Carly Tenney, 2005
Carly (Maura West) started having nightmares and weird flashes of memory about her childhood — and a woman screeching about "my beautiful boy." It turned out the woman was Iris, who blamed Carly for killing the newborn baby that Iris had with Carly's father, Ray. Incidentally, Carly was engaged in a bitter custody battle with Iris's daughter, Gwen (Jennifer Landon), over baby Rory/Billy, Gwen's "son," who Rosanna had planned to adopt. During their showdown in New York's Central Park, Gwen fell down some steps — at which time Carly's memory came flooding back. Gwen was the baby — her sister! — and Iris had blamed young Carly for the death so that she could leave Ray. Carly, therefore, was not a monstrous babykiller. (As if anyone ever believed she was.)

Lily Snyder, 1997, 2005
Lily (Martha Byrne) spent all of 1996 seeking revenge for the death of her husband, Damian, and when she realized that her new beau, Diego, was actually Umberto, the man who had masterminded Damian's plane crash, she married him hoping that he would confess to his new wife. He did, getting rough with her after the "I do's," so Lily tossed her bouquet, pointed her gun — and shot at him. "At" is the key word: Although Lily was convicted of Diego's murder, her bullet didn't hit him. The list of suspects was long, as usual, but the killer turned out to be Kirk. (Though some fans still doubt it.) That 2005 business? After stumbling upon Julia's (Sarah Brown) corpse, Lily feared she would be blamed, so she recruited sister-in-law Carly to help her clean up the crime scene. Then, when suspicion turned to Luke, Lily confessed to murder to protect him. But Julia's abusive ex Les was actually the guilty party.

Abigail Williams, 2002
Sleazy older man Nick Scudder managed to charm Abigail (Kristina Sisco, pictured with Scott Holmes as her lawyer, Tom, l., and Tom Eplin as her stepdad, Jake) into taking his side over her mother, Molly, who insisted he was no good. Indeed, Nick tried to blackmail Molly by offering to dump Abigail for half a million bucks. When Abby confronted him about the extortion scheme, Nick became enraged and hit her. Abigail woke up with former boyfriend Adam taking care of her. She had no memory of anything after the terrible fight. Molly confessed to murder to protect her, but when Abby underwent hypnosis and recovered some details about that night, she concluded that she must have done it. She and Adam went on the run together, then returned home, where she continued to piece together her memories, while Molly investigated and guessed that the nanny, Mary, might be the killer. Mary met Abigail at Nick's grave and taunted her until Abby remembered everything: It was Mary. The nanny got revenge on the family by taking Molly hostage and in a tragic twist, Jake was killed during the rescue.

Margo Hughes, 1999
Margo (Ellen Dolan) was drugged by ex-lover Alec (Michael Woods). She woke up in bed next to him — and he was dead. She couldn't remember a thing, but Alec's ghost haunted her throughout her trial. She was convicted of second-degree murder, so Hal let Tom, Adam and Casey spend the night outside her cell so they could all be together on Christmas morning. By that time, Margo was pretty sure she hadn't done it, and not long after Georgia — girlfriend of Alec's son Eddie — confessed that she killed Alec in self-defense.