I Found Two Babies in a Cardboard Box on Route 66—Then Their Missing Mother’s Warning Named the Man Asking to Take Them Home

I could not see the face.”

“Did you see anyone place the children in the box?”

“No.”

“Then your photograph does not show abandonment.”

“It shows what it shows,” Diane said.

“The car, the shoulder, and the box.”

The judge asked her to keep her answers responsive, and she nodded.

The original image had been preserved.