I had rolled that bin over the same stretch of driveway for years.

Someone I had never spoken to had watched me do it and built a hope around the expectation that I would do it again.

PART 6 — The Bags in the Vehicle

After Hannah’s visit, I wrote down what she had told me only where it related to questions investigators had asked me to address.

I did not turn our conversation into a second interrogation.

Her own account belonged in her statement.