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* DomesticAbuse: It's all but stated outright that Rob was an abusive boyfriend towards Andrea even before he was arrested for beating her to death. He encouraged her to lie to and keep secrets from her family and friends when it came to him (especially as Andrea's father disapproved of Rob), and was jealous and controlling. The last time Ellie saw Andrea alive, she was in tears after a hostile phone call from Rob (prompted by Andrea having platonically agreed to go to a dance with another boy so her parents wouldn't find out she was still seeing Rob) and agreed to sneak out to meet him; Ellie says she was clearly frightened of Rob's temper and didn't dare refuse him. [[spoiler:Given it's confirmed Rob beat her to death with a tyre iron, she was right to be terrified]]. The fact Andrea was just fifteen while Rob was nineteen also raised eyebrows, with Ellie and her father being convinced Rob took advantage of Andrea's young age.
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* AmoralAttorney: William Hamilton, the Westerfields' defence attorney of choice, is rumored to be willing to go to any lengths to keep the Westerfields out of legal trouble, especially convicted murderer Rob. It's revealed [[spoiler:he screwed over another client, the young man Rob hired to kill his grandmother, by hiding evidence of Rob's involvement and persuading him no one would believe him over the Westerfields. Will Nebels also confesses that Hamilton bribed him to go on the record saying he'd seen the innocent Paulie Stroebel at the garage hideout the night Andrea died, thus implicating him]]. It ends up being {{deconstructed|trope}} [[spoiler:because when the truth about Hamilton's shady practices come to light, he is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome disbarred and sent to prison]]]].
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* AmoralAttorney: William Hamilton, the Westerfields' defence attorney of choice, is rumored to be willing to go to any lengths to keep the Westerfields out of legal trouble, especially convicted murderer Rob. It's revealed [[spoiler:he screwed over another client, the young man Rob hired to kill his grandmother, by hiding evidence of Rob's involvement and persuading him no one would believe him over the Westerfields. Will Nebels also confesses that Hamilton bribed him to go on the record saying he'd seen the innocent Paulie Stroebel at the garage hideout the night Andrea died, thus implicating him]]. It ends up being {{deconstructed|trope}} [[spoiler:because when the truth about Hamilton's shady practices come to light, he is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome disbarred and sent to prison]]]].prison]].
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-> ''"[O]ver the years I have been awakened many times by the same nightmare: I am kneeling over Andrea's body, slipping in her blood and listening to the harsh, animal-like breathing and high-pitched giggle of a predator. I know with the instinct of fear that has saved humankind from extinction that Rob Westerfield has a beast lurking inside him, and if he is freed, he will strike again."''
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* AgeGapRomance: [[PlayedForDrama One of the many questionable things]] about Andrea and Rob's relationship is that he was nineteen while she was just fifteen when they started dating. Rob claims - not very convincingly - that he didn't have a relationship with Andrea and that she was just a kid who had a crush on him. From Ellie's perspective, Rob used his seniority as one of several methods to control Andrea.
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* AgeGapRomance: [[PlayedForDrama One of the many questionable things]] about Andrea and Rob's relationship is that he was nineteen while she was just fifteen when they started dating. Rob claims - -- not very convincingly - -- that he didn't have a relationship with Andrea and that she was just a kid who had a crush on him. From Ellie's perspective, Rob used his seniority as one of several methods to control Andrea.
