Officer Vance read through the timeline grid.

He ran his finger down the columns of names and times.

“I’ve got detectives who don’t build files this clean,” he said.

“I spent decades logging inmate behavior,” I said.

“A fact is just a fact.”

Officer Vance shut the cover and gave the binder back to me.

“The prosecutor is skipping the usual preliminary,” he said.

“They’re taking the video straight to the judge at the hearing.”