I Found My Five-Year-Old in the Garage Freezer—Then Her Mother’s Signed Statement Changed the Story I Had Been Told

“No.

It gives an adult account of the key events.

We still preserve and compare the other evidence.

The investigative authorities make their own decisions.”

I looked at the envelope holding the brass key.

For weeks, I had been testing a lock because nobody would tell me who had been in the house.

Now an adult had supplied an account that needed to be evaluated alongside the physical record, not replaced by it.

Taylor also corrected an earlier note on a copy of the calendar: I came home before.