And I realized that, for the first time, I actually believed it.

PART 20

As the case moved forward, the public details complicated the story people wanted to tell.

Reporters called it the wedding-morgue mystery.

Strangers sent messages asking whether I had been buried alive.

A television producer offered money for an interview, saying audiences loved stories in which the husband fooled the villains.

I declined.

I hadn’t fooled anyone.