The private contractor responsible for removing the road safety signs eventually cooperated with state prosecutors in exchange for a reduced prison sentence.

The county was forced to pay our family a large financial settlement, though no amount of money could ever replace the precious lives and years that had been stolen from us.

Austin Parker resigned from the police force before the internal review was finished.

He submitted a full, unedited statement detailing his own failures, cowardly silences, and cover-ups.

Retired Detective Miller did exactly the same, accepting full legal responsibility for his role in changing the mechanical report.

For a very long time, Austin and I didn’t say a single word to each other outside of official court proceedings.