Chain of custody’s clean.

This will hold up.”

He recovered the footage the right way, logging every step so that no defense attorney alive could ever question how we had come by it, and then he put it up on the screen for us to see.

And the room went silent, and we watched what had actually happened to my daughter — and to someone else — behind an off-campus house that three powerful families had been so desperate to erase.

What was on that footage did two things at once.