Abby Crawford

"None of this would have happened if I had just got Tom to the river."

- Abby Crawford's ominous words to Christy

Abby Crawford is the true main antagonist from Season One of ABC's ''Secrets and Lies. ''She is the younger daughter of Christy and Ben Crawford.

She was played by Belle Shouse.

After hearing her parents argue over Ben's extra-marital affair with next door neighbor Jess Murphy, which resulted in the birth of Tom Murphy, Abby sneaks out of the house, puts on her blue jacket, grabs her father's flashlight and headed next door to grab Tom, with the plan to run away so Scott, Jess' boyfriend and the man who raised Tom, would come back. Once they were deep into the woods, Abby bashed Tom with the flashlight, killing him. To cover her tracks, Abby placed her bloody shoes in the air vent and puts the flashlight back in the garage. Because of this, Detective Andrea Cornell suspected Ben of the murder, and had been pursuing him relentlessly. After Ben found the jacket (not knowing it was Abby), Abby retrieved it and placed it in Jess' bedroom, planning to frame her for the murder.

Abby is revealed as the killer in the Season One finale, "The Lie," when Ben finds Abby's bloody shoes. At that moment, Abby confesses to the murder, but she insists that it was an accident. Ben decides to take the rap and confess to protect Abby, despite Cornell, after learning the truth, trying to tell him otherwise. Cornell stated that Abby planned to kill Tom and that she's a cold and calculated murderer. She also stated that she orchestrated a temper tantrum and showed pure hatred at the carnival when she saw Jess and Ben together (as shown in the season's penultimate episode, "The Mother"). Despite this, Ben goes through with protecting Abby and pleads guilty to killing Tom. Later in the finale, while Christy is driving with Abby, she hears Abby mutter that she was sure that Jess would move away. When Christy inquires her daughter, Abby ominously states that she planned to get Tom into the river, suggesting that she would drown him and it would appear to be an accident, due to the fact that Tom can't swim.

In that week's "Cornell Confidential," taking place 14 months later, Abby is shown being confronted by Cornell, with the assumption that she's being charged and arrested for killing Tom.