“What about the receipt for the freezer itself?” Mariana asked.

I reached into the bottom folder and pulled out a worn receipt from a garage sale three streets over, dated fourteen months ago.

It recorded the purchase of an unplugged Sears chest freezer for thirty-five dollars, signed by the previous owner with the word scrap written across the top.

“The freezer was never plugged into an outlet in our garage,” I said.

“It was an empty storage box for spare tile spacers and grout buckets.”