Denise turned off her phone for the afternoon.

She remembered a comment she’d posted on the first night: If a man really loved his daughter, he wouldn’t leave her alone.

She had removed it, but screenshots remained.

“I said something horrible,” she told Mrs.

Rivas when they met at the church.

“I should have called the ambulance,” Mrs.

Rivas replied.

“And I should have checked the house.”