After lengthy proceedings, evidence supported criminal convictions against Leticia and Octavio for offenses connected to the plot against me, including their use of fraudulent documents.

The specific findings concerning Gerald’s death remained a separate and more difficult matter, and authorities did not claim to have resolved questions the evidence could not answer.

I was relieved they had been held responsible for what could be proven.

I also knew that Isabel had hoped for more.

She called on the day the judgment became public.

“They said there isn’t enough to prove what happened to Gerald,” she told me.

“I’m sorry.”