I was afraid.”

Dana asked her to preserve any messages, notes and supporting records.

Marian gave a written account and agreed to speak with investigators.

She did not claim to know the whole plan, only the piece she’d witnessed.

Before leaving she looked at me directly.

“You want to blame Dad for everything because it would be convenient,” she said.

“But he couldn’t have put that woman on the road by himself.

You had to believe him.”