And then at eleven o’clock that night a detective put a photograph on the table of a transdermal patch on a six-year-old’s back, and told her the lot number was traceable, and asked her whether she wanted to have that conversation now or in four months when everybody else already had.

Natalia asked for a lawyer, got one at nine the next morning, and began cooperating within three days.

She is the reason we know anything about what happened in that house.

Part Twelve: The Warrant

A judge signed a search warrant for the house on Calle Mirasol at 9:40 that night and officers were inside at ten past ten.

I was at the hospital.