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 from the image whether she was unable to care for her children, frightened of her husband, or simply awake too many nights.

“Who took this?”

“I did.”

“When?”

He supplied a date shortly before she disappeared.

We documented it as his account pending comparison with the original image.

Then I noticed a pharmacy label on an item in the supplies.

Thursday.