I have trouble knowing what y'all know if you don't get involved in Harpers Globe, the online community with a parallet storyline that will at some point cross over into HI. But some do speculate that Wakefield is not dead.
I think he is however, and it appears now that Abby is probably W's daughter. That would explain her mother's reaction...... referring to Sheriff Mills as "a good man" who "takes good care of us" and telling Abby tht she used to date bad boys (like she thinks Jimmy is). So it sounds like W is Abby's dad, maybe by raping her mother? So Sarah escaped to HI, married Sheriff. Then 17 years ago when W came looking for her, the Sheriff set him up so he could arrest him, trumped up the charges to attempted murder and sent him away for 17 years. He came back and killed people associated with the sheriff's dept.
Now, the reason some speculate whether W is dead: the sheriff shot him and he fell off a cliff. Body found a few days later but hard to identify from being banged around in the rocks......Why did Sheriff send Abby away? Cause he's not her real dad and couldn't bear to look at her? Or to protect her from W if in fact Sheriff knows he didn't kill him and he's still out there?
So could that mean that W is back for Abby now?