I have not spoken to Natalia Reyes-Vance and I do not intend to, and she is the reason I know what happened in that house, and both of those are going to stay true.

She is thirty-eight.

She met Fernando in 2021.

She is a dental hygienist and she has no criminal history and she had, before any of this, no discernible shape at all — she was the woman who answered the telephone in a voice of enormous sympathy and told me my daughter was not up to a weekend.

She gave a statement over four days in the March, with counsel, under a proffer agreement, and it runs to two hundred and eleven pages.

Here is what she gave.