For years I had watched that hand write shopping lists, measurements, reminders, and notes for me when he left early.

Here were three things it had written that still needed an answer.

PART 6 — The Calls They Did Not Answer

The monitoring record came separately from the utility paperwork.

I had assumed the alarm contacted emergency services and that Ruth had come because I called her.

Both were true, but they were not the whole sequence.

The monitoring company also attempted the additional numbers James had supplied.

Troy was first among those contacts.