Both boys, the reports noted, begged to be allowed to see their father’s new apartment.

On one occasion, the supervisor documented, David calmly and patiently managed a five-year-old’s meltdown without ever once raising his voice — exactly the kind of ordinary parenting moment that Selina’s mother, watching the identical behavior, had previously recorded as an ‘aggressive episode.’ The two sets of reports, laid beside each other, did not describe the same man behaving differently on different days.

They described the same gentle man, observed once by someone determined to condemn him and once by someone paid only to tell the truth.

And only one of those observers had a reason to lie.

Chapter 15 — The Digital Forensics

Then came the part I had been waiting for since the diner: the screenshots.