karen or Danny could have killed Regina.]]
* [[spoiler:Confirmed, except that Regina may not have known Vikram killed Danny's aunt. She ''did'' know that Vikram and Gloria were having an affair, though.]]

* [[spoiler:Vikram changed the beneficiary of his insurance policy after realizing Danny could still blow the lid off everything, so he effectively set up a $10 million payoff for Danny keeping his mouth shut all those years in juvenile prison. It has the side effect, not necessarily intentional, of forcing Danny to keep quiet because in the event of Vikram's actual death, it would appear that Danny murdered his father for financial gain.]]

[[WMG: Tess's [[spoiler:as yet unknown daughter]]]]
* [[spoiler:The girl is almost certain to be near Jo's age, and could be almost anyone at Green Grove's high school, possibly just a grade or two above. Now that she's been mentioned, she will have to be relevant to the plot in some way.]]
* [[spoiler:Tess has gone to see the girl's mother; it does not appear that the daughter is Whitney, so that notion is Jossed. But the possibility that Vikram was up to something with Tess's baby is still in play, since Tess points out her daughter wasn't born in a hospital and it was unlikely that Vikram could have put an ankle label on the child in the 12-hour gap between Tess giving birth and the girl's adoptive mother picking her up.]]
* [[spoiler:Well, the daughter was ''definitely'' Jossed. She had a boy, not a girl, and Vikram went to considerable lengths to hide that fact. And Charlie has proven to be pretty relevant to the plot, so that part is confirmed.]]

* [[spoiler:Well, the daughter was ''definitely'' Jossed. She had a boy, not a girl, and Vikram went to considerable lengths to hide that fact. And Charlie has proven to be pretty relevant to the plot, so that part is confirmed.]]

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