What happened to charles dilaurentis

This season of Pretty Little Liars may be called the #SummerofAnswers, but fans are still waiting for the answer to the biggest question in the series' history: Who is Charles DiLaurentis?

We know that he's Jason and Ali's secret older brother, spent most of his life in Radley, and either is Big A himself or inspired someone to use his name while torturing the Liars, but that's about it. Luckily, there are plenty of Pretty Little Liars theories about Charles that can at the very least point us in the right direction, and it turns out, the woman who started it all has a few of her own.

In an interview with Bustle's podcast Taking This One To The Grave, the author of the PLL book series Sara Shepard shares which theory she's most partial to, as well as which fan favorite character she still hopes could turn out to be Big A.

Of course, like many fans, Shepard has adjusted her theories over the course of Season 6. " My big theory [was] that Charles was somehow related to the DiLaurentises and that’s where it stopped," s

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