Rachel nodded.

I didn’t press for every detail.

Instead, I arranged for her to give a full statement to Lena and Marcus.

I wanted the investigators to establish the chronology without my questions shaping her account.

At the formal interview, Rachel described an afternoon before Easter.

She saw Ryan carrying a brown folder near the cabinet.

Patricia asked whether the red door remained locked.

Ryan said the papers needed to stay where I wouldn’t find them.