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

“Has the report described the babies as abandoned?”

I looked at Frank.

“We’re documenting the circumstances.”

“I only want to know the wording you used.”

“Why does that wording matter to you?”

“Because I want the record to be accurate.”

That was a reasonable thing to want.

It was also the first question he had asked after learning we had not found his wife.