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

We called the landlord.

He last remembered seeing Mara on Thursday morning, before Caleb reported her missing.

She had paid the final month’s rent in cash: $1,200.

“Did she say she was leaving?” Frank asked.

“She said she was trying to get settled somewhere else.”

“Did she tell you where?”

“No.”

“Was Caleb living there?”