Forensics recovered hair, fibre, a partial print on a light switch, and a school identification card in the pocket of a coat that was in that room, and the coat had been reported in the description that ran on the news.

She had been in that house.

Detective Ibarra told me that at two in the morning in a corridor on the fourth floor of a children’s hospital while my daughter was intubated eleven feet away, and I asked one question, and the question was: “Is she alive?”

And Rachel Ibarra said, “I don’t know.

We’re looking as of about forty minutes ago and we are looking with everything this state has.”

They found her at eleven minutes past six that morning.