Fernando said it was a mistake.

A catastrophic error by the clinic.

He had been told his daughter was dead by a doctor, he had believed it, he was devastated, and if she was alive then somebody had made a horrifying misdiagnosis and he was going to sue.

That is a coherent story and it would have been extremely hard to break, and it is what his attorney would have told him to say if his attorney had been in the room, and his attorney was not in the room because he did not ask for one for two hours and eleven minutes.

It broke on one question, at 6:40 that evening, from a detective named Rachel Ibarra.