The team had also obtained records showing a call had been placed to the hospital’s postpartum advice line from our home phone.

It lasted less than a minute and disconnected before the nurse could complete the triage questions.

“Who called?” I asked.

“We’re still determining that.”

I thought of Jenna unable to reach her own phone.

Somewhere in that house, someone had known enough to call for help and then stopped.

PART 18

When the detective asked Jenna about the advice-line call, she remembered the night.