IAN THOMAS

Ian Thomas (Ryan Merriman) is Melissa Hastings's former boyfriend, who had kissed Spencer. He elopes with Melissa in the mid-season 1 premiere. He also cheated on Melissa with Alison, when she was still alive. He was in a video shot by Alison before she went missing. "A" managed to show the girls the entire video of Ian apparently choking Alison to death.Once, when "A" assumably trapped Spencer in the funhouse, Ian was the one who found and even saved her after the family went on a search after they realized she was missing. In the season finale he is killed on top of the church bell tower by "A". However, when the police go in to retrieve the body, his corpse is nowhere to be found. From "It's Alive", it can, however, be argued that Ian is still alive. At the end of the episode, Ian was found dead with blood on his head and a gun in his hand, along with a suicide note in which he has confessed to killing Alison. "A" later reveals on the real video that Alison wasn't killed by Ian and both walked away. Garrett later tells the girls that Ian had been dead for about a week therefore he probably died in the church when he fell and was hung by the bell ropes.