Darren Wilden

Biography
Darren Wilden is a detective who arrests Hanna for shoplifting. Mrs. Marin was sleeping with him to get Hanna off her charges and were in a relationship.He later investigates Ali's murder. He is a former student of Rosewood high and a police officer. Hanna remembers he was a big partyer in Rosewood High School.

Season 1
Darren Wilden is the detective who arrests Hanna for shoplifting. Mrs. Marin sleeps with him to get Hanna off her charges. Ashley's and Darren's relationship lasts longer than one night, however, to Hanna's guilt and dismay. He starts staying over so much that he goes as far as to open the fridge shirtless. Later, when Alison's case switches from that of missing person to murder mystery, Officer Wilden is assigned to take the case. He is very suspicious and accusing of the girls. He questions the veracity of their stories constantly. He uses evidence that he finds in the Marin household against Hanna. Hanna calls him out on the invalidity of such a choice. Ashley ends it with Darren, when he starts sifting through her daughter's purse without a search warrant, to better examine Alison's friendship bracelet to Hanna.

Eventually, even Emily is accused of murdering Alison. The last we see of Officer Wilden is in "The Perfect Storm" when he goes so far as to take Emily's purse without a search warrant, endanger the girls lives by separating them from their classmates amidst a hurricane, and interrogate the minors without an adult present. Veronica Hastings blasts Darren for being unprofessional and breaking the law. (Officer Cooper replaces Darren on the case.)